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Invariably, Hallmark holidays produce a whole slate of stupid gifts and dumb knick-knacks. Inventor Spot runs through some of the dumbest Valentine’s Day gifts that you probably don’t want to give or receive.
Go To List: http://inventorspot.com/articles/15_best_worst_valentines_day_gifts_22512

We’ve often focused our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, on the symbolism of the spaces we travel, work and celebrate in to demonstrate that architecture and design are full of psychosexual implications. This isn’t limited to buildings and vehicles though, even furniture in your home can reveal a lot about, say, your relationship to your mother.
That’s [...]

Part of our recurring New Year resolutions here at Listicles tends to involve an intense desire to redecorate our apartment, office and several friends’ places with new furniture, posters and other decorative accessories. This yearly pilgrimage that leads us to antique shops, flea markets, thrift stores and craigslist often fades by the end of February [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]

In our effort to not become too distressed by Paul Blart: Mall Cop’s extremely wide release (3,144 theaters nationwide!) and huge box office returns ($33.8 million from Friday to Sunday), we kept ourselves busy over the weekend with Vulture’s mall movie listicle. Though we never think of malls as the setting for high art – [...]

For all our efforts to offer you, dear readers, as many environmentally-minded listicles as we can read, the greening of the Interweb is advancing at such a pace that we honestly can’t keep up with all the eco-friendly listicles.
What better way, then, to do justice to all the green listicles (”greensticles”?) than to dedicated this [...]

As much as we enjoy watching old fast food commercials, we find that the most exciting advertising innovations these days are in print and digital ads. We’re especially impressed by whiz-bang Photoshop effects because of the inumerable days we’ve spent trying to tweak our Facebook profile pictures. With those long, largely ineffectual hours in mind, [...]

Steve Jobs explains mysterious weight loss.
What is the deal with the death of John Travolta’s son?
Katie Holmes spent $14 million in New York in six months.
“Craigslist Penis Photographer,” starring Bob Odenkirk [via The Daily What]
No Son of Mine Plays Oregon Trail Like That [via BuzzFeed]
Should You Be Facebook Friends with Your Mother?
Ew, ew, ew: Ladies [...]

Now that the socialized collective year-end orgasm of popping champagne bottles of frothy fizz and massive fireworks explosions is over, it’s time for our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays. In this issue we indulge an urge we’ve been sublimating for some weeks now; we’re joining the trend of year-end lists by taking a Freudian look at [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]