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Vintage Digital Photos Are Awesome, Even If They're Bad

After half a decade and three continents, I've decided to retire my trusty old DSLR body and pick up something new and fancy. As such, I've been spending a lot of time lurking around photo forums, first to gawk at specs and now to try to glean some...
Derek Mead
4.25.12
Music

In the Mix with Karl Blau - Steal Some Music the Old-Fashioned Way

Wait till songs get old and then harvest them like grain.
Karl Blau
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Please Understand That Vitamin Supplements Are Generally Not Good For Anything But Making Money

Here is a thing you might not have known: bombing your body with antioxidants is almost certainly not good. This is not the dominant narrative in the year 2012; "good source of antioxidants" is a food/nutrition industry mantra. Superfoods, innit. Free...
Michael Byrne
4.25.12
Art

Pink Cloud Lets You Virtually Dye Fabric

Korean creative computing group everyware channels the tradition of fabric dyeing in an interactive installation.
Abdullah Saeed
4.25.12
Stuff

I Would Totally Be a Somali Pirate

We talked to Cutter Hodierne about his short "Fishing Without Nets," which helped me realize I’d be jacking cargo ships left and right if I lived in a shitty place like Somalia.
Wilbert L. Cooper
4.25.12
Stuff

Cormac McCarthy Vs. Three 6 Mafia

McCarthy won a Pulitzer, Three 6 got an Oscar. Both have ten major primary works spanning several decades, and both like talking about guns and blood and alcohol. This is going to be close.
Blake Butler
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Utter Loneliness At 52 Hertz

To the watcher’s eye, “Iceberg,” the white male orca recently sighted in waters off the coast of eastern Russia that's believed to be the first adult of its kind observed in the wild, conjures up the legendary brute of Ahab’s undoing. But all freak...
Brian Anderson
4.25.12
Art

A 24-Hour Panorama Of Planet Earth

Chris Kotsiopoulos stitches together almost 600 pictures to create a visualization of planet Earth.
Alexander Pack
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Jay-Z's Euro-punk Future Cost Him At Least $1.15 Million

Four years ago this week, the value of the euro reached an all-time high against the U.S. dollar: $1.594 to €1. Jay-Z — then as now a businessman as well as a business, man — must have seemed to all observers something rarer still. Namely, a successful
JONATHAN LIU
4.25.12
Motherboard Blog

Inside the Pocket-Sized, Dystopian Internet of North Korea

Conventional wisdom never gets you very far when you’re trying to understand the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Take, for example, the bizarre, self-contained universe that is the North Korean internet.In the past few weeks, there’s been a...
Abraham Riesman
4.25.12
New music

Welcome to New Music

We thought music websites were boring, so we started our own.
Noisey Staff
4.25.12
Features

Welcome to Features

Here are some articles for you to read. Don't call them blogs.
Noisey Staff
4.25.12
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