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Faded: Life On the Cusp of Obsolescence

As a civilization speeding headlong into uncharted terrains, we get our kicks staring out the window at all the outmoded stuff going out of focus in our collective rearview. We obsess over the newly obsolete, the antiques of recent history. We...
Brian Anderson
12.28.11
Music

An Album Of Generative Sounds And A Sound Sculpture Created With SuperCollider

SuperCollider was the basis for Portuguese artist João Martinho Moura’s work and has generated an album with a collection of sound pieces posted on Twitter.
Erica Gonsales
12.28.11
Motherboard Blog

Get 'Webducated': Ditching School Forever To Become A Generation of Internet Scholars

The rising cost and declining value of higher education in the United States has undoubtedly been one of the key grievances of upstart social justice movements like Occupy Wall Street. And the anger is beginning to boil over -- just look at the...
Janus Rose
12.28.11
Motherboard Blog

MB Mixtape 2011 .09: Starscream, "Space"

_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
12.28.11
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Islamabad's Pig Problem

The infamously violent Zeta drug cartel in Mexico "is using hidden radio antennas to create a nationwide radio communications network":http://www.newser.com/article/d9rsdq100/mexicos-cartels-build-own-national-radio-system.html. (Brian just "wrote...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
12.28.11
The Moral Compass Issue

Party On, Dubstep Dudes

Earlier this year, as rioting and revolution convulsed the rest of the world, Switzerland remained predictably stable.
Till Rippmann
12.28.11
Stuff

Drug-Related Photoshop Art - World's Largest Xanax

This chart was actually created by the promoters of Mount Everest to subliminally target certain fans.
Tao Lin
12.28.11
News

The VICE Year in Review

So what happened this year anyway? A whole bunch of stuff.
Rick Paulas
12.28.11
Tech

On Air: Inside Mexico's DIY Cartel Radio

Because it's not just weed, coke and meth, anymore.
Brian Anderson
12.28.11
Stuff

Hot Dog and the Lady Bun - My Life's a Mess

All humans deserve someone to love/blame a bad day on.
Kurt Braunohler and Albertina Rizzo
12.28.11
Noisey Blog

The White Mice Make The Best Fake Record Covers of All Time

When the White Mice get stoned and draw on old records, it's usually better than most contemporary art.
Benjamin Shapiro
12.28.11
Motherboard Blog

Cartel Radio: Drugs and Kidnappings and Blood on the Air

If 2011 was a year for Internet-driven global protest, it was also a time of sado-crafty Mexican crime syndicates fully wiring up and operating on their own increasingly sophisticated private networks. Drug cartels have been overhauling and...
Brian Anderson
12.27.11
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