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In the 1930s, the Home of the Future Was a Ball You Towed by Tractor

Whether it's deserved or not, mobile homes have kind of a stigma about them. Whether it's trailer park meth heads or the good-natured gents that used to live in Winnebagos outside my house in Santa Barbara, people tend to be just a wee bit skeptical...
Derek Mead
3.27.12
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Beatsurfing Is the Most App-y MIDI Controller Ever, and That's Alright

The iPad instrument-app landscape is already plenty cluttered. A quick search yields a fairly bottomless reserve of apps with which to make cool sounds on your iPad (or whatever tablet), most of them pretty cheap and most of them claiming some kind of...
Michael Byrne
3.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Obamacare Wavering, the Stuxnet Truth, Moon Borne From Earth

After commentators initially seemed generally positive about the health care law being upheld by the Supreme Court, the general consensus "on the pivotal second day is that the bill is in trouble":http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-skeptical...
Derek Mead
3.27.12
Music

How To Make Noisy Jelly Game Pieces

A game that lets you control synthetic sounds using molded gelatin.
Abdullah Saeed
3.27.12
Design

Aeolus Is A Sound Sculpture Powered By Wind

Luke Jerram’s piece gives us a sense of the wind and an altered perspective on landscapes.
Abdullah Saeed
3.27.12
Art

RGB Murals Use Colored Light Filters To Create Beautiful Optical Illusions

Carnovsky creates three distinct images in each one image using filtered lights.
Rosalie Ryan
3.27.12
Music

This Tricked Out Church Is Truly A Religious Experience

The Macula project turns the Olomouc Baroque de-baptized chapel into an enormous, interactive musical instrument.
Alexander Pack
3.27.12
Motherboard Blog

What Does It Even Mean that Mercury is in Retrograde?

If you need a sort of flimsy excuse for not replying to text messages, emails, or why your rent is late, for the next week the solar system is your scapegoat.
Ben Richmond
3.27.12
Chicago

Chef's Night Out: Paul Kahan

In this episode of Chef's Night Out, we head to the Windy City to meet up with Paul Kahan, executive chef of Blackbird, Avec, Publican, and Big Star, for a long night of yam goo, suicide beers, and charcuterie.
Munchies Staff
3.27.12
Design

Minecraft IRL: Cool Concept Drawings For A Pixelated Bridge

Pixelated Mountain could bring the digital aesthetic to the canals of Amsterdam.
Kevin Holmes
3.27.12
Design

Magicians Add iPads To Their Bag Of Tricks

Forget rabbits in hats, it’s all about pouring red wine from a tablet device.
Kevin Holmes
3.27.12
New music

Stream 'In Between,' Young Prisms' Sophomore Record

The whole glorious record, streaming like a river of honey.
Josh Schneider
3.27.12
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