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What Color Is the Most Popular on the Internet?

Red versus blue, who wins?
Derek Mead
3.29.13
Friday Thinks With Luke Winkie

A Short Story in which Paul Simon Eats Art Garfunkel Alive

The REAL STORY of how "The Sound of Silence" was written.
Luke Winkie
3.29.13
Cash Money Records

Cash, Money, Records - Treefort Music Festival Director Eric Gilbert

Meet the man behind the brand-free festival that is single-handedly putting Boise, Idaho on the music map.
Matt Putrino
3.29.13
sawdust stories

Sitting Down in the Deep End

It was an oppressively cold day in New York. The wind was particularly icy. I was huddled between my girlfriend and a posse of union organizers. By nightfall over 14 million people would have marched against the US invasion of Iraq all over the world...
David Hill
3.29.13
Motherboard Blog

Egypt Arrested Divers Trying to Cut Undersea Internet Cables

Egypt has been reporting slower than usual Internet connections, but officials told Reuters that it wasn't clear if that is related to the cable-chopping.
Derek Mead
3.29.13
New music

Listen to Solar Bears' Exclusive Noisey Mixtape, 'Advancement'

A blend of styles and eras, cosmic, erotic, and a celebration of Ireland's ascending musical culture.
DJ Pangburn
3.29.13
Motherboard Blog

What's the Deadliest Power Source?

Coal, nuclear, oil, wind, gas, solar—which one is going to kill you?
Brian Merchant
3.29.13
Fashion

Fashion Line Blooms With Images Of Digitally Screen-Printed Greenery

Sarah Leslie Richards is a talented digital printmaker as well as a fashion designer.
Nicole Disser
3.29.13
Sittin' Sidewayz... With Skinny Friedman

Rick Ross is a Terrible Misogynist, But He has No Idea how Molly Works

Like the entire startup industry, a lot of rap is just an imaginary arms race where ordinary dudes claim to have things they do not have. This goes for clothes, cars, sex and even drugs.
Skinny Friedman
3.29.13
VICE México

Mexico's Other Border

When traveling from Central America to Mexico, immigrants are forced to battle corrupt Mexican police, drug cartels like the infamous Zetas, and human traffickers, all before they even come close to the United States border. We tagged along with a...
VICE Mexico
3.29.13
Motherboard Blog

A Canadian Restaurant Was Fined $10,000 for a Freezer Full of Turtles

Props to Canada for protecting its reptiles, and taking the steps to follow through when people don't play ball.
Derek Mead
3.29.13
News

After Gay Marriage, Why Not Polygamy?

The idea that after gay marriage is legalized, polygamy will be next—and then bestiality and legal unions between lawn mowers and volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica and so on—is one of the main arguments that social conservatives trot out to...
Harry Cheadle
3.29.13
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