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Republicans Want You to Break Up With a Cardboard Cutout of Obama

Perhaps insufficiently embarrassed by the Godot-meets-Beavis Clint Eastwood performance art debacle, the GOP is attempting to get its message across with another extremely awkward stunt. Republicans have launched a 'Break up with Obama' campaign that...
Brian Merchant
9.6.12
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Dead J: China's Electronic Music Impresario

Chinese electronic musician Dead J is not interested in expressing normal human emotion. The former guitarist started making electronic music in 2000 and chooses to express the void, or a condition, through his sound.
The Creators Project
9.6.12
Dead J

Meet Dead J: China's Electronic Music Impresario Brings Theatricality To The Dance Club

China’s fledgling electronic music scene gets a dose of drama from Dead J’s performance-driven tunes.
Billy Starman and Erica Huang
9.6.12
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Vietnamese Citizens Poisoned By Agent Orange Are Getting Help From Scientology

It only took "40 years":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/8/everybody-slow-clap-america-scrubbing-vietnam-of-agent-orange for the United States to start cleaning up Agent Orange in Vietnam. Of course, the U.S. government doesn't agree with Vietnamese...
Derek Mead
9.6.12
Tech

Sorry, Not On the Guest List

You'll hear a lot about bin Laden, but here are six names you won't hear mentioned at the DNC.
Michael Arria
9.6.12
Features

Rock Chicks Arcade Melée

WELCOME TO THE ESTRODOME.
David Bailey
9.6.12
Sports

I Reported on the Mets and It Killed My Fandom

For most of my life, I was a Mets fan the way your little sister is a 'Twilight' fan. It was my identity. Then, I reported on the team for a season. And now I see the players I revered are just regular guys with real demanding jobs.
Aaron Taube
9.6.12
Music

Short Film Gives Us A Taste Of Flying Lotus' Upcoming Album Until The Quiet Comes

A short film by Kahlil Joseph features a new FlyLo jam and a cameo appearance from the man himself.
Abdullah Saeed
9.6.12
amphetamine logic

The End, Part One

Amphetamine Logic is coming to an end. I am better and I will continue to get better, and it doesn't matter to me that you don't want to believe this, or don't understand what it means.
Cat Marnell
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Vermin Supreme Is Still Running For President, So Ponies For Everybody

Vermin Supreme, everyone's favorite OG meme and experimenter in boot fashion, has announced he's still running for president, according to this video from conservative muckraking site The Blaze. I believe he's running on a platform of outright honesty...
Derek Mead
9.6.12
News

Road Trip Chaos: What Does Boston Think of Mitt Romney?

I trolled around the Boston with Newsweek/The Daily Beast correspondent Eli Lake and we met a drag queen who wouldn't "suck Mitt Romney's dick for all the money in the world."
Rocco Castoro
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Jimmy Wales Won't Stand For the UK's Internet Tracking Bill

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is not too pleased with Parliament at the moment. British lawmakers are currently considering a bill known colloquially as the "snooper's charter" that would track the Internet usage, texting habits and email...
Adam Estes
9.6.12
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