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All Hail the Wizards of Sludge

Black Sabbath dropped "Black Sabbath" 42 years ago today.
Brian Anderson
2.13.12
Stuff

Johnny Knoxville and the Mousetrapped Penis

Johnny told us about that one time some guy at a bar put his dick and balls into a mousetrap.
VICE Staff
2.13.12
Burn Studios

Casablanca Reworks Remix Contest

Burn Studios has brought together two of the world's most exciting labels in electronic music, Casablanca and Gomma, and are looking for budding DJs to remix a track off of the freshly minted Casablanca Reworks EP.
VICE Staff
2.13.12
Motherboard Blog

Beware, Crazy Eddie Has Gone Computer Crazy

For nearly 20 years, from 1971 to 1989, Crazy Eddie was one of New York-and-beyond's computer retailer powerhouses, Best Buy before Best Buy. Odds are if you bought an Atari video game around the time of the above commercial, 1981, it came from the...
Michael Byrne
2.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Never Forget the Space Monkeys That Made It All Possible

Humans have had their sights set on visiting the stars for millennia, but we weren’t the first Earthlings to leave the confines of our planet. Before we grew the cojones to actually strap ourselves to our massive space-bound rockets, we enlisted some...
JORDAN KEENAN
2.12.12
Facebook

The Alternate-Reality Facebook That Almost Happened

Just imagine if Harvard officials hadn't been so worried about things like privacy and transparency.
Abraham Riesman
2.12.12
Comics!

Jobs' Globs

Apple's technological achievements can be traced to an alien Steve Jobs brutally raped many years ago.
Johnny Ryan
2.12.12
Design

Man And Nature Collaborate To Create Crystalized Project

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka harnesses the beauty of natural crystals.
Xue Tan
2.11.12
NSFW

American Ecstasy - A Chat About Porn with Barbara Nitke

Photographer Barbara Nitke began taking stills on porn sets. Her images reveal the human side of people often written-off as piss drinking, monsters in leather masks.
Karley Sciortino
2.10.12
Motherboard Blog

Peace Is Every Dubstep: Meet the Deprivation Chamber Instrument That Will Chill TED Out

Music has been central to meditation for thousands of years, in part because it helps "chill people out":http://news.health.com/2010/03/19/music-soothes-anxiety-as-well-as-massage-does/. But the artist and technologist Jay Vidyarthi is trying to flip...
Lara Heintz
2.10.12
Music

Hallucinogenic Animation For Machinedrum's Remix Of "Eyes Down"

Anthony Francisco Sheppard creates another gem for Ninja Tune.
Abdullah Saeed
2.10.12
News

Hard Times for Boehner

If times are good, Boehner must remain apocalyptic. If he doesn't, he will become a stranger to his base, an imposter in a technicolor weeping suit.
Randolph Brickey
2.10.12
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