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Buying a Ton of Guns on the Internet Is Cheap, Legal, and Shockingly Easy

If you're a terrorist, a guerrilla, or are aspiring toward either, The Armory might be your gun depot of choice. But for anyone not on the government's radar, 100-percent legal, open websites are all…
AUTHOR:Sam Biddle
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1767 words)

The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything

The Bushmaster M4 is a 50-inch rifle capable of firing thirty 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and used by spec ops forces throughout Afghanistan. It's a serious weapon. But in the Internet's darkest…
AUTHOR:Sam Biddle
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2230 words)

How I Got At Least $2,000 Worth of Grill for $540

I love to grill. A lot. So much so that a proper outdoor cooking spot became the singular focus of my last apartment search. I got the deck, and it came with a beat-up old propane grill, which I, a…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2444 words)

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5345 words)

Kohler Spent $1,500 for Me to Take a Bath in Wisconsin

Kohler, WI sits sandwiched between farmland and road houses, slightly west of Sheboygan. It's deposited in an area once so thick with trees that early white guys had to use Indian trails to get their…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3509 words)

The Case Against Google

For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4024 words)

A Free Man in L.A.

What shall Justin Timberlake do today, on this overcast Los Angeles afternoon in the middle of spring? Hes been going to sleep early, around 10 P.M., so when he wakes up in his Spanish-style house…
PUBLISHED: July 21, 2011
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4188 words)
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