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How To Break The Banks With Heavy Junk Mail In Three Easy Steps
The media blitz which followed the "police raids":http://boingboing.net/2011/10/26/police-raid-on-occupy-oakland-the-morning-after.html at Occupy Oakland served as a kind of _memento mori_ to the corporate powers-that-be. In some sense, it was the...
Janus Rose
10.31.11
video

Forget About Scary Movies; These Production Logos Will Terrify You
If you’re like we are, you’ve spent untold hours working out a deep-seated fascination with TV station and production company "identity logos":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_logo, or idents. For those of you who weren’t babysat by a TV...
Alex Dunbar
10.31.11
Film

Life In A Day: The Crowdsourced Film Is Now Playing On A Computer Near You
The ambitious user-generated film project turned everyday individuals into movie stars and is now attainable for anyone with an internet connection.
Lauren Leibowitz
10.31.11
Art

Cell Is A Virtual Mirror That Reflects Our Online Identities
Two artists examine the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of our digital selves.
Kevin Holmes
10.31.11
News

Herman Cain - Stupid Like a Fox
If you've been watching the Republican debates, you'll remember Cain, because he's the black one. His qualification for being president is that he was the CEO of Godfather's Pizza.
Mobutu Sese Seko
10.31.11
Motherboard

Adventures at Dragon Con, the Weirdest Con
Travel with Nick Gazin to Atlanta for Dragon Con, a two-day bacchanalian orgy of sci-fi and comic book fans going bananas in the city's hotel rooms. We dive deep into the chaos with hundreds of cos-play and sci-fi fans, and then almost get arrested for...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
10.31.11
Motherboard Blog

Time to Make Some Space For a New "Cosmos," With Brian Greene (Win Tickets Here)
To illustrate the far out ideas in his new four-hour NOVA series on space, time, and the universe, physicist Brian Greene relies heavily upon special effects and sci-fi scenarios that are starting, slowly, to look more sci than fi. Hence his appearance...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.31.11
Music

Karen O Performs An Acoustic Song Off Stop The Virgens On WNYC
Karen O and Sam Spiegel stop by WNYC’s Soundcheck to discuss the Stop the Virgens and explain what, exactly, is a “psycho-opera.”
Julia Kaganskiy
10.31.11
Music

Original Creator: John Carpenter Turns Lo-Fi Horror Into An Art
We take a look at some iconic artists from numerous disciplines who have left an enduring and indelible mark on today’s creators.
Kevin Holmes
10.31.11
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Cyclops Sharks, Hacking the Cartels, Famous Last Words
_What you, being away from the Internet for a little while, might have missed._
* New York City "gets its own Taiwanese animated news segments":http://www.bigappledaily.tv/
* Netflix eats up "a third of American internet traffic":http://www...
Ones Zeros
10.31.11
Design

The Greatest Immersive Video Game Simulator Ever Built
The Gadget Show transform their studio into a virtual battlefield.
Kevin Holmes
10.31.11
Motherboard Blog

Meet Earth's Symbolic 7 Billionth Inhabitant
Sometime today – maybe even this very second – the projected seven billionth human inhabitant will enter the world. If we're to believe "one account":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15517259, the milestone has already been reached: Nargis...
Brian Anderson
10.31.11
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