JORDAN KEENAN
What You "Like" Isn't What You're Like: The Unflattering Reflection of the Facebook Button
In the past few years, a new kind of currency has arisen: Facebook Likes. Not equivalent to any real amount of money, having a heaping pile of “Likes” for something somehow has come to mean that it is a more valuable piece of content on the Internet...
The Urban Topography You Can't See
If you live in a reasonably urban location, chances are good that the complicated infrastructure that keeps everything moving doesn't stop at the tangible. The friendly Scandinavians, always "at the forefront of connectivity":http://www.motherboard.tv...
MARS 500 Crew Finds Awesome Sandbox To Play In
For the past eight months, six astronauts have been "traveling to mars":http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/5/19/500-days-of-martian-summer-six-prepare-for-longest-isolation-test. Yesterday, they landed. The astronauts are locked in a capsule meant to...
Mars-Bound Astronauts in Isolation for 520 Days Hanging Out Like College Bros: Slideshow
In case you don't know, Mars 500 is a project that simulates the isolation of a trip to Mars for a crew of six men. They will be locked in a mock spaceship somewhere in Russia for 520 days.
Seductive Robots: Tatsuya Matsui Helps Androids Escape the Uncanny Valley
The post-apocalyptic world in which robots control humanity and keep us as pets is a long way away, apparently.
Maybe "Winnebago Man" Wasn't So Angry After All
If you don't know "Winnebago Man," you're about to. His real name is Jack Rebney, and he is headed for the silver screen, in "a documentary":http://winnebagoman.com/index.php set to open this week. But his path started on video cassette, over twenty...
