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Leave it to our friends at Urlesque to keep our Sunday morning hunger sated with their listicle of 15 Delicious Internet Meme Cakes. We’re especially appetized by the O RLY? cake, but we’re sort of shocked they missed a couple more delicious meme treats, which we’ve baked after the jump.

We’re still working on a Halloween costume (yes, we always push this to the last minute), but we’re thinking the best way to go about the decision might be to see what the experts wear. By experts, of course, we mean people who wear costumes every day: superheroes.
As it happens, ComicsAlliance has just the listicle [...]

The Statue of Liberty, a French gift to the U.S.A. on the occasion of the Declaration of Independence’s centennial, was dedicated on October 28 1886, which makes Lady Liberty exactly 123 years old today. As a celebration of all that that huge hunk of metal has come to symbolize over the years, we’re looking at [...]

As the conventional wisdom would have it, everything is for sale, so it should be no surprise that one of the most common graphic treatments we encounter is the barcode, the pattern of vertical black lines that tells us how much we owe the man. Of course, the barcode’s symbolic analogy to capitalism makes it [...]

We’ve always thought that of all the cool kitchen utensils, the rolling pin must be the most versatile. Not only does it serve the obvious purpose of rolling out dough, but, in the eventuality that, like Steven Segal in Under Siege, we were tapped to serve as a secret agent, it would prove a very [...]

Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

Since we’re pretty serious architecture enthusiasts, not much gets us more hot under the collar than impassioned debates about the aesthetic quality (or poverty) of our built environment. After all, so much of our architecture is the work of developers looking to make a quick buck, rather than thoughtful designers, engineers and artists trying to [...]

Today is Farmers Day (also known as Old Farmers Day), an annual occasion for the celebration of the United States’ rich history as a nation of agricultural producers. Now, as the country’s relationship to that agrarian past continues to evolve–with urban and organic farming renewing interest in an industry dominated by multinational corporations–we can take [...]

As you may have noticed, we’re big fans of nerdy costumes. And though we’d never thought of basing a costume on the likeness of an actual video game console, perusing Unreality’s listicle of 15 Video Game Console Costumes, well, we started to think that we’d have picked an Atari joystick or a Dreamcast controller for [...]

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 [...]