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The Mercy Rule

Why Breitbart Sports Will Fail, I Hope

It’s only fitting that after a career spent treating politics like a long football game between Black Nazi Communists and the Founding Fathers, Andrew Breitbart has posthumously lent his name to a sports-news website.
David Roth
2.1.13
Features

Putin Enlists Boyz II Men to Raise Russia's Birth Rate

Rhythm-N-Babymakin', coming soon to Moscow.
Martin Spasov
2.1.13
Tubesteak

Why Are All These Gays Taking Grindr Photos at a Holocaust Memorial?

Grindr Remembers is a website devoted to cataloging all of the Grindr profile pictures taken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. When the internet realized this site existed a few days ago it exploded with rage, so I contacted the...
Brian Moylan
2.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Despite the Tuxedo, Iran's Space Monkey Is a Hoax

We've got a monkey gaffe of historic proportions on our hands.
Derek Mead
2.1.13
Stuff

Meet the Guys Who Want to Turn Tony Danza into a Dadaist Meme

I wanted to talk to them about their Kickstarter project and we wound up discussing washed-up celebrities, how the art world is bullshit, and their plans to force themselves into a parade with a Danza-inspired float.
Harry Cheadle
2.1.13
Friday Thinks With Luke Winkie

All Music is Better When You Mash it Up With the Drum Break from "When the Levee Breaks"

Are you really daring me to add the "Levee" break to a bunch of songs? You're on, motherfucker.
Luke Winkie
2.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Does the U.S. Want to Lock Up Barrett Brown for a Century for Sharing a Link?

On Wednesday, the government announced that Barrett Brown, a man who became a very public talking head for Anonymous, is facing up to 100 years in jail.
Patrick McGuire
2.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Forget Solyndra: Steven Chu Fought Anti-Science Politics to Make America Smarter

Energy Secretary Steven Chu is resigning, and everybody's going to get his legacy all wrong.
Brian Merchant
2.1.13
Music

Sad-Ass Music #7: I Get by with a Little Help from My Commenters

I'm not a total dork-ass knowledge bank of EVERYTHING “Sad-Ass Music” related (believe it or not), but I do have my head on pretty goddamned straight; or, shit, crooked, depending. I thought I'd take a lil cruise of my own comments and compile a list...
William Cody Watson
2.1.13
New music

Snoop Lion feat. Mavado and Popcaan - "Lighters Up" (Official Video)

Snoop Lion's newest video off of his Reincarnated album features the rapper-turned-reggae star blessing up with Dancehall heroes Mavado and Popcaan.
Noisey Staff
2.1.13
Motherboard Blog

The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz

Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss.
Claire L. Evans
2.1.13
BEYONCÉWATCH 2013

What is Beyoncé Gonna Sing at the Super Bowl on Sunday?

We fed a bunch of figures into a machine and came out with straight odds.
Jamieson Cox
2.1.13
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