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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 [...]

No, this is not a listicle of awful haircuts procured at discount hairstyling salon Supercuts, it is a compilation of some of our favorite “supercuts,” a web meme that involves splicing together every instance of “x” in “y.” So, for instance, every death in The Sopranos. Most of these are featured on Waxy, and several [...]

Few things stir our nostalgic hunger for the 90s more effectively than the imaginary smells wafting from the restaurants that often doubled as hangouts for our favorite TV characters of the time. That’s just the odor BuzzFeed is after with their listicle of the Top 10 Fictional Burger Joints of the 90s, which features Krusty [...]

Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

Between our current event filmmakers‘ obsession with disaster movies, and all-pervading fears of impending environmental doom, it’s not surprising that movies about environmental apocalypse are becoming more common. That’s part of why we’re surprised that TreeHugger left recent entries like The Simpsons Movie (and another included after the jump) our of their listicle of The [...]

Until fairly recently, American network television was a pretty inhospitable place for characters (not to mention real people) whose sexualities deviated from the standard of heterosexual monotony. Now, though, the TV landscape is much safer for gay characters, and so Comedy.com is outing 15 Gay TV Characters Who Never Came Out, including, obviously, Waylon Smithers [...]

Today is World Vegetarian Day (and, in related news, the first day of Vegetarian awareness month), and though all our pledges to go veggie over the years have eventually been undone, we really mean it this time. For inspiration, we’ll be watching plenty of movies and TV to draw strength from these Top 10 Vegetarian [...]

Simpsonizing others or oneself is completely harmless fun (as Nelson Muntz might say: “Like punching a guy in the dark”) and it translates our real world fears, concerns and adorations into the playful, orange-tinged world of The Simpsons, where everything seems a little less threatening if not completely hilarious. Format recently commissioned Moxy Creative to [...]

Today is International Left-Handers Day, which means that all around the world people will be joining hands (only their left hands, somehow) and celebrating the rich lives and momentous accomplishments of left-handed folk everywhere. And with only 7 to 10 percent of the world’s population being left-handed, it’s kind of amazing to see how much [...]

Yesterday a huge typhoon hit Taiwan and China, and it’s still too early to accurately measure the death toll and damage, but estimates are grim. To get some appreciation of what it might have been like – and what any number of other massively destructive weather systems might be like – we’ve weathered The 10 [...]