1980s Can you dig this cassette tape of Radio Shack answering machine songs from 1985 Popkin

Old school A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop Cory Doctorow

video Log onto a BBS 1979-style with a TRS-80 and landline modem Andrea James

Weird Play this video at your next party. Don't ask questions. Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets Radio Shack bankruptcy update: most customer data will be destroyed, not sold to pay creditors Xeni Jardin

books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro

1980s PBS Remember Slim Goodbody? Jennifer Sandlin

youtube Popular YouTube music stream Lo Fi Beats taken down after "false" copyright claim (updated) Rob Beschizza

makers The adorable reason this dad installed a payphone in his house Mark Frauenfelder

movies Watch: Honest Trailers does "Hackers" Mark Frauenfelder

computer history This 1984 video showing how travelers checked their email is like ancient history Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics Unusual Audio Hallucinations: Do you ever hear bubble wrap in your pockets? Ethan Persoff

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

radioshack Adafruit interviews Tai Lopez, new owner of RadioShack Mark Frauenfelder

everyday carry What's in my bag? — Douglas Rushkoff Mark Frauenfelder

design Getting Started in Electronics (1983) is an incredible hand-lettered curiosity Mark Frauenfelder

Islands Italian island "hermit" may get evicted David Pescovitz

Technology How Pong's inventor gave Woz a hack to bring color to the Apple II David Pescovitz

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

1980s These videos of Radio Shacks and Furry Conventions in the 1980s are incredible time capsules Mark Frauenfelder