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The Internet, digital and dematerialized though it may seem, is also a very real place in as much as it dictates how millions of people live their lives–not to mention its various physical and architectural manifestations in cables, processing centers, web infrastructure and so on. At any rate, like many real things that we don’t [...]

It’s our second weekly round-up of cool videos from all over the Interweb. Again, we came across way too many short films, ads, music videos and animations to do them all justice, so have instead chosen only the most timely and tasty to be featured in Listicles’ Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos. Enjoy!
Yankee Gal (by Antoine [...]

In what is perhaps the most brilliant anti-gentrification performance art-as-protest achievement ever, a serial arsonist has been lighting luxury condo construction site porta-potties ablaze (pictured at right) all over the rapidly developing Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
As if news of this hilarious and brilliant string of anti-gentrification vandalism wasn’t enough, one foreman has reacted [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]