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Art

Data Visualization Sculpture Shows Twitter Reactions To London 2012 Olympic Games
The team behind Emoto tracked tweets during the London Olympics and analyzed people’s reactions, turning the data into an interactive sculpture.
Julia Kaganskiy
9.20.12
Music

A Peek Inside the Life of the Real Mrs. Kanye West
I am standing beneath an enormous lobster, thinking about David Foster Wallace and how good Klonopin tastes, and it is 3:30, which I feel quantifies Mrs. West's directions to meet her at 41st and Seventh at " around 3/4".
B. David Zarley
9.20.12
one hit wondering

One-Hit Wondering - Haddaway
What is love? Not making me listen to all six of your albums for a week straight.
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
9.20.12
Stuff

Edgeplay Isn’t Your Grandmother’s BDSM Scene
“Edgeplay… ends up being whatever your circle deems ‘edgy,’” says Madeline, who is nude. As she talks, Z jabs a needle in her back and a cup at the end is filling up with her blood. He twists off the cup and takes a sip before throwing it back like a...
Rachel Rabbit White
9.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Bask In the Hilarious Beauty of Mitt Romney's Inexhaustible Awkwardness
Some of the most unsung heroes of the Internet are those enterprising souls who spend their enormous amounts of free time to whips together giant mixtapes of absurd video footage. YouTube has democratized the TV Carnage, and the Nic Cage freakout video...
Derek Mead
9.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Google Bought Photo App Snapseed, Continues to Take Over the World
Google just bought Nik Software, the guys who created photo editing and filter app Snapseed, for probably much less money than Facebook paid in its dramatic takeover of Instagram not even half a year ago.
It’s an obvious move for Larry Page and...
ALEC LIU
9.20.12
Takeshi Murata

Takeshi Murata's Uncanny Images Sit Somewhere Between Pixar And Surrealism
Murata’s images are caught between waking life and the dream world.
Kevin Holmes
9.20.12
New music

Tee Circus Gave Us A Mix
Treat yourself to an hour of some of the finest UK bass.
Noisey Staff
9.20.12
Schoolgirl Diaries

Teenage Love Smells Like Crisps
Make-believe stories of dick and drugs make me want to burn this place down.
Berlinder Shepherd
9.20.12
Motherboard Blog

The U.S. Dropped Nukes On Beer, and It Was a Good Idea Too
Is bottled beer nuclear bombproof? The United States government conducted a couple tests in the 1950s to find out—it exploded nuclear bombs with "packaged commercial beverages" deposited at varying distances from the blast center to see if beer and...
Brian Merchant
9.20.12
The Weird Science Issue

Criminal Chlorination
There exist gentlemen scientists, who seek to further the field of psychoactive-drug synthesis in the privacy of their own homes. Here I present an interview with a clandestine chemist whose curiosity of forbidden molecules left him locked in a cage.
Hamilton Morris
9.20.12
Tech

How Big Pharma Created a Generation of Oxyconteens in the US
Now that Purdue Pharma, the creator of OxyContin, is set to begin testing the effects of OC on children—an effort to procure a six-month patent extension for their drug—I wanted to look back on Big Pharma hooking a generation of Americans on legal...
Kelly Bourdet
9.20.12
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