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Quango - A Political Column

Sure, Thatcher was cute – but was she funny?
Gavin Haynes
9.2.11
Art

Check Out The Winners Of Mozilla's Demo Party Contest

Mozilla’s Demo Party revitalizes a computer art subculture in an “artful exploration of open web technologies.”
Julia Kaganskiy
9.2.11
Motherboard Blog

Climate Politics and the English Language

In 2008, after winning a bunch of primaries, Obama ended a paragraph he was reading to supporters by emphasizing that it is time to tell "our children" that "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...
ALEX PASTERNACK
9.2.11
Motherboard Blog

We're All Doomed: The Economy's Not Getting Better And We're All Going To Starve

I’m not an economist. It goes against my personal philosophy that the economy works by the same principle as a really large scale version of pushing your food around your plate in an attempt to fool your parents into believing you finished your dinner...
RYAN BRODERICK
9.2.11
Art

The World's First 3D Rendered Film [VIDEO]

Nearly 40 years ago, computer animation was born.
Kevin Holmes
9.2.11
Motherboard Blog

Space Is Whatever: A Suicidal Astronaut Photoshoot

I’m a sucker for costumes. I must have six bins full of them that I’ve collected over the years on November 1st, when they get marked down 80 percent. (The Klu Klux Klan outfit from the Big Brother White Issue is hard to explain to people. I’ve been...
Vice Magazine
9.2.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: Founders Make the Best Leaders, Obama Caves Again, Space Junk Problem Reaches Tipping Point

h3. One: Engineers of China's record breaking submersible have "never even seen a submersible before":http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/mass-transit/chinas-research-sub-to-attempt-record-dive/0 (IEEE Spectrum) h3. Zero: The New York Times' "smart...
Ones Zeros
9.2.11
Gaming

A New Genre For Gaming? Awesome Mario Meets Portal Mashup

Mari0 imports the mechanics of Portal into Super Mario Bros..
Kevin Holmes
9.2.11
Motherboard Blog

How to Get Sucked Out of an Airplane Cockpit

On June 10, 1990, a windshield panel flew out of a British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven (BAC-111) short range passenger jet on British Airways flight 5390 from Birmingham to Malaga, Spain. In an instant, the captain was sucked out the window.
Amy Shira Teitel
9.2.11
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Kern's Girl Of The Week - Jennifer

You could tell she'd had a kid.
Andy Capper
9.2.11
Stuff

Televisionaries!

This week's television, reviewed by the blind.
VICE Staff
9.2.11
Stuff

Take A Stroll... With Rob Delaney - Dear Katy Perry

It sounds like you may have been raped last night.
Rob Delaney
9.2.11
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