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- January 29th
- Derren Brown: "I own a gremlin from Gremlins 2"
- The McDonald's Big Mac sauce bottles have just sold out, but here's where to get one
- Peter Serafinowicz has redubbed Donald Trump as a cockney and it's hilarious
- This life-sized Batman model is outrageous
- Which feature do you want to see on the iPhone 7?
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 60 seconds
- House of Cards confirmed for a fifth series
- Everyone needs to sign this petition to get Snoop Dogg narrating Planet Earth
- London's first driverless cars are coming sooner than you think
- The ShortListen: Zayn (no. 241)
- Nintendo's new console could launch with Super Smash Bros.
- You can now send GIFs on Tinder
- Man has the most awkwardly British encounter ever, recounts it on Twitter
- Tony The Tiger has started blocking fans on Twitter after they started getting creepy with him
- Ex-Apple employee reveals what it's like to work in an Apple store
- January 28th
- Martin Shkreli has hit back at Ghostface Killah in smugly threatening video
- The doughnut cinnamon roll hybrid is real and our stomachs need it
- England great Stuart Pearce signs for the UK's 'worst' football team
- These movies are dramatically changed by adding "ing" to their title
- Does this AI breakthrough herald the beginning of the end?
- DeLorean to build new cars for the first time in 30 years
- You can now rent a 'Neflix and Chill' room on Airbnb
- 12 fashion essentials for your week
- Young man films himself climbing Great Pyramid of Giza and takes unbelievable photos
- You need to watch this stunning mashup of Oscar nominees for best visual effects
- It's now cheaper to travel from Sheffield to Essex via Berlin
- These sketches of Michael Caine's style down the years are wonderful
- The ShortListen: Massive Attack (no. 240)
- These are the insane numbers behind Facebook's community
- Get ready for Disney and Marvel to make films together for “forever”
- These are the greatest inventions of the 21st century (apparently)
- Top European clubs want to make the Champions League a closed shop
- Here are the highlights from the insane Kanye Vs Wiz Twitter showdown
- The iPhone 7 Plus could have a pretty insane camera trick
- Dermot O'Leary: highly driven
- January 27th
- 10 easy ways to pimp your meat
- See the excellent Triple 9 for free with ShortList Film Club
- 7 foods that are far more dangerous than you think
- Savages: the angriest band in showbiz
- Dimitar Berbatov goes full-scale Partridge & conducts an interview with himself
- 25 brilliant style quotes from incredibly well dressed men
- The locations that Google Earth doesn't want you to see
- The Game posted his bank balance on Instagram and it's ridiculous
- What the inside of Mark Zuckerberg’s depressing wardrobe looks like
- The Chickening is the craziest remix of The Shining you will ever watch
- Drone racing is the 'sport of the future' - and it looks amazing
- This awesome Pokémon commercial is going to air during the Super Bowl
- Arnie is beefed up & ready to go for Conan The Conquerer
- This condom machine will have a massive impact on drunken one night stands
- This might be why your iPhone 6S battery keeps dying
- Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson in 9/11 film you won't believe is a true story
- The ShortListen: Pet Shop Boys (no. 239)
- Scientists preparing to announce how close we are to the apocalypse (and it doesn’t look good)
- This guy built an exoskeleton that can lift a car
- Harrison Ford is definitely going to be in Blade Runner 2 with Ryan Gosling
- How to build your own life-sized BB-8 for under £100
- If you send someone this link it will crash their iPhone instantly
- January 26th
- Adele's face fits perfectly on to every famous album cover (and you never even noticed)
- 10 ways gaming can make you super rich
- Sinister new trailer for House Of Cards
- What we learnt about the CIA's declassified UFO files
- The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game actually looks ace
- Football player’s heartbroken reaction to being nutmegged is priceless
- Nerf's new Blaster range is genuinely intimidating
- The ShortListen: Iggy Pop (no. 238)
- Rapper B.O.B. is genuinely convinced the world is flat
- This jet concept could fly from New York to London in 11 minutes
- CIA release a heap of UFO files including one about Sheffield
- Here are all the new Emoji set to arrive in 2016
- Latest Batman V Superman trailer is brilliantly menacing
- January 25th
- Here are all of the drugs people think should be legal (and what would happen if they were)
- The 50 worst pieces of video game box art ever
- Hollywood are remaking 5 of your favourite movies for 2016
- This 'map of every city' is absolutely perfect
- Insane scientist risks his life in the coolest way ever to prove a physics law
- A grandson just transformed his 85-year-old farmer grandfather into an absolute style icon
- 6 videos that prove Thierry Henry is the sassiest man on TV
- Does this prove that the new iPhone won't have a headphone jack?
