Old school A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop Cory Doctorow
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
youtube Popular YouTube music stream Lo Fi Beats taken down after "false" copyright claim (updated) Rob Beschizza
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
design Getting Started in Electronics (1983) is an incredible hand-lettered curiosity Mark Frauenfelder
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