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When I was growing up, on the rare occasions where I would bring home an honor report worthy report card, my parents would proudly hang my grades from the fridge, an advertisement to all who had the pleasure of snacking in our kitchen that their child was capable of a B- in Spanish. When I didn’t come home with the ...

You might not have known this but to the beer connoisseur, the finest brews are best served within 30 days of their bottling. So those three year old bottles of Heineken collecting dust in your fridge garage? Yeah, slightly past their prime. But hey, at least the caps are still usable. The MiBeerAge iOS application tells you exactly how old ...

Every piece of gadgetry we own or have owned in the past started somewhere. There is always an alpha. Even such iconic pieces of gadgetry as the Super Soaker (pictured above) had messy and rough beginnings. Let’s take a step back in time to truly embrace our favorite gadget’s state of antithesis. The products before there was a product. Hit ...

On October 31, 2010, AMC will debut their newest series, the Frank Darabont directed The Walking Dead, the first apocalyptic zombie TV series that has a real chance of being a huge hit. Based on the comic book series of the same name, details are pretty scant so far about the series, other than what we know from the comic ...

Sin City, 300, Batman: The Dark Knight and The Spirit. What do these titles all have in common? They are all the product of the mind of Frank Miller, the trailblazing comic artist and writer who took comics to the next level. Elevating comics from the newsstand to the bookstore and, later, the world of film – serious film. Frank ...

How do you take down a ghost with a chip on its shoulder? Yeah, we’re looking at you Blinky. It’s simple enough. When Pac-Man himself just isn’t cutting it, it’s time to whip out some heavy artillery. The LEGO Pac-Man Walker illustrates my point to perfection. Strap Pac-Man onto a pair of exoskeleton legs, complete with blasters and I’m pretty ...

It’s the bane of all non-mountain men/lumberjacks/Rutherford B. Hayes impersonators. Taking a hot shower before you’re due for a shave can be hazardous to your sex appeal. The poor visibility of a steamy mirror can result in patches of scruff left behind. Do you really want to look like that one school librarian who always had one inch long hair ...

Awful advertising isn’t limited to the confines of the internet. I thought I had collected a pretty impressive variety of terrible ad placement, but this – this pretty much punches all of the other examples in the ovaries and then proceeds to curb stomp them. I understand that many drycleaners are owned by foreigners who might not quite put two ...

I don’t know Jim. Jim might not be multi-talented, he might be the next da Vinci of the modern world. Like I said, I don’t know the guy. But Jim is an artiste (the extra ‘e’ adds class). A master of the pancake world. Straight up, this man is the Michelangelo of griddled breakfast batter. After a trip to the ...

In a culture that’s been terrified by monsters like Godzilla and Mothra for decades, I’m not sure an inflatable giant was the best choice of advertising mediums for the people of Tokyo, Japan. Panasonic used a gigantic inflatable model of their celebrity spokeswoman, Ayase Haruka, wielding a Lumix FX700 larger than two humans, to convince/terrorize the people of Tokyo to ...