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Like Lost, Prometheus Is Brilliant Only At Being Its Own Viral Marketing Campaign
The movie _Prometheus_, the thing itself, is as viral as its actual, "still-growing":http://crushable.com/entertainment/prometheus-10-11-12-viral-marketing-guy-pearce-185/ viral marketing campaign. I paid $11 last night not to watch a so-so _Alien...
Michael Byrne
6.12.12
Art

Pandemonium In The Millennium: James Powderly Sits Down With MAKE Magazine's Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty, publisher of MAKE Magazine and James Powderly, co-founder of Graffiti Research Lab and the F.A.T. Lab, square-off and discuss the first Maker Faire in Seoul, DIY at <span...
James Powderly
6.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Is the Spiral UFO Real? Nope, It's Just Rocket Science
Last week, a spiral of light lit up the Middle Eastern sky. Turns out, it's just rocket science.
Amy Shira Teitel
6.12.12
Reviews

Metric - 'Synthetica'
Always pleasant, seldom essential.
Gavin Haynes
6.12.12
Art

Replicate (Or Hack) The Metropolitan Museum's Classical Sculptures With A 3D Printer
You no longer have to steal a precious artwork to have it sitting in your living room.
Kevin Holmes
6.12.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Cracking the Code of Rock Record Write-Ups
Those blurbs record store clerks write on albums are bullshit.
Ben Johnson
6.12.12
Motherboard Blog

"I've Been Playing the Same Game of Civ II for 10 Years"
This is big on the internet today: some dude on Reddit "announced":http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/ that he'd been playing the same game of Civilization II for the past 10 years. If you're...
Michael Byrne
6.12.12
Music

We Went to a GWAR Zombie Prom
True story: this chick was headbanging so wildly her hat flew off her head and landed on mine.
BEVERLY HAMES
6.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Marvel at These Awesome Treehouses that Hopefully Won't Be Cut Down
When I was in elementary school, my dad and I built a treehouse in the medium-sized oak growing on the hill behind our driveway. Admittedly, it wasn’t so much of a tree _house_ as a tree _platform_, and I didn’t so much “build” it with my dad as I did...
Trevor Macomber
6.12.12
News

Filibustin' with Willie D - Romney and Obama Need to Read My Jobs Plan
I came up with my own version of the American Jobs Act, code name: Bitch, You Better Not Send One More Job Overseas.
Willie D
6.12.12
BOOOOOOOM

BOOOOOOOM - Synesthesia
Jeff Hamada
6.12.12
Motherboard Blog

With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with Hard Currency?
It is at once the ‘net’s most inspired invention or its most dangerous project ever depending on who you ask.Bitcoin might be nothing more than the latest Internet scam, a virtual ponzi scheme designed to enrich early adopters, while adding no real...
ALEC LIU
6.12.12
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