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A Few Impressions: My Name Is Tom and I’m a Video Game Addict
Image by Courtney Nicholas “I am a video game nerd and I love it.” That’s what Tom Bissell admits in his excellent confession and analysis of his descent (ascent?) into video game addiction, Extra...
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The E-Currency Exchange LibertyReserve.com Got Shut Down for Laundering $6...
Yesterday, the US Attorney's office in Manhattan brought charges against the founder of LibertyReserve.com, an online e-currency trading company that an indictment handed down in Manhattan federal...
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Rapping for Peace in Somalia
Lihle Muhdin performs for former fighters in Mogadishu. Lihle Muhdin’s face was glued to the round airplane window. "Look how beautiful the beaches of Somalia are," he sighed. Below us stretched...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Takashi Murakami on Nuclear Monsters and Buddhist...
Takashi Murakami's art has always sat at the crossroads where Japanese tradition meets contemporary culture. Often working in sculpture and painting, he recently ventured into the world of cinema with...
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I Spoke to a Rejected Iranian Presidential Candidate
t A campaign rally during the 2009 Iranian presidential election. (Image via) In a couple of weeks, Iranians will go to the polls to choose a replacement for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who's held...
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Here Be Dragons: Kenya's Slum Abortions Pit God Against Death
Martin Robbins is a writer and talker who blogs about weird and wonderful things for the Guardian and New Statesman. Here Be Dragons is a new column that explores denial, conflict and mystery at the...
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The Soul of UK Garage, As Photographed by Ewen Spencer
Over the last few years, it's become increasingly clear that we didn't appreciate UK garage to the extent that we should have. You can't help but think that most of the DJs, producers, filmmakers and...
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VICE News: Triple Hate - Full Length
NEWS The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again Is a Park in Memphis, Tennessee, the Epitome of Racism in Modern America? The KKK Say It’s Just History, Many Others Disagree By Rocco Castoro A...
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El Salvador to Pregnant Women: Drop Dead
El Salvador’s Supreme Court decided late last night not to allow a 22-year-old woman known as “Beatriz” to have an abortion, even though she is at risk of serious injury as a result of the pregnancy –...
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A Big Day Out at... the Guardian's New 'Data-Driven' Coffee Shop!
News broke on Twitter this morning that the Guardian, the leftist iPhone application and newspaper, had opened a “data-driven” coffee shop in Shoreditch, East London. Initially, this sounded like a...
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Artur Conka Photographs the Roma Poor He Left Behind
Artur Conka is one of the few Roma to have documented his community from behind the lens. Originally from Lunik IX, one of the largest and poorest Roma communities in Slovakia, his family travelled...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Latasha Renee Love (via) The incident: A kid ate some Pop Tarts that he wasn't supposed to eat. The appropriate response: Yelling at him. The actual response: His mother called the...
View ArticleDisclosure "When A Fire Starts to Burn" Video [THUMP Exclusive]
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Hey English Guys, This Is Why You're Bad at Sex
In 2002, Canadian journalist Leah McLaren wrote an article about her dating life as a young foreigner in London. It was called “The Tragic Ineptitude of the English Male,” and many people, English...
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After Michele Bachmann, America Needs Another Outrage Machine
Photo via Flickr user Gage Skidmore Yesterday Michele Bachmann – the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who has been called “controversial”, among other adjectives – announced that she wouldn’t...
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Reviewed: The Worst Music Video Ever Starring the World's Biggest Dickhead
At some point in the 90s, queercore band Pansy Division were interviewed by Kerrang! magazine. In that interview, they compared major pop punk bands like NOFX and Pennywise to 80s party metal scumbags...
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Fashion Tidbits Roundup: Not Joking, Hanson Have Brewed a Beer Called 'MmmHops'
A weekly roundup of anything fashion-related that's made us excited about having bodies that we can dress with clothes. GIRL GAZE IS OUR FAVOURITE NEW NUDEY ZINE We've been a fan of Arvida Bystrom...
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This Week in Racism: Sending Racist Emails About Michelle Obama Is Not a Good...
Photo by Nate Miller Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. With the assistance of my friends at the @YesYoureRacist Twitter account, I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to...
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