- Here's how to get free entry to The View from the Shard for the entirety of 2016
- Another photo leaks of Apple's new iPhone
- Someone made a robot that writes new episodes of Friends and it's kind of brilliant
- These two maps show why you need to move to Germany right now
- Here's how to get rid of those annoying 'Be Like Bill' Facebook posts
- The ShortListen: Klangstof (no. 237)
- Watch this crazy genius turn Coke bottles into a gatling gun
- What's on the inside of a NES cartridge will surprise you
- Jeremy Clarkson has said something offensive about trans people, because obviously
- Video games reimagined as pulp novels look amazing
- This man just destroyed the world’s stupidest conmen in the most perfect way
- You know you want to buy a floating bonsai tree
- January 22nd
- According to Woody Guthrie, this is what it was like to live in Donald Trump's racist dad's apartment
- Watch this guy try to retrieve his GoPro from a pit of viscious rattlesnakes
- The man braid is a thing and it’s a disaster even worse than the man bun
- This is the best hotel in the world according to Trip Advisor
- QUIZ: Can you spot the real Tatler headline from the fake?
- The reason we haven't found any alien life yet is pretty upsetting
- You can take a virtual reality tour of The Shining hotel and it's terrifying
- There's going to be a Jeremy Corbyn musical and it looks AWESOME
- A video has leaked showing the new iPhone
- 9 easy ways to pimp your tomato ketchup
- Someone made a portable N64 and it's 100% awesome
- This genius used Google Autocomplete to fill in his dating profile (and it's hilarious)
- David Bowie doing perfect impressions of Springsteen, Dylan and Lou Reed will make your day
- Is this the creepiest iPhone case in the world?
- January 21st
- 10 fashion trends that need to die right now (according to science)
- A guide to the secret (awesome) menu that McDonald's and Burger King don't want you to know about
- Is this notorious serial killer the real man behind the Making A Murderer case?
- This Star Wars fan theory is brilliant and pretty damn bulletproof
- According to scientists, your beard could save your life
- This guy just gave the creepiest gameshow answer ever, and now we need a cold shower
- This is how many of your Facebook friends actually like you
- A surgeon claims he's just successfully carried out a head transplant
- Girl gives out wrong number instead of her own - random man responds brilliantly instead
- Luton isn't the worst place in Britain - it's Grimsby (according to ShortList readers)
- Viewers spot crucial new Making a Murderer evidence that could change everything
- This awesome bike can turn into a jet ski in 5 seconds
- Far Cry Primal looks absolutely brutal
- Danny Dyer paid tribute to his mum and dad's sex life at the National TV Awards
- Does this video show us what to expect with the new iPhone 7?
- You're going to have to wait a painfully long time for Star Wars: Episode VIII
- January 20th
- Kevin Hart on stardom, stand-up and stretching
- David Bowie: Fashion's patron saint
- John Niven: In Memory Of The Thin White Duke
- Design us a poster for The Walk and win a big prize
- Someone has made the world's most difficult Rubik's Cube
- Listening to J R R Tolkien read 'Lord of the Rings' is amazing
- Leading astronomer believes alien babies will replace us all by the year 2100
- John Boyega on Bafta nods, speech writing and Finn/Poe
- Guy receives Hannibal Lecter quotes from a girl over text and doesn't notice
- 6 Far East style pieces you need in your wardrobe
- VW fibs about car performance again (with brilliant prank video)
- Prepare for weirdness – five planets are about to align
- You can buy Luke Skywalker's blaster pistol
- McDonald’s is launching chocolate covered fries called the McChoco Potato
- Swedish authorities don't see the funny side of this giant ice penis
- The worst ever game show contest ever just appeared on The Chase
- What You Should Eat If You Want To Live To 100 (Based On The People Who've Done It)
- David Bowie rejected a Coldplay collaboration, saying "it's not a very good song, is it?"
