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An Australian Facebook User Called the Prime Minister a 'Slut' to Her Face
Drew Boyer is a young man, just 19 years old. He went to Wanneroo Senior High School in Perth, Australia. And he just called Australia’s prime minister a “slut” to her face. But the Australian media hasn’t made much noise about Drew Boyer, because he...
Brian Merchant
10.9.12
Music

VICE Premieres: Black Marble's "Cruel Summer" Video
Black Marble is perfect for crisp, dreary days. This new Black Marble video for "Cruel Summer" is perfect for any moment of any life worth living.
VICE Staff
10.9.12
Film

A Beautiful Commercial Captured Entirely By A Smartphone Camera and Industrial Robots
Icelandic visual artist Harald Haraldsson brings us Moments, an artistic ad revealing the new smartphone’s high-res filming capabilities.
Erica Huang
10.9.12
News

The Case for and Against Page 3
Hearing from both sides of the great boob war.
Rebecca Fitzsimons
10.9.12
Art

Augmented Reality App Brings Objects And Classic Paintings To Life
ARART from Kei Shiratori, Takeshi Mukai, and Younghyo Bak augments artworks into animated fun.
Kevin Holmes
10.9.12
Motherboard Blog

Joe Kittinger Was the First Guy to Jump From Space: An Interview
That record – highest jump ever – belongs to Joe Kittinger, the American test pilot who once rode a balloon 20 miles above the Earth’s surface, well into the stratosphere, and jumped. His sponsor was the Air Force, and the project was secret. It was...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.9.12
Stuff

Barack Obama's Debate-Night Notes to the Denver Best Western Hotel Staff
On October 3, Barack Obama gave a performance at the first 2012 Presidential Debate that many perceived as inferior, uninspired, and lacking in energy. The next day, a scattering of stationery notes was found in Mr. Obama’s hotel room by cleaning staff.
Jon Bois
10.9.12
Tech

The Mile High Club for Drones
All moral, ethical, and political quandaries aside, one of the big problems with aerial drones was that, eventually, the things has to land to refuel. Well, drones can now do it in midair. It's like the mile-high club, only with less flesh and more...
Brian Anderson
10.9.12
Stuff

Meet the Filmmakers Who Are Excavating the Former Dutch Colonial ‘Empire’
The pair spent two years traveling to seven countries to document the remnants of colonialism and found the descendants of Indonesian slaves in Cape Town, South Africa, who sang loves songs in old Dutch dialect; war re-enactors in Java who dressed in...
Harry Cheadle
10.9.12
News

On the Road with Obama and Romney - Part 2
The 2001 riots, which were the single major political moment of my youth, have become an odd historical anecdote, shared by kids recently moved from Knoxville or Indianapolis—"Do you know where the last American race riots happened? Cincinnati. Look it...
James Pogue
10.9.12
Features

Stubborn Heart Make Sad Disco Music
And it's definitely not bro-step...or any step.
Esra Gurmen
10.9.12
Motherboard Blog

Via Brainless Slime Mold, a Clue Into the Evolutionary Birth of Memory
Imagine that you are blind, deaf, and without any memory whatsoever. No long-term or short-term memory; you can’t even remember the last step you took. You may have been in this room a million times, finding your way around a basic obstacle a million...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
10.9.12
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