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Today, November 3rd, is National Sandwich Day, because it’s the birthday of the man who created the food item, John Montagu (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (seriously). Supposedly, Montagu invented the food during a marathon 24-hour gambling session during which he wanted to be able to eat with only one hand. The solution he [...]

Summer is kind of already almost over (we know, we know, tragic right?) and so this weekend we’re hitting the beach with a whole team of friends and we’re going to make the most amazing sand sculptures you’ve ever seen. No, really, there are going to be dragons, dinosaurs, elephants, lions, bugs, squid and a [...]

We’re still plotting our first solar-powered product purchase, but with all the wacky doodads made to run off sunlight we have to admit the choices are a little bewildering. should we get something useful like a solar-powered mouse for our computer? Or, do we get something that’ll really impress all the folks at the office, [...]

An article about an exciting new-ish pet trend in the Style section of the New York Times caught our eye over breakfast this morning. It appears that pet monkeys, long thought to be the province of fantastic tales like Mighty Joe Young, are in fact quite common. Before we scour the city’s pet stores and [...]

We here at Listicles are devout fans of the Interweb’s possibilities for the remixing and mashing up (or is that “mashupping”?) of cultural artifacts and various audio visual tidbits. We especially like such culture-jamming when it thrives on the incongruity of its constitutive elements, like, say, the well-known M.O.P.-Sesame Street mash-up. That’s why we especially [...]

From our backwards-looking year-end perspective, 2008 looks like it was all elections, Olympics, financial crises and Jokers. Although the scientific community flew under the radar while entertainment, politics, and the economy fused into one giant, indistinguishable headline-multiplying beast, some important things were discovered by our test tube-toting, lab-coated friends this year.
Incapable of figuring them all [...]