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All Your Data Are Belong to Extremely Inefficient Server Farms

I have at least eight different emails, most of which I never use, but they've all got gigabytes of storage that's slowly filling up all the time. For $25 a year, Flickr stores as many gigabytes of photographs I can produce. Meanwhile, for the small...
Derek Mead
9.24.12
Art

Barcelona's Most Famous Building, Sagrada Familia, Gets Spectacularly Illuminated

Moment Factory projection map the complicated surface of Gaudí’s famous church.
Kevin Holmes
9.24.12
Marshall Headphones: On The Road - BRANDED

On The Road: Season 3 - Trailer

Heavy metal thunder’s gonna reign.
VICE Staff
9.24.12
Motherboard Blog

The World's Cities Are Set To Grow Explosively and Maybe That's Not a Bad Thing

A study published last week in "the journal":http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/11/1211658109 of the National Academy of Sciences forecasts massive global urbanization between now and 2030. Researchers estimate total expansion of the planet's...
Mclean Gordon
9.24.12
Wide World of Balls

Scabbarhea

Replacement referees continue lousing everything up, a baseball dude recuses himself from the batting title, no NHL, and Detlef Schrempf likes country music.
Lou Doggs
9.24.12
Stuff

Sometimes You Feel Like a Peen, Sometimes You Don't

Because we have now officially entered fall, the season in which my slut clock points to high noon, here is a run down of the top five peens I'd touch with my bare hands in a sensual way.
Kelly McClure
9.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Can You Spot the Baby Panda in These Videos? (Update!)

Last week at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to her first cub "in seven years":http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/09/a-panda-cub-a-panda-cub-mei-xiang-gave-birth/. The little guy, who won't be named...
Derek Mead
9.24.12
Motherboard Blog

The Foxconn "iPhone Riot" Was Just One Of Hundreds in China Today

There's no word yet on how many fights broke out over the new iPhone at shops around the world over the weekend between eager customers or "Apple and Samsung":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444032404578007862126166322.html?mod=googlenews...
Daniel Stuckey
9.24.12
Music

VICE Exclusive: Oreo Jones' "No Coast" Video

If you happened to catch this month's album reviews, you may have noticed that Oreo Jones got his 'Betty' review hijacked. We felt bad, so we're premiering his new video.
VICE Staff
9.24.12
Dogmageddon

Take Jesus's Wife, Please


The tale of finding the ancient papyrus at Smithsonian is window-dressing to the actual narrative embedded throughout: the sexism of Christianity.
Rick Paulas
9.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Finland is Now Crowd-Sourcing New Laws Online

Iceland crowd-sourced its new constitution. The U.K. government lets online petitioners get their proposals heard (kind of maybe) if they can collect 100,000 upvotes. But Finland just might have taken the longest stride yet into the great e-democracy...
Brian Merchant
9.24.12
Travel

Mass Exorcism in Cairo

Saliva cocktails ease the pain in Cairo's Mass Exorcisms.
Omar H. Rahman
9.24.12
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