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Cormac McCarthy Vs. Three 6 Mafia

McCarthy won a Pulitzer, Three 6 got an Oscar. Both have ten major primary works spanning several decades, and both like talking about guns and blood and alcohol. This is going to be close.
Blake Butler
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Utter Loneliness At 52 Hertz

To the watcher’s eye, “Iceberg,” the white male orca recently sighted in waters off the coast of eastern Russia that's believed to be the first adult of its kind observed in the wild, conjures up the legendary brute of Ahab’s undoing. But all freak...
Brian Anderson
4.25.12
Art

A 24-Hour Panorama Of Planet Earth

Chris Kotsiopoulos stitches together almost 600 pictures to create a visualization of planet Earth.
Alexander Pack
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Jay-Z's Euro-punk Future Cost Him At Least $1.15 Million

Four years ago this week, the value of the euro reached an all-time high against the U.S. dollar: $1.594 to €1. Jay-Z — then as now a businessman as well as a business, man — must have seemed to all observers something rarer still. Namely, a successful
JONATHAN LIU
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Inside the Pocket-Sized, Dystopian Internet of North Korea

Conventional wisdom never gets you very far when you’re trying to understand the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Take, for example, the bizarre, self-contained universe that is the North Korean internet.In the past few weeks, there’s been a...
Abraham Riesman
4.25.12
New music

Welcome to New Music

We thought music websites were boring, so we started our own.
Noisey Staff
4.25.12
Features

Welcome to Features

Here are some articles for you to read. Don't call them blogs.
Noisey Staff
4.25.12
Music

Kanye Doesn't Have To Make Videos Anymore

He can just wait for amateurs with more talent to make them for him.
Noisey Staff
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Meet the Guy Who Designed North Korea’s Website for $15

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a country of non sequiturs, exemplified by how the late Kim Jong Il's prodigious affinity for Hennessy stands in stark contrast to the generations of families on IT (and food for their people, but...
ALEC LIU
4.25.12
Music

Bless This Mess: A Guide to the Atlanta Mess Around

You and your friends are drunks, and terrible at planning.
Adrian Barrera
4.25.12
Design

The Cyborg Cabaret Invades Pittsburgh This Friday

The event’s producers and performers Heather Knight and Dan Wilcox organize a live event focused on cyborg and robot entertainment.
Kathleen Flood
4.25.12
Music

Metavisualist Jesse Ewles Melds Allison Schulnik, William Blake, And Dumbo In Of Montreal's New Video

The animator and director talks about stealing compositions from Blake, experimentation, and morphing heads.
Kevin Holmes
4.25.12
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