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The Titan Supercomputer Will Kick Your Computer's Ass

Bow down to the Titan supercomputer, puny mortals. The Titan just earned the title for the world’s most powerful supercomputer, and it is not fucking around. Built by Cray Inc., “the supercomputer...

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Toxic: America's Water Crisis - Part 1

Every time it rains in New York City, billions of gallons of raw sewage are piped directly into the Hudson River. Superstorms like Hurricane Sandy only magnify the issue by flooding New York's...

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Sometimes You Lose Your First Jiu-Jitsu Match of the Day

Ayanthi Gunawardana spends the time leading up to her match stretching, then sprinting, and once she’s got a sweat going, pacing. Her headphones are in her ears and her expression is serious. Like,...

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Serious Syrian Memes

Illustration by Kayla Colaizzi Like the rest of the internet, the Syrian memeverse is messy, argumentative, and prone to stupidity and hyperbole. But it’s a place where Syrians can openly riff on...

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Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis: Sandy and the Broken Machine

It was the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. It killed the electricity in Jamaica, left 200,000 Haitians homeless, and destroyed more than 15,000 buildings in Cuba before angling in on the...

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Fresh Off the Boat: Taiwan - Part 1

Taiwan has a complex cultural blend embedded in its history that has given it a character unlike any other place in the world. In the first of three Fresh Off the Boat: Taiwan episodes, Eddie gets...

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Camping in France

Camping in France is not the same as camping in the US. It does not mean going off into the woods with a tent and s’mores and experiencing nature at its most raw and virginal. No, camping in France is...

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I Went to Syria to Learn How to Be a Journalist

The local Free Syrian Army crew in Baba al-Nasr, outside Aleppo, gears up for a battle. Sunil Patel had never been published before he decided to go to Syria in August 2012 to become a war...

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A Living Diary of a Dying Industry: The Sound Guy Who Really Needs You to...

Audio engineer Jason Powers is a “cool guy.” No, really, that’s what everyone says when they meet him. He’s not fawningly nice, or the quippy class-clown dude, just pretty assertive and relatively...

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I Was David Petraeus's Bitch in the 90s and I Hated Every Second of It

The author writing out an operations order during the reign of David the Terrible. Over the weekend, the media went into a feeding frenzy over the big, juicy, red-meat news that David Petraeus, the...

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Kill the Engine: Okay Mountain E.A.S.T. Tour

The East Austin Studio Tour is a yearly self-guided tour in Austin, Texas where artists from all walks of life open their studio doors to the public. The tour includes painters, illustrators,...

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Ground Zero: Syria - Under Fire for Bread in Aleppo

Every day the men, women, and children of Aleppo, Syria, must risk their lives to stand in line and hope that they can buy a kilo of bread to survive another day. Many of the bread factories in Aleppo...

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Dogmageddon: The Longest Horoscope Ever

"This book doesn't have any answers!"—Homer Simpson in The Simpsons Movie. The Bible is filled with instructions on how to lead a great and fulfilling life. Really. There's all sorts of amazing...

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The Revenge of Angela Chase

On January 26, it will be 18 years since My So-Called Life’s final episode aired. Not a day goes by where I don’t mourn its untimely cancellation. Did Angela choose Brian Krakow since he wrote all...

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Wide World of Balls: The Lakers' Long National Nightmare Is Over

Veterans Day was on Sunday, so sports teams and leagues made tribute to the military, naturally. The most striking thing anyone did, maybe, was Bears owner Virginia McCaskey's PSA during the first...

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Pony Boy: You Had Me at Fugazi

Marchelle Bradanini aka Pony Boy is a singer / songwriter from Los Angeles, but don’t let that fool you into thinking she’s a weeping willow of a human being. Her blend of country, blues, and rock...

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Denise Scicluna Photographs Things You Never Notice

Denise Scicluna is a young photographer from Malta whose work—unlike most still life photographers'—doesn't make you want to slowly pluck out every single one of your eyelashes out of sheer boredom....

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Measure B Is a Pain in the Dick

Let’s not bullshit ourselves, condoms flat out suck—both in one’s private life and in pornos. They’re uncomfortable boner-ruiners and girls are always trying to put holes in them to get my babies. In...

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The Suspicious Return of The Daily Capper

If you’ve been following our coverage of Amanda Todd’s suicide, you'll know that it led to a realization that there is a very active corner of the internet where pedophiles find young girls on webcam...

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Question of the Day: What Would You Die For?

If you're the kind of person who neglects articles about war and hardship that clog up the front of a newspaper, all in the pursuit of mindless tittle-tattle about snowboarding parakeets and...

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