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World's Oldest Digital Computer Still Works, Is Still Slow
Ever get kind of nostalgic when you head home for the holidays and decide to fire up the old Packard Bell to see if it’s still kicking? Maybe play a game or two of Skifree or load up Encarta ‘95 to learn some stuff about the world? Well, that’s more or...
Adam Clark Estes
11.20.12
Motherboard Blog

The Floor Charts Tumblr Is Everything You Need To Understand Congress
If nothing else, we expect politicians to be smooth talkers, but apparently they can’t speak without the comfort of absurd props.
Michael Byrne
11.20.12
Motherboard Blog

What Hostess Says About Solyndra
The fact that Hostess survived this long despite not responding to an increasingly-unreceptive and shrinking market sheds light on why government investment is so key to speeding growth in an industry that’s arguably more important and more in need...
Derek Mead
11.20.12
Music

The Crystal Ark's New Music Video Takes Place Inside A Dragonfly In Outer Space
This celebratory music video feels like an intergalactic pipe-dream with an existential twist.
Joey Goldsmith
11.20.12
New music

Baauer Remixes Prodigy for 'The Fat Of The Land' Reissue
These days, EDM is as much a marketing term is it is a genre. Prodigy's reissue of their magnum opus feels downright political.
Benjamin Shapiro
11.20.12
Music

VICE Premiere: Popular Culture's "Dandelion" Video
Popular Culture is the electronic music baby of Henry Mowgli. Henry is originally from Austin, Texas, but lives in Brooklyn now. I met him in real life for the first time at an independent movie theater.
Kelly McClure
11.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Afghanistan's Opium Poppy Harvest Is Booming
When NATO alliance forces roll out of Afghanistan in 2014, the fogs of another war could continue billowing out from the country’s southern and western provinces.
Brian Anderson
11.20.12
News

Syria Has a Four Percent Chance of Lasting Democratic Change
It might be a bit higher if they quit shooting at each other.
Aleks Eror
11.20.12
The Syria Issue

All in the Family
As we were putting together this issue, we realized that coordinating a fashion shoot inside Syria would void our insurance. Luckily, we tracked down a Syrian Jewish family living in nearby Sheepshead Bay who were willing to participate.
Ryan Grim
Sunny Shokrae
11.20.12
Features

Ten Of The Greatest Food Moments In Hip-Hop Ever Of All Time
Imagine Bun B and Pimp C high-fiving because they balled so hard they got the shits.
Skinny Friedman
11.20.12
Stuff

My Greatest Performances in Binge Eating
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, because the whole point of it is to eat like a hog and then lie on the floor and pretend we aren’t a country of tunnel-visioned murderers. Food fills your blood and brain, and if anybody talks to you it is...
Blake Butler
11.20.12
Pretty Girl Bullshit

63 Percent of Girls Want to Show You Their Nipples
We conducted our own study into the shocking truth of womanhood circa 2012.
Bertie Brandes
11.20.12
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