- The weirdest things Sarah Palin said in her Donald Trump endorsement
- The new trailer for The Suicide Squad will blow you away
- January 19th
- The hilarious first trailer for Bad Neighbours 2 has landed
- This is how much you spend charging your smartphone every year
- Video of man attempting to say 'specifically' will have you in bits
- North Korea claims to have invented "hangover-free alcohol"
- The ShortListen: The Coral (no. 236)
- 40 pieces of wisdom from the GTA series
- 2015's movies recapped spectacularly in LEGO
- 10 things nobody tells you about getting married
- Racing car travels a quarter of a mile in 5.7 Seconds
- Slightly worrying news: burglars can 3D print your house keys
- Everyone still has '1234' as their password
- Jaws is real and living in Australia
- This is what the Ferraris of the future could look like
- Edward Snowden is being creepy about how many nude photos he gets
- Steve Coogan and John C Reilly to play Laurel & Hardy
- Even Apple fans should be seriously worried about Donald Trump
- A fan is remaking Metal Gear Solid and it looks incredible
- Kanye West is recording a Bowie tribute album - and believes he is his successor
- Tarantino confirms his films are all part of the same universe. Sort of
- Russia has plans to stop Earth-bound asteroids with nukes
- January 18th
- Spike Lee responds to #OscarsSoWhite backlash with brilliant open letter to Academy
- A London toilet is on the market for £1m
- This is an ingenious solution to surviving a plane crash
- Deadpool has been banned in China - and that's good for us
- Forget about seeing the Apple Watch 2 any time soon
- The stupidest questions submitted to libraries before the internet
- The most outrageous banned apps from the App Store
- Revealed: the 15 most edited articles from Wikipedia’s first 15 years
- These are the sweariest artists, songs & genres in music
- Could this wheel design revolutionise the bike?
- Hipsters Ruin Coffee Forever
- The ShortListen: Chairlift (no. 235)
- The world's richest 62 people are as wealthy as half the globe's population
- You'll never take a selfie as good as Tim Peake's
- This hypnotising ‘spot the panda' puzzle is the most difficult yet
- New Trailer For X-Files Reboot
- This failed rocket landing is the most epic thing you'll watch all week
- January 15th
- This poster brilliantly demonstrates just how influential N.W.A. were
- The best features coming to Apple's iOS 9.3 update
- Leo DiCaprio’s secret twin found working for the Russian government
- Recaptured drug lord El Chapo 'wanted to buy Chelsea'
- SOLVED: How to read Whatsapp messages without your friends knowing
- You can now see the world's largest model train set on Google Maps
- One of the world's deadliest snakes is loose in London (and it's faster than a horse)
- Porn comments mixed with LEGO is childishly brilliant
- 5 things you need to know about Tim Peake's spacewalk
- The ShortListen: Nina Nesbitt (no. 234)
- Netflix wants to stop you watching American shows
- The amazing instant bread from Force Awakens wasn't done with CGI
- The Simpsons' tribute to Alan Rickman is absolutely perfect
- Your favourite character could be returning to Star Wars
- Cloverfield 'sequel' trailer arrives out of nowhere
- January 14th
- Whitechapel station is getting £110m transformation and it looks incredible
- Hoverboard bursts into flames during unboxing test
- The Oscar 2016 nominations revealed
- 10 great quotes from the legendary Alan Rickman
- Alan Rickman: "It’s too frustrating watching yourself"
- Actor Alan Rickman dies aged 69
- This video of Alan Rickman making a cup of tea shows exactly why he was perfect
- The 20 Greatest (Fictional) Style Icons Of All Time
- This driver just trolled Star Wars fans in the cruelest way possible
- Twitter Gaming is now a thing and it's odd
- Amazing Star Wars: The Force Awakens special effects reel goes behind the scenes of visual tricks
- Forget Netflix & Chill, it's all about Netflix & Cringe
- This man's Twitter rants about pizza are more intense than Making a Murderer
- The one where Friends came back for a two-hour special
- January 13th
- James Corden doing Carpool Karaoke with Adele is the best thing you'll see all day
