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The Legend of The Oregon Trail.

Let It Dough! Christoph Niemann tells a graphic tale of creation with cookies. And sprinkles.

How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.

The 12 Days of “Balancing Things on Your Dog’s Head” Christmas.

20 Fun Facts About The Exorcist On Its 40th Birthday.

The Restraining Order Expires on Tuesday. A tale about coming face to face with psychotic obsession.

An Unexpected Christmas. (via Everlasting Blort)

Two Body Interactions: A Longitudinal Study.

The New York Times has a 25-question survey that tries to discern where in the U.S. you live (or were raised) by how you pronounce words. They pegged me pretty good. How well did it find where you are from? (via Boing Boing)

This couple were proud of their garden, and took pictures in every season. And one more. (via reddit)

Surrender

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Year-end Lists 2013: Movies

Filmography 2013


This year-end mashup contains clips from 300 movies released in 2013. There were that many in one year? Yep, there's a list of them at a dedicated Tumblr page. No wonder we need multiplexes to show them all! Do you know how many new movies you saw in 2013? I am ashamed to say that I know. I saw two. Quite a few of these are on my "like to see" list, when they come up on TV.

2013: The Year Prestige Cinema Reinvented Action Filmmaking.

The Week: The best movies we saw in 2013.

The 25 Best Films of 2013: A Video Countdown.

The Daily's Beast's 13 Best Movies of 2013.

Flavorwire's The 25 Best Films of 2013.

Hollywood’s Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2013.

The A.V. Club's 15 worst films of 2013.

Filmdrunk's Worst Movies Of 2013.

The Top Movie Mistakes of 2013.

The 30 Best Movie Posters of 2013.

The best film scenes of 2013.

The 10 Most Overlooked Film Performances of 2013.

The Best And Worst Things About The Sci-Fi Movies Of 2013.

2013 Movie Trailer Mashup


The films of 2013 are full of doom, gloom, and violence, as this trailer mashup by The Sleepy Skunk shows. NSFW language.

A Guy and His Kitty

Just a snuggle on the couch with his pet cougar. I mean, how could this kitty not love someone who scratches his ears and buys him $50 worth of steak every day?

Year-end Lists 2013: Sports

The 50 Best Sports Plays Of 2013 by worldwideinterweb

Top 10 2013 Sports Stories.

16 moments in 2013 that reminded us why we love sports.

Best Viral Sports Videos of 2013.

50 Best Sports Pics of 2013.

Notable Sports Deaths of 2013.

The Biggest Cheaters Of 2013.

The 89 Funniest Sports GIFs Of 2013.

The 19 Worst NFL Plays Of 2013.

The Tebow List: 14 Athletes And Teams Who Completely Fell Off The Map In 2013.

The 10 Best Sports Nut Shots Of 2013.

Best Wins of 2013

This video from Break highlights everyday people doing wonderful things in extreme sports in 2013. It's great that these moments were caught on video so we can all enjoy them.

What's Dat!

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Thicker

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Christmas Cleanup

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Year-end Lists 2013: Books

Esther Inglis-Arkell of io9 recommends geeky books, both fiction and non-fiction, of 2013 for your reading pleasure.

Amazon's Best Books Of 2013.

The A.V. Club's favorite books of the year.

Brain Picking's 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites

Flavorwire’s 15 Favorite Novels of 2013.

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013.

The Definitive Tech Books Of 2013.

The 30 Best Art Books Of 2013.

The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013.

The 12 Greatest Fantasy Books Of The Year.

The 14 Greatest Science Fiction Books Of The Year.

10 of 2013′s Best Books of Poetry.

The best graphic novels and art comics of 2013.

The A.V. Club's Best Comics of 2013.

Gamma Squad's Fifteen Best Comic Books Of 2013.

The 15 Best Book Covers of 2013.

The Year’s Most Controversial Magazine Covers (NSFW).

The Best Books of 2013: A Bountiful Offering

Recommendations from the book editors of The Economist.

2013 Year-end Lists: Music

It's that time of year already: time to look back at the best of 2013. Daniel Kim has once again mixed the biggest songs of the year into one mashup called Pop Danthology 2013. Doesn't it make you want to dance?

2013 in Music: The Year Virality Trumped Nuance.

Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks Of 2013.

These are Spotify's most popular tracks of 2013.

Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2013.

The A.V. Club's The 23 best albums of 2013.

SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2013.

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013.

Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll: 10 Albums That Kept Rock Alive And Well In 2013.

10 Best Metal Albums of 2013.

10 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2013.

The Best Country Albums of 2013.

Mainstream country music all sounded the same in 2013.

The Best and Worst Things in Dance Music in 2013.

The 10 Most Watched Music Videos Of 2013.

The Best Album Covers of 2013.

10 Cover Songs From 2013 That Sound As Good As The Original.

17 Of The Most Unforgettable Cover Versions Of 2013.

The year in band names 2013.

2013 In Review: The 10 Worst Album Covers Of The Year.

50 Worst Things In Music 2013.

NPR's Lovely Presentation of Musicians Who Died In 2013.

20 Most Overplayed Songs of 2013


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Thank You Note

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55 Incredible Images Of The World Celebrating Christmas.

12 Crazy Christmas Foods.

Pusheen the Cat is coming down your chimney! Find out why. 

The West Point Egg Nog Riot of 1826.

Eyolf Østrem wrote a little Christmas ditty "800 years ago," he says. It's a Gregorian chant in Latin called "Reno Erat Rudolphus." (via Metafilter)

Will the Real Santa Claus Please Stand Up?

How to Avoid Conflict With Your Family During the Holidays.

Losing Ourselves in Holiday Windows.

An Australian redditor posted a picture of Santa Claus driving a sleigh pulled by six white boomers and invited others to post pictures of Santa from their own country.

How To Do All Of Your Christmas Shopping At 7-Eleven.

Relatives

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Grapeless

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Lil Bub's Magical Yule Log Video

There are plenty of Yule log videos on the internet, so people who don't have a fireplace can have something to stare at while enjoying the holidays with family and friends. Lil Bub instantly improves on the situation by sitting in front of the warm fire and purring. For an hour. Send this video to someone you love. (via Laughing Squid)

Christmas Shopping in Tokyo

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Google's Santa Tracker

If you have children obsessed Santa Claus and his annual whirlwind trip around the globe, Google has an online tracker that keeps up with his journey. Since we are well into nighttime Christmas Eve in the Eastern Hemisphere, the tracker is going strong! When I took these screen caps, he was through with Australia, and was zipping between Indonesia and The Philippines, delivering gifts and laying tracks at lightning speed. Of course, when he gets near your location, it will be time for good little boys and girls to be in bed, dreaming of sugar plums or game consoles or such.

The Wish

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14 Hilarious Family Christmas Photos.

Spiked Egg Nog and Christmas Sweaters Don't Mix and Other Knitting Fables. (via Everlasting Blort)

Quiz: Kringle or Kriminal? Take the quiz!

DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s.

What’s the Difference Between a Mammoth and a Mastodon?  

How Leftie Are You? I turned up 77% leftie, but I would have been much more so if I had celebrated Margaret Thatcher's death. I do not celebrate anyone's death. (via b3ta)

100 Pieces of Advice from 100-Year-Olds.

What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies. That's when you realize you are not close to those you spend so much time with. (via Digg)

When the Google Street View team went to CERN in Geneva, the staff had hidden about twenty LEGO minifies amongst the equipment to be photographed for posterity. And they challenge us to find them! 

Behold! Sons of Anarchy Gingerbread Men.