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On this date some years ago, research tells us, the first modern submarine was completed. Not surprisingly, it was the result of a major military research and development project, and a virtually limitless budget. What about the little guys, though? What about the toolshed handymen and wannabe mermaids (to indulge all manner of gendered stereotypes) [...]

Dubbing can be relatively seamless sometimes, or it can produce its own little star system of famous dubbing actors. Then, of course, there are those moving image artifacts that don’t really lend themselves to dubbing, like opening credit songs from cartoons. Holy Taco rounded up 7 Cartoon Intros in Foreign Languages, and our favorite 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 [...]

As you may have heard, President Obama reportedly sent a secret letter to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev last month. Aside from laying out the early details of the vodka order for Obama’s blow-out 50th birthday party (in 2 and a half years), the U.S. president wrote the clandestine correspondence hoping that in exchange for discontinuing [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]