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It’s funny, we always thought Chris Tucker’s character Ruby Rhod (pictured) from The Fifth Element had pretty much the coolest haircut ever–a haircut that, incidentally, makes for a very challenging Halloween costume. We’re frankly shocked that Mr. Rhod ended up in Vulture’s listicle of The 12 Worst Haircuts of the Future, but we’re surprised by [...]

Today, for some reason we can’t quite figure out, is National Play-Doh Day. Our only hunch is that today may be the 54th anniversary of the invention of the product by Joseph McVicker, although we’ve had a hard time pinning down an exact date. Regardless, in its time on the market it’s become a staple [...]

Clayton Moore, the actor who played the iconic TV Western superhero The Lone Ranger, would have been 95 today had he not died in 1999. In celebration of his work as one of the most American of the early superheroes (The Lone Ranger first appeared in 1933 as a radio program, then later as a [...]

Today is TV Dinner Day, which is a fancy way of saying that the first TV dinner was sold by Swanson 55 years ago today. Fortunately we arrived late enough on the scene that we weren’t raised on those seminal ready-made meals, but looking over some of the flavors of yore, we suddenly feel like [...]

President Obama is planning to make a speech especially to public school students around the nation on Tuesday and, per the Times, some Republican parents don’t want their kids brainwashed by the socialist propaganda of their elected leader. All parents are notoriously evil and unjust, as we all well know, so this should come as [...]

We’ve been listening to a lot of chiptune lately – you know, that genre of music created using video game audio technologies from the 80s that are capable of something like 60 different notes. We’ve especially been blasting delightful 8-bit versions of some of our favorite pop songs, and one of the most chiptuned artists, [...]

Comic-Con 09 happened recently, and while much of the coverage (as far as we could tell) was devoted to attractive women in cosplay costumes, the annual extravaganza of all things nerd-tastic had plenty of poorly costumed attendees too. Just look at Costume Pop’s hilarious listicle of 12 Costume Fails from Comic Con, like this fella [...]

The Internet is taking a while to fully integrate pop music lingo. After all, it’s kind of awkward and tech-y, and doesn’t always lend itself to easy rhymes and smooth cadences. Nevertheless, it’s beginning to make that mainstream cross-over, as evidenced by Idolator’s listicle of the Top 12 Pop Songs About the Internet. We’re especially [...]

Not to brag or anything, but at the end of our first driving test we pretty much had it in the bag, but as we pulled up to the testing center the instructor asked us to back into the only remaining spot in the parking lot, which was impossibly narrow. We totally pulled it off, [...]

Our ongoing obsession with short animated films takes up more of our time on a daily basis then we’ll admit here, but on balance we think it’s worth it. Not unlike the relationship between short stories and novels, short films offer a no less wide open field of possibilities on which creators have limitless possibilities [...]