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The Year in Interviews: People from the Internet!

_Motherboard spent much of 2011 talking to the smartest, coolest, and craziest people in tech, culture, and the web. It made for a mountain of interviews filled with knowledge direct from the source, the best of which we’ve collected here in the second...
Derek Mead
12.20.11
Fashion

Real-Life Superheroes

Yes, they are for real.
Jamie Clifton
12.20.11
News

Occupy Didn't Occupy Duarte Square

It only took five minutes for the cops to enter Duarte Square and start beating and arresting nearly anyone they could get their hands on.
Taji Ameen
12.20.11
News

Will These Men Help Occupy LSX Survive the Bleak Midwinter?

Are you Santa in disguise, Justice Keith Lindblom?
Joshua Haddow, Natalie Meziani
12.20.11
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: The Army's Fear Pills, Insider Trading is Legal, Bradley Manning

"Bradley Manning's trial":http://www.bradleymanning.org/updates/bradley-manning-trial-in-depth-minute-by-minute-notes-from-a-courtroom-viewer-in-bradley-mannings-article-32-hearing is underway, and the twists are coming in hot. First, military...
Derek Mead
12.20.11
News

Nobody Likes You, Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman isn't mad as hell, and it's not getting him anywhere.
Mobutu Sese Seko
12.20.11
Motherboard Blog

MB Mixtape 2011 .02: The Caretaker, "I Feel As If I Might Be Vanishing"

_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
12.20.11
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard's Favorite Longish Reads of 2011

_It's been a weird and awesome year of losing sleep over everything that keeps us up at night - science and technology; weirdos with great, crazy, weird ideas; music, film, and politics; and of course the Internet and drugs, history, the future, and...
Brian Anderson
12.20.11
Motherboard Blog

What the Digital Piracy Debate Looked Like in 1985

As far as the corporate lobbyists in Washington are concerned, the spectacularly reckless anti-piracy measures being introduced under "SOPA and PROTECT-IP":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/11/17/the-internet-is-fighting-hollywood-s-blacklist-bill-by...
Janus Rose
12.20.11
News

The Quango Awards 2011

It's been a quiet year for politics, hasn't it?
Gavin Haynes
12.20.11
Motherboard Blog

Kim Jong-il was an "Internet Expert"

The late Kim Jong-il bestowed upon himself many extravagant titles during his bizarre, iron-clad rule over North Korea. But here's one that's particularly interesting in light of the recent SOPA debate – “Internet expert.”
Janus Rose
12.20.11
Stuff

Waste Coast: DAVID EBY'S RIGHTS

Besides being good looking, David Ebby is also a civil rights lawyer trying to make Vancouver less fucked up.
Mish Way
12.20.11
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