More than 650 issues of Playboy magazine — from the Marilyn Monroe debut issue in December 1953 through last year — are now available on a hard drive that plugs into a USB port on your computer. It's priced at $300, which is about a hundred bucks more than you'd have to pay for 120 years of National Geographic. Included in the Playboy archive are all the interviews by LA Observed contributor David Rensin, who just posted over at Native Intelligence his 1992 chat with actor Leslie Nielsen, who died this past weekend.
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