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Hyped: The Week In Links 8/24
Busy week? Here are some things you may have missed.
Sami Sharaf
8.24.12
Motherboard Blog

How Twitter Became a Tyrant
In the beginning, Google was not going to be evil, Mark Zuckerberg said he cared about your privacy, and Twitter still dared to change the world, that curious abbreviated messaging platform that became “the SMS of the Internet.” The only rule - the...
ALEC LIU
8.24.12
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Channel 4's House Party
Tune in this evening for a very special one-off broadcast.
Noisey Staff
8.24.12
Music

We Saw This: Action Bronson, Flatbush Zombies, and Meyhem Lauren
As he’s evolved as a rapper, it’s become clear that Bronson is his own man. A former chef, his raps are largely concerned with culinary matters, as well as having lots of weird sex.
Drew Millard
8.24.12
Pen Pals

Depressed Mess
I might have some mild issues that resulted in some serious life problems, but I’m not like the depressed heads over in the crazy cell block. According to my sources, those guys are throwing piss, shit, and cum on the walls, they don't shower, and they...
Bert Burykill
8.24.12
FIGHTLAND

Family First?
"My gym is my family” is a classic trope in the world of MMA. It’s one of those lines that affords the hardscrabble fighting life some nobility, but it also means fighters who should be fighting each other don’t, and messes things up worse than an...
Josh Rosenblatt
8.24.12
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Stop Calling Fat Bill Fat, He Has a Complex Now
Fat Bill is a cinematographer who has shot some of the most memorable skateboarding of the past decade. He's also not that fat anymore, so if you see him please don't call him Fat Bill. He worked really hard to lose those extra pounds.
Chris Grosso
8.24.12
Motherboard Blog

At Least Ten Shot Outside Empire State Building
Friday morning, at about 9 A.M., a hostile ex-employee (or so "it's been tweeted":https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/238996649362456576 by police scanner eavesdroppers) started shooting at random, with at least 10 people injured (it's unclear how...
Daniel Stuckey
8.24.12
Motherboard Blog

How Pussy Riot Became P***y Riot: The FCC's Sexual Obscenity Rules Are Bullshit
When George Carlin released his famous monologue, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," in 1972, it didn’t include the word "pussy." Although his list didn’t reflect _all_ the words you couldn’t say on TV at the time, the ones he chose were...
Kelly Bourdet
8.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Can an iPhone App Uncloak the Super PACs?
By the time this election is through, billions of dollars will have been spent between the two presidential political campaigns—and the lion's share of that will be used to fund TV ads. Boring, obnoxious, terrible TV ads. And thanks to the glorious...
Brian Merchant
8.24.12
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Here She Is, Miss Holocaust Survivor 2012
Everyone loves Holocaust survivors and beauty pageants, so why hasn’t someone combined the two? That was the exact thought of Israeli charity Yad Ezer L’Haver (“Helping Hand”), which in late June held a competition in Haifa to crown a Miss Holocaust...
Jamie Clifton
8.24.12
Stuff

How to Conquer Notting Hill Carnival
Stay off the hard drugs, ignore Levi Roots and fuck the police.
Clive Martin
8.24.12
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