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Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond.

David Rees is not kidding. He really does sharpen pencils for a living.

The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the particle and its energy field. But the LHC didn't do it alone. The search has been a massive, costly and unprecedented international effort that began thousands of miles away, at another atom smasher beneath the Illinois prairie.

Bad, that is, in the Michael Jackson sense. ROFLCon, the brainchild of a few Harvard undergraduates, is a biennial gathering of the Internet's foremost makers of viral memes, their hardcore fanboys, and the net researchers who get excited about them (with a hefty dose of chin-rubbing, no doubt).

From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to let us take their flying spy robots for a spin.

The man who created Brazil's crazy space-age moon-capital. Oscar Niemeyer - an ardent communist and proponent of modern architecture who, alongside his buddy Le Corbusier, had co-designed the UN building in New York - to build a crazy spacepod city in the middle of the planalto.

Many of Alan Moore's comics have been adapted for the big screen, but not many of them have met with his approval. So he went and wrote his own screenplay, the first one he's ever written, which turned into the film Jimmy's End. Pairing up with director Mitch Jenkins they've created an experience not unlike Moore's celebrated Watchmen--a rich, multilayered film with a narrative that will reward repeat viewings and will live on beyond the rectangular box of the screen, spilling out into the real world.