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Meet the Nieratkos - How to Build a Ledge in Three Steps
Despite how big skateboarding has become, there are and always will be groups of renegade, Mad Max-ish skaters keeping it underground and building DIY skate spots. This week I show you how to build an up-up ledge in three easy steps.
Chris Nieratko
8.11.11
Stuff

Buy American
I just bought some shares in an index fund that tracks the Wilshire 5000, which means I just bought shares in the 5,000 largest American companies. I did this because I wish...
Rob Delaney
8.11.11
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Baubo, the Vulva Clown
The first time I heard someone say "fupa" was an instinctual, clear moment where I instantly understood what it meant.
Adriane Schramm
8.11.11
Sheppard’s Video Game Pie

From Dust
From Dust is a decent short god sim that would really benefit from being much larger and running on the next generation of game hardware.
Stephen Lea Sheppard
8.11.11
The Mercy Rule

Too Stupid to Say Out Loud
It’s tempting to blame all of baseball’s problems on San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson, the chuckling, inescapable tryhard who seems to have mistaken the drain-circling Charlie Sheen for some sort of meth-toothed prophet.
David Roth
8.11.11
Stuff

A New Eco-Movement Called Racecars
The city of Baltimore decided it’s going to host a Grand Prix downtown next month. That’s that racecar event where men stuff themselves into tiny cars and zoom around a track trying to convince themselves they don’t have small penises.
Liz Armstrong
8.11.11
Noisey Blog

Square Wave 008: The Story Of Soosh
The subject of last week's Square Wave (007), dEbruit, used the power of disjointed arrangement to make something fun; wonky beats, samples of "ethnic" percussion, and synth punch painting a picture of the same ilk as his color-coded, jewel-eyed EP covers
Abdullah Saeed
8.11.11
Motherboard Blog

Faceless Threats Send London's DIY Crime-Fighting Facial Recognition Experiment Offline
British police aren’t alone in their massive effort to dig through hours of CCTV footage and photographs to identify the rowdy crowds "wrecking havoc":http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/09/the-great-kerfuffle-2011/ in London and Manchester: they...
Kimberly Haddad
8.10.11
Music

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Kathleen Daniel (aka Silicious)
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kathleen Flood
8.10.11
London

Do Not Try This in London: A Video Guide to 'The Anarchist Cookbook'
From Cairo to Vancouver to Anonymous to London, breaking the system apart is what the cool kids are doing this summer. Forty years ago, angst over domestic turmoil left behind by the Vietnam War led an American named William Powell to write a guidebook...
Kurt Poropatich
8.10.11
Motherboard Blog

Watching Planet of the Apes from the Sanctuary of a Cab
People are going apeshit over _Rise of the Planet of the Apes_, which, "in case you haven't noticed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/7/20/apes-with-guns-machetes-and-superior-minds-are-scaring-the-hell-out-of-me-today--2, "I've been covering":http...
Sean Yeaton
8.10.11
Science

Don't Get Neil deGrasse Tyson Started About the Un-Science-y Politicians Who Are Killing America's Dreams
As we’ve learned time and time again, when you need to hear someone kvetch hard about the state of science in this country, point your radio telescopes at Hayden Planetarium head Neil deGrasse.
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.10.11
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