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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
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
Features

Have The Antlers Gone Seapunk??
'Undersea' marks a new creative direction for the heartstring-tugging trio.
Suze Olbrich
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
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
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

The Latest Trend at Facebook: Mediocrity
Sometimes it seems like everybody on Wall Street wants Facebook to fail as a public company. After the company's meteoric rise from a dorm room vanity project to a $104 billion company in just eight years, it seemed like nothing could stop Facebook...
Adam Estes
7.27.12
Stuff

Fuck Fuzzy Elitism
When will these body-hair evangelists, citing feminism as their cause (so blasphemous!), realize that being a fascist about fuzz doesn't make them Valerie Solanas? It makes them insecure screaming tyrants.
Lucy Grace
Eve Willis
7.27.12
Stuff

I Was a Corporate Tobacco Peddler
You know that reoccurring dream you get where you feel so heavy and you’re trying to move or run but you’re not getting anywhere? And you scream for help, but your voice doesn’t make a sound? And everything is dark? That’s what it was like working at...
Angelina Fanous
7.27.12
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