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Today, in addition to being Canada Day, is Build a Scarecrow Day, which strikes us as rather region-specific national holiday, but there you go. Of course, now that we’re thinking about it, just because they’re called scarecrows doesn’t mean they can only be used to scare crows. To prove our point, we’ve rounded up these [...]

Though we’ve had conflicting reports, at least one source claims that today is UFO Day (others say July 8, the date of the original Roswell, New Mexico sighting, others say July 2 for no specific reason). At any rate, since everybody is so vague on the whole unidentified flying object thing (something we’ve noted before), [...]

Courtroom scenes are notoriously difficult to pull off, and for every Anatomy of a Murders there are hundreds of Liar Liars. Thankfully, The Onion’s A.V. Club has sifted through the worst and come up with a very entertaining listicle of 18 Legally Unlikely Courtroom Scenes, our favorite of which would have to be this one [...]

We’re suckers for cool and cute animated images, which is why we couldn’t pass up this image of 18 Really Fast Superheroes. We also wanted to make you think, with our choice of title, that this would be a dense, comic book lore-heavy listicle of superheroes endowed with the ability to achieve extreme speeds. Did [...]

According to an unverified source, today is the anniversary of the first public library opening. Dating this aniversary is all the more problematic because if you go back far enough, people’s definitions of “public library” start to differ significantly . For instance, did the dry sections of Roman baths where there were scrolls available for [...]

Today is a rather weird day, no? It’s both Friday the 13th (the first of two consecutive Friday the 13ths, we might add) and Valentine’s Day Eve. (It’s also three days before Presidents’ Day, an entirely separate can of worms.) How are we to feel on a day loaded with such contradictory meanings? Scary? Romantic? [...]

We’re all for innovative packaging design, we’ll even buy a special edition of some pop cultural artifact if the few extra bucks mean we’ll have something extra cool on our shelf.
That said, sometimes packaging designers get a little nutty with their ideas and we end up with silly things like the chronically detaching tin and [...]

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 [...]

A few days back we informed you, dear readers, of some of the best briefcases to sport in these times of increased workplace mobility. Unfortunately, after sporting our much-adored bacon briefcase for a few days we noticed that people were rather taken aback by the strict business look of our bag.
Then it hit us, like [...]