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Today is Inventors Day in the United States, in honor of Thomas Edison, who was born on this date back in 1847. The holiday is celebrated in a handful of other countries around the world on the birthdays of their respective famous national inventors. (Someone should invent an international day for inventors.) We’d like to [...]

These are exciting times, dear readers, as scientists at Maryland’s Joint Quantum Institute have made a significant breakthrough towards the creation of actual teleporters. We give it about a year before we can teleport down to Costco and buy 24-packs of teleporters for less than the price of one teleportation. Until then, let Listicles teleport [...]

A man about whom there will never be enough meme’s a-swirlin’, Jeff Goldblum (whose arguably wackiest role yet comes in his current film, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected), is the subject of a terrific listicle by Videogum on the actor’s best drunken videos. While slowing down old iMac ads is nice and all, let’s not forget [...]