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It’s easy to forget, in these days of handheld devices and interactive, hyper-dynamic web design, that websites were pretty much hideously ugly 10 years ago. Or maybe our aesthetic standards have changed and they actually seemed acceptable at the time. Either way, perusing the Telegraph’s listicle of How 20 Popular Sites Looked When They Launched [...]

We often have a hard time articulating why we might be bad parents, but usually a visual explanation is much more effective. Imagining ourselves as parents calls to mind some of the unfortunate up-bringers (and their even more unfortunate charges) featured in Banned In Hollywood’s listicle of Funny Photos of 20 Terrible Parents (which is [...]

As drought-prone areas experience some of the driest seasons on record ever, both the Southern and Northern hemispheres have witnessed some of the worst wildfires in years in 2009. This weekend a massive wildfire was knocking at Los Angeles’ gates, but California, the Northwest and even Alaska have been getting lit all summer, as have [...]

Suburban design has clearly reached its sad and tragic end, but finding a way to make something out of the mess it’s left behind all over North America and the world is a massive and intimidating project. It seems as though for every suburb there’s an environmentally-sensitive plan for how things could be better. Well, [...]

We appreciate how hard it is to pick a tattoo design. After all, this is something you’ll be wearing, whether you like it or not, for the rest of your life. As such, it should probably be something that remains relevant as you grow, or at least reminds you of some important time or period [...]

Remember that episode of The Simpsons when Homer has to wait outside the World Trade Center to pay a parking fee until he gets so hungry he buys several stick-fulls of a mysterious meat product that sounded something like “klavkalesh”? Well, as it turns out, that sounds pretty great, especially when compared to some of [...]

As far as we can tell, summertime beach trips are just fraught with contradictory compulsions. For instance: you want to enjoy the sun, but you don’t want skin cancer. Likewise, you want to swim in the salt water, but then you’re all sticky and salty and won’t really feel comfortable until you shower. And then [...]

We’ve always taken a great deal of perverse pleasure from the absurd accoutrements pet-owners inflict on their so-called companions. We believe the rule on this should go something like: “Don’t dress your pet in a costume you would feel uncomfortable wearing.” Of course, in that case, we never would have dressed our cat as a [...]

It’s July 4th weekend, and you know what that means: shopping! After all, there’s nothing more patriotic these days than spending all your green to keep the stars and stripes afloat, and so we suggest that in preparation for your weekend barbecuing, hanging at the beach, losing your memory at the kegger, or celebrating however [...]

Today is Camera Day, an obscure and apparently random holiday that is exactly what it sounds like: a day to celebrate (and, presumably, use) a camera. Accordingly, we’re paying tribute to some of our favorite camera-wielders by focusing on the moments when they turned their instrument of choice upon themselves. Because everybody nowadays can make [...]