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Covenant Eyes Software Blocks Unholy Web Content
In high school, I tried to bypass my school’s security blocks with proxies I found online. My attempts never worked—the filter was way too stringent, and the system was smart enough to catch on as...
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Weediquette: T. Kid the Rapper
Recently, it occurred to me that Weediquette isn’t my first venture into cannabis-related writing. In college, I was an aspiring rapper who filled notebook after notebook with rhymes about smoking...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Newcastle: Getting Our Bearings with Gavin Webster
What do you know about Newcastle, besides the fact that Newcastle Brown Ale, the world’s best brown ale named after Newcastle, comes from there? If your answer is, “what are you talking about?” or, “I...
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Inside Schilling: Charles Manson, the Ultimate Bachelor, Might Finally Be...
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons After a torrid six-year courtship, Charles Manson is finally making an honest woman out of his 25-year-old girlfriend, Star. Like me, you all probably thought it...
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Comics: Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #96
Dear people who love to look at stuff, My name is Nick Gazin, and I write about comics, art, books, nerd stuff, paper, and anything related to fan communities I find meaningful. Mostly, I review...
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Riding the Baekdudaegan
The Arch of Reunification in Pyongyang, North Korea. All photos by Gareth Morgan. For the past decade, New Zealanders Joanne and Gareth Morgan have been living the semiretired lifestyle of their...
View ArticleThe Problem with the Beastie Boys Suing GoldieBlox Over "Girls"
The Problem with the Beastie Boys Suing GoldieBlox Over "Girls"
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India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously
(Photo via) Indian nuclear scientists haven't had an easy time of it over the past decade. Not only has the scientific community been plagued by "suicides," unexplained deaths, and sabotage, but those...
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I Went on a Hash-Making Holiday in Northern Morocco
A bowl containing beaten kif. Until the Spanish occupation of northern Morocco in the 1920s, Chefchaouen was basically a closed city. In fact, when troops first arrived, they found Jews in the area...
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'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)
Algorave programmers writing musical code, all photos by: Paul Cantrell For most people, the only type of code involved in clubbing is a dress code. However, it turns out there's a whole musical...
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Fun and Games at Italy's Largest Immigrant Ghetto
Shacks in the ghetto The colored neon lights and the music pumping from the speakers rip through the silence of the countryside near Foggia, in the region of Apulia, southern Italy. I should be in the...
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There's a New, Interactive Documentary about Fort McMurray
Watch the trailer so you have a better idea of what this interview is about. Fort McMoney is an ambitious video game and documentary hybrid about Alberta’s crude oil sands and the community that lives...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Can Cameras Prevent the Police from Harassing Poor People?
Good job, citizen! Photo via Flickr user OakleyOriginals Last year, Alex Saleh, a convenience store owner in Miami Gardens, Florida, installed 15 security cameras in and around his shop—but not to...
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The Conservatives Are Using Cyberbullying to Normalize Online Surveillance
Canada's Minister of Justice, Peter MacKay, gesticulating wildly. via WikiCommons. The political banner of “cyberbullying” is one that I’ve found to be particularly problematic since I began covering...
View Article#BASED in Baltimore: Schwarz Is Too Weird for the Internet
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I Spent a Decade Working for Churches (and It Was the Worst)
Illustrations by Michael Shaeffer Before I started doing comedy and writing full time, I spent over a decade working for churches. Let me preface this by saying that I am not an angry atheist, or even...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Moscow - Part 1
In part one of Fresh Off the Boat - Moscow, Eddie takes his first shot of Russian vodka, chows down on some "communist dogs" with one of the few black Muscovites, and discusses the country's diverse...
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Being Racist Could Get Easier in Australia
Australia has a reputation for being racist. And with their old-timey slaughter of indigenous people, the locking up of refugees, and rioting in Cronulla, it’s hard to say they haven’t earned it....
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Max Headroom Television Hack
The Mystery of the Max Headroom Television Hack
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