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Requiem For a White MC

Last week, after learning that Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys had died at 47, Gawker asked sometimes Deadspin contributor Peter Nash—also known as Prime Minister Pete Nice of 3rd Bass—to share…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1901 words)

Food's Biggest Scam - The Great Kobe Beef Lie

These are cuts of the famous Kobe beef from Hyogo prefecture in Japan. Note the exquisite marbling of fat throughout. To see it in person, you need to go to Japan, because real Kobe…
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (884 words)

Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart. Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. We have…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2012

I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web

Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4123 words)

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 63-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2873 words)

The Classics Illustrated Comics Project

—Five Cartoonists For our first-ever comics post, At Length asked five cartoonists to consider adaptation. We wrote: If you were hired by Classics Illustrated and told to choose a…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (340 words)
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