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Countdown to Eternity

This weekend the Scientologists accidentally sent their insiders-only magazine to my house. Oops. I am totally not supposed to have this. Here's what's inside.
C. Casey
9.21.12
Art

The Infinite Reflections Embedded In Lee Bul's Transformational Installations

Encounter a divine ideal through Lee Bul’s solo exhibition.
Hae Yoon
9.20.12
Film

Werner Herzog And Trevor Paglen Discuss Blasting Art Into Space To Amuse Aliens

This November, Paglen’s ambitious art project The Last Pictures—a collection of photographs etched into a silicon disk—will launch in space via a communications satellite.
Michelle Lhooq
9.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch DMX Struggle Mightily to Use a Computer

DMX is a scary dude who raps about necrophilia, smuggled heroin-soaked t-shirts in Jet Li movies, and is a really big fan of riding quads with chrome rims in urban environments. But one thing DMX _doesn't_ do is use computers. This video is incredible...
Derek Mead
9.20.12
Film

You And Five Facebook Friends Are The Subject Of This Bio-Tech Thriller

Using your Facebook profile, this trailer inserts you directly into the action of The Foundation.
Abdullah Saeed
9.20.12
Features

Worst Television Bands Ever

And no, the Monkees and the Partridge Family didn't make the list.
Jeff Ogiba
9.20.12
Design

Play Duck Hunt Using Twitter And High-Powered Nerf Guns

Philadelphia’s Neiman Labs revive a classic game, trading in the old Zapper for something a little more heavy duty.
Abdullah Saeed
9.20.12
Stuff

Look at Andrew Horn's 'Taint'

Andrew Horn is behind the “Gay Smutcore” zine called 'Taint,' which he produced during his transition from rampant junkie to sober artist and social good-doer.
Stephanie Maida
9.20.12
one hit wondering

Haddaway

What if we've always brushed aside Haddaway's hit "What Is Love" as a cheesy 90s techno pop tune, but in truth, it's the most thought-provoking ballad of our time?
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
9.20.12
New music

RL Grime - "FLOOD" Free Download

The world craves more RL, and they're not going to find what they need in the pages of a Scholastic catalog.
Abdullah Saeed
9.20.12
Motherboard Blog

What It Takes To Really, Truly Understand Weather on Earth: Art

Perhaps chalk it up to lack of caffeine, but I've spent a cool 30 minutes here trying to think of a good metaphor or statistic that might point to how insanely complex weather on Earth is -- the near-infinitely vast number of variables and interactions...
Michael Byrne
9.20.12
Tech

Uh-oh, the Rise of the Machines Is for Realsies

Rich Terrile, the NASA scientist who told us we were all Sims in a video game, fucked our brain folds again by explaining how human beings are outdated and will soon merge with machines to become a robotic race.
Ben Makuch
9.20.12
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