- Harry Kane: "I don't want to just go to the Euros, I want to be starting"
- Beatboxing, zero divided by zero and 10 other things that makes Siri lose her mind
- This is what snowboarding in a frozen waterpark looks like
- One of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century might have been solved
- Michael B Jordan on how to take on Rocky
- Your employers can now legally read your private messages at work
- 11 Secrets from airline employees (including why you definitely shouldn't drink the coffee)
- Jimmy Kimmel just got Mulder and Scully back together ahead of their comeback
- Excellent posters re-imagine Deadpool as a slushy valentine’s day rom-com
- These are the lies that you should genuinely tell in job interviews
- Here's the first trailer for the new Aaron Paul TV series
- Former Star Wars actor confirms they won't return if asked. Ends loads of fan theories
- The ShortListen: Mogwai/Explosions in the Sky (no. 233)
- People are petitioning God to bring Bowie back from the dead
- This mysterious phone number is driving GTA players nuts
- Britain's first red light district has officially opened
- One of the worst games ever made is getting a VR remake
- This is what GoldenEye 64 would look like if it was made today (clue: awesome)
- January 12th
- These are the 8 actors lined up to play ‘young’ Han Solo
- Lou Dalton x River Island: equestrian-meets-urban
- The stand out shows from London Collections Men AW16
- Watch this mesmerising supercut of every F word in Tarantino films
- This woman posted reviews of her dates on Yelp and it was brilliant
- There's a Tumblr for Wetherspoon’s carpets and it's weirdly fascinating
- 10 things you didn't know you could do with YouTube
- This is what it's like to have 8 million Instagram followers
- This 1967 letter from Bowie to a fan is excellent
- The next Apple update is get to help you get more sleep
- Giant metal 'space balls' fall from the sky in Vietnam
- Here’s the first minute of the new X-Files Premiere
- The ShortListen: The Last Shadow Puppets (no. 232)
- 90 per cent of smartphone users suffer from this (and here's why)
- Can you complete the lyrics to Bowie's most famous songs?
- Ranked: The 10 worst ways to commute in London
- Aaron Paul teases Jesse Pinkman appearance in Better Call Saul Season 2
- Tinder has been secretly ranking how hot you are (which could explain a lot)
- January 11th
- Underground workers to stage three further strikes
- The coolest tech of CES 2016
- How Bowie predicted the future of music in 2002
- The next generation of electric car
- The most checked-out book at the UN library is a bit awkward
- 25 Bowie looks that proved he was the ultimate style icon
- Bowie Unseen: An incredible life in pictures
- Experience a day in the life of Berlin Bowie
- You’ve been cutting pizza wrong your entire life
- The Martian wins 'Best Comedy' Golden Globe and totally confuses Twitter
- Ricky Gervais's 5 most cutting gags from last night's Golden Globes
- This Chinese promotional song for The Force Awakens is crazy
- Watching Lady Gaga brush past DiCaprio at the Golden Globes is hilariously hypnotic
- The ShortListen: David Bowie (no. 231)
- Kodak has revamped its Super 8 camera
- The latest Simpsons couch gag is utterly insane
- You'll be able to 'summon' this car from across the country in 2 years
- Netflix releases brutal new House of Cards teaser
- Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account was hacked last night and it was hilarious
- How David Bowie influenced my life and work by Ricky Gervais
- Music legend David Bowie dies at the age of 69
- January 8th
- A Finn/Poe love storyline in Star Wars would be great - but not for the sake of it
- The 20 games you'll want to play in 2016
- New trailer for Better Call Saul Season 2
- Ricky Gervais told Conan O'Brien how to go viral last night - and it's worked
- The ShortListen: Sunflower Bean (no. 230)
- You'll soon be able to turn your sperm off at the flick of a switch
- Here's your first glimpse of the iPhone 7 (apparently)
- Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach has written a song about Making A Murderer and it’s really, really good
- These Blair & Clinton phone conversations are hilarious
- Famous Movie Babies: Where Are They Now?
