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The World Hates You Issue

Apparently Europeans Don’t Care if Pop Stars Dress Like Nazis
This March, Europe’s version of 'American Idol' featured a few unexpected guests: Nazis. Or, more accurately, drummers in Waffen-SS outfits that were grabbed by a costumer who was unaware that they were worn by the propagators of mankind’s worst...
Xavier Aaronson
5.6.13
Stuff

Sexsomnia Is a Bedtime Boner-Kill
Sexomniacs fuck or dry-hump people in their sleep and have no memory of it when they wake up. Think that sounds cool? Well, perverts, it’s not.
Wendy Syfret
5.6.13
Comics!

Pussy Willy - Part 1
Y'know... if you kick the bucket before me, I'll name that damn cat after you. I'll change her name from Pussy to Pussy Willy! Ha Ha Ha!
Leslie Stein
5.6.13
Music

Irrelevant Interviews - TacocaT
This past week, everyone in Portland, Oregon, (including myself) has been experiencing the best thing in the world: extreme global warming. True, in a few years, April and May will probably yield 100-degree weather and cancer. But it's been sunny and a...
Kat Gardiner
5.6.13
The Talking Issue

An Interview with a Mexican Coke Dealer
Julián is a coke dealer. He’s 44. He’s been working Mexico City for two decades. He agreed to take us on a ride-along as he worked. The phone never stopped ringing, not for a minute.
Emmanuel Cobos, Marco Tulio Valencia
5.6.13
Motherboard Blog

For the First Time, Researchers Spy on the Undisturbed Quantum World
Seeing the unseeable.
Michael Byrne
5.5.13
Motherboard Blog

How Big Smells Help Cool the Earth
A new study explains how exhaust, sea spray, pine forests, and other stinks help create a natural sunscreen.
Michael Byrne
5.5.13
New music

Total Control's "Expensive Dog" Is Streaming Now and Demands Your Total Attention
Typical System? Not so much.
Fred Pessaro
5.5.13
WEEDIQUETTE

Visiting the Motherland
Before the rise of the xenophobic pseudo-patriotism that's responsible for our decaying reputation abroad, there was a time when the American experience involved spending your earlier years in another country and then coming over to the US in a huddled...
T. Kid
5.5.13
Sports

'Class A - Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere,' an Excerpt
Lucas Mann had dreams of becoming a big leaguer. Captain of his high school baseball team, Lucas could throw a decent fastball. But instead of going pro, he opted to get a taste of how the boys of summer roll by embedding with the Clinton, Iowa...
Lucas Mann
5.5.13
Stuff

Some Swedes Made a Special Brand of Cerebral-Palsy Beer
About a year ago, in an attempt to stop people from being excessively nice to the handicapped, the Gothenburg Cooperative for Independent Living in Sweden (GIL) made a physically challenged doll with cerebral palsy. GIL just released their own brand of...
Caisa Ederyd
5.5.13
Motherboard Blog

Are Chinese Oil Companies Planning To Gut Ecuador's Amazon?
The 'other' Big Oil is making big moves.
Sascha Kouvelis
5.5.13
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