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Hollywood's Unreality: Challenger And The Unfortunate Timing of 'Space Camp'
Pity Hollywood. When art imitates life -- like in the September 12th-and-every-day-after film _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_ -- everyone misinterprets it as exploitative and manipulative and "demands":http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan...
Ben Richmond
1.28.12
Motherboard Blog

When Breast Implants Attack
Sometimes, as in the case of "a recent Florida stabbing":http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/woman-credits-breast-implant-with-saving-her-life-in-stab-attack/story-e6frev20-1226254622124, breast implants can save lives. But as many as 500,00...
Kelly Bourdet
1.28.12
Motherboard Blog

The Bright Yellow Asterisk: A Recollection of the Challenger Disaster
January, 1987. I stood alone 167 feet above the launch pad’s surface. I was staring into the open, small, white room. At the other end was an open doorway and beyond it was the blue expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. Between me and that 167 foot drop, the...
DENNIS CHAMBERLAND
1.28.12
Noisey

Kill For Total Peace
Bands get labeled "psychedelic" for a bunch of different reasons. Sometimes it's because they wear bandanas. Sometimes it's because they smoke weed. For Parisian quintet Kill For Total Peace, it's probably got something to do with their label, Pan...
VICE Staff
1.28.12
FASHION WEEK INTERNATIONALE

Nigeria Fashion Week
We spend the day with an insightful and heavily ADD-afflicted hairdresser.
Charlet Duboc
1.28.12
Tech

All Hands on the Internet
Because the Web actually is a series of tubes. Or pipes. Or something.
Brian Anderson
1.28.12
Tech

On Blasting Into Space as a Private Citizen: A Chat With Richard Garriott
Life's a game and then you die on Mars.
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.28.12
Motherboard Blog

January 20 in History: Here's the National Good Day Day Petition
Burning up the Internet right now is the official proclamation that "Ice Cube's Good Day occurred on January 20th, 1992":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/27/the-internet-has-pinpointed-ice-cube-s-good-day. That's leading many, including myself, to...
Derek Mead
1.27.12
Film

If Christian Marclay Could Put Time In A Bottle
Quite possibly the only critical piece you’ll ever read on Christian Marclay’s The Clock.
VICE Staff
1.27.12
News

Get Off My Lawn - Newt, the Hungry Pontificator
If you watched last night's Republican debate you'd be excused from thinking that there is, to crib from Adam Smith, an invisible and irrational hand guiding the worst candidate to nomination.
Michael Moynihan
1.27.12
Music

Creators Remix Roundup: Tinchy Stryder, Jamie xx, And Robyn
Grime goes pop, Jamie xx meets BBC Life, and Robyn gets a Skrillix makeover. Plus new videos from Santigold and Florence + the Machine.
Kathleen Flood
1.27.12
Stuff

Take a Stroll... with Rob Delaney - Help Twitter and Your Country Today!
Twitter announced today that it has the technology to censor tweets by country. I like Twitter a lot, so I want to help them test their new feature. Thus, I've compiled a list of my filthiest and most offensive tweets.
Rob Delaney
1.27.12
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