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We’ve become a little jaded in our old age (oh, hey, we celebrated our first anniversary on Tuesday!), and lately we find most lists very uninspiring. Every so often, though, a brilliant list reminds us why we signed up for this life of lists. Heavy’s listicle of the Top 5 Songs About Having Sex With [...]

You may have noticed that we’re huge architecture nerds, and, to a lesser degree, comic book fans. In a weird way, though, we’re maybe even more fond of the places where science fiction and architecture intersect and help to create spectacular, imaginary new constructions. We really enjoyed Architects Journal’s vidsticle of the Top 5 Comic [...]

This is why Americans will never be the best at soccer: because they aren’t passionate enough to modify whatever technological craze they’re currently addicted to in order to combine it with their favorite sport. The British, on the other hand, seem to be doing just that with this project–and promotion for the rock group Kasabian–whereby [...]

So the World Series are about to get underway, and this is pretty much the highest stakes time of year for a baseball umpire, whose every call is all the more likely to be pored over and questioned over the next few games. Let’s hope they don’t invite the ire of sports history the way [...]

As you’ve surely heard by now, Patrick Swayze, the 80s superstar responsible for the enduring popularity of the mullet and, conversely, making it okay for men to wear leggings, passed away yesterday after a bout with pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. Lest we forget, though, he did a great deal to make it [...]

We appreciate that, in the NFL more-so than any other professional sports league, you never know just how short your career might be, so you really have to capitalize as quickly as possible. Like, for instance, making small and silly endorsements deals with local businesses and appearing in their poorly conceived and executed commercials. That’s [...]

That strange border where performance and documentary collide is a very funny place. It’s also very demanding on performers, who have to somehow maintain their fictional personas even as they are prodded into awkward and difficult situations by talk show hosts, interviewers and the like. The interlocutors in mental_floss’s listicle of 5 Real Interviews with [...]

True, we just featured iconic A Team-member Mr. T in a listicle two days ago, but do you really think we can ever get our fill of the rhyming, mohawked muscle-man? Not when great T-themed listicles keep coming our way, that’s for sure! Today’s entry in the annals of T comes from Topless Robot, who’ve [...]

If you’ve bitten into any of the scary texts about the fast food industry (Fast Food Nation, The Future of Food, Food Inc., Poultrygeist, etc.), you’ll know that their operations often approach organized-crime levels of corruption and manipulation. To make that parallel nice and clear, artist Andrew Shirey made this awesome drawing depicting 5 Members [...]

Let’s face it: by and large, baseball movies are among the worst kind of sports movies (which might have something to do with Kevin Costner’s disproportionate contribution to the sub-genre). Whatever it is, movies set in and around the baseball diamond can’t really compare to footballe, soccer, hockey and, yes, even basketball movies. That said, [...]