COULD BE WORSE

Snowflake: It’ll be winter any day now, so get those snow tires on your car, boots on your feet and backpack-mounted snow-melting flamethrowers filled with a December ration of kerosene. It’s winter half the year here, so why aren’t the car dealers selling vehicles truly suited for our climate? Pro Vehicles, a blog about specialized transport, offers a run-down of 13 vehicles suited for polar conditions, ranging from 6x6, 7.3L V8-powered Ford Vans to belted fire trucks to “Ivan the Terrabus,” a mash-up of monster truck and schoolbus used on polar bases in Antarctica at tinyurl.com/ybooyd2.

Life sucks: Imagine that the apocalypse has already happened instead of merely being imminent in 2012, and you have to deal with a daily dehumanizing nightmare instead of just the 51 bus at rush hour? Snarkerati presents a list of the top 50 Dystopian movies of all time, ranked via Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. Watch one of them and instantly feel better about your lot in life, because, hey, at least you’re not hooked up to a dictatorial supercomputer that runs on your blood and semen at tinyurl.com/yce5eff.