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Uploading Copyrighted Material in Japan Means Up to 10 Years in Jail
According to a new Japanese law that takes effect today, anyone who pirates music or films can be handed up to a two-year jail sentence and fines of up to 2 million yen (~$25,700).
Derek Mead
10.1.12
Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis

Your God Is Not Strong
If there were a god, and it felt mortal pain at the sin of blasphemy, it would be a vain and weak creature, unworthy of sympathy, let alone worship. When I wipe shit on the face of your god, I’m not doing it to your god—I’m doing it to you.
Warren Ellis
10.1.12
Stuff

Hey Everyone, There's a New AIDS!
It's called super gonorrhea and I super hate it because I'm gay. Blowjobs were the only thing I had left, and now I have to make people wear condoms to do that!?
Jamie Lee Taete
10.1.12
The Weird Science Issue

The Cat Offers Itself
While William S. Burroughs is increasingly regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, but his artistic genius is often overshadowed by tales of his outlaw lifestyle. Of all the wild stories in Burroughs’s life, the best (and...
Yony Leyser
10.1.12
Music

Last Week On Noisey
We totally interviewed the CEO of the Illuminati!
Joanna Fuertes Knight
10.1.12
Art

Robot Painter Turns Your Sleep Patterns Into An Abstract Portrait
Would this creep you the hell out?
Kevin Holmes
10.1.12
confessions of a male feminist

Rihanna Is Forcing Our Teens' Heads Over the Toilet Bowl
I'm no prude, but the Baja beauty is just too lewd for our daughters.
Logan Stuart
10.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Why JFK Loved Television (and Hated It)
Television had been lingering around the political scene for a few years before the first televised presidential candidate debate, on September 26, 1960. It was between Vice President Richard Nixon and the relatively unknown Irish-American senator John...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.1.12
Music

Get Lost In This Pleasantly Trippy Music Video
Ori Toor has created a molten mix of colour in this video for hip-hop group Kingdom Crumbs.
Kevin Holmes
10.1.12
Features

Dan Deacon On Politics And Pandas
The outspoken Baltimorean talks to us about everything from Obama to conspiracy theories to cannibalism.
Aleks Eror
10.1.12
News

The EDL Got Covered in Their Own Blood Again
They went to Walsall to protest against law-abiding Muslims by getting beat up by police.
Harvey McGinty
10.1.12
Photo

Manchester Issue Launch: September 2012
We're back, Manchester!
Chris Bethell
10.1.12
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