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Is an Uber Ride Any Better Than a Gypsy Cab?

This is a bad thing.
Adam Clark Estes
3.18.13
Dogmageddon

Meet Frank

Rejoice! The new pope is a man of the people! He famously cooks his own meals, rides the bus to work, and lives in a single apartment rather than in the palace befitting an archbishop. These are all good things! But there's also this...
Rick Paulas
3.18.13
Motherboard Blog

How This Solar Storm Was Born

The inspiring tale of how billions of solar particles just bombarded the Earth.
Brian Merchant
3.18.13
Features

The Night the Bottom Fell Out from Under the Rap Internet

If you like music and weren’t in Austin on Friday night, you were probably on the Internet riding on something of an emotional rollercoaster, led by the unlikely triumvirate of misinformation and hastily bullshat statements that was TMZ, Mack Maine, and G
Drew Millard
3.18.13
New music

Here's the Full Version of Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" Remix, Now Featuring Jay-Z

The Kobe & MJ of rap on the same track.
3.18.13
Nocturnal Submissions

It’s Only Pornography

I pluck Havana from a gaggle of streetwalkers on Stanford Street somewhere around Pico. She tells me she’s from Mexico, here in the land of opportunity to reap rewards on streets of gold. I tell her I only want to take pictures, but she has a Pavlovian...
Scot Sothern
3.18.13
Stuff

Why Canada Needs the Sasquatch

With the right backing from the scientific community and the Canadian government, resurrecting Sasquatch could be the Great White North's Manhattan Project, an attempt to harness the chaotic, dangerous, root forces of nature in such a way as to add to...
Michael Mckenna
3.18.13
News

Mexican Anarcho-Terrorists Are Parcel Bombing Scientists

They want to explode nanotechnology off the face of the Earth.
Sam Clements
3.18.13
Motherboard Blog

In the Future, Our Solar Panels Will Be Controlled by Tiny Robot Overlords

Behold the Solbot.
Brian Merchant
3.18.13
News

Reasons to Love the Sequester’s Massive Budget Cuts

Many ordinary working folk will suffer needlessly as a result of furloughs and pay cuts, but the sequester also slashes the budget for the DEA and the FBI, which is probably a good thing.
Michael Tracey
3.18.13
shorties

Lil Bub & Friendz - Trailer

'Lil Bub & Friendz' follows the life and times of Bub and examines the internet-cat phenomenon, in general. Starring Lil Bub and Bub's owner, Mike Bridavsky, along with Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat, and meme-manager supreme Ben Lashes, the doc...
VICE Staff
3.18.13
SXSW 2013

Hey Austin, Thanks For Letting Us Destroy Your Town

VICE just wrapped up 10 days of shows, panels, and film screenings at SXSW, and Saturday night our buddy Willie T. was wandering around snapping some photos of our closing night party with Kendrick Lamar and Black Lips, among others.
Benjamin Shapiro
3.18.13
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