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Manson Family Values

Artist and Designer Justin Blyth seems to have taken one too many acid tabs and is now lost on some sort of motorcycle tour lead by Timothy Leary of the weirdest parts of 1970s Los Angeles. And we are all better for it. Check out a sneak peek of his...
Robert Foster
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

In Laos, Cronyism Is Fueling Illegal Logging With Little Payoff

Laos is a small, mountainous, landlocked country that's ruled by one of the few one-party communist regimes left in the world. That's not normally a recipe for economic success, and the Southeast Asian country ranks near the bottom of the world for per...
Derek Mead
9.26.12
VICE News

The Mexican Mormon War

The cartels of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, are at war with a group of Mormons, some of whom are related to Mitt Romney.
Shane Smith
VICE Staff
9.26.12
Tech

MySpace Is Starting from Scratch, but Do We Want Our Old Profiles Back?

I decided to summon up a World Wide Ouija Board and visit the ghost of my teenage self to see what I like about him and what I really don't.
Clive Martin
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Rent-to-Own Laptops Recorded Keystrokes, Filmed Sex Acts

Renting things is always a bit of a gamble. What if you rent a car and the previous renter left an ounce of weed in the glovebox? That's not going to go over too well when you're reaching for the registration at a routine traffic stop. And how about a...
Adam Estes
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Here Come the Gangnam Robots

At last weekend's Beijing's College Student Robotics Competition, some 300 people from 99 teams from across China and Taiwan "showed off robots":http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/robots-do-a-little-dance-make-a-little-love that could play five-a-side...
ALEX PASTERNACK
9.26.12
News

Is Central Asia on the Verge of a Water War?

A new kind of conflict is rising in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that could eventually lead to the first water war of the 21st century.
Ben Makuch
9.26.12
News

When the Spanish Tried to Occupy their Parliament

Thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid yesterday, all pissed to the point of combustion about the cataclysm of shittiness that has dominated Spain for the last year.
Paul Geddis, Photos: Felipe Hernández Durán
9.26.12
Stuff

My Methadone Clinic is the Happiest Place on Earth

Being a full time drug addict comes with insanity of course, but getting off drugs can be pretty gnarly too.
Andrew Horn
9.26.12
Features

Are You A Person In A Position To Know Michael Dixon's Hand-Cut Vinyl?

The high school teacher handcrafted This Frontier Needs Heroes' pyramid-shaped eight-inch single for "2012."
Noisey Staff
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Google Street View Now Goes Underwater

It's happened to everyone. You're walking around a coastal town using Google Maps to navigate your way from one sandy street to another. (Clearly, you're not an iPhone 5 user.) Then, maybe you head down to the beach to check out the sand castles and...
Adam Estes
9.26.12
Music

The "No Homo" Fantasy That Is One Direction

Somewhere along the line during Western society’s postwar transition into a media-based culture it somehow became an acceptable part of its coming of age rituals that pubescent girls of each generation would become obsessed en masse with the same...
Miles Raymer
9.26.12
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