This piece explains how everything you were taught about Native Americans and the First Europeans in America is wrong. Unfortunately, it's in Cracked.com's highly annoying "listicle' format. But if you can get past that, you WILL learn a thing or six. more inside

Publisher's Weekly's blog has begun making Literary Pie Charts for notable books. Only two so far (and not Weekly yet), but watch this space...

MoviesThat Come To The Rescue! A 4:30 mashup of over 200 scenes from over 100 superhero movies and TV shows.

May The Forth Be With You. Sally, that is. Francesco Marciuliano goes back to the first week of his time writing a syndicated comic strip and reassures us he could do better.

Urban Plant Tags for proper identification and care of things that just seem to pop out of the ground...

I Shot the Serif, but I did not shoot the sans-serif. And now you can too!

"In live-action films, motion blurs are natural occurrences. In animation, you have to make them from scratch. And most of them are pieces of art by themselves." yes, it's a tumblr, but a very good one.

R.I.P. Facts

Charts. Gotta Love 'Em. Or Not. more inside

F*** & Biscuits Stephen Fry recently did a five-part series about language, including, obviously, 'rude language'. So when Australia's ABC aired the series, what did they pick for its promo clip on YouTube? "Tourette Hero" (containing dozens of involuntary f-words in 4 minutes).

This is not... ...an excellent collection of parodies of Magritte's "The Treachery of Images", with pipes, Popes, Cokes, Post-Its, Traps and other artists, collected by the evil genius behind I Love Charts, maybe the Best Tumblr EVAH.

Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum... Violin?!? It's the "Six Shot Six String" by Maskull Lasserre, whose art-mashup-thingies also include "Sonata Blade", a stringed cleaver, "Second Thought", an 'axe' that really IS an axe (obvious) and "Coriolis", a piano (made of rusted steel that resembles wood) that has come in contact with a boulder (100% real rock). Somebody has issues about his childhood music lessons.

Tug of Real War: If hostilities ever break out between the U.S. and Canada, this is how they will probably play out.

The 15 Most Ridiculous White House Pets Vice-Presidents not included. more inside

From the Department of Highly Specialized Tumblr Sites Department: It's "(1960s) Batman (and Robin) Running (in animated gifs) Away From Sh*t (that's photoshopped behind them)", like the 2008 Joker, dinos in Jurassic Park or Teletubbies. Or running just ahead of Rock Hudson in 'North By Northwest' (my favorite). Well, it's better than Pictures of People Scanning QR Codes

Chimpanzees are NOT all alike. In fact they are LESS 'all alike' than Humans. "the genetic diversity of these different chimp populations, even those who are practically right on top of each other, is significantly greater than that found in humans separated by entire continents."

"Money Can't Buy Happiness" semi-proven by a multi-national poll. But always remember, statistics don't lie, but liars sure know how to use statistics. more inside

So you thought the 'Live Fast, Die Young...' meme originated in the Hard Rock culture of the 60s-70s? Uh, nope. more inside

Maddie the Coonhound stands tall and proud (on top of damn near anything, anywhere). more inside

40 of the Strangest Ad Agency Names, and Where They (well, most of them) Came From
Because sometimes you WANT your marketing strategy in the hands of "Wexley School for Girls". more inside