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China Is Building a Real Life World of Warcraft

If you haven’t heard, the organizers behind China Joy, China’s largest gaming exposition, are building a massive amusement park called Joyland. It's essentially an ode to Blizzard Entertainment's cult-status real time strategy games Starcraft and World...
Michelle Ong
3.3.11
Design

Kinect Enables Virtual Graffiti

Further digital adventures in the art of tagging.
Kevin Holmes
3.3.11
Vice Blog

HEY RON? - DRUGS?

Ron Hemphill
3.3.11
Fashion

Top 5 Trends From Cassette Playa A/W 2011

Carri Mundane’s menswear collection features streetwear for men, women… and Barbie’s boyfriend Ken.
Kathleen Flood
3.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Uncle Sam Wants Your Lightbulbs

When I heard that the government was going to start regulating light bulb use in order to help save the environment, I was very upset. This is so insane to me. My immediate concern was if I would still be allowed to buy black lights to show off my...
Jenny Pacillo
3.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Chrono Trigger In My Minecraft? It's More Likely Than You Think

The latest in _Minecraft_ absurdity is this fantastic remake of Enhasa from the 1995 SNES classic RPG, _Chrono Trigger_.
Videodrome
3.3.11
News

Apparently We Found The Screengrab That Defines The Internet

VICE Staff
3.3.11
Motherboard Blog

NASA Can Haz Sunspot?

Remember about a year ago when we were talking about how the "Sun might be dying":http://motherboard.tv/2010/6/14/oh-btw-the-sun-is-dying--2? It had something to do with what’s called the solar minimum, a normal part of the Sun’s cycle where goes into...
Michael Byrne
3.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Sustainability Scholar Jack Liu on Globalization and "Telecoupling"

Environmental damage has never respected boundaries, political or otherwise, but we’re existing right now with a whole new level of being able to harm at a very long distance. If you’re living in the United States, Australia, Europe, or wherever, the...
Michael Byrne
3.3.11
Atlas Hoods

The Gangster Preacher

South African preacher Albern Martins really loves a good shout. He has the common preacher habit of standing two inches from your earhole and booming out long, elliptical speeches that encompass God, forgiveness, repentance, gangsters he has known and...
Gavin Haynes
3.3.11
Vice Blog

Meet The Nieratkos: How to Give Your Friend Another DUI

VICE Staff
3.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Dreaming of the Quantum Singularity with MIT

On my nightstand right now is Richard Feynman's _The Pleasure of Finding Things Out_, a short and sweet collection of essays and talks from the modern physics guru. And one of those talks is about Feynman's days working on the bomb at Los Alamos.
Michael Byrne
3.3.11
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