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Video: Wavves' / 'Bug'
Here's Wavves new video for "Bug," a song about "that guy" who's always crashing parties and sleeping on couches and is generally a crusty dickhole. The video, directed by Alan Tanner, is set in a scene we know all too well: You're relaxing on the...
CHILL OUT THE INTERNET: Jaron Lanier Interview
*{From March 15, 2010}* For a white guy with dreads, Jaron Lanier is extremely productive. In the 1980s he coined the term “virtual reality” and among other things, established the idea of online personas through the use of avatars. The Encyclopaedia...
Blood Phones: The Conflict Minerals of Congo
h5. Here's the trailer to our upcoming film, The VICE Guide to Congo coming soon to Motherboard.tv and VICE. Walking through the jungle in the dead of night with a group of Rwandan rebels best known for their expertise at rape and murder wasn’t...
The Learnin' Corner: Pili Power
h5. Above: A close-up of the microbial nanowires that could one day replace synthetic conductors. Any resemblance to a penis is purely coincidental. Image courtesy of UMass Amherst, Anna Klimes, and Ernie Carbone. _Elbert van Putten is a scientist...
Touring the Psychedelic Castles At the End of the World (or Nothern California)
I'm standing at the top of a wooded hill on the outskirts of Argelaguer in Northern Catalonia. More precisely, I'm on the 70th step of a tower about 115 feet tall built out of fallen branches and chicken wire. I'm up to my thighs in mud. At least 1...
9/11 Victims' Families Need to Find This Guy's Address
One of my favorite things about 9/11 conspiracy theorists is how the only thing they’re interested in is the truth. Not for them, frantically grasping for some kind of tragic internet celebrity off the back of thousands and thousands of innocent people...
The Story of Jailbait
In 2006, Condé Nast, home of The New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair, bought Reddit, a content aggregation website run by a small staff and fuelled by a loyal fan base. A sizable portion of whom are pretty excited about underdressed underage girls.
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...
Google Doodle Freaked Me Out Today
_By Liz Armstrong_ What important works of art Google Doodle is cranking out on a daily basis is big news today, with their commemoration of what would be Jorge Luis Borges’ 112th birthday. Everyone from the "_LA Times_":http://latimesblogs.latimes...
The Learnin' Corner: Lookin' Through the Skin Lens
_By Elbert Van Putten as told to Harry Cheadle. Elbert van Putten is a scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. The focus of his research is imaging with scattered light, which is a fancy way of saying makin...
The Five People You Meet on the Apocalyptic Message Board
_By Harry Cheadle_ Probably the largest collection of conspiracy theories on the internet--which is saying something--can be found on the "2012 Forum":http://2012forum.com/, an old-fashioned message board full of people who are convinced that...
The Learnin' Corner: How the Early Universe Got Something From Nothing
_Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf is a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research concerns the interface of theoretical nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology._ We think that the universe started with a...