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Myspace Wants to Be Pintumblfacergramify

Oh my, have you seen MySpace's fresh promo video? I think the veteran social network is finally sick of 187th place on the Internet. Now, the site is offering something I don't think many other networks have planned or thought of. Myspace is placing...
Daniel Stuckey
9.26.12
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The Rise of Eco Drones Among America's Crunchiest Federal Agencies

Here's one to add to the so-called Triple D (dull - dirty - dangerous) drone rationale: Dam.Researchers with the U.S. Geologic Survey, the Federal Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service are utilizing small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS...
Brian Anderson
9.26.12
Music

Spires That in the Sunset Rise Sent Me Popcorn

Nothing has potential to make you feel more like an asshole than begging for snacks on the internet, and being sent the snack you begged for by, not some douche that you would take pleasure in shoving your hands in the pockets of, but a band so...
Kelly McClure
9.26.12
Music

We Talked to Lil B in Toronto About Reincarnation

It was surprising to hang with a rapper who literally tells you he loves you the first time you meet him, but it's not every day that you get to hang with a split-personality internet rapper like Brandon McCartney.
Patrick McGuire and Holly MacKenzie
9.26.12
Music

Jeremy Forrest, The Pupil-Loving Runaway Teacher, Is a Singer

So we reviewed his creepy music.
Clive Martin
9.26.12
Music

My Head Exploded and Now I Understand Noise Music

Exploding Head Syndrome doesn't have the volume of, say, a My Bloody Valentine show, which is noise you experience as vibrations traveling through the air and hitting your eardrum—this is sound as an internal, hallucinatory specter that bypasses the...
Jeremy D. Larson
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Navigate the Country's Most Famous Cemetery With a New App

Some of the most powerful images in the United States come from the clean white rows of headstones in Arlington National Cemetery. But as haunting and pride-inducing those "'gardens of stone'":http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Image.aspx?ID=2814e6f8-48b...
Derek Mead
9.26.12
Tech

iPhone 5 Pain Olympics

It feels like people deciding to destroy their iPhones despite people tsk-tsking at the wanton excess could at this point emulate a Second Amendment discussion.
Daniel Stuckey
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Humans Should Have Universal Access to Energy by 2030, the UN Says

The United Nations thinks that universal access to "sustainable" energy can be achieved in less than 20 years. That would mean that everyone on earth would be plugged in to clean-skewing electricity sources by 2030. Seeing as how there are some 1....
Brian Merchant
9.26.12
Music

Why Rap Music Sucks When You Have a Broken Heart

Once you get cheated on, you can never listen to Meek Mill again.
Ernest Baker
9.26.12
Pen Pals

I Saw an Inmate Get Struck by Lightning Through the Phone

The sky got crazy, there was a sonic boom and a MEGA flash of light—from across the room I saw Black sprint 20 feet while holding his underarm/heart area. He slowed down, turned around, stumbled back ten or 15 feet stuttering, “It hurts, it burns,” and...
Bert Burykill
9.26.12
New music

Red Fang - "Crows In Swine" Premiere!

A crunchy heavy-hitter that will get you through Hump Day by knocking you out until the weekend.
Noisey Staff
9.26.12
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