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How Do You Feel About Chick-fil-A?

We know what everyone on the internet thinks about this, because they told us, but what about the normal people who go to Chick-fil-A to eat chicken? What do they think? We went to the only Chick-fil-A in New York City to ask around, but it was on the...
VICE Staff
7.27.12
News

Hanging Out at the Olympics Taxi Protest

Mitt Romney was there, along with Hooray Henries, irresponsible mothers and Olympic officials.
Simon Childs, Photos: Henry Langston
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch This Trailer: Holy Shit, "Cloud Atlas" Is Going to Be Insane

Tom Tykwer (_Run Lola Run_, _Perfume_), declared in 2009 that he and the Wachowskis (The Matrix Trilogy, _Bound_) were working on a screenplay to adapt the bestselling novel _Cloud Atlas_ by British author David Mitchell. Besides winning numerous...
Chris O'Coin
7.27.12
Stuff

This Gay Indie Sex Movie Isn't Really Porn, Even Though It Kind of Is

Travis Matthews' new movie depicts the gay creative class in San Francisco complete with light sweaters, thrift stores, regrettable tattoos, yearning to be a performance artist, and lots of angsty discussions about relationships. Oh, and there are...
Brian Moylan
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

With Two More Men HIV-Free, Are We Close to Curing AIDS?

Researchers are full of good news this week. Bookended by one study presented at the 19th Annual International AIDS Conference and another published in Nature showing significant progress towards a cure for HIV, the case of two American men who appear...
Adam Estes
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

This 1974 Secret Service Video about House Raids Shows a Quaint Time Before SWAT

Videodrome is Motherboard’s weekly look at the weird old archival footage lurking around the web. Check out old posts here. It’s Friday, which means it’s party time, right? Only problem is, sometimes you’re sitting there sucking back a ‘grita, with...
Derek Mead
7.27.12
Getting Fresh with Wilbert

Getting Fresh with Wilbert - Old School Ed Hardy Pimpin' Swag

Look at all those singles... That's how I used to ball out—in an Ed Hardy tee with some True Religion jeans and pocket full of Washingtons. Like you, I wasn't born stylin'. My mother's womb wasn't laced in Margiela. It took me years to get fresh!
Wilbert L. Cooper
7.27.12
Features

Have The Antlers Gone Seapunk??

'Undersea' marks a new creative direction for the heartstring-tugging trio.
Suze Olbrich
7.27.12
The Photo Issue 2012

Binocular Disparity

These photos hail from Simone Bergantini's "American Standard Remix" series. Simone created these images after buying a box of negatives from a junk store and overlapping two images of two different people to make a completely new picture.
Simone Bergantini
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Tweeting Bomb Threats Isn't Such a Big Deal After All

Paul Chambers off the hook after winning a U.K. High Court appeal against a 2010 conviction for — get this — tweeting. To be fair to the establishment, the tweet was in pretty bad taste. After showing up at the Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire on...
Adam Estes
7.27.12
News

Spoiler Alert: Pictures from the Olympics Opening Ceremony Rehearsal

Being a long-time armchair sports fan, I volunteered to work unpaid on the London 2012 team. It was the Games’ official slogan—“Inspire a Generation”—that convinced me. "I am that generation," I thought to myself. "So this must be my time!"
Paul Crane
7.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Music Is Louder and More Boring Than Ever, Says Math

How hard did that headline blow your mind? Imagine: music really is crappier now; you're not just turning more snobby. It's louder, not just because you're playing it louder because technology is making it much easier and cheaper to give yourself...
Michael Byrne
7.27.12
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