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Why HBO Doesn't Care that Game of Thrones Is the Most Pirated Show Ever
Giving birth to a shadow industry hasn't hurt the bottom line.
Meghan Neal
6.11.13
Premieres

Splashh - "Headspins" (Official Video)
Splashh has been riding the waves of Tumblr culture for the past year, and they finally released their debut album 'Comfort' via Kanine Records. To celebrate, they just released a video that sets highlights from the band's first US tour against the album'
6.11.13
Stuff

This Is What Quebec Separatism Looks Like in 2013
Many Canadians treat separatism as a "when pigs fly" kinda scenario, but Quebec still has a ton of people who are looking to slice the province out of the proverbial Canadian pie. Our intern Joel caught up with some of the young separatists in Quebec...
Joel Balsam
6.11.13
Motherboard Blog

US and China Made a Rare Pact to Cut Back on Super Greenhouse Gases
This is kind of a big deal. China and the United States, which never seem to agree on any climate change issues, just made a historic pact to cut down on a super-powerful heat-trapping gas.
Mat McDermott
6.11.13
style

Governors Ball Style Special: Can You Look Good in a Mud Swamp?
Nope, apparently not…
Noisey Staff
Photos by Erica Euse
6.11.13
Art

Manufacturing the Sublime at The Windmill Factory
An actor turned interaction designer leads the whimsical studio, The Windmill Factory.
James Carter
6.11.13
Tech

Unicode Is the New Internet Gold Mine
When Dutch expat Pim Roes heard about Vietnam's plans to oust Google as the country's primary search engine, he didn't stand aside for Hanoi's captains of industry. Instead, he put himself right in their way, registering the domain name www.cốccốc.com...
Jak Phillips
6.11.13
Features

Is Whistleblowing the New Self Immolation?
To say that Thich Quang Duc is to Edward Snowden as firey religious protest is to leaking classified spy documents may come off as a bit of a stretch. And yet there are echoes of the one in the other.
Brian Anderson
6.11.13
Sittin' Sidewayz... With Skinny Friedman

No One Cares That You Don't Like a Popular Rapper
The contrary opinions of music critics are increasingly worthless in the face of legitimate fandom. And it’s even more true when they’re ill-informed.
Skinny Friedman
6.11.13
New music

Here's Creative Adult's new video for "Chemical Glow"
This NoCal foursome writes heavy punk songs that hold the infectious weight of any pop song burning its way through Spotify playlists.
Nick Rattigan
6.11.13
Stuff

Let's Just Allow the Tea Party to Take Over America
Nothing has worked so far to rid our country of this debilitating governmental virus. All attempts to work with them have failed, and bull-rushing them out of the way has proved futile as well. This has lead me to one last ditch effort. Let them have...
Josh Androsky
6.11.13
Motherboard Blog

Mozilla Launches Anti-Surveillance Campaign 'StopWatchingUs'
The campaign and petition is sponsored by a "broad coalition of organizations from across the political and technical spectrum."
Zach Sokol
6.11.13
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