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What Song Would You Play to Aliens?

We can't play Will.i.am, he looks like a steampunk clown.
Phoebe Hurst, Rosie Parry
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch In Horror As Dumb Humans Accidentally Set an Endangered Orangutan On Fire

I've got a real soft spot for orangutans because they're orange and hairy and thus look kind of like me. The Bornean orangutans, one of two orangutan species, calls "Borneo":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo, an island off the coast of Indonesia...
Derek Mead
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

World of Warcraft Is No Longer Available In Iran, Thanks to U.S. Sanctions

The latest casualty of Iranian sanctions: The world's most famous MMORPG.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.29.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

How to Punch Out a Paparazzo

Socking a pap isn’t that hard. You too can be immortalized for punching some guy trying to take a photo of you, just like Sean Penn, Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, and Chris Martin, by following these five easy steps.
Brian Moylan
8.29.12
Music

We Interviewed Lunice from TNGHT

If you’ve ever heard music by TNGHT, aka the project of Glaswegian producer Hudson Mohawke and Canadian beat-thumper Lunice, you know it’s completely fucking insane.
Drew Millard
8.29.12
News

Mitt Romney Hates the Crazy Christians Too

Todd Akin and his ilk have the potential to link the Republican Party and the word "rape" permanently in the fickle minds of undecided voters. Romney's not thrilled about that.
James Poulos
8.29.12
News

Please Don't Go, Jordan

We'll miss you if your government bans us from your internet.
Joshua Haddow
8.29.12
Stuff

Pimp C and Raisin Brain Crunch Are Inextricable Parts of Reality

I don’t know how many people could pull off writing stories about R. Kelly and a guy cleaning up cat shit in the same book, but I do know that no one could do it with a more definitive style and poise than Timothy Sanders.
Blake Butler
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

The Smartphone of the Future Is You

"Cyborg" is a fluid term. It just means a biological something that's boosted by artificial enhancements of some kind, electronic or mechanical or robotic. So, the kid with the "3D printed exoskeleton":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/3d-printing...
Michael Byrne
8.29.12
motherboard show

Apocalypse Salad: Eating Jellyfish And Ants With Justin Warner For Science

This delicious salad could be your only hope for survival after the collapse of civilization
Sean Yeaton
8.29.12
Travel

Eat, Pray, Commit Mass Suicide

Mexico's "The Light of the World" Church has a strange way of treating its followers.
Photos by Alberto Rodríguez
8.29.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

Witness the Whiteness

America isn’t so white. But because the collective consciousness moves as fast and elegantly as you do jogging in a hot tub following diazepam and margaritas, whiteness remains understood as this abstract, almost-imaginary but deeply embedded dominant...
Kate Carraway
8.29.12
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