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Sad-Ass Music #6 - Sad-Ass Guilty Pleasures
like the idea of guilty pleasures. I like the idea of that type of music you'll switch to private on Spotify while listening to. It feels almost...dirty? Maybe not, maybe it just feels goofy. Whatever. Here's what I did, went ahead and crafted a list...
William Cody Watson
1.8.13
Design

Power Loader Exoskeleton Will Turn Us Into Super Humans
A new power loader robotic device is being developed in Japan.
Kevin Holmes
1.8.13
News

I Was Raped—and the Police Told Me I Made It Up
Wilbur Brown opened the door to the gas station with cellophane wrapped around his fingers. He forced Sara out in front of the station, where he made her perform oral sex on him, while holding his pistol against her head.
Natalie Elliott
1.8.13
Popping the Marks

What I Learned from the Five Percenters
The first lesson I learned from the Five Percent was simple: Fuck white people. I'm not talking about "white" as a biological category. I’m using the term more in the sense of what it means to have privilege in an unjust society.
Michael Muhammad Knight
1.8.13
Question Of The Day

Are You Sick of the British Olympians?
"They're just healthy people in tracksuits to me."
Rachel Hardwick and Patrick Scally
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

The People Who Don't Want to Have Sex With Anybody Ever
"I have been told I could easily be mistaken as a lesbian" she says, gesturing to her cropped, copper hair as evidence. “Which is not a bad thing.”
Kristen Bahler
1.8.13
shorties

All Around Losing - How to Be a Man
Harry normally evades conflict by running away or nervously laughing. He would like to become a man someday, so he endured a physically draining work out with a Krav Maga expert and went to a shotgun-training session at a gun range with an NRA...
Harry Cheadle
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Airbnb: "We Can't Possibly Keep Up With the Law"
Half of all of Airbnb rentals in New York City are illegal, and the company's kind of cool with that.
Brian Merchant
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

How America's New Top Soldier and Spy Will Define the Drone War
Nominating Chuck Hagel and John O. Brennan as defense secretary and CIA chief, respectively, represents a somewhat controversial re-imagining of the US national security team's expanding drone wars.
Brian Anderson
1.8.13
Film

Take A Meditative Journey Through A Surreal Cloudscape
Syntfarm’s animation Formations puts you in the position of an astronaut (kind of).
Kevin Holmes
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Against All Odds and Common Sense Eric Schmidt Is Looking at Things in North Korea
It's unclear how he got his plane ticket or who let him through customs--cash helps on both counts--but Eric Schmidt arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday morning.
Adam Clark Estes
1.8.13
Music

Screw the Internet, #CutForBieber is Horrible
JB Is having a PR nightmare this week.
Noisey Staff
1.8.13
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