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  • Here Is What the Urban Dictionary Looks Like on Google Images

    Earlier this year London-based artist Ben West designed a Google Images dictionary titled, simply, "Google." The idea behind the 1,200-plus-page book was simple: Design some software to select and save the first Google Images result for every single word in the Oxford English Dictionary, then print it in a big, beautiful book. Motherboard decided to try something similar with the Urban Dictionary. Full story

    2013 Jan 18 Austin Considine Tech
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  • Taji’s Mahal - J'ouvert 2012

    Last year I pre-gamed for the West Indian Day Parade by checking out a J’ouvert party at 3 AM the night before. Everyone had warned us about gunfire, stabbings, and gigantic asses at the festival, but we decided to go anyway. This year was even wilder. Full story

    2012 Sep 22 Taji Ameen Photo
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  • Aboriginal Headbanging

    The Most Metal Town in the Whole Wide World Is Wadeye

    At the beginning of 2008, the Australian national news reported on a small, isolated Aboriginal community deep in the Northern Territory, aka the middle of nowhere, aka Satan’s Asshole, aka East Bumblefuck. Full story

    2008 Aug 2 Jonathan West Music
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