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As our graduation from the Masters program we’re drawing out as best we can approaches (very, very slowly), we’re already trying to figure out where to apply for our next degree. Of course, the money thing is a bit of a problem… so we’re perusing the academic credentials of the universities featured in mental_floss’s listicle [...]

Though we often feel like we don’t use them enough, we really enjoy animated gifs and appreciate their artistry a great deal. We may start to do it a lot more now that Urlesque has curated a top-notch listicle of 8 Animated Gif Blogs, which is a fairly invaluable resource given how many crappy animated [...]

It’s been a little while since we featured a single-image list (the famous robot T-shirt design must have been the most recent, and of course the teddy bears in wagons were the first), but fashion photographer Leonard Gren’s shot of 8 B-Boys Wearing Paper Bags seemed like a good opportunity to break the dry spell. [...]

The Star-Spangled Banner, better-known to some as the national anthem of the U.S.A., was first sung exactly 195 years ago, we’re told. Though it was not approved as the official national anthem until 1931, the 1814 poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” by Francis Scott Key was immediately set to the popular British drinking song “The [...]

As you presumably heard, a couple weeks ago Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien fell during a race with Teri Hatcher, hit his head and suffered a mild concussion. The fall was played during a subsequent broadcast, becoming the latest but by no means the biggest celebrity head-bump. Super Punch provides some context with their listicle [...]

Advertising tends to be a devil’s advocate sort of device, convincing smart people to buy things they shouldn’t (Coke, candy, over-priced clothes) by appealing to some of their most basic desires. This scenario is made especially literal in the sorts of ads featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 8 Angel Vs. Devil Commercials, our favorite of [...]

As you’ve probably heard, after 68 years Condé Nast is closing the book on foodie mag Gourmet–Gawker even took an empty cubicle tour of the publication’s office–leaving many gourmands unsure where to turn for recipes and food news of all sorts. Have no fear, however, because we’ve been cooking up a listicle of 8 Blogs [...]

TV-themed tourism hasn’t quite taken off the way movie tourism has (an NBC Studios tour isn’t quite as entertaining as one at Universal Studios, for instance), but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t make a cool itinerary out of visiting familiar TV show locales that are actual places.
Super Tremendous’s listicle of 8 Iconic TV Show Buildings [...]

Yesterday, we read in the New York Times that China has imposed a new Visa system on Tibet that makes it impossible for foreigners to visit the occupied mountain nation. This is worrisome for many reasons, none more so than the fact that whatever political and religious oppression takes place there will now be even [...]

Some abstract art is a little too much for us, like two-toned paintings of geometric shapes, which we can only process for so long before losing interest. That said, if it’s abstract and moving, then we’re totally into it, which is why we’re so fond of video art that just involves the play of shapes [...]