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To Destroy Spam Forever, Scientists Bought a Lot of Viagra
Seven years ago, Bill Gates "told the world":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/24/tech/main595595.shtml that spam would be gone in two years; what we got instead was growth in the mutli-billion dollar industry trying to stop it.
Yet...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.22.11
Motherboard Blog

The Digital Revolution: Great for Zuckerbergs, Bad for Jobs (Not the Steve Kind)
Internet companies are being bought for billions. We're living in the future. So why aren't we "making more jobs":http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/03/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/7919/? Because, as "Tyler Cowen":http...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.21.11
Motherboard Blog

Pope Video Chats the Space Station
In a special link-up from The Vatican to the International Space Station, Pope Benedict XVI asks how science can help bring peace on Earth and good will toward men. Mark Kelly's reply is smart and politic: let's use the kind of solar panels we have on...
Videodrome
5.21.11
Motherboard Blog

THE POST-RAPTURE PET SITTER
Last night was probably a busy one for Bart Centre of New Hampshire. He is the founder of "Eternal Earthbound Pets":http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com, a service that places pets who are not lifted into the sky during today's rapture into the loving...
ANNA JANE GROSSMAN
5.21.11
Motherboard Blog

Magical Game Boys: Demystifying The Live Chiptune Performance
I haven’t been playing live shows as a chiptune artist for very long compared to some of my peers, but nearly every time I do, people ask me the same question: “What are you doing with that thing!?”
Janus Rose
5.21.11
diplo

Creators Remix Roundup Week 27
Boys Noize takes on Charlotte Gainsbourg, Matthew Herbert and the Rwandan Bjork, Diplo, and why DJ Medhi is all bruised up….
Kathleen Flood
5.20.11
Vice Blog

STYLE WARS BENEFIT AND AUCTION - MAY 25
VICE Staff
5.20.11
Nikki S. Lee

The "Projects, Parts, And Layers" Of Nikki S. Lee
A retrospective of her work at One and J Gallery in Seoul, Korea.
Kyuhee Baik
5.20.11
Motherboard Blog

A Video Remix for the Apocalypse
Eclectic Method, they of the bizarre and wonderful video turntables, made "one of their succulent video mixes":http://www.eclecticmethod.net/2011/05/18/the-apocamix/ for the apocalypse. To bide your time before the world is over, you could read "our...
Videodrome
5.20.11
Vice Blog

FRIDAY TYRANT - DAVE HILL IS FUNNY
VICE Staff
5.20.11
News

Liveblogging The Apocalypse
Kev Kharas
5.20.11
Film

Eclectic Method Don’t Seem To Take That Apocalypse Threat Very Seriously
The end of times is scheduled for tomorrow. To help us cope with that fact, the video mashup maestros provide a last bit of fun before the Rapture.
Morgan Poyau
5.20.11
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