Business A visit to the world's oldest surviving video rental store David Pescovitz

Kids You can live in a giant cowboy boot for $40 a day Andrea James

san francisco Rent a camping tent in someone's backyard near Google X for $46/night David Pescovitz

History Watch the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video in under four minutes Seamus Bellamy

design Stuck on VHS is a visual history of video store stickers Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Entrepreneurs are seeing mini-empires of Airbnb properties collapse Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Help a musician's tour bus company provide shelter and facilities for NHS workers dealing with COVID-19 Thom Dunn

Business Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt Cory Doctorow

elon musk This ambient mix of a new sci-fi-themed Rentals song is a sonic trip to outer space Thom Dunn

new york city Photographer documents the beautiful, eccentric apartments of New York's historic Chelsea Hotel Gareth Branwyn

Business How much money does a laundromat make in 2019? Rob Beschizza

travel Airbnb's easily gamed reputation system and poor customer service allow scammers to thrive Cory Doctorow

Business A quarter of NYC's post-2013 luxury condos are unsold Cory Doctorow

urban theory Owner of Phoenix apartment building serves eviction notices to every tenant so he can turn their homes into unlicensed hotel rooms Cory Doctorow

art "Emoji house" paint job annoys neighbors Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Teardown of Sony's new 135mm full-frame lens Rob Beschizza

disneyland Children's Fairyland, the mid-century storybook theme park that inspired Walt Disney and where Frank Oz got his start Rusty Blazenhoff

recycling Inside an incredible "prop library" of vintage electronics and obsolete consumer tech David Pescovitz

amazon Amazon killed Seattle's homelessness-relief tax by threatening not to move into a massive new building, then they canceled the move anyway Cory Doctorow

class war Burning Man purges one-percenter camp that charged up to $100K, littered like crazy, and ripped off its attendees Cory Doctorow