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Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users, Celebrates With Horrible Ad

Remember when you were in college and Facebook was this strange new thing that everybody was talking about? And then somebody would mention it in section, and the grad student TA would be all, “What’s this Facebook thing you kids are talking about...
Adam Clark Estes
10.4.12
The Mercy Rule

The Jets Are America's Team

The Cowboys aren't America's Team, though they're called that. The Jets, mediocre and unprepared like us, get that honor. That the team's owner wants a Mitt Romney win more than a Super Bowl is sad icing on the despair cake.
David Roth
10.4.12
Travel

That's Why They Call It a Relationshit

Breakups are usually shitty and sad-making, but the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia brings an entirely new perspective to the act of splitting up. After ending a four-year romance in 2003, artists Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić came up...
Tanja M. Laden
10.4.12
Design

Eye-Control Comes To Tablet Devices

In this demonstration the Docomo eye-control allows you to navigate a touchscreen using your eye.
Kevin Holmes
10.4.12
News

Lebanon: The New Wild, Wild East

Bank robberies are firmly back in fashion among the country's gangsters and terrorists.
Jo Fisher
10.4.12
Stuff

Postmodernism and the Difference Between Art and Garbage at Toronto's Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche is an annual art festival that transforms public spaces into temporary art galleries and encourages everyone to roam the city experiencing contemporary art in a non-traditional context until the sun comes up. In practice, however, Nuit...
Brad Casey and Sam Zaret
10.4.12
Features

The So So Glos Talk Britney And Brooklyn

The boys talk Brooklyn hometown pride and getting choked out by Britney Spears' entourage.
Aleks Eror
10.4.12
News

Romney Killed Big Bird and Barack Obama Last Night

And the population of America and the rest of the world bore witness to it.
Oscar Rickett, John Klingler
10.4.12
Art

Random International's Installation Makes It Rain Indoors, But You'll Never Get Wet

Random International’s Rain Room lets you walk through a downpour without getting soaked.
Kevin Holmes
10.4.12
Prolate Spheroid Preview

Why Aren't There Football Coaching Grad School Programs?

Coaches learn their extremely difficult, demanding, horrifically time-consuming jobs as they go along, picking up knowledge as they work. Why don’t NFL coaches just go to grad school to study football?
Harry Cheadle
Harry Cheadle and Sam Reiss
10.4.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch an Octopus Beat Up a Shark and Steal Its Lunch

So you’re sitting there watching all of these fish nibble away at an underwater baited camera setup like some peaceful screensaver from the 90s. Then a small shark starts to hang out. It’s not a scary shark, just a chill little dude looking for a snack...
Derek Mead
10.4.12
Photo

We Built This City on Drugs and Crusty Hippies

About a month ago Vito Fun made the pilgrimage to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to photograph all the dusty hooligans and pop-up village enthusiasts who gather there once a year. Vito was the perfect guy for us to send, as he's both a proponent of DIY...
VICE Staff
10.4.12
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