1920s Archives - Boing Boing Staging

movies Did Hollywood give the 1920s a boob job? "Gatsby" costume designer tells all Mark Frauenfelder

conservation Diego and other giant tortoises head to home island after saving their species Andrea James
music 1920s typewriter reborn as drum machine Rob Beschizza
fantasy A free short story about Irish history to read while you're quarantined over St. Patrick's Day Thom Dunn
Games The Sony PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 to Pets.com founder Greg McLemore David Pescovitz
big pharma Why the price of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years Mark Frauenfelder
mash-ups Mashing up NWA with an old Irish rebel song Thom Dunn
signs Mildly interesting old sign found in basement Rob Beschizza
Weird Modern archaeology is entering a paywalled Lovecraftian forum to access a 1929 edition of an Egypt travel guide John Struan
Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow
Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow
Disney See behind the scenes of Disneyland's massive holiday decor system Rusty Blazenhoff
music Interview with Rare Blues Collector John Tefteller, who bought a $37,100 record Roger Park
books A true crime book for every US state David Pescovitz
Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Only weeks remain until America's Public Domain begins to grow again, for the first time in 21 years! Cory Doctorow
Technology World War II Enigma cipher machine up for auction David Pescovitz
happy mutants The secret history of science fiction's women writers: The Future is Female! Cory Doctorow
beaches Supreme Court tells "beach villain" Vinod Khosla to get lost Rob Beschizza