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How Long Does It Take To Beat a Video Game?

Games are getting shorter (and more expensive) as production costs continue to rise and more focus gets invested in multiplayer modes. It's a potentially worrying if not inevitable trend for singleplayer stalwarts made worse by questionable publisher...
ALEC LIU
3.1.11
Motherboard Blog

Maybe Cool Kid Tape Festishists Are Onto Something

Here's a thing I didn't know: Google backs up all of its information on offline tapes--like, actual magnetic tape. Your e-mails are apparently saved in a room somewhere on a cassette along with millions of others. Neat--that's comforting. We...
Michael Byrne
3.1.11
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Making Cheese Out Of People Milk

Whatever philosophy that encourages the eat local movement got a run for its money this weekend when Mirium Simun"ricotta cheese made from human breast milk at FEAST, an art-centric dinner club in Brooklyn, New York.
GABRIELLA LEVINE
3.1.11
Music

Make Your Own MIDI Controller [Instructables How-To]

Here’s a tool to make your live DJ/VJ sets more interactive.
Kathleen Flood
3.1.11
Motherboard Blog

Facebook Is Still Selling Your Information

Just when you thought that Facebook was only a movie, the popular social network announced plans to open up its users' personal information to third-party apps, websites and marketers.
RYAN BRODERICK
3.1.11
Music

Eclectic Method Remix The King's Speech [VIDEO]

The mash-up artists chop up the Oscar-winning film into a stuttering musical masterpiece
Kevin Holmes
3.1.11
Music

Deftly Blending Sights And Sounds: A Q&A With Musician/Animator Alexis Gideon

We talk to Alexis Gideon about his latest video opera, and the inspirations that drove his creative process.
Makena Walsh
3.1.11
Art

Light Painting Visualizations Of Oslo's WiFi Network

A group of designers in Norway have visualised the usually invisible presence that keeps us all connected.
Kevin Holmes
3.1.11
Motherboard Blog

New Egyptian Antiquities Czar: Same as the Old Antiquities Czar

He refuses to go long after others have given up, has barricaded himself in his HQ, commands a collapsing personality cult mostly via television, and taunts his critics like an abusive dad--is Zahi Hawass the Qadaffi of near-eastern antiquity?
JONATHAN LIU
3.1.11
NSFW

Condom Songs of the World

As you should know from our recent Global Trend Report, there are some disgustingly diseased penises and vaginas out there (we're looking at you, Sweden). Which is why it's strange that condoms are so hilarious.
Jonathan Smith
3.1.11
Film

VJ Um Amel Remixes A Revolution

An Egyptian-American media artist elevates VJing to political and social commentary.
Dylan Schenker
3.1.11
Film

Documentary About Indie Game Minecraft Raises Over $100K In Under A Week

Video game documentarians 2 Player Productions set out to create a feature-length documentary about the wildly popular indie game Minecraft and the developer behind it.
Julia Kaganskiy
3.1.11
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