10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: How do you transfer the visual stylings of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s slacker/hipster epic of love, video games and sharing a bed with your gay roommate onto the big screen? Get Edgar Wright, the nerd who knows everything about everything, to direct it. The actual story is about as clever as the source material (which isn’t incredibly great), but it’s just a stunning sight that somehow manages to capture the look of Lee O’Malley’s work.

9.  The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec: A faithful adaptation of French creator Jacque Tardis’s work, Luc Besson’s movie has it all: a pterosaur, ancient super-technology, mystery, wit and Louise Bourgoin as the titular lady. You’ll never look at reading a letter the same way again.

8. Sin City: Four stories. Four directors. Multiple actors. One overlapping theme: bleakness. Somehow, merging different stories from Frank Miller’s grim and gritty noir-esque world works, displaying just how desperate and sad life can be in a world where the sun never shines. People with the deluxe version of the dvd can choose to watch the stories separate from each other if they choose. SPOILERS: both formats work wonderfully.

7. X2: Spider-Man in 2002 may have shown people that superhero comic book movies can be good, but X2 showed that the trend wasn’t a fluke. Even better, it took multiple elements of various Chris Claremont story-lines and blended them together, somehow making it work.

6. Ghost World: It’s no surprise that I have slightly more than a smoldering fire of passion for Scarlett Johansson. For me, this was my second dose of her (Home Alone 3 For Life!), but even then, she’s not the main part that makes this movie work. Watching the film, it’s like the director took creator Dan Clowes’ (who also wrote the screenplay) art and somehow breathed real life into it. Thora Birch and Johansson are spot on as Enid and Rebecca. Steve Buscemi may have been born to be Seymour. It’s spot-on in its faithful approach to replicate the sense of pain that teenagers feel about life in general conveyed in the book.

5. Iron Man: For the most part, in 2008, Robert Downey, Jr. was not a given. He had had a very tumultuous previous decade. That’s why it was a fantastic surprise to have him blow us all away with a wonderful and essentially spot-on portrayal of Tony Stark. Updated a bit for modern times, Iron Man was a blast that showed how much fun it was to be a playboy-genius-industrialist. Not only that, it also laid the seeds for quite the movie to come …

4. Spider-Man 2: What Spider-Man did well, Spider-Man 2 did better. MUCH BETTER. For the longest time, Spider-Man 2 was the gold standard for a film showing why people love the superhero: it’s a person that sticks up for everyone. They don’t quit, but they’ll never compromise their beliefs to fight crime. It’s why we look up to them. Spider-Man can be anyone under that mask, as the train scene proves. That’s why we love this movie and Spider-Man.

3. Oldboy: God, I heart Oldboy so very, very much. From start to finish, it’s a ride that enthralls the viewer, whether it be by means of octopus, hammer or [spoiler redacted]. Most people recognize the name for the film rather than the manga that it comes from, but no matter how you see it, the effect is the same: a ride that shows you with every second spent just how powerful of a story it is.

2. The Dark Knight: Whether it was Heath Ledger’s acting, the vision of Chris Nolan, the intricate plot of the story (I still hold to the conspiracy theory that Two-Face isn’t dead) or Christian Bale’s Batman voice, The Dark Knight is more than just an amazing superhero movie-it’s amazing movie. It bypasses all stereotype of genre by just becoming a thrill to watch.

1. The Avengers: Welcome to the new king. Don’t believe me? Go see it.

Now, obviously The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises are coming out this summer. Hopefully they’ll become the new kings the comic movies, which would be a good thing. That means more good movies! The only people that don’t like good movies are dumb people and Communists.

Fujimoto has designed the world’s biggest toilet, not by creating a giant toilet — the porcelain throne itself is normal-sized — but by virtue of designing a giant, outdoor stall. If you’re a woman (sorry, no guys) in Ichihara City in Chiba Prefecture and need to take a leak, you can pay a little to use this 10 million yen toilet in a clear glass box, placed on 200 square meters of land adorned with beautiful flowers. It may look sparse now, but things will continue to grow until the area is bursting with grass, flowers, and trees. And don’t worry, no one will see you, because the toilet is surrounded by a two-meter fence.

Ideally, Fujimoto would like to see access extended to men, who need to take a particularly serene dump. I’d like to try it out too, but let’s be fair here: women won’t like sharing a restroom with men, and men’s restrooms are usually pretty nasty. Why not make a second outdoor toilet next door?

For the first time since 1951, the cabaret has had to cancel shows because of the strike. The women say the conditions are unworkable, since they have to work 24 days per month. For those of you doing the math at home, yes, that’s a day or two more than the average 5-day job, but in France, that may as well be like working 80 hours a week.

It’s likely the dancers are also pushing for more smoke breaks.

After all, nothing says nostalgia quite like 14-year-old needles.

Things like not showing your ID to a camera, avoiding conversation, logging out from Facebook, these are all acts that require the simplest of actions that can save you jail time. Especially if, say, you were logged into Facebook at a Colombian internet cafe, then proceeded to rob said internet cafe.

We’re not asking you to commit crimes, we’re just asking you to be Bond villains rather than the henchmen.

They believe that a drug could block to some degree the effects of alcohol on the brain. The drug, iomazenil, already exists, and scientists believe that it keeps people sober longer if they take it before bending an elbow. They think this could help people wean off of booze. Of course, because people have successfully quit drinking by switching to non-alcoholic beer.

I’ll ignore the fact that Tony Parker almost single-handidly carried the old as crap Spurs to the NBA’s best record, and I’ll let it slide that Kevin Durant has been the best player in the league for the past two years, no, this is about James and his ability to capture every title except the one that matters.

James is an exceptional talent, don’t get me wrong, but if James is unable to capture a title this year, it will just add to the multiple playoff failures that James thinks his regular season accomplishments can somehow overshadow.

Scoring champion, league MVP, triple double threat every night, all of these seem to just vanish once the games actually start to matter. For some reason James doesn’t have that same “it” that drives people like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, that same inner fire that had people like them refuse to have anyone else but them be crowned.

This may have resulted from James never going to college. Postseason and crunch time situations were never anything that James had to deal with before he was having to face them against people who have been groomed to face them for years. And now with Chris Bosh out of Miami’s equation, James will have to lead Miami to the title if they are going to bring home the hardware this year, and in our ever so humble opinion, the Larry O’Brien trophy will not be taking its talents to South Beach.

We don’t care much for animals. They’re not nearly as subservient as they should be and worst of all, many of them attack us at a chemical level.

Unfortunately, Austria may have decided to become species traitors by combining both traits into one neat location. The country has allowed Cafe Neko to be opened in Vienna. Cafe Neko is a cat cafe. In other words, it’s a place that allows patrons to interact with cats while they eat.

We at SG don’t exactly understand why people might want to have cat hair in their food. It’s puzzling to us and would probably lead to a Google search that will only end in nightmares.

So when a guy asks someone to prom using a toilet, it’s an “Awww” moment. Washington state high school senior Evan Mack asked his girlfriend to prom by purchasing a toilet, writing her name all over it, putting a picture of his face in the bowl, and putting it in her classroom. “If you really have to go, go with me!” it said.

At least it wasn’t a text message.