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Catapults and Jalapeños: The Ingenious Smuggling Tech of the World's Top Drug Kingpin
For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on...
Brian Anderson
6.18.12
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Goodbye Walking, Hello UNI-CUB
In the aisles of a Wal-Mart, I don't know what wrinkles my nose more, the little 8-year-old kid with the little wheels in his shoes, whizzing past me with a push-pop, or his parents that bought the damn things. Probably, they had little choice, upon...
Daniel Stuckey
6.18.12
Art

Original Creators: Thomas Wilfred, The Father Of Multimedia
The pioneer in audiovisual performances.
Mariana Rezende
6.18.12
shorties

Current Laments: Jerry Sandusky and Call Me Maybe
The zombie-apocalypse-mashup equivalent of newscaster blather, sensationalized soundbites, and sleazebags who should know better.
Nick denBoer
6.18.12
Fashion

We'll Be Talking About Our Fabulous Fashion Film on CNN Today
Charlet Duboc is going to be on CNN to talk about the only fashion week that a gang of terrorists keeps threatening to blow up.
VICE Staff
6.18.12
Motherboard Blog

The GZA/Neil deGrasse Tyson Hip Hop Collaboration Isn't Happening
h5. ^Image: "Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303640104577436392955009490.html^
At the end of last week the old Internet exploded with a lot of breathless excitement about how the GZA was...
Derek Mead
6.18.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Co-MVPs of Time Wasting
Baseball’s Rick Ankiel and GNOD.
Ben Johnson
6.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: China's First Female Taikonaut, Google Fights Terrorism, 'Active Defense' Against Hacking
Welcome back to Hot Links, Motherboard's weekly roundup of some of the coolest stories you missed from the weekend.
Derek Mead
6.18.12
News

Aung San Suu Kyi Finally Delivered Her Nobel Acceptance Speech
I went to Oslo to see it firsthand, and also to ask The Lady for a date.
Robert Wiener
6.18.12
Music

VICE Exclusive: Orca Team's "Night Moves" Video
Orca Team look so cool spitting black goo on each other.
VICE Staff
6.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Cats, Cocaine, and Currency: Inside the World of Ca$hcats.biz
"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls.
"Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background...
Abraham Riesman
6.18.12
Photo

What I Found at Work in May
People donate some weird stuff to charity shops.
Cynthia Munoz
6.18.12
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