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We’ve become a little jaded in our old age (oh, hey, we celebrated our first anniversary on Tuesday!), and lately we find most lists very uninspiring. Every so often, though, a brilliant list reminds us why we signed up for this life of lists. Heavy’s listicle of the Top 5 Songs About Having Sex With [...]

It’s been a little while since we featured a single-image list (the famous robot T-shirt design must have been the most recent, and of course the teddy bears in wagons were the first), but fashion photographer Leonard Gren’s shot of 8 B-Boys Wearing Paper Bags seemed like a good opportunity to break the dry spell. [...]

Though we fastidiously maintain that it’s much, much too early to be doing anything Halloween-related, we’re also suckers for robots. And so, one of our most long-standing sci-fi weaknesses has won out over one of our seasonal qualms, and here we are posting a Halloween listicle more than two weeks before the day. But seriously, [...]

It’s funny, we always thought Chris Tucker’s character Ruby Rhod (pictured) from The Fifth Element had pretty much the coolest haircut ever–a haircut that, incidentally, makes for a very challenging Halloween costume. We’re frankly shocked that Mr. Rhod ended up in Vulture’s listicle of The 12 Worst Haircuts of the Future, but we’re surprised by [...]

There are so many terrific pop cultural robots to keep track of (funny ones, scary ones, utilitarian ones, oddly sexy ones, oddly human-seeming ones) that we’d really like some sort of encyclopedic chronicle of fictional robot types. Someone has designed the next best thing though, this design (available as a print or T-shirt) of 51 [...]

Much was made early this week of Olympic overlord and American swimming sensation Michael Phelps’s wardrobe choices at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, and how they were affecting his performance in said swimming tournament.
While we don’t pretend to have any understanding of aquatic dynamics, we’re pretty sure we could come up with better swimsuit [...]

As we undoubtedly all know by now, no matter how many times you desecrate a movie franchise about toy robots, or how many times a creepy high tech bot takes a tumble, robots just keep on bringing the cool. That’s what they’re programmed to do. You too can bring the cool, by wearing any or [...]

Today, in addition to being Canada Day, is Build a Scarecrow Day, which strikes us as rather region-specific national holiday, but there you go. Of course, now that we’re thinking about it, just because they’re called scarecrows doesn’t mean they can only be used to scare crows. To prove our point, we’ve rounded up these [...]

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 [...]

Today is National Health Day, so, I guess, make a doctor’s appointment. You can’t? Well, that’s probably because every doctor is out seeing their doctor as part of the medical establishment’s traditional National Health Day celebrations. Speaking of doctors’ strange rituals, before you make an appointment you should verify that your MD isn’t one of [...]