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Watch Three Decades of Presidential Candidates Accept Their Nomination
C-SPAN has dutifully broadcasted the minutia of federal politics since it launched in 1979. It's captured every aphorism-laden speech, every empty promise delivered, every dull argument, and every acceptance speech from the two major parties...
Brian Merchant
8.28.12
News

The Wacky World of the Republican Party Platform
The GOP let ordinary people submit policy ideas to be considered for the platform this time around. A lot of them are terrifying, some of them are smart, some are funny, and none of them will matter in the end.
Harry Cheadle
8.28.12
Music

Pranking Glenn Danzig
I never intended to hurt Glenn Danzig, he who has done so much to spread the joy and majesty of our dark overlord Satan and his sacraments — wolf’s blood, black leather and necrophilia-themed pop-punk music.
Randy Trammell
8.28.12
Sports

It’s Good for My Pockets That the Red Sox Suck
The Red Sox will finish in the cellar, and though watching them lose is worse than listening to white funk, the silver lining for die-hard fans like me is that now that they won’t be getting me to spend entire paychecks on commemorative garbage, like...
Nathan Simpson
8.28.12
Stuff

The Black Market Diplomat to Liberia
There aren’t really secret meetings in the dark where yellow-toothed, pot-bellied murderers hand over blood diamonds to diplomats after selling their enslaved wives to Islamic leaders, right? Sad news: it’s all real, and 'The Ambassador' has the...
Liz Armstrong
8.28.12
New music

Listen To WIN WIN's New Single, "Salt Days +"
A rollicking, indie-electro anthem from their upcoming record, 'Double Vision.'
Benjamin Shapiro
8.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Smoking a Ton of Weed as a Teenager Probably Makes You a Dumb(er) Adult
Are you kind of an idiot? Did you own more than two named bongs as a teenager? Have you ever smoked weed out of an apple procured from a high school lunchroom? Well then, the _Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ has a "brand new study...
Michael Byrne
8.28.12
Motherboard Blog

The 60-Year Rise of IBM's Immortal Mainframe
The very term "mainframe computers" brings to mind data scientists in lab coats shuffling punch cards and smoking cigarettes, but don't let that get to you. Despite decades of technology evangelists calling for the death of the ancient mainframe...
Adam Estes
8.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution
Despite the best efforts of Republicans in Congress, the U.S. military really "wants biofuels":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/28/the-navy-wants-biofuels-but-congress-won-t-let-it-have-them--2. If the Pentagon ever gets its way, that kind of massive...
Derek Mead
8.28.12
videos

How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution
The biofuel industry has come a long way from filtering and burning old grease, with cellulosic and algal fuels that are miles more high tech than grease or fermented corn.
Derek Mead
8.28.12
New music

Eating Out - "Burn" (Official Premiere)
Relive your favorite 90s high school stereotypes with the debut video from the Canadian pop-punk supergroup. (Cool kids only.)
Noisey Staff
8.28.12
Music

VICE Premieres: "Stampede of Savings" by Gaytheist
Your mom, your daddy, and that one person you like from the grocery store? They're all gaytheists. Oh, and you are too for that matter.
VICE Staff
8.28.12
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