Vice Magazine
Self Portraits From the Apple Store
["VICE":http://www.viceland.com/blogs/photos/2011/06/15/pictures-of-you-at-the-apple-store/] I just got a smartphone, like, three months ago, so I’ve spent a significant amount of my life in the Apple Store checking my email on their free internet...
Talking to Daito Manabe, the Japanese Fellow Who Electrocutes His Face In Sync With His Music
_From the Vice archives:_ Daito Manabe is a Japanese video artist who sticks half a dozen electrodes onto his face, synchs them all up to a blippy homemade soundtrack, and proceeds to electrocute himself into a choreography of grimaces and twitches...
Nigerian Email Scam Artists Are Not Photoshop Artists: A Slideshow
As a user of the Internet, I’m sure you already know all about Nigerian email scammers. Scambaiters are a group of people who fight back against the scammers by leading them on for comedic gain.
5 Days Until Rapture: Movie Marathon For Mud People
_By Matthew Caron_ As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the Apocalypse is coming in a mere five days according to the Biblical calculations of Evangelical math guy Harold Camping and his Family Radio Worldwide media group. With the clock ticking...
The Learnin' Corner: How The Earth Drags Time and Space With It
_Dr. Neil Ashby is a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder._ The idea behind frame dragging is that a spinning body—or, more specifically, any moving body—tends to have a gravitational effect that propagates through empty space (aka the...
Q+A: Vincent Ocasla, the 22-Year-Old Who Designed the Perfect Totalitarian City
I’m English, but when I was twelve I lived in North Carolina and went to an inner-city school a bit like that one in The Wire. I only really have two memories of that time. One, of police arresting one of my classmates in the middle of Social Studies...
Upgrading Weed Technology: The Vaporizer
Last week I had the good fortune of speaking with someone who is not part of the cannabis industry per se, but his business—which is peripherally related—seems to be running in tandem with the industry’s second wave.