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Cats, Cocaine, and Currency: Inside the World of Ca$hcats.biz
"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls. "Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background...
You're Not Prepared For A Zombie Apocalypse by Any Stretch of the Imagination
All this talk about the global pandemic of inexplicably aggressive behavior, strange skin disorders, face eating, self mutilation, intestine throwing, and the dead rising from their graves has predictably got a lot of folks talking about zombie...
The New-Old Photogenics: How the Countess of Castiglione Launched Portrait Photography
With all due respect to those noble Frenchmen who inadvertently huffed so much silver nitrate while inventing photography, recounting the self-obsessed origins of the camera and photograph may only be possible by looking at how these technologies...
Motherboard GIFs Internet Week a New One
I know what you're thinking and yes, every week _is_ Internet Week at Motherboard, but that doesn't mean we can hang our hats and stare down the business end of a glass of scotch when the actual Internet Week happens. Quite the contrary. In fact, this...
Meatloaf and Celine Dion Achieve Singularity, Scientists Hide Evidence for Two Decades
It sounds like a party trick: Cue up the videos for Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" and Meatloaf's "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" and hit play at the same time. One expects wacky "Dark Side of the Rainbow...
The Most Beautiful Slideshow of the Ugliest Buildings in the World
Every now and then, photo sections really go for the jugular, and ""Are these the ugliest buildings in the world?":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries/9126031/Are-these-the-ugliest-buildings-in-the-world.html" is a case in...
If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language
Us Americans tend to spend more, save less, and carry more than a few extra pounds as compared to the rest of the world. We're not alone; the Greeks, for one, have similar traits. Meanwhile, folks like the Germans are fitter, thriftier, and save more...
Occupy Isn't 'Back': It Never Left
Well, shit. Just when the hacks had almost entirely given up on all those lazy, disorganized, white, middle-class college kids collectively known as the Occupy Wall Street movement - I mean, the Republican primary circus is rolling through town, people...
Enjoy This Lost Episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: "The Meat Planet"
Oceans of liquid meat. An atmosphere of corrosive flatulence. Lovely, melted pork in vast amounts.
The Gadgets of #Occupy
The raid on the Occupy stronghold of Zucotti Park left "laptops smashed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found and "wifi towers":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/21/occupy-s...
Steampunk Has Officially Been Murdered By Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber, the canadian internet hate magnet, who is also a pop singer, has decided to adopt steampunk fashion for the video to his cover of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
Motherboard TV: Love And Hate At Comic Con
To be sure, Motherboard is proud of the claim it's staked on the frontier of the nerds; it's not our fault that a lot of this backcountry is inhabited by just as many questionably inappropriate ne'er-do-wells as it is heroes, kings and queens. That...