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A Chat About Occupy with Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

The ice cream guy talks with us about OWS, mesh networking, and his activist son.
Brian Anderson
5.1.12
Music

The Creators Project Won Three Webby Awards

… and a BIG thank you to all who voted!
The Creators Project Staff
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Facebook Ups Its Quest for a Monopoly On the Afterlife

Who do you trust more with your organs, Facebook or the DMV? Or do you even care? Because you're dead, hopefully. The dead part is becoming more and more debatable actually, with a kind of emerging grey (matter, heh) area around the concept of brain...
Michael Byrne
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Surprise! Congressmen Support Science with the Golden Goose Award

With the budget fight proving to be one of the most bitter, hyperbolic, government-stopping battles in recent history, the outlook for science funding has never looked worse. The shuttle program and Fermilab are now dead, and Mars plans have been...
Derek Mead
5.1.12
Music

Skerrit Bwoy Puts Down the Dagger, Picks up the Cross

Daggering = rhythmic dry humping.
Zipper Z
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

OccuPints: Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder, on Dissent and Free Internet

It was your classic Eleventh Hour curveball. Early this past March, in the latest of late-editing stages for our newest feature documentary "Free the Network":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, I began hearing...
Brian Anderson
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Color Memes: The Forecast Calls for a High-Visibility, Magnetic Orange

The business of imagining the future is often a colorful one, but especially for the people charged with picking "the new black." Centered around a top-level somewhat-secret meeting that happens twice a year in Europe, the process of hashing out the...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Cheap Enough for Everyone: Vintage Ad Unearths Apple's Mantra Before Steve Jobs

Apple's long portrayed itself as the feel-good alternative to Microsoft's nameless, utilitarian machines, and as far back as 1995 the company was whipping together six minute videos explaining how Apple envisioned a computer-savvy future for all the...
Derek Mead
5.1.12
Music

Our Date with Xenia

Xenia talks about songs, female legs, and how pictures can steal your soul.
Sophie Saint Thomas
5.1.12
Fashion

These Little Kids Dress Better Than You

Increasing numbers of millionaire moms from Brazil to Kazakhstan are feeling the urge to preemptively groom their kids into becoming totally materialistic assholes.
Stephanie Malik
5.1.12
Photo

Newcastle Issue Launch: April 2012

Nice to meet you, Newcastle!
Kieran Cudlip
5.1.12
Design

A DIY Augmented Reality Multitouch Coffee Table

Take that, Microsoft Surface!
Kevin Holmes
5.1.12
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