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I Dumpster-Dived with a Bunch of Freegans
Look at that haul. All photos by the author So there I was, groping around in a pile of trash in the middle of the night. People stared at the spectacle of a dozen dumpster divers carrying...
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Black Magic in the Central African Republic
Black magic gri-gri bracelets The crisis in the Central African Republic has now been going on for more than a year, with violence between Christian and Muslim militias sparking very real fears of a...
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Will Egypt's Mass Death Sentence Provoke More Violence?
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie (front, with the white beard and glasses) and 47 other defendants stand behind bars during the trial of Brotherhood members at a Cairo courtroom on March 6,...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the 'Only Camera to Come Back from the Moon'
The Mystery of the 'Only Camera to Come Back from the Moon'
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A Brief History of Furious People Attacking Politicians with Food
Ukrainians protesting the Russian media's selective coverage of the crisis in Crimea (Image by Ilya Varlamov) Food isn’t just for eating. Just ask the suburban teenagers who use Mentos to make bottle...
View ArticleFriday Live!: Strangers on an Awkward Date: Livestream Highlights
On Friday, we got two strangers to have an awkward first date in the apartment above our London pub, the Old Blue Last. We livestreamed the date—which lasted three hours—on our website. They didn't...
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The Arab Spring Was Just a Translation Mistake
Image via Wikimedia Commons From the all-out civil war in Syria to the internet restrictions in Turkey and the return of military rule in Egypt, the revolutionary youth of the Arab Spring seem to be...
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Social Media Isn't a Threat to the Turkish Government
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on TV. Photo by Ekin Özbiçer It was 11P M on a Thursday night in Yeniköy, a neighborhood in the northern part of Istanbul. My wife and I sat in our living...
View ArticleVICE Special: Behind the Scenes of Kenny and Spenny's Reddit AMA
Kenny vs. Spenny was a Canadian TV show from the mid aughts that centered around two roommates and their weekly in-house competitions. The episodes ranged from "Who Can Win a Court Case" to "Who Can...
View ArticleHacker Artist Glitchr Makes Art By Breaking Facebook
Hacker Artist Glitchr Makes Art By Breaking Facebook
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Australia Has Knights Again
It was iffy for a while there. Reasonable people differed as to whether Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, had his priorities in order. He is no wimp, he is strong and fair, but he just has so...
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The Internet Is Overwhelming, so Photograph It
541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/26/06, 2006, detail of 2000 machine c-prints, each 4inch x 6inch by Penelope Umbrico (courtesy of the artist) On good days, I assume that reality...
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'New York' - Photos by Neil Winokur
Nobody I talk to under the age of 40 knows the work of Neil Winokur. This seems odd in light of the 68-year-old photographer’s achievements: His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art,...
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The LAPD Is Arresting Venice Hippies for Having Drum Circles
For Los Angeles locals, Venice has always been a both cheery and dirty daycation spot. The beach is filled with decades-old locals who are mostly leathery hippies, peacefully maintaining it as their...
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The Death of a Romanian Kangaroo
Photo courtesy of iStock It sounds like the start of a heartstring-tugging kids’ film: On January 14, in the western Romanian city of Arad, the cops received a series of calls reporting that children...
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Theater of Justice
Illustration by Molly Crabapple Last week, I sketched an evidentiary hearing for a woman named Cecily McMillan. Two years ago, I'd seen Cecily convulse in handcuffs as the police shut down an Occupy...
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'Porn Studies' Is a Serious Academic Journal for Serious Academics
Screencap via YouTube uploader sameesha1000 Porn Studies, the "first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as...
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Sex, Snow, and Cocaine: My Life As a Ski Resort 'Chalet Bitch'
Belle de Neige (“Beautiful Snow”, if you didn’t take French) is a blog about what people who work at ski resorts get up to when they’re not fixing snow blades, or delivering après-ski drinks to Jemima...
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Comics: Blobby Boys - Part 5
Keep your eyes peeled for new installments of Blobby Boys every Wednesday from here until the end of time. Or until Alex gets sick of working with us.
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Milf Teeth: For Once, We Shouldn't Laugh at Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin
Within minutes of its hitting the internet, the jokes started coming. Had Chris finally found out that Gwyneth wasn’t actually British? Had she finally listened to a Coldplay album? Who would get...
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