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Today is International Animal Rights Day, and as we contemplated what we might do on this occasion, we realized that the animal rights movement doesn’t really have a proper mascot. There’s the WWF panda, of course, and PETA’s, um, radical activists, who we love, but what about a nice figurehead? We held some auditions (in [...]

We don’t “heart” the “I Heart NY” shirt because, well, it’s just too popular. Wearing that shirt is like saying you love something that we all love, like air, it’s pointless. Still, whoever came up with the “I Heart ____” tee shirt template must be rolling in dough these days. Or maybe he or she [...]

As kids, we definitely went through a phase when we were into military mission patches and medals. It kind of made sense: they’re basically the army equivalent of trading cards in sports. Of course, we got over our brief bout of militarism, but we still dig us some retro NASA mission patches.
They tend to be [...]

As kids we had some killer cool lunch boxes. There was a Batman one for a little while in 5th grade that was totally hot. A couple years before we’d asserted our lunch box cool with a flashy red Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles number, but we eventually lost touch with our fans when we sported [...]

That strange border where performance and documentary collide is a very funny place. It’s also very demanding on performers, who have to somehow maintain their fictional personas even as they are prodded into awkward and difficult situations by talk show hosts, interviewers and the like. The interlocutors in mental_floss’s listicle of 5 Real Interviews with [...]

Let’s face it, at some point we all wanted to be ninjas (in some cases ninja turtles, ninja surfers, or even three ninjas). And we’ve probably all had some embarrassing moments of aspiring ninja combat gone horribly wrong. For instance, we remember jumping just a little too high in a room with dangerously low ceiling [...]

We never really understood the Pokemon thing, nor did we feel particularly moved to try to wrap our heads around it (although one of our cousins once bought us a Pokemon Game Boy game that was totally awesome, thanks cuz). At any rate, now that that fad is over – or rather, has mutated into [...]

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 [...]

The premise behind the henchman character is fascinating: rather than create a complete cast of bad guys, films, TV shows, comic books and the like use one instantly recognizable costume to create entire armies. This lets protags branch out, and instead of direct duels they can perform acrobatic feats, taking out entire platoons with one [...]

Arguably the most masterful and brilliant detective of any time or reality (though we’ll be difficult and stick with Dale Cooper), Sherlock Holmes has been deployed to crime scenes all over the galaxy and space-time continuum. As io9’s listicle outlining 22 Cases of Sherlock Holmes in Science Fiction demonstrates, it only takes some inquisitive aliens [...]