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What the Mars Rover Landing Looked Like To Someone Who Actually Built It
NASA's done a fine job of documenting its big Martian landing last week - that little YouTube "robot copyright hiccup":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown notwithstanding. But one of NASA JPL's engineers...
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.15.12
Music

We Went to a Weird Bloc Party After Party
The party itself, however, demonstrated everything that can be stupid and lame about New York, this sort of forced sense of insider-dom and exclusion when in actuality nobody gives even seven-tenths of a shit.
Drew Millard
8.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: Making Slime With Dan Deacon
It was 3pm when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard. We knew it would be worth it to make the 5 hour trek to Baltimore to check in on Deacon, whose new album “America” launches August 26/27.
Erin Lee Carr
8.15.12
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #68
Hello art-o-philes, I turned 29 last week. I celebrated by playing pinball and drawing a jam comic about sea punk with Matthew Caron. I also finally gave back Gary Panter's ten favorite comics that I'd borrowed for two years.
Nick Gazin
8.15.12
Fashion

Dani Read Designed "Blade Runner"-Inspired Lingerie
In her new collection, “The Replicant,” Dani draws from sci-fi staples like "Blade Runner" and the fiction of Philip K. Dick. Each piece has been named after a science fiction character and is really really sexy.
Kelly Bourdet
8.15.12
Question Of The Day

Question of the Day - Chicks Before Dicks?
Do those with two X chromosomes really have more loyalty to members of their own sex than their Y-chromosomed counterparts? Would you choose your girls over a little rump of man meat? Or would you get stitches for your bitches?
VICE Staff
Sheree Millington
8.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Israel's Leaked Sales Pitch For Attacking Iran Sounds Like an Amazing Tom Clancy Movie
Israel wants the world to know that it's not scared of attacking Iran. In fact, they've got it all planned out and apparently aren't trying too hard to keep those plans a secret. Richard Silverstein, a liberal Jewish blogger who focuses on Israel...
Adam Estes
8.15.12
Music

In Defense of New Jersey
New Jersey became the slop bucket for tired glam acts gone shitty and the birthplace for groups like Bon Jovi, who would eventually become the poster boys for a scene all their own.
Jeff Ogiba
8.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Solar-Powered Toilets of the World: A Comprehensive Guide
For the first time in perhaps ever, solar-powered toilets are a prominent news item. I guess we can thank the world's wealthiest philanthropist: Bill Gates just gave a $100,000 cash prize to designers at Caltech who engineered a toilet that employs a...
Brian Merchant
8.15.12
Stuff

A Three-Way with Stevies Williams, Nicks, and Wonder
A few days before talking to Stevie Williams I read a bunch of other interviews with him and realized all of my questions had already been answered, so I decided to see how he compares with history's other Stevies (Wonder and Nicks), and ask him...
BRAYDEN OLSON
8.15.12
Tech

Watch Dan Deacon Get Experimental with Slime
For the first episode of Motherboard’s new series “Experimental Music," Dan Deacon gets slimy and chats us up about haters, his new album, and how the end of the world will be anything but elegant. It's two parts "Bill Nye," 1.5 parts "Meet the Band...
VICE Staff
8.15.12
Music

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Electronic Music Producer Howie Lee
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Erica Huang
8.15.12
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