Maybe it’s because I just watched Boardwalk Empire but I’m simply fascinated that something like Prohibition really existed. What impresses me even more is the lengths that some people went to get their liquor, like creating a “cable tunnel that ferried submarine ‘torpedoes’ filled with alcohol across the river” or inventing “jellied cocktails” since the Volstead Act only banned alcoholic liquids. I guess when man has no alcohol, man invents alcohol. Check out all of Pop Sci’s Prohibition features in their gallery. [Pop Sci]
Cameron
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 8:13 AMLink doesn’t work for Australia. Damn you popsci.com.au, STOP REDIRECTING!
Pauly7
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 12:04 PMHave contacted PopSci a number of times about the stupid redirect, never had a reply. Guess they don’t care that is pisses off people, and removes advertising revenue from both companies.
Tim
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 9:36 AMProxies for the win! I managed to read using http://www.freetoview.net
Ollie
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 10:19 AMlol yeah except Trend Micro deems freetoview a malicious site. FTW.
Greg Randolph
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 9:59 AMI did get a reply. Quote: “However unfortunately there is no way around this issue. As we are the publishers of the Australian edition of Popular Science Magazine and http://www.popsci.com.au in our license agreement we are entitled to block the US website from being made accessible to Australian web users. This is our legal and business right as the licensees of the US version that we are buying the license and ownership of the Australian market which is why in order to capture the full scope of the market a redirect has been placed on the US website to the Australian one.” So I’ve stopped visiting the site and buying occasional copies of the magazine.
Pauly7
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 11:08 AMThe AU site is a joke compared to the US PopSci site, and the magazine isn’t much better. Time to get the proxy-plugins out again.