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Hey Big Companies, Data Are Actual Things That Take Up Space

“Digital sprawl” is guaranteed to lead to our doom.
SAM MCDOUGLE
5.2.12
Film

Peak Condition: A Raccoon And A Slice Of Toast Discuss Their Lives

This slice of toast sure is clever.
Kevin Holmes
5.2.12
Art

Photographer Captures An Underwater Dance Of Colors

Luka Klikovac’s light movements render incredible records of water-immersed colored fluids.
Fergs Heinzelmann
5.2.12
Music

VICE Premieres 2:54's new song "Creeping"

2:54 is "Creeping."
Kelly McClure
5.2.12
Film

High Tech, Low Life: Changing China's Attitude Towards Media

How two bloggers are responsible for the prodigious changes sweeping China’s media sphere.
An Xiao Mina
5.2.12
Music

Miss Jen's Music News Toots - Tori Amos Signs Some Weird Band

Includes actual talk of a Muffin Man.
Miss Jen
5.2.12
Sports

This Week in Balls - May 2, 2012

Racist hockey tweets, the Brooklyn Nets, the NFL draft, and more in the column with the biggest balls of them all.
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
5.2.12
Art

Grotte Stellaire: From Lascaux To The Palais De Tokyo

As part of the Triennale, Julien Salaud exhibits astral animals of all kinds.
Marwann Frikach
5.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Our $24 Billion Oil Rig: Why Are We Giving Giant Handouts to the World's Richest Companies?

Simply put, the continued existence of "oil subsidies":http://utopianist.com/2011/09/why-cant-we-kill-big-oil-subsidies/ amounts to one of the most obvious and enduring failures of American democracy. Hyperbole isn’t my thing. But I’ll stand by...
Brian Merchant
5.2.12
Film

Photomosaics Capture The Imagery Of Wong Kar-wai's Films

Experience the director’s colorful films in under a minute.
Erica Huang
5.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Newly-Discovered Caribbean Lizards Are Rad, But Also Probably Extinct

In the largest batch of species discovery since the early 1800s, a team of researchers from Penn State University recently identified, and named 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from the Caribbean Islands.
Lara Heintz
5.2.12
Design

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Designer Dominic Harris

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kevin Holmes
5.2.12
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