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There’s something very appealing about the idea of having a funny tombstone, rather than one that is solemn and muted. After all, if there’s anywhere that needs a little humor to lighten the mood it’s the cemetery. Manofest has done some impressive digging to find The 25 Funniest Tombstones, out favorite of which marks the [...]

One day in the hopefully not too distant future, we’ll be able to fold electronic paper in a certain way and it will spring to life with our favorite games animated in real, physical three-dimensional glory. It’ll look something like that recreation of Pacman with specially programmed roombas. Until that day, though, we’ll have to [...]

So it’s starting to get really cold and legitimately winter-y, and our spider-senses tell us it’s time to start the winter rituals: bears hibernate, elderly New Yorkers migrate to Florida, and we all wear fake tans every day for about six months.
Seriously, it’s about the only way we’ve found to keep a happy face through [...]

Last week we looked at some art and crafty facial hair substitutes in the days leading up to Halloween, plotting the possibility of knitting beards for our own costume. This week we’re contemplating facial hair of a very different, decidedly more organic and unruly sort: the bee beard. Holytaco has assembled a a listicle of [...]

Yesterday we heard the sad news that American photographer Roy DeCarava had passed away at the age of 89. One of the pioneers of a new kind of American street photography, especially between the late-40s and late-60s, DeCarava focused his lens on the desolation of the neighborhood where was spent most of his life: Harlem. [...]

Traditionally (meaning before WWI) ghosts were pretty much the scariest creatures humanity had invented, what with all the floating, ominous chanting, curtain-rustling and door-creaking. Over the last century we’ve proved that we’re actually the scariest things on the planet, and now ghosts are played for comedy more often than straight scares. Holytaco’s listicle of 25 [...]

As one of the last weekend mornings before Halloween officially hits next weekend, this seems like the best time to foreshadow what so many around the world will be doing next Sunday morning after their costumed revelry–since, were we to do this next week, you might not find it so funny. The folks at Holytaco [...]

There are few pop cultural motifs quite as cool as the moniker “Mr.”, which is a perfect conflation of classy, sleek, cultured and mysterious, with an air of authority and cold, calculating power. Whether or not you’re aware of it, many of your favorite characters were Misters, from Rogers to T to Spock, Bean and [...]

As you may have heard, Irving Penn, the famous photographer who shot virtually every celebrity and famous designer from the late 1940s onward, died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Manhattan home. Aside from his fashion photography for Vogue, Penn was probably best known for capturing playful and intense moments with some of [...]

Money is just money, after all, just silly pieces of metal and paper we’ve assigned arbitrary value to, so what’s the point in having it if you can’t have fun with it? One way to do just that is to treat the stuff as a medium rather than a means to an end, as the [...]