But if you’re going to go with the “Based On A True Story” tag, all we ask is that you make the stories sort of, you know, true. You can do that, right?  Not if these movies are any indication.

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Coming from an SEO background and wearing my stylish tinfoil hat, I am forever looking for ways to reduce reliance on any single distribution channel: being hooked on the Digg crack is just as bad as relying solely on free organic traffic from Google.

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Children are stupid. We know it’s not their fault, but it doesn’t stop us from laughing at their innocent, wide-eyed idiocy. With this in mind, we asked you to depict some of history’s most significant events, as they would be drawn by a five year-old child.

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Hollywood goes with what works and, let’s face it, there are a few things audiences like to see again and again in their movies. The underdog wins big, the loser gets his dream girl, Batman is awesome, etc. But there are some themes that are either so wrong, stupid or harmful that they need to be retired once and for all. Such as …

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They walk among us! Some even fly among us! They may even take the bus among us from time to time! Homosapiens-Superior is here, and can do things that have scientists scratching their heads.

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Some fictional badasses come with a certain level of credibility. […] Other times, however, you really get the feeling that 100 percent of a character’s fighting ability is due to clever editing and a script that calls for his opponents to fall down at his touch. With that in mind, here are seven supposed badasses who we’re pretty sure you could take in a fight:

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Sometimes, the more you know about a song the less you enjoy it. You start out thinking the singer of some ballad totally identifies with your situation, then later find out most musicians are creepy sex maniacs, and boring at the same time. With that in mind, here’s six popular songs that aren’t nearly as awesome once you find out what they actually mean.

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You’ll be exposed to around 6,000 marketing messages today, according to researchers. […] But as pervasive as it is now, marketers are working hard behind the scenes to make sure it’s much, much worse in the future. Doing things like …

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If we could ask God for just one thing, it’d be this: We want superpowers like people in the Bible had. […] It used to happen quite a bit, the Bible is full of people who God infused with powers that would put most of the Marvel and DC lineup to shame. Such as:

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Basically, robots can make everything cooler, from wars to weddings. […] Most of the time, though, these robots that look so cool on screen are so incompetent at their jobs, they’d have had better luck just sending a random intern to do it. Such as:

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With any exciting and new industry, there are all sorts of previously unheard-of ways to screw the customer. Video games are no different. […] These five brazen attempts to screw over gamers gives us a glimpse of what could be a very annoying future:

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Here we look at seven self-endangering scientists who only wear lab coats because you can’t get explosive-bear-proof tuxedos outside of MI6. Each one of these researchers has been voted “Most likely to inject themselves with the Omega Serum while shouting, ‘Dammit, there’s no time for testing!’”

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There have just got to be a few business cards floating around out there that toe the line between memorable and terrifying.. We asked you to Photoshop some of them, and the winning entry is below. But first, the runners-up:

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Who do you think are the most cynical people in the world? Cops? Executioners? Or maybe prostitutes? Clowns? We’re thinking it’s doctors. If you want proof, check out some of the horrifying-yet-hilarious slang they use around the office. Yes, these are real.

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But even those people would be hard pressed to find too many reasons to fear the following gangs, most of whom would probably be mistaken for dance troupes and second-rate children’s entertainers in real life.

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In studying the works of Steven Seagal, I have noticed that his characters are almost always a cop, an intelligence agent, an ex-intelligence agent, an ex-cop or an ex-intelligence agent cop. So whenever he replaces or combines those with some other way of paying the bills, it’s a refreshing change of pace. It’s also usually hilarious:

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“We’ll just fix that in post!” has always been the rallying cry for filmmakers in the middle of a troubled production. Unfortunately, sometimes things have a nasty habit of actually getting broken in post-production, usually thanks to studio interference. Victims include …

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Historians tell us there was a time before the internet and, while we of course don’t believe them, we thought it might be interesting to see what websites would look like in this strange, awful time before the internet. We asked you to Photoshop some of them, and the winning entry is below. But first, the runners-up:

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While some insults are broadly accessible, like your mom, others will require a little background for the new student. Thus, we offer this helpful guide to the best and most vulgar (and very real) insults from around the world:

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But while most of us spent our childhoods staring at cartoons over bowls of sugary breakfast cereal, some kids were more focused on things like composing symphonies, performing surgery or getting nominated for the Nobel Prize. Here are some child prodigies who, to put it mildly, make us look like worthless turds.

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