It is surprisingly common, in China at least, for the wealthy to hire scapegoats to confess to unfavorable crimes. More unbelievable, though, is the practice of hiring lookalikes to serve the upper class’s prison sentences. Geoffrey Sant over at Slate has published an excellent article detailing the
While the rest of us are still bemoaning the lost physicality of records and CDs, Kill Screen contributor Kyle Chayka instead mourns a more recent victim in the death march of time: the humble MP3. Sure, MP3s are still around, but today we experience music less through our own curated playlists and
Backed Endorsed by id Software’s John Carmack, the Oculus Rift is a new VR headset that made its debut at E3. It’s also the technology powering USC’s Holodeck Project that we reported on a couple weeks ago. But today, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign that revealed a new design for the hea
According to Forbes, the fraud and laundering lawsuit pending trial against online poker companies Full Tilt and PokerStars has been settled. The total amount of restitution comes to $731 million. The third company facing allegations, Absolute Poker, has yet to reach a settlement with prosecutors.
Have you you eaten your cultural vegetables? A quick trip to the archive turned up this article by Dan Kois from last year, in which he both laments and venerates those films that we are obliged to consume, the so-called “vegetables” of the cultural diet. In college, a friend demanded to know what
