dead media This month, Japan will manufacture its last VHS video cassette recorder David Pescovitz

podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

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Gadgets Lock down your cash, cards, and RFID tags with this wallet that's over 60% off Boing Boing's Shop

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eff Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

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music Listen to MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman sing "What—Me Worry?" (1959) David Pescovitz

alexa Vintage Apple TV and Alexa Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets Super Mario Bros. theme performed on credit card swipe machines Rob Beschizza

News New Mexico Greyhound Bus Crash: Multiple deaths, serious injuries. 49 were on board. Xeni Jardin

dogs Simply the best pet watering dish ever Jason Weisberger

politics Roger Stone denies not-yet-published story Trump knew of WikiLeaks DNC dump Xeni Jardin

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