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An Extensive Gallery of Josh and Chuck Photoshopped Into Troubling Images

The podcast has sometimes inspired at least two creative people to Photoshop Josh and Chuck into uncomfortable images. Here are about 150 of them.

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10 Scenes Where Boom Mics Made It Into The Shot

On occasion the director, cinematographer, PAs, sound guys, actors, producers and editors don’t notice a boom mic in a shot. Here are 10 great examples of sloppiness.

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5 More Documentaries You Should Really See

THE ROCK-AFIRE EXPLOSION If there is one thing that documentarians contribute to the world it is their uncanny ability to root out incredibly obscure subcultures one could never rationally imagine exist and finding tragedy and everyday heroism there. The Rock-afire

The Condom Challenge: No Russian Roulette

It isn’t quite yet to the Russian roulette stage I predicted in this post about the Knife Game, but it’s at least gross. The new meme is the Condom Challenge, wherein the person making the video – typically a kid

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The Best Stuff We’ve Read This Week

Angels & Demons. This extremely long piece from the St. Petersburg Times took a while to get through, not just because of its word count but because of the extremely dismal nature of the article, a triple sexual assault and

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Pretty Neat: Dove Uses Police Sketches To Show Women They’re Their Own Worst Critics

It’s nice to see a company discarding cynicism in advertising and taking up something that contributes to the betterment of humanity, even if it is ultimately to sell stuff. Case in point, Dove recently released the Real Beauty Sketches campaign

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Did you know the M*A*S*H theme song is titled Suicide is Painless?

Did you know that the theme song to TV show M*A*S*H — the very same M*A*S*H that was a hit comedy from the 70s featuring a cross-dressing Toledoan named Klinger, bathtub-gin distilling surgeons named Hawkeye and Trapper John (and later

Our New Jingle Versus Our First Fan Song

Here at SYSK, we’ve gotten some pretty cool things sent to us, but at the top of the list are things people have made for us (see T-shirt contest, horror fiction contest). Recently we became the proud new recipients of

The Best Stuff We’ve Read All Week

State of the Species. One of my favorite writers, Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 and 1493, writes in Orion magazine about one of my favorite topics, the impending Malthusian catastrophe that surely awaits us humans as we consume and

Would You Break Your Legs to Be Taller?

Leave it to America to take a medical procedure created to improve the lives of children born with growth disorders and use it for cosmetic surgery. China’s guilty of exploiting the procedure, appropriately called leg lengthening surgery, too. As the

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