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Awful Logo Design: An Art Form [COMIC]

Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?

Authors: By Winston Rowntree
Published: February 13, 2011
Comments: 300

The 6 Most Cynical Exploitations of Romantic Love in History

Every year, we hear too-cool cynics deride Valentine's Day as a holiday invented by greeting card companies that cynically exploit romantic love for profit. But we say, so what? Society has been exploiting romantic love since the day it was invented.

Authors: By Robert Evans
Published: February 13, 2011
Comments: 457

6 Giant Blind Spots In Every Movie Alien's Invasion Strategy

With a few alien-invasion movies on the horizon, this is a good time to ask ourselves why exactly the alien invasions we see on the silver screen always seem to end in disaster for the invaders, despite their ridiculously advanced technology.

Authors: By S Peter Davis
Published: February 12, 2011
Comments: 2212

CRACKED ROUND-UP: Boer War Edition

Authors: By CRACKED Staff
Published: February 12, 2011
Comments: 15

The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain

The more science studies music's effect on the human brain, the more bizarre things we discover.

Authors: By C. Coville, Kathy Benjamin
Published: February 11, 2011
Comments: 522

6 Jobs You Won't Believe You Can Outsource

Wherever there is money and even the slightest demand for a service, there is someone out there willing to provide it, no matter how bizarre, pathetic or borderline illegal.

Authors: By Danny Vittore
Published: February 10, 2011
Comments: 408

6 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Were Perverts

Turns out the 'I Was Young and Needed the Money' cliche doesn't apply only to actors.

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok
Published: February 09, 2011
Comments: 648

How to Evaluate a Stupid News Story [COMIC]

Remember when we cared about such ridiculous stuff ... last month?

Authors: By Scott Meyer
Published: February 08, 2011
Comments: 127

6 Artists You Didn't Know Made Your Favorite Movie Moments

The point when everybody gets bored during the Academy Awards is when they give out all of those technical awards to people you've never heard of. Surprisingly, though, you're fans of some of these people. Hug fans, in some cases. You just didn't know it.

Authors: By David Christopher Bell
Published: February 08, 2011
Comments: 963

5 Reasons Parenting Is One Place We Shouldn't Imitate China

Apparently parents in the U.S. are learning their parenting skills from the Chinese. Let's ... let's just take the foot of the gas, guys.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: February 07, 2011
Comments: 1390

If Movie Happy Endings Were Awesome [COMIC]

Most insane escape ever.

Authors: By Space Avalanche
Published: February 07, 2011
Comments: 124

The 7 Most Unexpectedly Awesome Parties in History

We have it better than our ancestors in every way but one: How raging our parties are.

Authors: By Robert Evans, Jacopo della Quercia
Published: February 07, 2011
Comments: 547

Why Bill Murray Is The World's Greatest Mythological Figure

Bill Murray has become the urban equivalent of Bigfoot -- a mythical figure who generates sightings anywhere people are too drunk to totally trust their memory. Instead of being half-human, half-ape, Bill Murray exists somewhere between celebrities and the rest of us.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien
Published: February 06, 2011
Comments: 422