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By now, hopefully, you know all about the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt meme (if not, watch this), and if so then you’ll know just how parody-friendly this particular meme is. So much so, in fact, that alternate versions of the original shirt have popped up all over, leading the web culture experts at Urlesque to [...]

We love single-serving sites, especially ones that are always adding new content all the while staying within very strict thematic or formal boundaries (like this blog!). It seems like there’s a new one every day (or several), and every week or so one leads to a book deal, so it’s nice to get a big [...]

While we generally find emoticons silly and pointless and another, rather terrifying example of how digital communication is fast reducing our ability to express genuine, complex emotions in actual words (maybe even sentences!), some of them make up for whatever semantic damage they may do with sheer creativity. Such is the case with a small [...]

By all accounts Amelia Earhart (pictured at right) – who would be turning 112 today if she hadn’t disappeared during a trip across the Pacific in 1937 – was a pretty cool lady. All wit, energy and daring, she’s become an incredibly desirable catch for any major actress, with her combination of vintage cool and [...]

As far as we can tell, summertime beach trips are just fraught with contradictory compulsions. For instance: you want to enjoy the sun, but you don’t want skin cancer. Likewise, you want to swim in the salt water, but then you’re all sticky and salty and won’t really feel comfortable until you shower. And then [...]

So the new Star Trek movie that opens today is completely predicated on one very popular theory of time travel, which holds that by going back into the past we inevitably change the present that we’ve left behind. This means that time travelers can abandon any dreams of clean, no strings attached time travel, because [...]

Spock gets all the love (literally, in the new Star Trek movie that comes out tomorrow), and he’s clearly the more interesting protagonist for costume parties. That said, Kirk offers some more nuanced challenges: the swagger, the charming smile, the perfect coif, the confident and slightly sassy stance. In honor of the comparatively few who’ve [...]

Did you know that today’s ubiquitous camouflage army uniforms came about mostly because early 20th century Brits and Germans couldn’t be bothered to dress their armies stylishly? Or that Roman Catholic priests’ tell-tale white collars became the norm when all the cool priests started following a late 16th century trend towards un-popping their collars.
This interesting [...]

As Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis taught us, some empires are time-biased and others are space-biased, depending on their preferred mass medium of control. Well, he probably never dreamed things like interplanetary space travel, teleportation, telekinetics and instant cross-universe communication would figure into the evolution of empires. But then he probably wasn’t a huge sci-fi [...]

Film trilogies, and the various fluctuations of the franchise as it expands, are hotly debated topics that virtually everybody has their piece to speak about. Thankfully, Dan Meth has put all the squabbling to rest with this helpful infographic rating each installment of 21 Movie Trilogies.

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