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The Less Crappy Referees Are Back

What happened last week in sports? The fake football referees really blew it, so the real referees returned. Some baseball teams made the playoffs, and a hockey player got real emotional on Twitter.
Walter Peyton Place
Sports Staff
10.1.12
Dogmageddon

A God-Awful Small Affair

One of these days, we're going to find evidence of life on another planet. When that happens, how will the world's religions react? Will they rethink the theory that humans are “God's chosen people”? Or will they try to discredit the discovery as...
Rick Paulas
10.1.12
Motherboard Blog

To Unclog the Patent System, the Patent Office Says Yes to Crowdsourcing

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has initiated a program to allow third parties to weigh in on the patent application process. Under the new system, third parties can submit evidence of prior art to squelch frivolous patent...
Michael Byrne
10.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Uploading Copyrighted Material in Japan Means Up to 10 Years in Jail

According to a new Japanese law that takes effect today, anyone who pirates music or films can be handed up to a two-year jail sentence and fines of up to 2 million yen (~$25,700).
Derek Mead
10.1.12
Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis

Your God Is Not Strong

If there were a god, and it felt mortal pain at the sin of blasphemy, it would be a vain and weak creature, unworthy of sympathy, let alone worship. When I wipe shit on the face of your god, I’m not doing it to your god—I’m doing it to you.
Warren Ellis
10.1.12
Stuff

Hey Everyone, There's a New AIDS!

It's called super gonorrhea and I super hate it because I'm gay. Blowjobs were the only thing I had left, and now I have to make people wear condoms to do that!?
Jamie Lee Taete
10.1.12
The Weird Science Issue

The Cat Offers Itself

While William S. Burroughs is increasingly regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, but his artistic genius is often overshadowed by tales of his outlaw lifestyle. Of all the wild stories in Burroughs’s life, the best (and...
Yony Leyser
10.1.12
Music

Last Week On Noisey

We totally interviewed the CEO of the Illuminati!
Joanna Fuertes Knight
10.1.12
Art

Robot Painter Turns Your Sleep Patterns Into An Abstract Portrait

Would this creep you the hell out?
Kevin Holmes
10.1.12
confessions of a male feminist

Rihanna Is Forcing Our Teens' Heads Over the Toilet Bowl

I'm no prude, but the Baja beauty is just too lewd for our daughters.
Logan Stuart
10.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Why JFK Loved Television (and Hated It)

Television had been lingering around the political scene for a few years before the first televised presidential candidate debate, on September 26, 1960. It was between Vice President Richard Nixon and the relatively unknown Irish-American senator John...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.1.12
Music

Get Lost In This Pleasantly Trippy Music Video

Ori Toor has created a molten mix of colour in this video for hip-hop group Kingdom Crumbs.
Kevin Holmes
10.1.12
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