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Continuing the ongoing efforts to highlight creative disrupters , Fast Company spoke with the executive creative director behind a once-scrappy free Canadian mag that's become a groundbreaking multi-media machine. (Bukkake past and all.) Image by Dan Meyer Vice Media debuted in 1994, as a Montreal magazine best known for its handy guides on topics such as shagging Muslims and the art of bukkake , hand-delivered by three friends in their parents' vans

Larry Kirchner had a penchant for gore even at a young age. His sick obsession has grown into a global rave

Larry Kirchner had a penchant for gore even at a young age. His sick obsession has grown into a global rave. I built my first haunted house after school in the fourth grade.

After the 2009 DOE competition saw the costs of entries soaring, this year designers were asked to focus on houses that could be built for more reasonable sums. The results are impressive

Photograph by Douglas Sonders Josh Nesbit CEO, Cofounder, Medic Mobile Washington, D.C. Nesbit, 24, uses mobile phones and open-source software to bridge gaps in health care in low-resource settings. "AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE in Haiti, we had to use the technology that was in everyone's hands, the mobile phone, and the technology that would work with a very limited network, SMS.

It's a horrible paradox that bad things are generally cheaper: Like Big Macs. Or H&M. Top of this list, of course, is coal power, which is really quite horrible for the planet but is also deliciously cheap to produce

I was at lunch at Japango with some of my Foundry Group gang yesterday. When I went to my house in Alaska last July, I took a Mac with me but left my PC at home. Ross bet me $100 that before the month was out I'd beg him to fedex my PC to me.