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Google Street View Goes To the Weirdest Places
When your grandparents were young and curious and eager to see the world, they had to join the Navy. Today, you can just go to Google. Now five years old, Google Street View is an endless source of fun and adventure. Sure, there are the serendipitous...
Adam Estes
8.23.12
Stuff

The Middle Classes Have Seized Control of Our Slang
And it's destroying the English language.
Clive Martin
8.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Mitt Romney Will Be Our Oil King, So Help Him God
Mitt Romney may not know a hell of a lot about energy, but he does remember that people seemed to enjoy raising their fists into the air and yelling the words 'Drill, Baby, Drill.' He'd always wished that he could be onstage at one those rallies; those...
Brian Merchant
8.23.12
Noisey Blog

Pete Samples - "Break Up"
Is audio porn even possible?
Ryan Bassil
8.23.12
Music

The New #Fan #Armies of Twitter
Ever since Elvis’s earliest gyrations in the 1950s, pop music has turned impressionable adolescents into screaming, crying, snotting psychopaths. Today is no different, except that the fans are fatter and they congregate on Twitter.
Stephanie Maida
8.23.12
New music

Quicksand Reunion Includes Kickass Performance On Fallon
The NYC 90's band made it worth the wait.
Noisey Staff
8.23.12
Design

Plus Pool Is A Floating Swimming Pool That Cleans New York's Rivers
Meet the guys behind Plus Pool, a floating, river-filtering watersports fun zone in Motherboard TV’s new series Futurestructures.
Sean Yeaton
8.23.12
Motherboard Blog

The Wiki Weapon Project Promises A 3D-Printed Handgun For Everyone
The 3D-printing gun enthusiasts are at it again coming up with master plans to democratize weapons manufacturing, and this time, they're doing it in the name of the First Amendment. That's right. The Second Amendment is important too, but if you listen...
Adam Estes
8.23.12
Stuff

I Taught a Grown Man How to Ride a Bike
When my friend (and VICE writer) Clive told me that, despite being a grown man, he couldn’t ride a bike, I decided to step in and help him (by embarrassing him in this blog post).
Oscar Rickett
8.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Pennsylvania's 'Godfather of Copper' Arrested After Accomplice Electrocuted Himself
It always feels kinda weird saying it, but copper theft is a huge problem in the United States. Scrap copper is worth "around three bucks a pound":http://www.scrapmonster.com/scrap-prices/scrap-metals/-2-Copper-scraps/19/1/1 right now, which means that...
Derek Mead
8.23.12
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll

Clitoral Gel and Coke
While the gentle stuff felt burning in a good way, the Max O burned in an "oh fuck do I need to get tested?" way. It felt like my pussy had smoked a menthol cigarette.
Sophie Saint Thomas
8.23.12
Stuff

How to Pay Your Student Loans Without Actually Paying Them
Pay attention, poor bastards, and you'll never have to pay a dime for being swindled into your expensive over-education. Go ahead and default, you fiscally irresponsible renegade.
Shane Danaher
8.23.12
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