In the months I’ve been following EVE Online, one story stuck in my head more than any other. It’s the tale of how a pilot flying a Ragnarok Titan, the biggest and most expensive ship class in the game, was inactive but tracked for years by a group of players. And when he eventually logged on, they…

Nelson George: No Cannes Do: Why Spike Lee Nixed ‘Do The Right Thing’ Silver Anniversary For Black Fest Fete http://t.co/CsqTCokJpY via @deadline

“In between games, I didn’t sleep much. I lost weight. The stress level was high. There was no pleasure .” Those are Rick Fox’s memories from the breathtaking 2002 Western Conference finals against the Sacramento Kings. The series concluded with Fox’s Lakers grinding out a Game 7 overtime victory,…

Clive Thompson: "The public library is one of the few places where people are still treated as citizens rather than consumers": http://t.co/ahsJzdU1RA

Jason Kottke: Beats and Apple Privilege http://t.co/YagqrHSZ8e

Jonathan Hickman: The Military Is Going To Build Robots That Have Morals. LINK: http://t.co/HsMpWI9KZt PROTOTYPE: https://t.co/smWOvFYwb0

In six years, Interscope records mogul Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop icon Dr. Dre have turned Beats By Dr. Dre headphones into a $1 billion-plus business. Now, together with new president and former Interscope executive Luke Wood, they're faced with a new challenge: taking a hot brand and making it, you…

Sidney Poitier was the first choice for president; Bill Clinton was a fan; and Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme created a show "about democracy run by a couple of Kim Jong-ils": an oral history of the heady, liberal, poli-sci fantasy, 15 years after NBC greenlighted it. A version of this story first…

If I could go back in time before taking this job, I wish I knew what I was getting into. I have made peace with who I am and what I do: I am a paid Hollywood friend. For the last few years, I have been working as an assistant to a major celebrity . She regards me as her trusted confidante, her…

Disco Demolition Night, Comiskey Park, 1979 Photo: Maya Robinson and /Paul Natkin/Getty Images This is the fourth in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop's recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Read the first one here , the second…

To a vacationer in the nineteen-sixties, the New York subway must have been confounding. Station names written in mosaic tile in 1904 vied for attention with enamel signs from the thirties, silk-screened tiles from the fifties, and printed or hand-painted signs from as recently as the sixties, as…

Clive Thompson: The "infield shift": how data analysis of where batters hit is changing where the fielding team positions itself -- http://t.co/eJdkez1p5f

“Long live the new flesh.” — Videodrome David Cronenberg’s Videodrome is about the convergence of man and machine, and the ever-narrowing distance between ourselves and the technology that consumes us. It’s about a conspiracy forged over wired networks. It features a “hacker” who accesses encrypted…

Deadline Hollywood: ‘Community’ Unlikely To Go Elsewhere, Creator Dan Harmon Reacts To Cancellation http://t.co/BOfGSHdB8A

3 Months Since Legalizing Marijuana, Here's What Colorado Looks Like Image Credit: Getty The news: Colorado's pot sales are booming . The state's Department of Revenue reports that marijuana retailers sold nearly $19 million in recreational weed in March, up from $14 million in February. The first…

Photo: Maya Robinson and Photo by Getty This is the third in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop's recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Read the first one here and the second one here . Can I start this essay by asking a…

Warren Ellis: I did a long interview about my next comics project, TREES, here - http://t.co/1GCNXDptOk

Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson is the in-house economist at CCP Games, and part of his job is keeping Eve Online and its multiple currencies running smoothly. Eve Online and Dust 514 incorporate a series of virtual currencies, such as ISK, Auram and Plex, that are all interconnected and in some cases can…

Run DMC at Hammersmith Odeon London 13 September 1986 Photo: Maya Robinson and Photo David Corio This is the second in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop's recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Read the first one here . What do…

