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I Lied to My Wife, Flew to Lagos and Got the Shit Beaten Out of Me Because of...
All illustrations by Matt Freak City. By now, everyone is well aware of “419” scams, also known as advance-fee fraud or Nigerian-email fraud. These are cons in which anonymous hustlers pose as corrupt...
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The Sunday Sport's Website Is Really Weird
A collection of stories from the Sunday Sport website Since the internet was invented a couple of years ago, the classic titles of the British newspaper world have been suffering from a bit of an...
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Why Do Some Feminists Want to Burn the Jane Austen Banknotes?
When it was announced that Jane Austen was to appear on the next edition of the ten-pound note, it was widely seen as a victory for feminist campaigners. After all, it would be rotten if, when...
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Pro-Government Protesters Turned Up in Kiev This Weekend
The pro-government protest at Mariinsky park As anti-government protesters enter their fourth week on the streets of Kiev, this weekend saw the arrival of another group in the Ukraine capital: those...
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Remembering Peter O'Toole, a Man with His Own Wild Intensity
The late Peter O'Toole, who died Saturday at the age of 81 after a long illness (photo via) “My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived.” So says Peter O’Toole as Henry II in his...
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How We Got the Skammerz Ishu Cover
Scam-baiting is a form of internet vigilantism in which the vigilante poses as a potential victim to expose a scammer. It’s essentially grassroots social engineering conducted as civic duty or even...
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A December Avalanche of Atrocious Ads, Branding and Social Media
Because marketing people are, as ever, desperately trying to justify their existence, they are loath to leave one annual budget dollar unspent. That mentality leads to a yearly December blizzard of...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: London - Trailer
In episode four of Fresh Off the Boat - Season Two, Eddie explores the different neighborhoods of London by hanging with a some of the cities' oldest gangsters, learning to play the "gentleman's game"...
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The Horror of the Blank Page: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
Illustration by Molly Crabapple Art Spiegelman needs caffeine. I'd promised to bring him the strong stuff for our interview, but Art’s local coffee shop had closed since my last visit to his studio in...
View ArticleKids Telling Dirty Jokes: Jackson
Kids Telling Dirty Jokes is our new series that features tiny comedians we found on Craigslist. This episode stars Jackson, an adorable tyke who came equipped with his own foul jokes and swear words....
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: Underground Fighters of Japan
Waru [bad boy] is a Japanese anything-goes fighting tournament started by movie producer and entrepreneur, Yamamoto Yoshihisa. When it comes to organised fighting in Japan, it's about as rough as it...
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Seals Are Delicious, So Let's Kill and Eat Them
Seal pup via Seal hunting gets a bad rap. The phrase probably gives you a visual of agro dudes cracking the skulls of helpless seals with giant wooden clubs, and everyone from Morrissey to American...
View ArticleComing in 2014: Murder by Internet and the Collapse of Bitcoin and Tor
Coming in 2014: Murder by Internet and the Collapse of Bitcoin and Tor
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Hiring an Internet Hitman in Russia Is Just Like Ordering Pizza
The "About Us" page of Russia-based hitman website zakazat-kilera.com By now, you'll have heard all about the legions of tech-savvy hitmen hanging out on the deepweb waiting to be asked to kill...
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VICE News: Child Workers of the World, Unite!
travel Unaccompanied Miners Down the Shaft with Bolivia’s Child LaboUrers By Wes Enzinna Jose Luis and his cousin, young laborers who work together inside the Cerro Rico mine. All photos by Jackson...
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Our Dishonest Planet
All illustrations by Sam Taylor. Do you ever get the feeling that everyone you meet is lying to you? Well, that’s because they probably are – the world is full of people who will lie, cheat, rob and...
View ArticleWatching Swedish Neo-Nazis Fighting in the Forest
The Swedish Resistance Movement or SMR – who, if you didn't guess already, are an ultra-violent neo-Nazi group – have lately been spending a lot of time spreading their message in the Stockholm suburb...
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As 2013 Dies, the Face of Popular Protest in Egypt Is Changing Once More
Pro Morsi protesters in Cairo. Photo by Tom Dale For close to three years, Egyptians have been protesting and occupying public spaces. Almost every Friday, some group, somewhere, would be...
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The Central African Republic Is Descending into Chaos
Video and photos by Robert King The Central African Republic, already one of the poorest nations in the world, is descending into chaos. In the capital city of Bangui alone, hundreds have died and...
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