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The Pleasant Rhythm of Those Hard-Typing Times

At the Atlantic, for its "How Genius Works":http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/how-genius-works/ issue, TC Boyle talks about writing his 1995 book _The Tortilla Curtain_, just before he began using a computer, losing his careful revisions in the...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.15.11
poetry

Poem: "Power"

Adrienne Rich
4.15.11
Vice Blog

BALKANS IN NYC THIS WEEKEND

VICE Staff
4.15.11
Motherboard Blog

That Time Mark Zuckerberg Offered Half of Facebook to a Felonious Wood Pellet Salesman

Mark Zuckerberg's "struggle":http://motherboard.tv/2010/10/7/the-handsome-twins-who-invented-facebook-video--2 to prove that "he invented and owns":http://motherboard.tv/2010/11/19/like-facebook-how-the-social-network-profiled-us Facebook continues...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.15.11
Music

Coachella 2011: Arcade Fire + Chris Milk's Summer Into Dust Teaser

A sneak peek at Arcade Fire’s headlining Coachella set tomorrow night.
The Creators Project Staff
4.15.11
Art

These 3D Photos Give The Civil War A New Dimension

Back in the 1860s, war photography was stereoscopic.
Kevin Holmes
4.15.11
Film

Macro Motion Film Undone Has Fun With Shape And Color

Artist SCNTFC films the goings-on of the worlds we cannot see, making for stunning footage.
Kevin Holmes
4.15.11
Stuff

Friday Tyrant - The Beast, Watered

I've grown oh so weary with humans and their human stories. Give me the pawing animal, the beast, chest out. Give me the instinct. Sam Michel sets his meat hook into you right at the nose. Then he tugs.
GIANCARLO DITRAPANO
4.15.11
Motherboard Blog

When Nerds Go to the Symphony: Final Fantasy's Classical NYC Debut

For better or worse, videogame music is "on the up-and-up":http://motherboard.tv/2011/2/17/gaga-the-grammys-videogame-music-s-ongoing-identity-crisis right now. And for skeptics like myself who grew up with game soundtracks, that's a very strange and...
Janus Rose
4.15.11
Motherboard Blog

This was Europe's first home computer terminal

Back in 1967, BBC's wonderful Tomorrow's World looks at Europe's first home computer terminal, which was "cheaper to rent than today's telephones": bq. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex Malik (pictured above), it includes an...
Videodrome
4.15.11
Vice Blog

THE PALE OVER-PUBLICIZED KING

VICE Staff
4.15.11
Vice Blog

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF RUSH

VICE Staff
4.15.11
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