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This Retro Donut Ad Has Some Seriously Dark BDSM Undertones

them toasted, and she wants them right the hell now. I'm not sure what Bird's Eye's ad strategy was in the 60s, but at least someone thought they could hock their doughnut squares -- what the hell is that anyway? A lame-ass version of a Pop Tart...
Derek Mead
8.17.12
Art

Hyped: The Week In Links 8/17

Busy week? Here are some things you may have missed.
Sami Sharaf
8.17.12
Stuff

What Sort of Person Has a Crush on Tom Daley?

He took a date to see 'The Lion King' and his fans are NOT happy.
Clive Martin
8.17.12
Travel

In Vilnius, Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Lithuanian women are by far some of the most beautiful women in the world. There is something about the severity of cold climates that creates terrifyingly hot women.
Adam R. Burnett
8.17.12
New music

Heroes x Villains "Original Choppaz" Has Us TRAPPED

Noisey drops the new trap sizzler from ATL's original don.
Emerson Rosenthal
8.17.12
VICE News

The New Zapatistas?

Back in September, as the Mexican presidential elections were still in full swing, we headed to Cherán, an indigenous rebel town located in the southwestern state of Michoacán, Mexico, to celebrate the first anniversary of their fight against organized...
VICE Mexico
8.17.12
Motherboard Blog

Twitter's Getting Old and Bitter

We all knew this was coming. In the five years that it's been around Twitter has been a uniquely free and open platform, a friend to entrepreneurial developers and generally a pretty cool little company. But now that it's a big boy company, the...
Adam Estes
8.17.12
Music

Delicious with Mish Episode Three: Featuring Peace

In this episode of Delicious with Mish, everyone takes magazine relationship quizzes, drinks pretty wine, and talks about a wide variety of life things.
Mish Way
8.17.12
Sports

Fantasy Football Draft Prep, Part III - Fake Everything Else

Even though no one who’s paid to know fantasy football can actually predict anything, VICE researches and predicts--sort of--which wide receivers don't suck and which are, like, torturous, and whether you should even pay attention to tight ends...
Ben Johnson
8.17.12
Motherboard Blog

How to Build a Not-For-Profit Facebook

Over a billion people use Facebook. Sorry, that's the predominant way we share information and communicate online; sometimes, especially for those young ones who never go outside anymore, it's the predominant way info gets shared, period. Nothing else...
Brian Merchant
8.17.12
Motherboard

Plus Pool

A few dudes in Brooklyn think swimming in New York's rivers is a cool idea, so they're planning to build a plus sign-shaped pool, appropriately named Plus Pool, that will float in the city's surrounding waters. What's nuts is the thing will actually be...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.17.12
Design

The Algorithmic Fashion Designer: Meet Hyejin Hong Of Studio K

Moving beyond the needle and thread, Korean fashion designer Hyejin Hong looks to geometry, computer science, and mathematics to build her classic collections.
Kyuhee Baik
8.17.12
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