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Summer is kind of already almost over (we know, we know, tragic right?) and so this weekend we’re hitting the beach with a whole team of friends and we’re going to make the most amazing sand sculptures you’ve ever seen. No, really, there are going to be dragons, dinosaurs, elephants, lions, bugs, squid and a [...]

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 [...]

A scary and strange news item earlier this week had to do with a Continental Airlines flight between Rio de Janeiro and Houston that encountered such intense turbulence that it had to make an emergency landing in Miami, where 26 passengers were treated for injuries. Many drew parallels to the recent Air France crash, although [...]

Few poses convey a mood of resigned defeat more effectively than the facepalm, which Urban Dictionary defines as “The act of dropping one’s face/forehead into one’s hand. Usually accompanied by a ‘thunk’ or a cr a cry of ‘D’oh!’” For visual support, we suggest Rocketboom’s listicle of 13 Famous Facepalms, although we’re surprised by some [...]

Hip hop and hockey, despite their obvious alliterative camaraderie, seldom go together. This has a lot to do with the absence of African American athletes in the NHL, and the comparative abundance of black role models in every other professional American sports league. That’s not to say, however, that rappers don’t sometimes make (obscure, misunderstood) [...]

If you watch many disaster movies, you’ll have noticed that big buildings and famous landmarks are often the first thing to go when the meteorite/earthquake/tidal wave/dinosaur/mutant/giant monkey/aliens hit. Aside from always targeting certain cities rather than others, some monuments just cannot catch a break. There’s the Eiffel Tower, for instance, which gets it in Armageddon [...]

Given that it’s July 4th (a celebration of all things American, like drinking outdoors and playing sports), we expect the number of emergency room visits by people who’ve been hit in the face by balls (sports balls, you dirty readers!) will spike this weekend. So that you know what to expect when you backyard dodgeball [...]

We forgot to mention it, but June 20 was Bald Eagle Day, which is really just a pre-drinking party for Independence Day, a not-so-dry dry run. Sadly, it isn’t a big enough national event to merit its own parade, yet. In hopes of spurring the tradition, though, we’ve rounded up some of the eagles we’d [...]

In movies like Die Hard (and even moreso with its various sequels), the number and pace of evil henchmen deaths tends to be a little hard to follow. Still, they’re all quite spectacular, and it would be nice to have some visual cue by which to remember all those cool kills (as was done with [...]

Tattoo listicles have long been among our favorite varieties of listicle, as have celebrity lists, so imagine our joy when not one but two listicles appeared (with significant overlap, admittedly) devoted to the subject of celebrity tattoos. No, not the tattoos on celebrities, but tattoos of celebrities’ likeness on regular folk.
The master list in this [...]