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The MIDI Revolution: Synthesizing Music For The Masses

Here’s what it would look like if Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Tommy Wiseau and Joe Swanberg all directed Point Break

The New Typography Of Irony

How To Collect Music in These Overwhelming Times

A Way to Make Phone Records Not So Easy to Track

Facebook and Brooklyn Killed America’s Obsession With Cars

Movies Booed At Cannes

The Modern History Of Swearing

How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life

also…

This looks cool

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The People You Meet at McDonald’s

Exploring the interior designs of Los Angeles’ medical marijuana dispensaries

The Mystery of the Dog Suicide Bridge

Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?

The Punk Music Scene In China

Internet Unearths Late-’80s Footage of Martin and Charlie Sheen Beating Michael Jordan in Basketball

Captive Audience: The Music Business in America’s Prisons

How Portable Paint Made Impressionism Possible

Introducing the Cronut, a Doughnut-Croissant Hybrid

Cities Are Good For You

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Send Her Your Sexts

Woody Allen Amuses Himself by Giving Untruthful Answers in 1971 TV Interview

Meet the Family That Never Learned to Walk on Two Legs

The Dude Abides on the Other Side of the Lens

Watch This Helicopter Land On A Guard Rail

“How I Overcame Snobbery to self-publish an e-book”

Bring Back the Generation Gap

Dirty Old New York Subway

How Much Does the Church of Scientology Spend on Advertising?

Behind the scenes of the Sex Pistols’ catastrophic “Great Rock ’N’ Roll Swindle”

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When Julian Schnabel stopped painting and before he became a filmmaker, he unfortunately made a country album

Are Ambitious People Happier

Write Poems With Google Search

Chart of favorite books matched against average SAT scores

The Bleeps and Bloops of Movie Computers

Great Pioneers of Pot

“Howling Fat Men of the Coen Brothers”

The ‘Like’ Button That Came Before Facebook

How J.D. Salinger Flirted With Girls

Sounds Just Like

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Women Holding Fish

Watch A-Trak and Tommy Trash’s “Tuna Melt” Video

How Facebook Takes Your Emotional Temperature

A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America

Why Does Every Dude Make That Same Face in Every Photo?

The Early Audition Tapes of Your Favorite Comics

The Business of Phish

Street by James Nares

David Fincher’s AT&T Ads From Way Back In The Day

Weed Or Smoothie?

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Luke Skywalker Is The Graduate

Three Musical Instruments You Can Play From a Distance Using the Internet

This Is Exactly How Much You Should Tip The Pizza Delivery Gentleman

Drones Over Austin

Postcards From Google Earth

The amazing true story of how the Beatles kept John Lennon’s wife and baby son a secret

London’s Best and Most Secretive Address

A Brief, Opinionated History of Taxes in America

When Someone You Love Likes Music You Hate, What Do You Do?

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Life As Artists’ Assistants

Reasons Not to Stretch

Unearthing America’s Treasure Trove of Obscure Private Press Vinyl

Learn The Anatomy of a Book

Being Gay at Jerry Falwell’s University

The Best-Known Unknown Restaurant in America

‘Who Killed Bambi?’ The Roger Ebert Sex Pistols Screenplay

MTV Shows That Never Should Have Been Cancelled

The Worst Female DJ Promo Pics

How to be Ungoogleable

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If the Beach Boys Were Terrible

Chinese Gamer Has Spent The Past 6 Years In An Internet Cafe

The Ironic Success Of Experimental Philosophy

“Book culture is in far less peril than many choose to assume.”

Actresses Without Teeth

The Internet apocalypse that didn’t happen

World’s Quietest Room Breeds Insanity

The Office as a Personal Museum

You Look Like Such a Tourist: ’80s and ’90s Edition

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The Virtues of “Staying Up Late” by Michael Beirut

You didn’t own Google Reader, it owned you

The Battle Over Musical Pitch

A Chat with the Always-Enjoyable R. Crumb About His (Huge) Record Collection

Where are the women Kerouacs?

