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As we plan our Halloween costume for this year we’re starting to think that maybe instead of doing a whole outfit, we might just choose one accessory that instantly redefines the rest of our wardrobe, making whatever we’re wearing a costume. At first we thought that a sword might be the best way to achieve [...]

Today is Leif Ericson Day, an occasion to celebrate the achievements of that valiant Norse explorer (approx 970-1020), most notably being the first European to set foot on the North American continent, likely somewhere near the tip of what is now Newfoundland. Given his broad region of influence–Iceland, Norway, Greenland, North America–you might find celebrations [...]

With St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow and Big Money Mondays today, we’re plotting the most extravagant cheap beer-guzzling we can possibly indulge. Beginning at 12:01 tonight, we’ll be bringing a series of the largest receptacles in our cupboard to our lips and draining them of liter upon liter of delicious hops. We realize steins are German, [...]

Some lists just don’t pan out, you know? Like back at the end of November it was Winston Churchill’s birthday and we really wanted to create a listicle called “Top 10 Winston Churchill Scarecrows” because we knew of at least one. That turned out to be the only one though, so we scrapped the listicle [...]

Our good friends at Urlesque published an ambitiously authoritative list yesterday, claiming to have rounded up the strangest album covers of all time. We were understandably skeptical at first, as sweeping claims are inevitably prey to vast cultural blind spots, but as we read we became humbled at just how strange The 20 Weirdest Album [...]

While skimming the New York Times this weekend, we came across this piece on the impending nationalization of the majority of American financial institutions. We didn’t see any problem with this, devout socialists that we are, until we realized that this would mean the demise of an oft-overlooked section of the advertising art sector. Sure, [...]

Prepare to waste the rest of your time at the office, your day off, your early holiday, whatever you’re doing basically is about to be superseded by a black hole of fun, web-based indulgence. The dudes at FHM have compiled a fairly exhaustive list of web-based curiosities, resources and time-wasters, entitled The 100 Greatest Websites [...]