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Quango - David Cameron's Brain Has Gone Bye Bye
Steve Hilton has gone to conquer the continent Oasis never could.
Gavin Haynes
3.13.12
Motherboard Blog

Who Would Shut Down Hipster Runoff? A Gchat with Carles
When I heard that Hipster Runoff had been hacked and shut down this morning, I was bummed, but I assumed that it would be back soon. I guessed that something straightforward, like a flood of traffic from a DDoS attack, had shut it down, and that the...
Derek Mead
3.13.12
Music

Find New Music Stashed In The Woods
Music label Really turn music distribution into a treasure hunt in the forest.
Kevin Holmes
3.13.12
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People Who Have Been Arrested Fewer Times than Rebekah Brooks
I guess this makes her pretty badass.
Glen Coco
3.13.12
the holy trinity issue

Records
There's a lot of music to be listened and not listened to this month (Dan Melchior and Bowerbirds, respectfully).
VICE Staff
3.13.12
Motherboard Blog

Dueling Banjo Tesla Coils
Really though, who doesn't love a good Tesla coil, capturing perfectly that sense of electricity-as-magic, or as some potentially malevolent natural force captured by brave men. Here's two giant ones, modulated in such a way as to be able to produce...
Michael Byrne
3.13.12
Tech

The First Viral Videos Wore Bikinis
And taught you calculus.
Derek Mead
3.13.12
Music

Memo Akten Creates Complex Patterns From Harmonic Motion
The visual artists explores how complex patterns arise from the interaction of multilayered rhythms.
Kevin Holmes
3.13.12
Motherboard Blog

William Shatner Spent the 80s Proselytizing for Vegetarianism
In this 1982 love letter to vegetarianism, William Shatner walks us through the history, benefits, and misconceptions of adhering to a vegetarian diet. Hokey? Oh yes. But it's also rather informative, including some early indications that shooting cows...
Ana Tiwathia
3.13.12
Tech

Surviving South by Southwest
SXSW isn’t all Shiner Bock and BBQ. It’s a lot of hard work, too. And tacos.
Sean Yeaton
3.13.12
diplo

Dillon Francis' Electrified Take On Moombahton
Pioneering a new style of dance music.
The Creators Project Staff
3.13.12
video

Dillon Francis
Jumping on a musical style while it's just emerging gives one the opportunity to shape it. In 2009, when the BPM rate of the world's dance music was either speeding up or going cut-time with dubstep variations, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/davenada...
The Creators Project
3.13.12
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