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Space Triumph! An Archival Newsreel Celebrating America's First Man in Orbit

50 years ago last Sunday, John Glenn became the first NASA astronaut in orbit, as part of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. He did three rotations and spent about five hours in flight and landed safely (with some issues, yes). The TV newseel above appeared...
Michael Byrne
2.21.12
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The True Secret of Being a Multimillionaire Is Selling Junk Magic

The beauty of speculative theories about the nature of life and the world in general is that they can be much more satisfying than good old objective reality, which could leave you feeling like the most logical conclusion is to lie down in the road...
Mclean Gordon
2.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Olympus Exec Hanged, Radical Girl Scouts, Mob Rules Comedy

New privacy revelations at Google, Twitter, et al: "Are they really a surprise":http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/internet-privacy-idUSL2E8DI0FU20120221? The ongoing scandal/meltdown at Olympus gets dirty: a company exec has been found...
Derek Mead
2.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Tristan Perich On Reducing Contemporary Classical Composition To Single Electronic Bits (Video)

We love composer and sound artist "Tristan Perich":http://www.tristanperich.com/. His _1-Bit Symphony_ did more to literalize and de-black box electronic music than most anything we can think of. In it you find sounds generated by a programmed...
Michael Byrne
2.21.12
News

Quango - A History of Courtroom Sketch Art

Portraits of the accused dissected by our resident courtroom art critic, Mr Ruskin Sewell.
Gavin Haynes
2.21.12
The Fashion Issue 2012

Scandalous, Chic, and Rich

Pierre Cardin is one of those names everyone knows, even if you have no idea who he is or what he looks like.
Paul Gorman
2.21.12
Noisey Blog

I Went On Vacation & Couldn't Relax All Week

Here are the songs that accompanied my anxiety.
Jeff Ogiba
2.21.12
You Review

You Review - Drag Queens, Trannies, and Death Metal

We got some shims, he-she's, and drag queens to check out Cannibal Corpse's new shit.
VICE Staff
2.21.12
Menk, by John Doran

Ring the Alarm and not a Sound Is Dying

The trouble started before I even got to Heathrow. Stuck between underground stations outside of Acton Town, my cell phone rang. "Hi. Yes? This is Necrobutcher from Mayhem."
John Doran
2.21.12
Question Of The Day

What Would You Say to God?

Why did you kill my mother?
By VICE Staff
2.21.12
Sports

Rudy Fernandez, Malfunctioning Highlight Machine

He's either turning Kevin Harlan into a shrieking puddle of meat right before the buzzer or he's missing shots in clusters of four and five.
Kevin Lincoln
2.21.12
Off Hollywood

Off Hollywood - Eddie Deezen

When Eddie Deezen turned 18 his father offered to buy him a Dairy Queen, but Eddie had his sights set on showbiz.
Jennifer Juniper Stratford
2.21.12
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