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Beck's New Album Song Reader Needs You To Play It Yourself
Beck’s new book of sheet music, Song Reader, asks that listeners be a part of the making of his newest album.
Joey Goldsmith
10.22.12
Music

Dyskograf Brings Music Sequencing Back To The Punchcard Days
Appearing at Cultures Electroni[k], this piece invites audience members to create their own records with a marker.
Abdullah Saeed
10.22.12
Stuff

Presidential Debate Predictions: Uncle Sam Storm Trooper Boxer vs. Statue of Liberty
A guy dressed up like Uncle Sam and a guy dressed up like the Statue of Liberty engage in a debate about random ass garbage.
Trent Moorman
10.22.12
Motherboard Blog

Raw Diets Keep Brains Small, Evolutionarily Speaking
Humans are able to consume nutrient-dense foods in a short amount of time, which means we have nutrition available to support larger brains. Why brains, specifically? Because brains require more energy than other body parts.
Michael Byrne
10.22.12
News

The Third Presidential Debate - Live
There’s a chance this debate will get a little wonky—foreign policy is a complicated subject that not a lot of Americans understand or care about. Still, won’t it be exciting to see which stray remarks get turned into insta-memes? No, no it will not...
VICE Staff
10.22.12
Music

Kenny Rogers Has Zero Interesting Stories to Tell
Luck reads as if it were penned by a hybrid of a writer for MTA's subway ads, a writer for Sky Mall product descriptions, and a person who just learned English.
Beca Grimm
10.22.12
Motherboard Blog

Big Oil Is Fracking the Nile
At least three major companies—the Dutch oil giant Shell, the American oil and gas corporation Apache, and the United Arab Emirates-based Dana Gas—have launched major hydraulic fracturing operations in Egypt.
Brian Merchant
10.22.12
Fashion

Brooke Candy Wants You to Wiggle Your Dick at These Pics
Brooke Candy is the sensational warrior-stripper-rapper with a post-apocalyptic Lil' Kim swag. We sat down with the self-proclaimed slut for an interview detailing her daily routine (which involves a lot of blunts) and then had her pose for a few hot...
Jesse Saint John
10.22.12
Motherboard Blog

'Where Did the Soda Go?' Is My New Favorite Subreddit
Terrible infomercials are a dime a dozen, but hilariously shitty infomercials aren’t so easy to find. That’s why I’m such a big fan of r/wheredidthesodago, a subreddit dedicated to GIFs of infomercial disasters.
Derek Mead
10.22.12
Motherboard Blog

The Cool Kids Always Win, At Least in Terms of Average Income
How was your own “personal social capital” in high school? Was it just raining personal social capital all over you at prom?
Michael Byrne
10.22.12
News

People Are Dying and Governments Are Falling in Lebanon
Friday’s assassination of General Wissam al-Hassan has rocked Lebanon to its core. Every night since the car bomb exploded in the Achrafieh district of East Beirut, people have been fighting in the streets. I was shot at driving through Tariq al-Jadida...
Oz Katerji, Photos: Sam Tarling
Photos: Sam Tarling
10.22.12
Motherboard Blog

The Pirate Bay Founder's Jailing Sounds a Little Extreme
Things aren’t looking awesome for Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who’s currently under lock and key in a newly built jail about 15 minutes north of Stockholm.
Adam Clark Estes
10.22.12
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