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As you presumably heard, last week the International Olympic Committee made the right decision for once, and awarded the duties of hosting the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Brazilian megapolis Rio de Janeiro–rather cities in recent host nations Spain, Japan and the U.S. This marks the Games’s first visit to South America, and since it’s [...]

180 years ago today, Scotland Yard opened for spy business in London. Technically called the Metropolitan Police Service, it’s essentially the headquarters for the police force that oversees Greater London (as opposed to inner city London, whose surveillance falls to the City of London Police). Of course, the force is now housed at New Scotland [...]

An interesting, if borderline sci-fi story from The New York Times details how the American Army is testing soldiers for their ability to detect danger and risk with their minds. While on patrol in Iraqi and Afghan villages, some seem better able to anticipate road-side bombs and the like than others, making them a valuable [...]

As you likely know by now, today is Submarine Day. You didn’t know? Are you drunk? I knew it, you’ve been up since 6am drinking green beer on Submarine Day. How could you do this to me? I prepared you this incredible listicle of the Top 9 Submarine Movies and all you’ve got to say [...]

A really good baddie is always so much better than a good good guy, you know? How unbearably boring was Luke Skywalker, for instance? And James Bond? Pretty much just a guy in a suit (no razor-edged hats or steel teeth). Really it’s the good guys who’ve got it bad, stuck playing second fiddle to [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]

A recent Consumerist listicle on smart money habits for the recession advised us to buy used. That suggestion, coupled with the plummeting real estate market, made us think that perhaps we’d be better off investing in homes that aren’t tied down to any local market. So, in that spirit and just in time for the [...]

As temperatures and personal budgets continue to drop, going out for dinner and drinks this winter looks to be becoming a very “sometimes” activity. As the nesting experts at Apartment Therapy always tell us though, we can do the same thing at home, better and for less. Before the winter doldrums kick in, let’s take [...]

Get ready to lose an hour of your life (don’t worry, it’s totally worth it). Those trailer fanatics over at TrailerSpy have outdone themselves with their latest list of tangled trailers: The Top 15 Trailer Mash-Ups of All-Time. For those working on their own entries into this web-genre, take note: the more disparate the source [...]

In a recent vlog post, P. Diddy presented the new mini-movie promotion for his latest fragrance as a pseudo-audition to be the first black James Bond.
Now that we have a black president, the argument goes, why not replace another ubiquitous, powerful, suited white guy with a black man? Daniel Craig agrees, as does Rama of [...]