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Today is the bicentennial of Honest Abe’s birth. Had he been a land tortoise (one not shot in a theater box, as so many are), he might even be around to celebrate with us. Sadly, our one and only Lincoln was taken from us, and so we’ll have to make do with more-or-less pale imitations. [...]

We remember, one holiday season when we were about 9 years old, we got the awesomest Ninja Turtle action figure from our grandmother. It wasn’t so much awesome because our granmother had finally found an appropriate, non-knitted gift – in truth, the Leonardo with super chopping action figure was our request, made to our father [...]

We here at Listicles are finally planning our New Year’s Eve party (a little late, we know, we know). Aside from obsessively fine-tuning the booze and guest lists, we’ve blown the majority of our budget on silly party gifts. With that in mind, we won’t be able to invite all of you, dear readers, because [...]

Those all-seeing pop culture humorists over at NextRound.net draw our attention to an underused accessory in the canon of screen fashion: the eye patch. Though their listicle includes some vital entries (Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain, Kurt Russell in Escape From New York, Rob Lowe in Austin Powers 2, among others), some golden celebrity eye [...]

Forever searching the glut of visual data for hidden gems, the humorists at NextRound.net have come up with 16 Gangsta Car Pose Photos That Should Never Have Been Taken. Some are forgettable, others a brilliant, here are some of the best along with a few Listicles additions:
The Not Quite a Car Model Pose

Maybe the better [...]

Prepare to waste the rest of your time at the office, your day off, your early holiday, whatever you’re doing basically is about to be superseded by a black hole of fun, web-based indulgence. The dudes at FHM have compiled a fairly exhaustive list of web-based curiosities, resources and time-wasters, entitled The 100 Greatest Websites [...]

In one of those strange moments where real world headlines suddenly read like bad blockbuster scripts, the news lately (when not about Barack Obama or capitalism’s flailing death throes) has been all about pirates. From an entire New York Times topic page on the subject to a nearly investigative long-form survey of the issue by [...]