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Freak-Out Time for Swedish Psych

This is what music raised on an effective government health care system sounds like.
Shane Roeschlein
6.22.12
Motherboard Blog

If You Like Beer and Jetpacks, Pabst Blue Ribbon Has You Covered

“Rocketing a Pabst into space” sounds like one of those terrible euphemisms you tend to use when you want to only half-admit that you’re binge-drinking aggressively, and it is. But keep this in mind the next time you’re getting thunderpermed at a...
Derek Mead
6.22.12
Motherboard Blog

GOP Wants a "Drone Zone" to Extend 100 Miles From Every US Border

In the far-off Middle East, drones kill terrorists and people who happen to be standing next to terrorists. Here, they're on the rise as plane-shaped all-seeing eyes. So this should creep plenty of folks out: the GOP is proposing a bill that would...
Brian Merchant
6.22.12
Gaming

Environmental Station Alpha Is Everything We Like About Classic Video Games

Finnish developer Arvi “Hempuli” Teikari’s game has a retro feel, cool music, and good ol’ fashioned fun.
Abigail Laurel
6.22.12
Twitter

Even the Dead Have Klout

Ok, I've been messing around with Klout, the site that tries to tell me how much I matter and how much of a shit people could give about what I say on social networks. After posting a Klout-generated tweet, I quickly deleted it, realizing the implicite...
Daniel Stuckey
6.22.12
Fringes
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How To Sell Drugs

We learned the secrets of a big-time NYC drug dealer—from how his crew operates to where he gets his dope.
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Dublin Is a Paradise

A paradise for women. (Women who like to be dragged through the streets by strange men.)
Anthony Cronin
6.22.12
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: racist boyband blogger or iPad porn uncle?
Jamie Lee Taete
6.22.12
Art

A Pop Up Book And Digital Projection Tell The Story Of Nikola Tesla

Cyber-illusionist Marco Tempest delivers another winning TedTalk.
Kevin Holmes
6.22.12
Music

Journey Into The Audiovisual Hinterlands With Masako Tanaka And Oval

Anarchic visuals accompany the glitch music of Markus Popp for some digital dissolution.
Kevin Holmes
6.22.12
The Fiction Issue 2012

A Bird of Heat in Kino Bay

Our driver announced he had a copy of ‘Pájaro de Calor (Bird of Heat),’ the legendary literary artifact that is so rare it may as well not be real.
Diego Enrique Osorno
6.22.12
Sports

They Shoot Horses Full of Drugs, Don’t They?

Here are the ways to get a horse more juiced up than the starting lineup of the 1970s Oakland Raiders.
Barry Collins
6.22.12
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