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Making the "Kids Are Addicted To Media" Argument Is a Terrible Habit
In a subtly patronizing tone that has come to be expected in arguments of this nature, researchers from the "International Center for Media and the Public Agenda":http://www.icmpa.umd.edu/index.html recently claimed in their "World Unplugged Study...
SAM MCDOUGLE
4.10.11
Motherboard Blog

"A Proven, Cheap Killer of Technology": The Design Virtues of the RPG
Since the early 1960s, the rocket propelled grenade launcher has served around the world as "either the sling of David against totalitarian Goliaths or the terrorist’s Saturday night special," "writes design critic Phil Patton":http://changeobserver...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.10.11
Motherboard Blog

How I Sold My iPhone Out To the Man
I mean, besides itself being the product of a large corporation, somehow my iPhone has evolved into the smart-phone equivalent of a Nascar racer. I'd thought I was doing a pretty good job of keeping my app corral pretty, errr, "indie," but that first...
Michael Byrne
4.9.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: Mosquito STDs, Facebook Sex, Female Porn Addicts
_Some of the exciting and some of the depressing from the past week._
h3. zero: *MUSIC INDUSTRY'S CHART SHOWING LIFE WITHOUT NAPSTER* ("Mashable":http://mashable.com/2011/04/08/napster-never-existed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm...
Ones Zeros
4.9.11
Motherboard

Electric Independence: John Foxx
We went to visit John Foxx deep in the darkest depths of Shoreditch, East London, at the studio of his latest collaborator, Benge.
VICE Staff
4.9.11
Motherboard Blog

Casualties of the Last Government Shutdown: Health, Public Safety, Tourism, Lightbulbs
According to the U.S. Antideficiency Act, federal agencies and programs must stop operating if and when their funding is not further appropriated by Congress. That's exactly "what could happen":http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/reid-says-impasse...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.8.11
Art

Lu Yang's KRAFTTREMOR Examines Man, Machine, And The Space Between
Lu Yang’s bio art challenges the boundaries of ethics.
Xue Tan
4.8.11
Motherboard Blog

Carl Sagan Puts Your Weekend Into Perspective
For extra drama, there's "a Hollywood version":http://motherboard.tv/2010/11/26/something-to-be-thankful-for-our-pale-blue-dot-video too.
Videodrome
4.8.11
Motherboard Blog

Keep On Hacking In The Free World: Anonymous Rises To Defend PS3 Hacker
"If you keep a safe in a bank robber's sitting room, eventually he's going to find a way to open it"
Janus Rose
4.8.11
Film

Go Viral In "One Shot" At The Festival Of Ideas
Shoot a high-stakes video at the Festival of Ideas.
Lauren Leibowitz
4.8.11
Vice Blog

Rettsounds - Plowing the Pile
To those who coddle copies of both the Flyboys EP and RKL's Keep Laughing near their crotch: meet your dream band.
Tony Rettman
4.8.11
Film

Him, Her and Them — The First Ever Facebook Film
The first film to use Facebook as a mechanism for both interaction and distribution strives to set a new standard for “social films.”
Dylan Schenker
4.8.11
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