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New York City Maintains a Fake Apartment Building in Brooklyn, Here's What It's Used For

With miles of steam pipes and tens of thousands of passengers sucking down oxygen daily, New York City's subways can make for a hot, stale, sauna-like environment, especially in the summer months. Keeping passengers from cooking are scores of tunnel...
Derek Mead
12.26.11
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Merry Christmas from the Moon

1968 was a bit of a nail-biting year for the world—assassinations, riots and war seemed constant—and for NASA too.
Amy Shira Teitel
12.26.11
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MB Mixtape 2011 .07: Andy Stott, "Execution"

_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of...
Michael Byrne
12.25.11
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Brett Domino: "Last Christmas"

George Michael's classic doesn't have anything to do with Christmas but is probably "the most covered":http://www.last-christmas.com Christmas song of the 1980s. This version is by Brett Domino, who appeared in "our documentary":http://www.motherboard...
Videodrome
12.25.11
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MB Mixtape 2011 .06: Pete Swanson, "Remote View"

_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of...
Michael Byrne
12.24.11
Music

Africa Longs for a Nirvana Christmas Number One

The video these Malawi guys sent us proves it.
Oscar Rickett
12.24.11
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Need Last Minute Gift Ideas? Here's a Geek List from 1994 (Video)

When it comes to gift shopping, I'm a positively aggressive procrastinator. Even if I want to get things done early, I fight myself until I submit to waiting until the minute. But my perennial argument is that even if I may not be hitting the pavement...
Derek Mead
12.24.11
Stuff

Girl Eats Food - Yule Log Trio

How to turn your greed into permanent spleen damage this Christmas.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
12.24.11
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Turbowolf

This British four-piece has blown the cobwebs off the UK rock scene with high-octane shows that trade in crunchy, dinosaur-shaped riffs, the death-or-glory spirit of DFA1979, and the pantomime stage antics of 80s metal. They're suburban, angry, and...
VICE Staff
12.24.11
Music

Murcof And AntiVJ Weave Blue Spider Webs Of Audiovisual Magic

And perform at the opening of China’s first museum dedicated to digital arts.
Amyrock Ju
12.24.11
Motherboard Blog

MB Mixtape 2011 .05: Wavves, "Poor Lenore"

_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of...
Derek Mead
12.23.11
Music

Creators Remix Roundup: Gang Gang Dance, Florence + the Machine And Emicida

A weird Christmas tune from Gang Gang Dance, Florence gets a Dave Sitek rework and Emicida re-imagined.
Kathleen Flood
12.23.11
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