The Inkjet Counterfeiter
Albert Talton started with some recycled newsprint and a cheap printer from Staples. By the end, he’d put more than $7 million into circulation.
Albert Talton started with some recycled newsprint and a cheap printer from Staples. By the end, he’d put more than $7 million into circulation.
Adam Higginbotham Wired (UK) Oct 2009 10min Permalink
How misdirected incentives in the bewildering medical supply industry keep innovative, life-saving equipment from reaching hospitals.
Mariah Blake Washington Monthly Jul 2010 25min Permalink
A classified Guantánamo Bay interrogation log reveals the techniques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker.
A former prostitute and pregnant at 14, Lillie was a foster child looking for a home. A nurse and already a mother of 5, Amy wanted to help. Then Lillie and her newborn moved in.
Lane DeGregory The St. Petersburg Times May 2006 25min Permalink
It makes as much money as Whole Foods while stocking 90 percent fewer products. The Trader Joe’s business model explained.
Beth Kowitt Fortune Aug 2010 Permalink
Inside the C Street house in Washington and the little-known spiritual group behind it.
Peter J. Boyer New Yorker Sep 2010 30min Permalink
A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?
Mark Jacobson New York Sep 2010 30min Permalink
An interview with William Gibson on the “dark, dark world of marketing, advertising, and trend forecasting.”
Jesse Pearson Vice Sep 2010 Permalink
Long before he lied about taking steroids and was indicted for perjury, Clemens was just a good ol’ boy from Texas with a world-class workout regimen.
Pat Jordan New York Times Magazine May 2001 15min Permalink
How the U.S. Army went evangelical and turned a war into a crusade.
Jeff Sharlet Harper's May 2009 Permalink
Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.
Robert Kurson Esquire Mar 2000 Permalink
David Chang’s manic quest for a flawless restaurant.
Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Mar 2008 35min Permalink
Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong tabloid tycoon, thinks he’s found the future of journalism: an animation assembly line that can crank out clips recreating–or anticipating, or imagining–breaking news.
Michael Kaplan Wired Aug 2010 20min Permalink
A 2009 profile of the guy behind 4chan, Christoper “moot” Poole, his anonymous army of millions, and how it’s all losing him money.
Monica Hesse Washington Post Feb 2009 10min Permalink
The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.
Michael Albo LA Weekly Sep 2010 20min Permalink
Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.
If you walk into New York’s best restaurants without a reservation, what does it take to get a table?
Bruce Feiler Gourmet Oct 2000 10min Permalink
The author enrolls in three cults - ADIDAM, the Moonies, and Aleph (formerly Aum, who carried out the Tokyo metro Sarin attacks) - via their New York branches.
Thomas Morton Vice Oct 2006 15min Permalink
The night the doctor behind the Scarsdale Diet was shot by his mistress, the impeccable headmistress of the elite all-girls boarding school Madeira.
Anthony Haden-Guest New York Mar 1980 20min Permalink
The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.
Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Sep 2010 40min Permalink
The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.
Rahul K. Parikh Salon Jul 2009 15min Permalink
The billionaire Koch brothers have declared war on Obama.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Apr 2011 40min Permalink
A young reporter heads to Colombia to report on the conflict between FARC and the paramilitaries. He meets a girl on the bus. After they begin a relationship, she reveals that that she is part of a death squad.
Jason P. Howe The Independent Mar 2008 15min Permalink
The poet and his love affair with Italian motorbikes (and also lots of women.)
Frederick Seidel Harper's Nov 2009 Permalink
A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.
Kurt Eichenwald New York Times Dec 2005 Permalink