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A really good baddie is always so much better than a good good guy, you know? How unbearably boring was Luke Skywalker, for instance? And James Bond? Pretty much just a guy in a suit (no razor-edged hats or steel teeth). Really it’s the good guys who’ve got it bad, stuck playing second fiddle to [...]

Though the real presidential inauguration doesn’t go live until Tuesday, this story of a Lego inauguration has been making the rounds for some time now. In the spirit of all things that exist both as live action events and shadow Lego events, we revisited a favorite meme cycle to bring you Listicle’s 9 Best Lego [...]

From our backwards-looking year-end perspective, 2008 looks like it was all elections, Olympics, financial crises and Jokers. Although the scientific community flew under the radar while entertainment, politics, and the economy fused into one giant, indistinguishable headline-multiplying beast, some important things were discovered by our test tube-toting, lab-coated friends this year.
Incapable of figuring them all [...]

Our friend (until she left us for cooler friends) Edith Zimmerman draws our attention to this hilarious list from those hard-working students at College On the Record, deftly observing the dominant costume trend of the day: The 15 Worst Joker Costumes.
As we noted yesterday with news that the Googlegeist has Heath Ledger as the most-searched [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]