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The Most Anticipated Shoe of All Time: Q+A With Someone Who Won A Pair of Marty McFly's Futuristic Kicks
In case you live in a cultural sphere where _Back to the Future_ isn’t a governing force of knowledge, you might not have heard that Nike has unveiled an exact replica of Marty McFly’s futuristic kicks from _Back to the Future II_. Yeah, you remember...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
9.20.11
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New Research Shows That It's Good To Be Overconfident, Delusional
Self-delusion and overconfidence are usually thought of as negative character traits, falling under the general umbrella of "douchebagery." But, like other natural traits of _Homo Douchebagis sapiens_, such as self-awareness and rationality...
SAM MCDOUGLE
9.20.11
Music

"Body Architect" Lucy McRae Directs A Synchronized Swimming-Inspired Music Video
McRae crafts an organically quirky music video for Rat Vs Possum’s “Fat Monk.”
The Creators Project Staff
9.20.11
Motherboard Blog

Rick Santorum Would Just Love Some Internet Censorship Please
Dude would probably have a ton to say about Google filtering search results in China, but when it comes to his own "Google problem," censor away. If the so-called Google problem is a new thing to you, Dan Savage launched a campaign to have "Santorum...
Michael Byrne
9.20.11
Music

Journey To The Center Of The IDM
Céline Desrumaux’s short is a space exploration music video for electronica/glitch/IDM landmark Apparat.
Morgan Poyau
9.20.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: All Hail Neal Stephenson, Urban Agriculture for Food, the Web and Gossip
h3. One: Neal Stephenson talks to "Forbes about video games, the metaverse, and his new book, _REAMDE_":http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-stephenson-reamde-video-games/
h3. Zero: Netflix changes DVD service name to "Qwikster...
Ones Zeros
9.20.11
Film

Step Into A Kitsch Animated Wonderland
Alex McLeod’s videos make for sumptuous eye feasting.
Kevin Holmes
9.20.11
Motherboard Blog

We're On Some Kind of HIV Ass-Kicking Roll This Week
Later today we'll have an interview up with part of the research team responsible for this week's big announcement that gamers battling a puzzle game called Foldit, which lets players collaborate/compete in the predicting of structure of protein molecules
Michael Byrne
9.20.11
News

Quango - Does Danny Alexander Have Severe Learning Difficulties?
And if he does, why is no one talking about it?
Gavin Haynes
9.20.11
Music

Instrumenti Takes A Lo-Fi Approach To Sound Visualization
This band used their music to create the album artwork for their latest release—but not in the way you’d expect.
Lauren Leibowitz
9.20.11
Photos

Soundtracks Festival
We've never seen people that interested in tube music before.
Zosia Swidlicka
9.20.11
Music

We Screened Our New Film About Roadies Last Night
No actual roadies turned up, but it was fun anyway.
VICE Staff
9.20.11
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