This video, known only as "The Reagans Speak Out on Drugs," was released on VHS in 1988. It's an almost seamless re-edit of the the famous "Just Say No" speech given by the Reagans in September of 1986 — except in this version, the President and the First Lady are doing their best to get us all hooked on drugs. The…

When every crop has to be licensed from patent owners like Monsanto, only those practiced in the art of pirate agriculture will have reasonably-priced food. This gorgeous series of photographs from Mendocino's pot harvest might be a glimpse of that future.

If you're in NYC this weekend, don't forget to stop by the awesome hacker and media jammer conference HOPE, being held for the last time this year in Hotel Pennsylvania. Hack-a-Day is there, covering a bunch of stuff including the cold boot attack toolkit and Adafruit's latest confection, a SIM card reader for all…