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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 [...]

October, in case you weren’t already aware, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get aware. And more so than just about any other medical cause, the folks behind breast cancer awareness have some really spectacular merchandising and licensing ideas, which is how they’ve come up with the items listed in Comedy.com’s 15 Strangest Breast Cancer [...]

You presumably heard about the little girl who was saved from certain car-crushing death by a metal pole in a shopping mall parking lot, right? Well, she’s just the latest in a series of death-defying folks saved by some miraculous stroke of luck on camera. Epic Carnival has assembled the luckiest listicle ever, featuring The [...]

We know you’ve been waiting for it all year, and now it’s finally here: National Punctuation Day! Obviously, everyone )ourselves included( misuses punctuation all the time, so it’s important to have days like today to raise awareness of proper punctuation rules. In fact, we’re taking today’s lessons so seriously that we’re contemplating getting a punctuation [...]

Few seem to appreciate a far-out music video as intensely as we do, so much so that one of the crazy clips included in Brainz’s listicle of The 15 Weirdest Music Videos Ever was featured in one of our listicles several months back – that would be Tommy Sparks’s “She’s Got Me Dancing.” Among the [...]

Today is September 11 – in case you’d forgotten, in which event you must not be a Patriot (today is also Patriot Day) – the 8th anniversary of a certain event that changed the course of modern history. Of course, no horrifying act of death and destruction is beyond the purview of advertisers constantly looking [...]

Advertising condoms is, by its very nature, a tricky business, since one has to ride a fine line between being too explicit in reference to sex, while also not being so oblique that people misunderstand what’s being sold. More than other condom companies, Durex has had a fun time playing with that line, deploying double [...]

Last month Lil’ Wayne protege and rare Canadian cross-over rapper Drake took a pretty serious fall during a concert, sparking a great deal of concern over his physical well-being and his bummed knee. He subsequently canceled all but his hometown (Toronto) appearance on the tour, and is resting up. Complex seized upon the highly-publicized and [...]