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Watch This Trailer: Ridley Scott's Aliens are Back in "Prometheus"
Is there anyone out there who isn't excited for _Prometheus_? Is there anyone out there who is hoping against hope that Ridley Scott has reclaimed his sci-fi throne in order to bless us with a bountiful return to the genre that defined him and that he...
Chris O'Coin
3.1.12
Music

Byte The App: Must See Apps Of The Week 3/1
Create pixel art with a new app from eBoy, dive from skyscrapers and spray paint buildings in AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!, turn your photos into abstract compositions, curate an offline reading list, and relive playing music on a Hi-Fi.
Kevin Holmes
3.1.12
Stuff

A Bloody (and Belated) Black History Lesson
Gather 'round for the story of Nat Turner and his glorious white people massacre of 1831.
Wilbert L. Cooper
3.1.12
Music

Logging On to the Dark Carnival
Internet dating - Juggalo style.
Tommy Lucente
Scotty Smalls
3.1.12
Motherboard Blog

Why All Politicians Have the Same Haircut
I was enjoying a goofball movie called _Spork_ -- worth watching for the soundtrack alone – when I became fixated on a singular feature of the main character’s trailer park badass of a brother. The dude’s hair, a sort of mullet with racing stripes...
Derek Mead
3.1.12
Sports

Clipper Darrell, Clipped
Even though the historically dismal Clippers are getting better, their nixing of Clipper Darrell insures that their fans will be booing the franchise for a long time.
Zaphod Weinberger
Sports Staff
3.1.12
Motherboard Blog

The Social Network for the World's 200 Most Powerful People: An Interview with TopCom's Matt Quinn
Back when the news dropped that the World Economic Forum had commissioned software giant Tibco to produce TopCom, a social network "supposedly designed":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090949/Facebook-worlds-richest-200-people-launched.html...
Derek Mead
3.1.12
Art

Breaking The Fifth Wall: A Visual Essay On Human Perception—In GIF Form
“The boundaries between projected and perceived images become blurred.”
Abdullah Saeed
3.1.12
Music

The Band in Heaven Have A New Video - Watch it First Here
Spoiler alert: this video contains the eating of shrooms.
Kelly McClure
3.1.12
Music

What Do You Get When You Cross Acid House With A Brass Band?
Artist Jeremy Deller created the unlikely hybrid genre Acid Brass back in 1997.
Kevin Holmes
3.1.12
Stuff

The Axe Jack Nicholson Used in The Shining Belonged To Ian Emes' Beard
But there’s more to Ian’s work than that.
Esra Gurmen
3.1.12
Motherboard Blog

The Key to Solving African Food Crises is Better Farmer Networking
The most ubiquitous images of Africa usually include a scorched, barren landscape and some insanely thin babies. People starving. No food. And one usually gets the impression that we -- the West -- must swoop in and save the day. "Let us feed those...
Ana Tiwathia
3.1.12
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