- Future iPhones might be able to 'heal' themselves
- January 7th
- The 20 albums you need to hear in 2016
- Lemmy’s funeral will be streamed on YouTube
- The Conservative press office tweeted a superb typo
- Pop culture icons unmasked will make you question everything
- Did a LEGO set just spoil a major plot detail of Batman Vs Superman?
- 12 weird things we learnt about you from PornHub's year in review
- Oculus Rift founder admits they messed up when they said it would only cost £240
- This stunning Swiss watch will almost certainly be sued by Apple
- The ShortListen: Craig David (no. 229)
- The full 4 hour confession video of Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey is now on YouTube
- The $300 iPhone lens that’ll turn you into a pro mobile photographer
- Burglars hand themselves in after feeling guilty when someone else is blamed
- You can now 3D-print your own head for LEGO models
- This tennis player produced one of the greatest acts of sportsmanship we've ever seen
- Israeli TV reporter accidentally stabbed in demonstration of stab-proof vest
- January 6th
- Send your Valentine a personalised potato
- 20 classic movies that turn 20 years old in 2016
- Confirmed: 3 of the 5 original Guns N' Roses lineup to reform for Coachella
- Study finds Wayne Rooney now valued at less than £20m - while Harry Kane's worth £91.3m
- Samuel L Jackson saying the classic movie lines of other actors makes them 1000% cooler
- Britain is hooked on watching people cross a puddle in Newcastle
- Twitter boss hints at changing the 140-character limit
- 5 up and coming menswear designers that you need to know about
- New Top Gear 'already facing problems'
- This excellent tube map reveals the hidden secrets of London
- Genius Dad manages to name daughter after his favourite football team without his wife noticing
- Someone has finally created a genuine hoverboard that works anywhere
- Let this website use facial recognition to tell you how attractive you are
- The ShortListen: The Hunna (no. 228)
- If Zidane is going to succeed as a manager he needs to look further than his glory days on the pitch
- You can use the Force to control this Star Wars toy
- Toyota is spending $1 billion on making a car that can't crash
- North Korea claim first hydrogen bomb test - not worrying at all then
- Here's how to tell if someone is muting your Tweets
- January 5th
- An 11-year-old wrote to Sir Alex Ferguson in 2005 critiquing his tactics and it was brilliant
- Some good and bad news for obsessive video gamers
- 10 simple ways to beat stress without even trying
- Brace yourself - the UK is running out of premium coffee
- Here's how to hide Apple's indestructable default apps
- 10 best YouTube fitness channels that'll get you in shape for free
- This incredible gadget can tell you how healthy your food is
- Get ready for the worst bad loser in the history of Come Dine With Me
- The Donald Trump internet filter is here at last
- The ShortListen: Cubicolor (no. 227)
- Brilliant website tells you which films you definitely shouldn't watch with your parents
- The insane 1,000 horsepower electric car that looks like the Batmobile on steroids
- Forget the MacBook - this convertible laptop is even thinner
- Slash and Axl look certain to reform Guns N' Roses for Coachella
- This is what the universe looks like in a single image
- January 4th
- Your tube station may have changed zones without you realising
- Is this the world's most boring calendar?
- Leaked Star Wars: The Force Awakens screenplay answers heaps of questions
- This Simpsons fan theory explaining Bart’s prank calls to Moe is the saddest yet
- Crazy defender recreates legendary Zaire free-kick
- 170,000 people have signed petitions to pardon Making A Murderer's Steven Avery
- George R R Martin has some bad news about the next Game of Thrones book
- The biggest style trend for men in 1716 was definitely not what you'd expect
- This neat App Store trick will speed up your iPhone
- Liam Gallagher just shot down rumours of a solo album with the best tweet ever
- 2016 could see the end of e-cigarettes
- The ShortListen: Retro Culture (no. 226)
- Kill Bill 3 is probably, almost definitely happening
- How to get a six pack without going to the gym
- Windows 95 working on a 3DS looks really weird
- The most important message of 2016 has been delivered by a gorilla
- Mark Zuckerberg is building his own robotic butler (just like the one in Iron Man)
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