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The Most Panic-Inducing Air Traffic Control Simulation
Imagine Flight Control, the way popular phone/tablet game app that has users landing planes with their fingers, minus all of the stuff people like about Flight Control: no touch-screen, fun graphics, stewardesses, instant sensory feedback, or...
Michael Byrne
1.3.12
Stuff

The Brutality Report - Cat Hair
Being covered in white cat hair is problematic. In public, I am constantly picking at my clothing, a gesture both fussy and slobbish. It's the worst of both Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.
Sam McPheeters
1.3.12
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Stem Cells Are Doing Some Very Fountain of Youth-y Things At the University of Pittsburgh
As you can maybe tell from buffmouse.jpg up there, this research is still in mice, but a "new study":http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Fncomms%2F&ei=7iYCT7OsF-ra0QHG8N27Ag&usg...
Michael Byrne
1.3.12
Music

A Fist in the Face of God Meets... Victor Whipstriker
Talking to the most prolific man in the Rio metal scene about the most hated man in the Rio metal scene.
Dylan Hughes
1.3.12
Kill the Engine

Star Trek or Mexico
Sunday was New Year's Day. And like most people, when the world sprouts another white hair in its beard, I like to celebrate by making a to do list for myself for the upcoming year.
Michael Sieben
1.3.12
The Moral Compass Issue

Guns and Roses
Aside from reported drug abuse and infiltration by Taliban double agents, Afghan National Army soldiers are also fond of dressing up like pretty little ladies and butt-fucking one another.
Ben Makuch
Vice Beta
1.3.12
News

The Hangover News
Liars, killers, tyrants and the rain still exist in 2012, but you're probably still too hungover to notice.
Mac Hackett
1.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Inside the Cell Phone File Sharing Networks of Western Africa (Q+A)
Digital filesharing doesn't need the internet. This is the case at least in Western Africa and other parts of the developing world, where computers aren't yet consumer goods for most and, even if they were, web access isn't exactly New York City...
Michael Byrne
1.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Super-Secret Cold War Program Revealed, the Most Extreme Headline Ever
Shark battling a whale spawns "one of the most aggressive headlines in history":http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/02/orca_shark_death_match/.
File under 'Awesome': "Cold War scientists are now able to discuss":http://www.newser.com/article/d9rs...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
1.3.12
Photos

London Issue Launch
For some, Christmas is all about bare nipples.
Daniel Pacrami
1.3.12
News

Quango - Come to Daddy
How David Cameron is exploiting Freud to appeal to the pussy in all of us.
Gavin Haynes
1.3.12
Photo

Brighton Is a Paradise
Not in the same way as Bristol, but a paradise nonetheless.
Sam Hiscox
Jonnie Wire
1.3.12
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