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The Forever War, Illustrated: How a Graphic Novel Imagined An Even More Dystopian 2011

*_By Abe Riesman_* As the Iraq War winds down and already begins to fade and fizzle from popular memory, spare a little pity for the educators who will have to teach future generations about it. It’ll be hard enough to sort out its causes and its...
Abraham Riesman
11.2.11
Music

A Remix App For Lana Del Rey's "Video Games"

It was only a matter of time before this YouTube sensation got her own remix-generating app.
Mariana Rezende
11.2.11
Music

User Preferences: A Tech Q&A With The Strange Agency

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kevin Holmes
11.2.11
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #37

Greetings non-believers! There are a lot of books piling up in my room and it's hard for me to get to the bathroom because I've basically barricaded myself in. I've started going to the bathroom in grocery bags.
Nick Gazin
11.2.11
Film

You've Heard of Nyan Cat? Here's Neon Cat With String

Cats! They just keep getting more awesome.
Cynthia Lu
11.2.11
Stuff

Curt Shi Says Chinese Skating Is Really Cool

We had no idea.
Joshua Haddow
11.2.11
Motherboard Blog

With Water Scarce, Conservation Gets A Business Case

It wasn't until relatively recently that theories of conservation and ecology received any play in business, largely because for most of our history natural resources have neither been particularly scarce nor, raw materials aside, relative easy to...
Derek Mead
11.2.11
Motherboard Blog

The Computer-Generated Acid Trips of the '60s and '70s

Bell Labs was the place to be in the 1960's if you wanted to participate in some of history's greatest breakthroughs in computer science. It was here that "Max Mathews":http://motherboard.tv/2011/6/16/the-engineer-who-taught-computers-to-whistle...
Janus Rose
11.2.11
Sheppard’s Video Game Pie

Batman: Arkham City

"Batman: Arkham City" is a worthy followup to 2009's "Batman: Arhkam Asylum," but not quite the perfect supergame I was hoping for.
Stephen Lea Sheppard
11.2.11
The Issue That Cares

Hot for Teacher

I think I wanted to fuck my fourth-grade teacher. I didn't know what it meant "to fuck" anything back then, but I knew I wanted to do it.
Chris Nieratko
11.2.11
Motherboard

Motherboard TV: Love And Hate At Comic Con

To be sure, Motherboard is proud of the claim it's staked on the frontier of the nerds; it's not our fault that a lot of this backcountry is inhabited by just as many questionably inappropriate ne'er-do-wells as it is heroes, kings and queens. That...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
11.2.11
Photo

Photographic Moratorium - That New Rihanna Video

This week, I'd like to dedicate this blog to absolutely every frame of the video for Rihanna's latest single, "We Found Love."
Holly Lucas
11.2.11
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