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Granted, we’re still celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth, but who’s to say that in our modern, enlightened age, the controversial clash between science and religion, nature and nuttiness, can’t be resolved? What if we told you that many animals are religiously dedicated to, well, religion? Don’t believe us? We suggest you educate yourselves [...]

We don’t want to keep you at your screen too long on this lazy Sunday (surely you should be out finding and eating unhealthy quantities of chocolate eggs), but we strongly recommend taking a moment to browse Unreality’s hilarious listicle of 25 Funny Pictures of Darth Vader. Our favorite – though it pains us to [...]

Yesterday was National Hot Dog Day, and we were so busy stuffing our faces that we forgot to mention it. This morning a prompt memo arrived in our inbox from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (hereafter referred to as the NHDSC), who organized the celebration, notifying us of this tragic oversight. To make [...]

Will our kids look back on our favorite digital and electronic pastimes like The Sims and Second Life and think we were crazy? Or, more likely, will they only know us by our immortal pixelized avatars? Either way, we’re fairly confident that none will compare to the wacky games featured in Neatorama’s listicle of The [...]

Is it the squirrels that are stupid, or the videos thereof? Or, does the stupidity reside with the videographers and downloaders who confer the status of stupid on the videos? You decide. In the meantime, check out our buddies at Urlesque’s listicle of 5 Stupid Squirrel Videos. While we think they could have whittled it [...]

In our ongoing effort to deconstruct and reassemble the conventions of what we do and don’t consider listicles, we offer you this image of 9 Teddy Bears Riding in Wagons. Does it matter that it’s not a traditional list, or – as Marcel Duchamp would have said – does the simple fact of placing this [...]

Saturday was Albert Einstein’s birthday. Were he still alive there’d have been a big blow-out bash at the local W Hotel for his big 1-3-0. In his absence, though, we’ve rounded up some strange images that we rarely remember him by – after all, he did much more than invent the theory of relativity and [...]

Around the time we turned 16, buses went from being the preferred mode of transportation to being a surefire ticket to social outcasting and ridicule within the space of about six months. Everybody had turned 16 and suddenly were driving each other to school. Maybe tha’s why we’re such vehement believers in public transportation.
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You probably didn’t know it (in truth, we didn’t until the waiter at our seafood restaurant last night told us in a delightful song-and-dance routine), but today is National Crabmeat Day. Take a few moments to process this startling information, then check out these 10 Feisty Crabs for National Crabmeat Day.
Smoking Crab

National Crabmeat Day is [...]

As we all know, the amount of information on the Interweb vastly outstrips our capacity to make sense of it all, a phenomenon confirmed daily by all the strange images of nonsensical wackiness that come our way via various websites devoted to unearthing unusual ephemera. Every so often though, some site like Neatorama, The Daily [...]