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Sadly, we’ve never been to Japan, but if their taste for themed and simply spaced-out hotel decoration is anything to go by, we pretty much belong there.
So we’re going to start planning our trip right now, and being that we’re largely ignorant of Japanese culture and history (a shortcoming the journey will hopefully remedy), we’re [...]

Summer is clearly over early this year (at least that’s the way it looks in New York these days), and just like we did our annual bathing suit shop a few months back, now we’re thinking about our annual umbrella shop. We’re going to start by consulting mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Weird and Wet Umbrellas, [...]

It’s hard to single out any specific music videos as being the worst ever, because invariably something worse from the distant past (most likely the 80s) or a new low-budget video (most likely by an indie rock band) will come along and demand to be included. Still, somebody’s got to make the authoritative claim to [...]

With the worsening economy and people cutting back on superfluous luxuries, will we see a renaissance in themed weddings? After all, it’s much cheaper to get all your bridesmaids Princess Leah outfits than designer dresses. If so, we suggest you get to studying so you’ll know exactly what you need when that special someone from [...]

Today is National Nurses Day (which itself is merely the first day of National Nurses Week) and as a celebration of diversity within the nursing community we’ve sought out some of its most under-represented members. Marginalized within their professional communities, pop culture has become the primary public forum for these 11 Dangerous Kinds of Nurses.
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557 years ago today, in the picturesque Tuscan hilltop town of Vinci, the illegitimate child of a wealthy notary and a lowly peasant was born. Named Leonardo after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle of the same name for his precocious abilities as a swordsman, Leonardo da Vinci soon left Vinci and its ninja academy and [...]

Over the weekend, a terrifyingly entertaining news story about American shipmen, Somali pirates, hostage situations, daring escapes and ransom negotiations came to a fittingly thrilling conclusion in a shocking split second sniper riffle blaze. Amid all the hubbub over our first international pirate problem in recent memory, there’s a fascinating story of tireless concentration, exacting [...]

31 years later, with their global ranks swelling to a current population of roughly 4 billion, Lego minifigs (the Danish toy company’s human-shaped figures) are among the most populous and easily recognizable groups on the planet. Their common origin, however, conceals a diverse plurality, which Gizmodo is kind enough to catalog with their chronology of [...]

Some lists just don’t pan out, you know? Like back at the end of November it was Winston Churchill’s birthday and we really wanted to create a listicle called “Top 10 Winston Churchill Scarecrows” because we knew of at least one. That turned out to be the only one though, so we scrapped the listicle [...]

A 37-year-old woman in London is accused of having her boyfriend punch a man who shouted at her for cutting the line in a grocery store. He ended up punching the wrong man–and killed him.
The world is finally getting wise to your pirating ways, Somalian Pirates.
“The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is [...]