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As you presumably heard, last week the International Olympic Committee made the right decision for once, and awarded the duties of hosting the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Brazilian megapolis Rio de Janeiro–rather cities in recent host nations Spain, Japan and the U.S. This marks the Games’s first visit to South America, and since it’s [...]

Among the many things that the United Nations Security Council worked on yesterday during their dealings in New York was the decision to move forward on measures to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We applaud the move (and urge the French president to stop being a wuss and show his support), and hope that [...]

Today is Elephant Appreciation Day, which we learned is a fairly young holiday created in 1996 by a father who was disproportionately elated by the paperweight of elephants parading that his daughter gave him as a gift. Doesn’t he know that paperweights are just about the most thoughtless and empty gifts one can give? At [...]

As perhaps the subculture that has embraced Internet meme culture with the greatest enthusiasm, hip hop has produced some of the most memorable cross-over mainstream web memes. StreetLevel recounts some of the funnest in their listicle of The 9 Best Hip Hop Memes, from consciously created movements like Souljah Boy’s “Crank Dat” dance or the [...]

Anytime we can find a convenient shorthand or graphic representation for the pioneering work of scientist Charles Darwin we seize upon it, and if we were more into getting tattoos than we are into looking at them, we might even get one of the cool ink jobs featured in Cakehead Loves Evil’s listicle of 9 [...]

Were we to ever name something after a celebrity (as opposed to someone more obvious and deserving, like ourselves), it would probably be a star (as in “Xeron 12 13 Philip Seymour Hoffman”) or color (like “Cameron Diaz Yellow”) or something less grandiose (maybe “Ol’ Dirty Bastard Lane”). One thing’s for sure, we would never [...]

Not too long ago we read an excellent graphic novel by Hannah Berry entitled Britten and Brülightly that’s like a traditional detective novel except the private investigator Britten’s partner, Brülightly, is a talking tea bag. Awesome, right? (It is.) Well until that work is adapted for the big screen, our quirkiest police pairs in film [...]

Maybe it’s because buildings tall and short seem to be slapped together over a few weeks or a couple months these days, or maybe people just realize that watching long construction processes reduced to a 20-second video is really cool, but we’ve become addicted to time-lapse clips of epic skyscrapers rising from their foundations [...]

Fan-dom, as virtually all of us know but few will admit, involves about as much copycat art and homage as the Internet can handle. Some of these artifacts are more valuable and laudable than others; like, for instance, Michael Jackson art is a hot commodity right now. In the hierarchy of fan art, experimental videos [...]

These days we mostly know Pixar animation studios for their adorable and relatively deep and thoughtful computer-animated films (WALL-E, Up!, etc.) and the funny short films that generally precede said features then go on to win all the short film Oscars, but, like most big names in the movies, they go their start in advertising. [...]