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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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Chuck Berry reviews Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Clash and many more, 1980

Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks: See how much money people make in every neighborhood in every city in America

UPS Drivers Vs. The UPS Algorithm

Do You Think Like Sherlock Holmes?

The Creepiest Game You’ve Never Heard Of

The End of History Illusion

Art market online: Out with the old, in with the new

How blind people use Instagram

A 1927 Paramount Studio Map of the Southern California suggesting film locations/settings

Jay-Z Lyric or Line From The Great Gatsby?

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Thirstiest Men of Instagram

Hollywood Feuds: Actors vs. Directors

Charting 2012’s Top Cultural Obsessions

What Did America Get Stuck In Its Bodies This Year?

Community Memory: a social media terminal from 1973

Has our pep-talk-prone culture led readers to shun tragic literary classics?

The Surprisingly Short History of Backpacks

Shot of booze to the heart saves man’s life

Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

The Year in Failure

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The Original “Eagle Snatches Child” Video

Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up

A Year of the Grateful Dead Tuning Their Instruments

Vietnamese Liquor with real Cobra snake and Scorpion

IBM says your computer will be able to smell things (wine, your breath, etc.) within 5 years

NFL great Jim Brown quickly gave up idea of fight with Muhammad Ali

David Bowie’s First American Fan Letter And His Evolving Views of the U.S.

Don’t Worry: Donkey Cheese Is Still Available

Ray Charles – ‘Merry Christmas Baby’ 1979

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A David Foster Wallace essay about rap music’s appeal to white people

Internet cultures around the world

When Nico met Bauhaus

How the Mafia Is Ruining Naples’s Food Scene 

New Camouflage Makes Targets Invisible

How the invention of walls gave rise to eavesdropping and the culture of privacy

This device prevents that dude sitting in front of you on the airplane from putting his chair all the way back

Documenting Disappearing London

Neal Cassady: American Muse, Holy Fool

What Your Email Inbox Count Says About You

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Skateboarding’s Favorite Jazz Song

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii

Dying rock stars’ famous last words

NBA Hair

How Much Marijuana Does It Take To Get a Contact High?

When Facebook was Fun

The battle over Homer Simpson’s beer

The Surprising Things I Learned from Working in a Strip Club (Hint: Pastors Are Big Fans)

A fascinating look at the 1998 PlayStation game LSD: Dream Emulator

Marc Bolan – “T. Rexmas”

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Bad Brains’ Strange Survival Tale

The Craziest and Most Lucrative Thrift Store Art Finds

Architectural Forum magazine covers, 1949–1953

Scenes from Joe Biden’s Big Adventure ‘Looking for Pies’ at Costco

Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock

A Short Lesson in Perspective

Suzanne Somers meets Wire on ‘The Late Show,’ 1987

Adult Jokes Hidden in Children’s Cartoons

New York At Night

The Curse of Warholism

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Seeking a Better Way to Find Web Images

The Making of “The Chronic”

Can Ecstasy Help Soldiers With PTSD?

Play The 2 Chainz Video Game

London’s Coffeehouse Culture From 1959

Why Do British Singers Sound American?

In Praise of The Cliché: At The End of the Day, Sometimes You’ve Just Got To Think Inside The Box

The Vast Recorded Legacy of the Grateful Dead

This Is How You Get An 80-Foot Christmas Tree To The Middle Of Manhattan

Found on Ebay for $999,995.00

“Social media eliminates the need to provide value to your clients.”

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Capote’s Swan Dive

Which Law & Order Characters Did Their Jobs Best?

Marley Marl radio rips ’85-’89

The Baseball Photographer Trading Cards

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore

Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television?

Inside the Risky Business of Porn Star Agents

Bill Paxton was in an awful 80s New-Wave band. James Cameron directed their music video

This website identifies repetitive parts of a song and creates an infinitely long version of it

“Funeral services and interment will be held privately. In lieu of flowers and in his honor, go see the new James Bond movie.”

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David Lynch Shows How He Cooks Quinoa

Fact-checking at The New Yorker

Bizarre Secret Societies

Roseanne Barr Finished Sixth in the Presidential Race

The Post-Technics Age

An oral history of the destined-for-greatness Houston Rockets of the early 1980s

Can Digital Drugs Get You High?

