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Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Call a Truce to Their Feud by Creating Ads for Each Other’s Company
It all started in 2015 after Ryan Reynolds poked fun at fellow actor Hugh Jackman, who was promoting the final Wolverine film Logan on Twitter.…
A Mob of Mongooses Following Closely Behind a Baby Goat Hilariously Scatter When He Turns Around
An adorable baby goat named Abel bravely stood his ground while a mob of very playful banded mongooses tried to chase him away.
A Surreal Series of Crocheted Masks Representing How People Portray Themselves Online
Irish performance artist Threadstories has created a somewhat eerie but highly symbolic series of surreal crocheted masks, some of which have a great deal of…
A Brilliantly Manic Cover of Tom Waits’ Wonderfully Frenzied Anthem ‘Going Out West’
Nick Parton, a British musician and self-described “Rain Dog”, performed a brilliantly manic cover of the guitar-heavy, wonderfully frenzied Tom Waits anthem “Going Out West”…
Regional Terms For Carbonated Beverages
xkcd has created a comprehensive Carbonated Beverage Language Map to help reduce confusion with regional refreshment terminology. There’s one person in Missouri who says "carbo…
Recommendo, A Handy Book of Helpful Recommended Favorite Things Compiled From a Weekly Email List
Author Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review, in partnership with Boing Boing co-founder Mark…
Engineers Feverishly Work to Build a Robotic Dog for an Overbearing Boss in the Animated Short ‘A Model Dog’
In the animated short “A Model Dog” by illustrator Joel Plosz, a team of two engineers work feverishly behind the scenes to build a robotic…
The Oddly Paradoxical History of the Iconic DeLorean
In a fascinating Vox video essay, editor Phil Edwards takes a look at the oddly paradoxical history of the incredibly distinctive DMC DeLorean. The car…
How Change Becomes Inevitable for a Selfish Phil Connors as He Lives ‘Groundhog Day’ Over and Over
Filmmaker Michael Tucker of the video essay series Lessons From a Screenplay takes a look at the “Inescapable Premise” of the 1993 film Groundhog Day.…
Founder of Lexicon Branding Shares How They Named Such Iconic Products as Swiffer, Fios and BlackBerry
Meghan McDonough of Quartz contacted David Placek, founder of the legendary Lexicon Branding in Sausalito, California, to speak about how the company came up with…