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Art

A Car Gets Deconstructed Into Visual Data

Even the most dedicated car geek won’t recognize this abstracted automobile.
Kevin Holmes
4.23.12
Stuff

The Top Five Things YouTube Taught Me

To celebrate the launch of our new show, we thought we'd round up our favorite things about YouTube. For one, you can hear Steven Seagal saying crazy shit whenever you want.
Jamie Lee Taete
4.23.12
Music

Controlling A Song's Sequence With Vertically Arranged Shapes

Two designers in Bangalore created a controller that’s a lot more fun to look at.
Abdullah Saeed
4.23.12
Features

No Canada - Moduli TV Is The Best Channel On The Internet

Editor's Note: Next to Noisey's, that is.
Jesse Locke
4.23.12
animal collective

Animal Collective's Guggenheim Installation Transverse Temporal Gyrus Arrives On Your Headphones

Geologist of Animal Collective and software engineer Stephan Moore discuss how the installation transitioned to its new online hub. Plus, details on the limited-edition record release.
Abdullah Saeed
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

University of Florida Axed Its Computer Science Department (We're Not Joking)

In a mystifying budget decision, University of Florida has decided to get rid of its computer science department. The graduate and research programs have been eliminated completely and portions of the undergraduate program will be absorbed by other...
Ana Tiwathia
4.23.12
Kill the Engine

Hey, Hold My Beer

There's a saying that goes something like this: What do you usually hear just before somebody dies in the South? "Hey, hold my beer."
Michael Sieben
4.23.12
News

Filibustin' with Willie D - Servicing the Secret Service

The greatest responsibility of the Secret Service sex scandal lies with the two bum agents who disrespected the number one code of tricking: Pay up sucka!
Willie D
4.23.12
News

Filibustin' with Willie D - An Introduction

Until Willie D from the Geto Boys speaks on it, it hasn’t been spoken on.
Willie D
4.23.12
News

Syrian Slaughter Update - Week Eleven

The no-win life of the UN massacre monitor.
Henry Langston
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Is There Hope for Greentech?

Green tech, for better or worse, has always seemingly offered the promise of salvation. That's perhaps too weighty a promise, one that could very well be behind the movement’s failure to launch. In part, we’ve never fully accepted the _need_ for...
ALEC LIU
4.23.12
Film

Retro Educational Films Are Remembered In Where Things Came From

Before the internet, cheesy educational films were where British school kids learned the facts of life.
Kevin Holmes
4.23.12
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