Bookish Conversations We Never Want to Have Again

All-Japanese My Bloody Valentine Tribute has Great Line-Up, Awkward Title

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The Strange Allure Of Disaster Porn

This Is Water – timeless wisdom on life from David Foster Wallace

How This Paparazzi Agency Turned Movie Product Placement On Its Head

The Philadelphia 76ers unveil the world’s largest T-shirt cannon

Rolex Water Resistance Testing

Defending Reggae to White People Who Don’t Like Reggae 

A Filmgoer Tries to Feign Interest in Art House Cinema 

Japan Says, Why Not Use a Public Toilet As A Hotel?

Less Dance: Nightclubs try to turn around their ebbing fortunes

Welcoming Sandy

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Designers of the Signs That Guide You

Spending Lavishly On Food

There is a Subculture of People That Develop Cars Made to Run on Wood

The World’s Worst Typos – In Pictures

How We Watch What We Watch: The Future Of TV

What I Learned While Live-Tweeting a Friend’s Funeral 

The Amazon Book-Reviewing Scam

Lemmy’s Guide to Life

Trademarking the Classic Hershey Bar

Mitt Romney as ODB

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Everyone’s a Curator

Songs Forever Ruined By Artists Revealing Their True Meanings

What Your Salute Says About You

Found Photos Of The Rolling Stones: Who Took Them?

More Carrots Than You Can Shake a Stick At

Indie Basketball

Who controls the internet?

The Best Hip-Hop Albums Produced By One Producer

Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre

I Asked My Dad, Who Has Dementia, to Annotate Jonathan Franzen’s ‘How to Be Alone’

Hunter S. Thompson shaving Johnny Depp’s head

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Your Tax Dollars at Work: The FBI’s Files on Their 3-Year-Long Investigation of the Song “Louie Louie”

Why Do We Behave So Oddly In Elevators?

The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History

Watch Matthew Lillard play Stevo—from 1998′s critically-acclaimed ‘SLC Punk!’—as an adult

Orson Welles Remembers his Stormy Friendship with Ernest Hemingway

Is Originality Dead in the Age of the Remix?

The Favorite Foods of Presidents Past and Present

Scientology and the Nation of Islam: America’s two weirdest sects join forces 

Why Handwriting Matters

New vest inflates when you receive Likes on Facebook

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From Muddy Waters to R.L. Burnside, hear a continuous mix of Mississippi blues

The Beauty of the Airline Baggage Tag

Are These The Six Next International Art Centers?

The Ongoing Tension Between Africa and Hip-Hop

Does your stomach have the guts for a meal at Paris’s Academy of Organ Meats?

A Guide to Otis Redding Samples

Banned Book Trading Cards

Rare Footage of The Beatles Eating Fish and Chips

“What the Young Man Should Know” From Harper’s Magazine 1933

The Arrested Development Cast Reunited Wearing 18th Century Garb

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An archive interview between David Bowie and Roy Lichtenstein

The Hustler’s MBA

An in-depth analysis of the career of commercial actors pegged to long-standing branded characters

If You Collapse in a Bookstore, Morrissey Will Help You Up

The Godfather of Brazilian Soul

Conclusive Proof: Britain Loves Ecstasy

A compilation of Dan “Yell” Day-Lewis a.k.a. “DD Yell” featuring some of his contractually mandated screaming scenes

Meet the people branded for life with tattoos advertising websites that no longer exist

Aged to Perfection

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The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator

Trampled Under Foot: Barney Hoskyns’ brilliant oral history of Led Zeppelin

Why The New Yorker Doesn’t Have a Public Editor

I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World

Is Asking Dumb Questions The Future Of Journalism?

Velvet Underground Improvises, Warhol Films It, Until the Cops Turn Up

Harry Saltzman, co-creator of cinematic Bond, led a secret life as a British spy 

Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality

An interview with the curators of the Bernadette Corporation retrospective that celebrates the collaborative group of artists & designers that spearheaded the underground NY fashion and art scene in the mid-late 90s

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