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On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

Pixar animator Angus MacLane, who’s worked on Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille and basically every project the studio has done since the 1997 Oscar-winning short Geri’s Game, apparently has tons of free time in between creating lush and textured digital environments. So much time, in fact, that he’s uploaded images of 97 Lego CubeDudes to his Flickr [...]

For whatever reason (lack of vision, lack of necessary parts, lack of concentration), our Lego constructions never quite lived up to the thing on the box, much less to our wild mental images of what we were building. That’s not to say that making amazing objects and infinitely detailed sculptures out of Lego is impossible, [...]

The Internet’s silly fascination with Lego re-enactments of, well, anything, doesn’t have to involve exclusively tacky and artless creations. For instance, the Daily Beast has a listicle of images created by British photographer Mike Stimpson to replicate some of the most iconic images of modern culture with Lego. Our favorite of his Lego Versions of [...]

We forgot to mention it, but June 20 was Bald Eagle Day, which is really just a pre-drinking party for Independence Day, a not-so-dry dry run. Sadly, it isn’t a big enough national event to merit its own parade, yet. In hopes of spurring the tradition, though, we’ve rounded up some of the eagles we’d [...]

In a lot of ways, making a movie trailer is like playing with Lego: none of the pieces really mean anything on their own, and you can pretty much piece them together to make anything you please. It’s slightly different from the trailer mashup, which involves combining parts from two or more texts, but the [...]

One of the most iconic images of modern history is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary: on June 5th, 1989 an unknown man faced down a row of tanks on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where months of protest had finally ceased when the military removed protesters from the public plaza by force. Nobody ever discovered who [...]

205 years ago today, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark struck out from their training sessions at Camp Dubois, Illinois Territory, on their epic journey with their rag-tag group the Corps of Discovery (which, in case you think the same way we do, is already a band’s name). The epic, madcap journey that would go down [...]

Just in case you’d forgotten that today is Earth Day, we had planned to whip together a listicle of various fun and unsual globes for the occasion. That proved such a good idea that somebody else has done it for us, which is why we point you in the direction of Environmental Graffiti’s list of [...]

Today is National Health Day, so, I guess, make a doctor’s appointment. You can’t? Well, that’s probably because every doctor is out seeing their doctor as part of the medical establishment’s traditional National Health Day celebrations. Speaking of doctors’ strange rituals, before you make an appointment you should verify that your MD isn’t one of [...]