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Immaculate Telegraphy: Building a Stone Age Electronic Network

Today's the ninth anniversary of the Northeast blackout "that left around 55 million people in the dark":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003. I was comfortably nestled in Northern California back then, and honestly blackouts weren't...
Derek Mead
8.14.12
Question Of The Day

Do You Like the Police?

Are all coppers really bastards?
Phoebe Hurst
8.14.12
Music

Mom's Musical Corner

Rather than do what we normally do with 97% of our submissions (which is definitely not throw them in the trash), we thought, "Who better to review mom pop than a mom?"
VICE Staff
8.14.12
News

Paul Ryan, All-American Teenager

Hey, have you guys heard about this Paul Ryan character yet? He sure is divisive! Just a few short days after he was announced as Mitt Romney’s running mate he’s become one of the Top Things To Have An Opinion On. But I think we are being a bit too...
Harry Cheadle
8.14.12
Motherboard Blog

Global Warming Just Shut Down a Nuclear Reactor

So, thanks to record-breaking temperatures, more than half the nation's counties are in a declared state of emergency—drought and heat waves, as you're likely aware, have been the norm this summer. The hot-as-hell temps are wreaking all sorts of havoc...
Brian Merchant
8.14.12
Motherboard Blog

The Golden Gate Bridge Is at the Edge of Anti-Suicide Infrastructure

On its opening day in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge bore no protective barrier beyond railings. "This bridge needs neither praise, eulogy nor encomium," boomed engineer J. Strauss, who designed the bridge. "It speaks for itself. We who have labored long...
Brian Anderson
8.14.12
Tech

Olly Riley and the New UK Tween Twitterati

They're vain, inane, and attention seeking, and they're more famous than you'll ever be. But exactly who are they? I dipped my toe into the murky world of the Teenybopper Trolls to find out.
Clive Martin
8.14.12
Art

Feast Your Eyes On Atelier Olschinsky's Deconstructed Digital Illustrations

Architectural and abstract forms combine to remarkable effect.
Kevin Holmes
8.14.12
Noisey

Vybz Kartel - "My Crew" (Official Video)

This video was shot by Danilo Parra and VICE Global Editor Andy Capper, who told us they put this thing together on a budget of "like $200." They produced the video way out in the Portmore area of Kingston, Jamaica, a zone that Vybz and his crew have...
Noisey
8.14.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Bringing in the String Section with Michael Gira

Michael Gira is not known for making tepid, lightweight albums. Swans exudes a superhuman intensity. Even the band's recent reunion has transcended expectations.
Jordan N. Mamone
8.14.12
Motherboard Blog

What's the Air Force Doing With This $300 Million Hypersonic Missile?

When it comes to military aircraft technology, there's fast and then there's fast. The Air Force has lately been trying hard to redefine notions of speed and distance with its new hypersonic experimental aircraft, the X-51A Waverider. On...
Adam Estes
8.14.12
Travel

Berlin Story: Ramones Museum Versus Cafe Halford

The interior of Cafe Halford resembles less a cafe and more a rec-room I would have designed in my teenage fantasies when I was thirteen.
Al Burian
8.14.12
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