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I Asked My Dad, Who Has Dementia, to Annotate Jonathan Franzen’s ‘How to Be Alone’
When my father lost his memory to dementia, everything in the house around him became new. He often can’t remember how sitting in a chair traditionally works, but turning the chair upside down makes total sense. The rugs aren’t floor coverings any more...
Blake Butler
10.18.12
Tech

Perverted Video Games from the 80s
The library of games available for the Atari 2600 include a lot of pervy, digital adventures.
Gregory Pike
10.18.12
Prolate Spheroid Preview

There Aren’t Any Good NFL Teams This Year
“How about parity in the NFL?” a man says to another man as they sit on a park bench and watch the traffic in the distance. “Yes, parity,” the second man says. How can he put the love he feels for his friend into words? He can't. So he talks instead...
Harry Cheadle
Harry Cheadle and Sam Reiss
10.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Yes, the World's Fastest Stroller Can Do Burnouts
Colin Furze is, according to his probably self-written "Wikipedia page":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Furze, a plumber, stuntman and filmmaker from Stamford, England, who also has an obsession with posting YouTube videos of himself hauling ass on...
Derek Mead
10.18.12
Design

A Trampoline Bridge Is Just So Much Better Than A Regular Bridge
A French architecture firm has come up with the best method we have seen yet for crossing a river.
Abdullah Saeed
10.18.12
FIGHTLAND

Weightless History
MMA is so new that it’s unhaunted by the nightmare of history. There are no curses in the sport, no doomed fighters, nor tragic figures with hexes placed on them or their ancestors. And when the better fighter wins, the crowd moves on.
Josh Rosenblatt
10.18.12
Motherboard Blog

In Hengxi, China, Deer Blood Is a Youth Potion
Put this in your holy grail: Deer blood. But markedly the blood of young sika deer, which people are spending their holidays traveling to a rural town in China to get a sip. Hengxi is home of a backwoods deer farm started by a man, Mr. Yang, who with...
Daniel Stuckey
10.18.12
Tech

Killing in the Name of
That one time Shoko Asahara and his ruthless Japanese cult, Aum Shinrikyo, planned on splitting the Earth in half with a Tesla death ray.
Jake Hanrahan
10.18.12
shorties

We Gave Bullshit E-meter Readings to Complete Strangers
The Hubbard Electrometer, more commonly known as the E-meter, is a "religious artifact" used to measure the state of electrical characteristics in the static field surrounding the body. E-meters operate in a similar fashion to lie detectors, relying on...
Rocco Castoro
10.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Congratulations, America. You Believe in Climate Change Again
Congratulations, America. You have finally rejoined the rest of the world in generally agreeing that an accumulation of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere is causing the globe to warm. Yes, America believes in climate change again. It only took a...
Brian Merchant
10.18.12
Features

Die Antwoord and Lady Gaga Are Beefing Over The "Fatty Boom Boom" Video
U mad, bro?
Noisey Staff
10.18.12
New music

Placebo: "B3" Video
This is the musical equivalent of sticking your hand into a bowl of cold spaghetti.
Drew Millard
10.18.12
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