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One of the things we like about the NFL (we must admit, there aren’t that many, tailgating is another big one) is their ability, by and large, to support a losing team gracefully. Soccer fans aren’t so good at this, baseballs fans don’t fare much better, but you’ll rarely see a more solemn and passionate [...]

No matter how you feel about his Basketball Hall of Fame acceptance speech, Michael Jordan was still one of the best basketball players (and superstar athlete corporate spokespersons) ever. Appropriately, he’s appeared in many of the best commercials ever, as you’ll appreciate while perusing Hail May Jane’s listicle of The 23 Greatest Michael Jordan Commercials [...]

The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

Hey, the U.S. Open is happening this weekend, and even though we have absolutely no respect for golf (in fact we actively dislike it), we are fascinated by golf fashion. Given how little physical exertion or even simple fitness is required to speed around manicured lawns on electric cars, golf should really be the fashion [...]

Today, for no apparent reason we’ve managed to discover in our research, is Plumber’s Day. Plumbers had an unusually big year in 2008, what with the whole Joe the Plumber meme, now reporting live from Israel. Mostly, though, plumbing is a thankless (and surprisingly lucrative) job that doesn’t even have a celebrity spokesperson. Well, they [...]

The days when street art and the iconography of geekdom were completely antithetical are long-gone, and so it comes as no surprise that video games and computer linguistics are spilling over onto city walls. Kontraband tracks this development in urban art with their listicle of 23 Graffiti Works by Geeks, which includes everything from iPods, [...]