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Cyber Surfer

Don't fuck with Cyber Surfer today.
Alex Schubert
1.22.12
Motherboard Blog

In Sweden, Forced Sterilization is Still a Thing

Since 1972, transgendered individuals in Sweden who wish to legally change their sex must first be sterilized. Yes, you read that correctly. Sweden, progressive homeland of Ingmar Bergman and government subsidized everything, has arguably the most...
Kelly Bourdet
1.21.12
Stuff

Tao Lin and Giancarlo DiTrapano Read "Andrew"

Somehow these two men are still alive, and on Saturday night they're giving a reading of ""Andrew" a Dialogue of Texts in the Year of Drugs and Kindness."
VICE Staff
1.21.12
Motherboard Blog

How the First Digital Computer Didn't Really Change Anything and Died In Obscurity

Contrary to popular belief, the first computer wasn't Philadelphia's ENIAC. It was the desk-size machine built by "John Vincent Atanasoff":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at...
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.21.12
Noisey

Tom Vek

Tom Vek is back. After a six-year sabbatical from the limelight, the London-based "beat rock" specialist has reemerged with a new album and a new lease on life. Properly tweaked for the 21st century, his propulsive, chopped up New Wave electronica is...
VICE Staff
1.21.12
Motherboard Blog

It's Easy to Say it's Easy Being Green: David Owen's "The Conundrum"

Like a green Gladwell or Taleb, the writer David Owen loves unintuitive ideas about the environment (the greenest place in the U.S. isn't Portland "but New York City":http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1925797,00.html, traffic "can be a good...
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.21.12
Motherboard Blog

The Weirdest Piracy Haven Of Them All: Goodbye For Now, Megaupload

More than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice raid on the New Zealand offices of popular file-sharing service Megaupload, a lot of us are still finding ourselves awe-struck. It's no surprise considering the site, which sports 50 million daily...
Janus Rose
1.20.12
Photos

Plastic Plaza

Ian Markell walks softly and carries a big camera.
Ian Markell
1.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Enjoy This Lost Episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: "The Meat Planet"

Oceans of liquid meat. An atmosphere of corrosive flatulence. Lovely, melted pork in vast amounts.
Videodrome
1.20.12
Stuff

Talking with Three Virgins

"I believe that God does not ask me to do things that do not have a purpose. 'Just Say No' didn't have a purpose, but my virginity does."
Mish Way
1.20.12
Fashion

Heat-Activated Color Changing Clothing Is Making A Comeback

Rio de Janeiro-based clothing brand Redley launches heat-sensitive T-shirt line.
Fergs Heinzelmann
1.20.12
Girl News

Girls and Exes

Ex-boyfriends are the most powerful mutants because they know what your skin tastes like and how it feels when you hate them.
Kate Carraway
1.20.12
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