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Who Sets the Prices?

The legal decision that fostered the idea of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, and why it still sticks around even though that decision was overturned.

When Movies Get Canned

In the wake of the cancellation of the nearly complete Batgirl, a list of films that are generally thought to have been complete but never saw release for some reason.

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A Bit of Fine Tuning

Can a guitar be smart and also kind of awesome? Tedium’s resident music nerd dives into the Lava Me 3, a guitar that innovates beyond its touchscreen.

The Codecs of Streams Past

From CD-ROMs to Star Wars trailers to YouTube, the video format technology that got pushed off to the side as standardization crept in.

Surf Like A Shark

That time the company behind the GameShark cheating device came up with a dial-up online service for the Nintendo 64. SharkWire strangely targeted 7-year-olds.

From Cable to Local

It’s not common for cable networks to pivot to traditional antenna-driven broadcast networks, but it’s been known to happen—especially if said network can be directly monetized.

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Class, Dismissed

Why class, a common topic in British comedy, too rarely gets discussed in American culture.

Longform Brevity

Alt-form storytelling, a key magazine-and-newspaper design trend, hasn’t truly flourished on the modern internet. Axios could go way further than it does.

Whipped Cream, No Other Delights

How whipped cream, of all things, helped to drive innovation in the food technology space. Henry Ford and the humble soybean had something to do with it.
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