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Vermin Supreme Is Still Running For President, So Ponies For Everybody
Vermin Supreme, everyone's favorite OG meme and experimenter in boot fashion, has announced he's still running for president, according to this video from conservative muckraking site The Blaze. I believe he's running on a platform of outright honesty...
Derek Mead
9.6.12
News

Road Trip Chaos: What Does Boston Think of Mitt Romney?
I trolled around the Boston with Newsweek/The Daily Beast correspondent Eli Lake and we met a drag queen who wouldn't "suck Mitt Romney's dick for all the money in the world."
Rocco Castoro
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Jimmy Wales Won't Stand For the UK's Internet Tracking Bill
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is not too pleased with Parliament at the moment. British lawmakers are currently considering a bill known colloquially as the "snooper's charter" that would track the Internet usage, texting habits and email...
Adam Estes
9.6.12
Fashion

Ice-T Caught Me in Coco’s Dressing Room at Her NYFW Show
I went to the debut show for Coco's line Licious. The clothes were good, the vibe was super fun, and by the end of the night I found myself backstage in Coco’s dressing room getting the stankiest of all stink eyes from my pimp hero, Ice-T.
Wilbert L. Cooper
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Your Data Is Safer With Facebook Than Washington
We all know the internet is a terrifying place. Careers hang in the balance based on unsavory Tweets. People film themselves playing covers of “Call me Maybe”. Rock-a-fire Explosion exists. But aside from individual pratfalls, and mind-blowing acts of...
Michael Wertheim
9.6.12
Features

We Chatted With Örvar Of Múm About Their Compilation Album, 'Early Birds'
Múm may have a short attention span, but they don't let it take away from their impressive productivity.
Tess Duncan
9.6.12
Stuff

What Kids Say About Their Town
I ricocheted between my divorced parents, both of whom were gadabout grifters, so I grew up all over this country and others. It made for a lot of social anxiety in a child, but I understood that different people do things differently, and it’s all...
Lisa Carver
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Want to Learn New Things? Go to Sleep
Much of the animal training you see, whether it's at SeaWorld or at a puppy class, is rooted in classical conditioning, the kind of training Pavlov demonstrated when he showed that dogs can be made to salivate at the sound of a bell that repeatedly...
ANNA JANE GROSSMAN
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Future Sex: Should Sex Offenders Be Chemically Castrated?
There’s been an unexpected spike in castration-related news this week. I suppose that _any_ news would constitute a spike, but still, there’s an unprecedented two breaking news stories involving chemical castration. In South Korea, following the...
Kelly Bourdet
9.6.12
Motherboard Blog

America Secretly Tried to Destroy Totalitarianism With Pigeons
B.F. Skinner, the psychologist and social philosopher, had an idea about how to bring about world peace. It involved teaching pigeons to guide missiles.
ANNA JANE GROSSMAN
9.6.12
News

London Met's Foreign Students Think the Government Is Racist
They told us at the protest they held in London yesterday.
Clive Martin
9.6.12
New music

ABADABAD: "The Wild" EP Stream
For a slice of never-ending summer, look no further.
Noisey Staff
9.6.12
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