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Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles
Paolo Cirio hacked into the Wall Street Journal, FT, and the Economist, and has published every paywalled story they ran in 2014. And he will pay you to read them.
How Britain Might Have Deliberately Concealed Evidence of Imperial Crimes
We talked to an expert about official efforts to hush up documents detailing murder and torture by British colonial authorities.
Here’s What the British Government Has Been Hiding
We spoke to a specialist about the crimes committed in British colonies.
A Giant Head Sculpture Will Look Down On Chicago This Summer
Millennium Park is celebrating its 10th birthday by unveiling four new installations by sculptor Jaume Plensa.
Installation Artist Turns Public Street Into Massive Water Slide
Bristol's famed Park Street became a giant water slide in Luke Jerram's latest installation.
The Good/Bad Art Collective Airs a Snuff Infomercial on Broadcast TV
In the fall of 2013, Texas's Good/Bad Art Collective created a one-night event called CURTAINS in a make-shift television studio. This later culminated in a 28-minute infomercial, FOREVER, which sells the secret to immortality but ends...
How A Building Turned Into An Illuminated Rubik's Cube
Even the fastest Rubik's Cube solvers can't top this.
Academics Aren’t Impressed by Your TED Talk
Is TED just a front-runner or are academics jealous jerks?
Frictionless Sharing's Dead. And Privacy?
The recent failure of several fledgling web services that challenged the boundaries of our willingness to live in public indicates we do have our limits, at least for now.
When Old, Out-of-Copyright Art Becomes Free Art
An interview with Adam Green, co-founder of the out-of-copyright art archive the Public Domain
Americans Get Off on Bizarre Punishments
Canada has some pretty chill judges compared to the perverted, public humiliation lovers across the border.