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Movies fulfill a crucially important mass-therapy function. WALL-E, for instance, made the terrifying threats of global warming and environmental disaster a little lighter if only for a couple of hours. Likewise, an enrossing film about people finding happiness amidst insurmountable odds are just what folks are looking for in these times of economic hardship (witness [...]

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 [...]

If the extreme measures our government is taking to keep the American banking system from collapsing are any indication, we do truly appear to be headed for Great Depression 2. Don’t get depressed, though, because as mental_floss reminds us, hardship has a way of generating some of the most inventive and resourceful ideas. So check [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]

Historical fact: during the Great Depression the only Christmas presents you’d get were sepia-toned clothing and cuts in the soup line. But now that we’re officially in another recession right before the non-denominational holiday season, let’s turn to the country’s ever-dwindling pool of journalists for on-the-cheap gift guides. Video game consoles and chocolate orange [...]