Some of America’s poorest people are being targeted by cyber-scammers. Can an errant hacker find the culprits? IF YOUR JOB involves scamming people, Mike Davis might be the last person you’d want to target. Mike breaks things apart for a living. He’s paid by companies to find security flaws in the…

david carr: David Segal on phantom vid views. http://t.co/CKUSleBXh6 Thicket of middlemen puts the airquotes around "traffic"

Wednesday, Apr 23 2014 click to flip through (3) AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File DA Gascon discusses kill-switches during a 2013 press conference in New York. smartphone theft Alex had a gnawing, uneasy feeling when he boarded the last BART train from San Francisco International Airport, on the way…

Grantland: The White House Correspondents Dinner: Who shone? Who whiffed? by @AmosBarshad http://t.co/a74nNEupi6

I dressed in black for Game 5 of the Clippers-Warriors series. I wasn’t alone. More than 40 percent of the fans wore black T-shirts, black blouses, black dresses, black everything. The cheerleaders wore skimpy black outfits. Every advertising sign or banner throughout the arena was covered in black.…

Grantland: David Chase Is Bewildered That We’re Still Talking About the ‘Sopranos’ Finale, @AmosBarshad http://t.co/Ldb3gHaCu7

The Spider-Man of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the Spider-Man of Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and John Romita’s wildest fantasies (and, frankly, mine). He’s as nimble as an acrobat and as strong as a powerlifter, and frequently both simultaneously; he’ll swoop through Times Square, flip himself onto the…

Noel: One of the big surprises of the television season so far has been how good the FX series Fargo is. It’s surprising mainly because there was no reason to expect that such a self-contained, stylistically distinctive movie could be translated into a TV show—even though one of the most popular…

Grantland: A Buried Grave of Unsold 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' Atari Cartridges Is a Thing That Exists, by @PhloxLombardi http://t.co/H2ElbJJ0aH

Grantland: The Unlikely, Semi-Terrific, Possibly Problematic Return of '24', by @andygreenwald http://t.co/t7qckyAb0p

pajiba: How http://t.co/MdgBL5sUS4 Rewrote My Headline and Turned Me Into an Internet Troll http://t.co/44nbDuxFrx

Joel Hodgson Platon Released in 1966 , Manos: The Hands of Fate is a D-minus of a B movie: Its plot, about desert-­dwelling pagans, makes little sense. Its cast could be out-acted by the stars of a day care holiday pageant. And the film is paced with the urgency and focus of a box turtle on lithium.…

Wu Tang Clan at the filming of their new video in Los Angeles, Ca. 9/18/00.Wu Tang Clan at the filming of their new video in Los Angeles, Ca. 9/18/00. Photo by Kevin Winter/ImageDirect. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Just as a house divided against itself cannot stand, a Wu-Tang Clan apparently…

Nelson George: Dance Dance Revolution: Nelson George on 'Soul Train' http://t.co/xwrGJ9Iefe via @rollingstone New interview about #TheHippestTripinAmerica.

At approximately midnight on May 2, the 2014 summer movie season will, for all intents and purposes, commence — with a big-budget sequel, as is the tradition by now. After that, we’ve got four months of blockbusters, bombs, and hidden gems to look forward to, but why wait till then to see how the…

Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 Collaborative Team Rescues Early Digital Art through “Forensic Retrocomputing” A media archaeology project by (alphabetically): @ cl0x , @ cmoa , @ cory_arcangel , @ creativeinquiry , & @ TheWarholMuseum [ Press Release , 6MB .PDF]…

Over the course of the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to serve as producer on the Tropes vs Women in Video Games web series. During that time, I have been taken aback by the intense and often abusive reaction to the project. This backlash, along with a number of other recent high-profile…

This article was produced in partnership with Intel iQ . Function has always been limited by form. We want the best, but we want the best to also look appealing. Air Jordan sneakers cost two hundred dollars not because of their arch support, but because people want to wear them: or, rather, to be…

The gaming industry used to be flooded with interesting peripherals. The era of the music game gave us piles of plastic instruments across two generations of consoles. PC gamers embraced racing wheels and flight sticks. Even NES gamers fell in love with the Advantage. The act of adding accessories…