Particularly geeky fans of the annual smorgasbord of impossibly-proportioned Eastern bloc women in skimpy underwear were surprised a couple of weeks back when Jourdan Dunn, a Victoria's Secret model, was photographed strutting down the runway in what…
Here's the thing with regard to relative coolness: it's good to be cool and it's hip to be square; no one likes to party with losers and if you'd like to have a say, it's important to stay on top of trends. Being cool is different than being "popular…
Television had been lingering around the political scene for a few years before the first televised presidential candidate debate, on September 26, 1960. It was between Vice President Richard Nixon and the relatively unknown Irish-American senator Jo…
The thing is that these PBS remixes should be way worse than they are. I'd honestly put off paying much attention to the first couple, "Mister Rogers":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM&feature=relmfu and "Bob Ross":http://www.youtube.com/wat…
Not so much lately, but for about a year I made a habit of crashing a bar-drawing session at a certain drinking/arts establishment here in Baltimore. The thing is called Dr. Sketchy's and it happens once a month on a Monday. How it goes is that a bun…
So "a certain blog post":http://www.freewoodpost.com/2012/04/18/ann-romney-why-should-women-be-paid-equal-to-men/ is once again circulating as news through my Facebook network, after originally appearing last April, which means there's a decent chanc…
“The world is carnage.” Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. But that phrase has become a familiar refrain—almost comforting, despite its gloomy message—to fans of Henderzones, the best-kept secret of Twitter-based serial storytelling. Updated re…
You remember putting a donk on everything, right? It was "a meme":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58 -- these English dudes in a studio talking about putting a donk on it, and a "donk" was just this sound like a drainpipe being hit with a bat…
"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls. "Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background
All this talk about the global pandemic of inexplicably aggressive behavior, strange skin disorders, face eating, self mutilation, intestine throwing, and the dead rising from their graves has predictably got a lot of folks talking about zombie apoca…
With all due respect to those noble Frenchmen who inadvertently huffed so much silver nitrate while inventing photography, recounting the self-obsessed origins of the camera and photograph may only be possible by looking at how these technologies int…
The first time I saw lesser-known presidential candidate "Vermin Supreme":http://www.verminsupreme.com/ on the Internet, I thought he was dead serious and I was terrified by him. "This weird guy," I thought. "He will enslave us all." Supreme, recogni…
I know what you're thinking and yes, every week _is_ Internet Week at Motherboard, but that doesn't mean we can hang our hats and stare down the business end of a glass of scotch when the actual Internet Week happens. Quite the contrary. In fact, thi…
It sounds like a party trick: Cue up the videos for Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" and Meatloaf's "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" and hit play at the same time. One expects wacky "Dark Side of the Rainbow" coincid…
Every now and then, photo sections really go for the jugular, and ""Are these the ugliest buildings in the world?":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries/9126031/Are-these-the-ugliest-buildings-in-the-world.html" is a case in po…
Us Americans tend to spend more, save less, and carry more than a few extra pounds as compared to the rest of the world. We're not alone; the Greeks, for one, have similar traits. Meanwhile, folks like the Germans are fitter, thriftier, and save more…
Well, shit. Just when the hacks had almost entirely given up on all those lazy, disorganized, white, middle-class college kids collectively known as the Occupy Wall Street movement - I mean, the Republican primary circus is rolling through town, peop…
Oceans of liquid meat. An atmosphere of corrosive flatulence. Lovely, melted pork in vast amounts.
The raid on the Occupy stronghold of Zucotti Park left "laptops smashed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found and "wifi towers":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/21/occupy-s-int…
Justin Bieber, the canadian internet hate magnet, who is also a pop singer, has decided to adopt steampunk fashion for the video to his cover of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
To be sure, Motherboard is proud of the claim it's staked on the frontier of the nerds; it's not our fault that a lot of this backcountry is inhabited by just as many questionably inappropriate ne'er-do-wells as it is heroes, kings and queens. That b…
You may have heard that we're in the midst of a war. A war between superpowers hellbent on global domination. A war in which you, my friend, must play your part, take sides, and once there, share as many links as you can. And don't even think of aski…
