This Sexed-Up NSFW Guide to Building a PC Is Simply the Worst
One of these days I'm going to pool all my pennies and build my own computer. It seems like a rite of passage for any tech dork and fan of e-horsepower, and really, it's one of the coolest form of...
View ArticleAmerican Waters Have a Dirty Shipwreck Problem
via Flickr / bananiel Nevermind that drone footage over the ill-fated Costa Concordia disaster site. Want to really get a bird's eye view of the scope of not only sunken ships, but the oily mess some...
View ArticleMeet the Next Wave of Astronauts: Celebrities and Millionaires
Decades ago, the nation cheered for the space program with patriotic fervor. NASA was our most cherished public project; our astronauts were brave heroes, leaving the safety of Earth's orbit for the...
View ArticleOur Next Dystopia Is the Suburbs
Image: Flickr Everybody knows that dystopias are always cities—Metropolis, 1984, Brazil; city, city, city. Pretty much on down the line, our speculative fiction imagines human on top of miserable...
View ArticleCould California's New Bullet Coding Law Actually Curb Gun Violence?
Image via Wikimedia. California this week did what it does best. It took the lead on imposing a controversial technology-driven solution on a major problem without paying much heed to naysayers,...
View ArticleThe Red Bull School Is Perfect for All-Nighters
Up until now, Red Bull’s strongest association with education was a Taurine-tinged cocktail for chugging after exams are all done (congratulations, new grads!). But the drink maker wants to actually...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald to the News: Do Us All a Favor and Stop Droning On About...
On Wednesday a soldier, Lee Rigby, was fatally stabbed by two men sporting knifes and a meat cleaver. Before being shot by police, the attackers taunted onlookers, asking them to take photos and film...
View ArticleSummer Is the Pefect Time to Devour Every Comic in Existence in Digital Form
A few panels from Matt Fraction and Mike Allred's FF, Vol. 2 #7, as viewed in the comiXology iPad app. Oh hello there, summer! Why yes, it is Memorial Day weekend, and that does mean you’re sort of...
View ArticleCVS Bangers Volume 2 Is Here Just in Time for Memorial Day Condom Shopping
Or maybe you've got a prescription to fill or just need some stuff for that rash. Well, DJ Hennessy Youngman, aka Jayson Musson of Art Thougtz fame, is back with a second round of corporate drugstore...
View ArticleADULT. Returns Its Sonic Loathing to the World After Six Years
Yeah, yeah, I know. You’re way excited about the new Boards of Canada album, the first new music from the duo in 700 years, complete with big, deep mysteries even. But, BoC isn’t the only musical...
View ArticleJuicy J, Cathedral Pedals, and Roald Dahl: Mount Kimbie Discuss the Creative...
Mount Kimbie, via their Twitter page British production duo Mount Kimbie are releasing their sophomore LP, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, this Tuesday on Warp. Mount Kimbie's last release, 2010's...
View ArticleA Bipartisan Commission Recommends Allowing Corporations to Legally Hack...
Image via the Ohio Department of Technology Services Intellectual property theft is such a grave threat online that corporations should be able to legally attack individual people deemed guilty...
View ArticleGerman Railroads Want to Use Drones to Help Prosecute Graffiti Artists
Image via the author Whether you think they're art or a nuisance, train cars have been graffiti artists' rolling canvases since the 70s. Since NYC Mayor Ed Koch's War on Graffiti in the early 80s,...
View Article7 Videos of Bald Eagles Kicking Other Animals' Asses
Memorial Day is the day we applaud and remember all of the servicemembers who have made and kept the United States strong. It's also the day we laugh at how asinine Ben Franklin was for suggesting the...
View ArticleHow the Internet Ruined 'Arrested Development'
Image: Promo materials I've made a huge mistake. I woke up on Sunday jacked like a Christmas morning kid, grabbed coffee and a bagel, and expected to spend the next seven hours or so laughing my ass...
View ArticleColorado's Children Are Getting Too Stoned on Pot Food, Says Study
Brownies by ginnerobot/Flickr Allow me to start with an anecdote about the most stoned/generally fucked up I have ever been in my 32 years of existence. I was in the back of a car on a mini Colorado...
View ArticleTrack the CIA's Secret Rendition Flights with a New Interactive Map
A soldier stands guard inside Camp 5 at Guantanamo, via the Defense Department The CIA's extraordinary rendition program, which consisted of flying terrorist detainees across borders, often for...
View ArticleTrailer: High Country
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Denver, Colorado. The Mile High City. Call it America's Amsterdam. Ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a budding tech sector in what could...
View ArticleTicketmaster Knows Scalper-Bots Buy Up 60% of Its Seats, But It Doesn't Want...
Front row seats reserved for robots, sorry. Image: Flickr, CC According to my calculations, Ticketmaster currently just barely edges out Exxon and Halliburton as the most-loathed company in existence....
View ArticleWhy the FDA Took the Piss Out of uChek, a Urine Analysis App
It took no time at all for people to figure out that iPhones are great for sending pictures of one’s genitals, but finding medical applications for the smart phone takes a little longer. Seems...
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