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Today is International Animal Rights Day, and as we contemplated what we might do on this occasion, we realized that the animal rights movement doesn’t really have a proper mascot. There’s the WWF panda, of course, and PETA’s, um, radical activists, who we love, but what about a nice figurehead? We held some auditions (in [...]

The good people at Neatorama pointed us to a competition at Worth1000.com what taps directly into our ongoing love of muppets. Though the theme of the design competition was to insert puppets into existing images as incongruously as possible, we found the trope of muppet-ized movie posters especially awesome. So while you may want to [...]

The authors of a study in the Journal of Law and Economics finally found that TV snack ads make kids want to eat more snacks than they should, thereby proving once again the effectiveness of late capitalism. Though a complete ban of candy commercials is unlikely, hopes are that fewer ads targeting children would significantly [...]