The Life and Controversial Work of Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe

Steve Buscemi would have been better in these roles

The Talkhouse

Notes On Modern Classics From Clueless Studio Executives

The Long, Slow Decline Of Alt-Weeklies

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Everything you might ever want to know about Coca-Cola

How Records Are Made

Scientists Create A Formula For Perfect Parking

America’s First Hippie: Living and Learning with Gypsy Boots

The Age Of The Expense Account

The Woman Behind The Voice At 200 Airports

Jack Kerouac’s List of Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life

The Wire’s Greatest Fashion Moments

Museum of Endangered Sounds

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The World’s First Book-Writing Machine

“My Husband Is Obsessed With Disco Music And I’m Worried He May Be Ill“

The Photographer Who Made Architects Famous

When Movie Characters Break the Fourth Wall

The Worst American Restaurants In Europe

Check out floor plans from your favorite TV show homes

If you printed out all of Wikipedia, it would weigh nearly twice as much as a car

Mannequins, Then and Now

The Lost & Unmade Projects Of Stanley Kubrick

“His name was Paul Bloom, longtime San Diego anchorman and a prime inspiration for Will Ferrell’s Anchorman.”

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What Makes Art Critics Change Their Minds

In Pursuit of Taste, en Masse

What Is An Independent Film In 2013?

How Auto-Tune Conquered Pop Music

Why are American beers so weak?

Merv Griffin tries on a DEVO plastic pomp wig on his show in 1981

We Found Our Son in the Subway

The Friendster Autopsy: How a Social Network Dies

Lessons I Learned From Stealing White People’s iPods

A Visit To Iceland’s Infamous Penis Museum

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Rebuilding Playboy

The Very Depressing Thoughts of an Actual Oscar Voter

Any two web pages are no more than 19 clicks apart

Early Hollywood Publicity Stills vs. Andy Warhol Portraits

The Useless Beauty Of The Vintage Mechanical Wristwatch

Things Record Labels Don’t Want You to Know They Do

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

New York City Transit Authority Graphic Standards Manual, 1970

Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever, and also a dark, troubled, and seemingly unlikable man

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Marlon Brando’s little black book

Does our admiration of philanthropists blind us to their faults?

Guy dresses up as Facebook users and sends them friend requests

A History of Rapper Run-Restaurants That Covers More Than Rick Ross

Vaguely Rude Places Of The World

Strange Band Merchandise

A Permanent To-Do List

In 1966, a Toronto soccer enthusiast tried teaming up the game with a Byrds concert, calling it “Rock ‘n Soccer.”

Can Writers Retire? Let Us Count the Ways

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The Hat-Wearing Moron Taxonomy

What Is It Like To Be With a Person Who Has the Exact Same Name as You?

Butt Cracks, Underboobs & More Banned Body Parts at the Grammy Awards

The Real Instrument Behind The Sound In ‘Good Vibrations’

The Bonfire Of The Vanities 1990 TV Trailer

Ian Svenonius’ Supernatural Tips To Achieve Rock Stardom

Meet The Men in The Monster Suits

The stories behind Juergen Teller’s best shots

The Organist

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What Does It Mean to Be Comfortable?

David Bowie’s Forgotten, Campy Berlin Gigolo Movie

Hollywood gets science wrong — and that’s okay

The Luxury Rental Girlfriend

Thirty Years Of MIDI Music-Making

Who Made That Military Dog Tag?

The Silk Road Is Showing Cracks

How Is Life Outside After Being in Prison for Over 20 Years?

30 Rock Landed on Us

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The Pun Conundrum

‘Ballpark Gum’ Tastes Like Peanuts, Hot Dogs, and Beer

The Life And Times Of The Woman Who Invented Phone Sex

Why You Could Have Fallen for Scientology, Too

Waiting for Bardot

The Real-Life Stories Behind Famous Love Songs

When Fashion Is No Longer Fashionable

Greta Garbo’s Records

Did Pompeii create the first social network?

John Belushi’s Improvised Screen Test for Saturday Night Live, 1975

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The Last Years of Richard Pryor

Pot-smokers according to stock images

The Internet Has Physical Ambitions

Afrika Bambaataa: Classic videos from the Zulu Nation

Not in my house: How Vegas casinos wage a war on cheating

Seinfeld’s Greatest Fashion Moments

Christian Science Monitor Gets in on the Ground Floor of This New ‘DJ Culture’ Thing

Gwar On Football

Why does the same agency regulate alcohol, tobacco, and firearms?

Bad Graffiti

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Are art critics too nice?

What It’s Like to Experience New Technology After 25 Years in Jail

Francis Ford Coppola’s potential cast list for ‘The Godfather’

The Most Valuable Records Ever

Tom Sachs: 10 Bullets for WSJ

Capitalism & The Good Life

Paul Thomas Anderson On Prepping For and Following Up ‘The Master’

Why You Shouldn’t Work Less

Put this goo on your fingers, then slam them with a hammer

Tupac-Inspired Alligator Discovered Guarding Weed Stash

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