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World Peace Update

This is a little awkward, but I just figured out that the guys on the Norwegian Nobel Comittee haven't been following this column, because if they had they surely wouldn't have awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union this week.
Henry Langston
10.17.12
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Dinesh D’Souza Is the Most Successful Documentarian in the World, and a Scumbag

D’Souza has imbued the populist right-wing critique of Obama with unmistakable xenophobic resentment, wild conjecture, and paranoia about his unorthodox personal history—i.e., his “foreignness.” D'Souza also probably cheated on his wife. Nice guy.
Michael Tracey
10.17.12
Motherboard Blog

Patent Trolling Is Draining the Blood from the Idea Economy, and It's Just Getting Worse

US Patent No. 6,599,460 is barely comprehensible and not even the slightest bit sexy. It has to do with preventing irregularities in a certain kind of injection molding; like, if you were making a cheap, thin drinking cup in a mold from liquid plastic...
Michael Byrne
10.17.12
New music

Future: "Neva End" (Remix Feat. Kelly Rowland)

The scary robot rapper has a heart indeed.
Drew Millard
10.17.12
Motherboard Blog

The Cover of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" Was Straight Stolen From Science

The cover of _Unknown Pleasures_ is about as iconic as it gets: a series of stark white lines create an image reminiscent of a mountain range on a pure black background. The cover, designed in 1979 by Peter Saville, has remained somewhat enigmatic...
Derek Mead
10.17.12
News

Baseball Is Dead and So Is Civility

The death of baseball and the rise of football shows what is ahead of us culturally, and in government. There will be more politicians in reality television. There will be more politicians elected based on their slogans or good looks. Debates will...
Dave Schilling
10.17.12
Features

Blanck Mass Cruises On Automatic

When he's not busy pushing your Fuck Buttons, Benjamin Power crafts intricate, captivating smooth electronica.
Suze Olbrich
10.17.12
Features

Meet Galen Pehrson, the Director of Death Grips' New Video

We've got the premiere of Death Grips' new video, plus an interview with the eccentric animator behind it.
Benjamin Shapiro
10.17.12
News

McGuinty's Resignation: Show Us Your Weenus!

Yeah yeah, we know, Dalton McGuinty's gone, but where's the proof of indecent exposure?
Cameron Reed
10.17.12
Stuff

Celebrating London's Instigators, with Cuervo

Talking to the club promoters who make Friday nights fun.
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10.17.12
Motherboard Blog

The Moon Was Created by a Massive Collision of Earth and a Mars-Sized Planet

The idea that the Moon was once part of Earth was suggested as far back as 1898, but it wasn't until the "mid-70s that the giant impact hypothesis":http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974Moon...11...53B -- which suggests that the Moon was formed via the...
Derek Mead
10.17.12
Design

A Clockwork Orange: Turning A Classic Novel Into An Interactive App

Just how do you turn a analogue text into a digital app?
Kevin Holmes
10.17.12
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