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70 years ago (give or take a few days) that more-than-a-little hallucinatory musical journey from the Midwest into a fairytale, The Wizard of Oz, first opened on the big screen.Funny story: the film actually premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where most of the pre-drug trip pre-tornado scenes were filmed. Because we can never quite get enough [...]

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 [...]

In this New York Times article from Monday, Henry Fountain takes the recent unveiling of the glass boxes on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower as a jumping off point (pun intended) to discuss how new kinds of glass are finally making the architectural impulse towards completely translucent buildings a possibility. What would a [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]

Welcome to the continuation of this epic year-end edition of our listicle-of-lists Weekly Wednesdays. Earlier we looked at financial crooks, corrupt politicians and pop culture blunders (among others), now we look at some equally heavy, and significantly lighter subjects in the second half of Listicles’ Top 25 Year-End Lists of 2008.

Top 10 Spec Ads of [...]