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Here's Melvins Covering Queen's "You're My Best Friend"
This is for all the best friends out there.
3.21.13
Greg Palast's Column

How Bukowski Taught Me Not to Jerk Off Into My Own Belly Button
I didn't figure out his riddle until he was dead.
Greg Palast
3.21.13
Stuff

Trip Report: I Went to Lit Sober
The Lit Lounge, if you aren't from New York, is a leering black hole from which few memories escape intact. If the standard, workaday memory is already 50 percent confabulation, the average Lit memory is about eight frames of reality cobbled together...
Thomas Morton
3.21.13
Motherboard Blog

The Post-Food Man: Drink Soylent, and You May Never Have to Eat Again
Rob Rhinehart engineered a nutrient-rich drink that he thinks can replace food altogether. Here's how he did it.
Monica Heisey
3.21.13
New music

Here's Bryant Dope's New Video for "QB"
Bryant Dope, radically re-imagining the old school.
3.21.13
Pretty Girl Bullshit

This Woman Who Hates Women Just Made My Day
Meet Claire Khaw, a British antifeminist who wants nothing more than to “restore the patriarchy by means of establishing a one-party theocracy based on the Koranic principles that will replace the immorality of feminism.” Her hateful madness makes Ann...
Bertie Brandes
3.21.13
New music

Listen to RxGibbs' Lush, Cerebral "Temptations"
Plus, we talked to the Michigan native about otherwordly sounds, past lives, and future projects.
DJ Pangburn
3.21.13
Motherboard Blog

This Is the Best Map Yet of the Early Universe
The Universe is really old, and it's amazing that we're even able to prove that.
Derek Mead
3.21.13
News

Rand Paul Is Wooing Conservatives on Immigration Reform
The Republican Party have reached a tipping point and appear to have started tepidly embracing immigration reform. The man who has played a big role in tipping the scale is Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian golden boy.
Francis Phillips
3.21.13
Motherboard Blog

Japan Had an Army of Robots, but Not One Could Help Fix Fukushima
Japan has baseball-playing bots, mechwarriors, and a quarter million industrial robots. But it didn't have anything that could help with a nuclear meltdown.
Brian Merchant
3.21.13
Features

The Spring Breakers Soundtrack is the Best Trap Album
The album actively works to contextualize "Trap" into something rap fans can understand and enjoy.
3.21.13
Travel

Sux by Suxwest: Suck Me Heavy, Heavy Metal
Everyone complains about SXSW, how bloated it is. You don't have to go. You can do anything. You don't have to go do some stupid, expensive thing. The organizer of Sux by Suxwest for three years now, Johnathan Cash, all he did was say yes. No matter...
Lisa Carver
3.21.13
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