In 1993, cyberculture prankster/provocateur/publisher RU Sirius, founder of Mondo 2000 magazine, composer Scrappi DuChamp, and performance artist Simone Third Arm, recorded an album for Trent Reznor's record label. They had met at Reznor's Los Angeles rental home, the house where the Manson Family killed Sharon Tate and others. — Read the rest

Musician/filmmaker/mischievous imp Olga Nunes (creator of, among other things, the brilliant live action re-creation of XKCD's 'I Love the Internet' strip) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $3,000 for her first album, which includes an episodic set of videos that tell a love story that is shaped by random occurrences and audience participation. — Read the rest

In 1990, MTV aired a groundbreaking TV documentary series called Buzz. Created and directed by Mark Pellington (Mothman Prophecies, Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" video), Jon Klein, and Mark Neale in partnership with MTV Europe, Buzz was a fantastic experiment in non-linearity and cut-up that drew heavily from — and presented — avant-garde art, underground cinema, early cyberpunk, industrial culture, appropriation/sampling, and postmodern literature. — Read the rest

I got a kick out of this t-shirt design promoting RU Sirius's h+ Magazine. Of course, it can't compare to my Mondo 2000 "How fast are you? How dense?" t-shirt from the early 1990s, but that one seems to have, er, mysteriously shrunk. — Read the rest

Luis Ortiz sent me a copy of his new book, Cult Magazines: A to Z: A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive & Curiously Expressive Publications, which he co-edited with Earl Kemp. It's a remarkable history of special interest magazines from the 1920s to the 1990s, arranged alphabetically. — Read the rest

Coilhouse is "a love letter to alternative culture" that exists in two forms – a glossy print quarterly and a daily blog. The magazine is produced and published by photographer Nadya Lev, artist Zoetica Ebb, and musician Meredith Yayanos. — Read the rest

Our friend, R.U. Sirius is the editor of h+, a digital magazine that's the natural successor to Mondo 2000. The lineup for the second issue looks good!

R.U. says:

Rising up out of the gloom of early 2009, the second edition of h+ magazine sends a message of hope to weary changesurfers.

[Photo: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid]

Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Gareth Branwyn writes on technology, pop and fringe culture. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Maker Media. Recent projects have included co-creating The Maker's Notebook and editing The Best of MAKE and The Best of Instructables collections. — Read the rest

Our friend R.U. Sirius is editing a new magazine called h+ and the first issue is available as a free PDF.

Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) – in collaboration with former Mondo 2000 editor RU Sirius — is pleased to present h+.

Truly, the fun never stops around here. Hot on the heels of the Drew Friedman podcast, here's an interview with longtime Boing Boing pal R.U. Sirius, co-creator of the mind-bending magazines High Frontiers, Reality Hackers and Mondo 2000, the host of the RU Sirius Show, a contributor to 10 Zen Monkeys, and the author of True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness

RU and David Pescovitz will be at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 24th, 7pm to conduct a live taping of the RU Sirius show. — Read the rest

R.U. Sirius has a new book of interviews with interesting people, called True Mutations. I can't wait to get my copy.

True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness looks at the wild changes that may be coming to the human species during the 21st Century.

NPR science fiction reporter par excellence Rick Kleffel has just posted an MP3 of his interview with cyberpunk legend Rudy Rucker. I love Rudy's books — his latest, Mathematicians in Love is one of the greatest nerd-hero sf novels I've read, a mindbending trip through the math of interdimensional travel. — Read the rest

This Sunday, September 10, BB pal RU Sirius and his co-conspirators from the RU Sirius Show will present 9/11: Considering All the Claims, a live panel discussion in San Francisco. The free public event takes place on Sunday at 2pm at the Off-Market Theater, 965 Mission Street (at 5th) in San Francisco. — Read the rest

BB pal Erik Davis, author of Techngnosis, has just published a brilliant short book riffing on the magick and mystery behind Led Zeppelin's nameless "Runes Album," AKA the one with Stairway to Heaven. I read this foray into pop occulture in one sitting and it's classic Davis–fun, informative, and damned funny. — Read the rest

I'm really pleased to have Rudy Rucker as our guest blogger. He's my favorite author. I first met him at a Mondo 2000 party in 1985 in Berkeley, California. He read from his book, Wetware, and brought with him a little cardboard device he made that folded and unfolded, and as I recall, was supposed to be a shadow of a 4-dimensional cube. — Read the rest

Mondo 2000 founding editor R.U. Sirius is conducting interviews with cutting-edge scientists and thinkers (including Boing Boing's own David Pescovitz) for a nutritional supplement company website. Link

St. Jude Milhon, a former Mondo 2000 editor and prominent hacker who coined the term "cypherpunk," passed away Saturday morning in Berkeley after a long battle with cancer. The co-author of How to Mutate and Take Over the World and The Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, St. — Read the rest

R.U. Sirius was the founding editor of Mondo 2000. He's one of the most interesting people I know, and he has a book coming out on the history of the counterculture. Here's an interview with him from New World Disorder.

NWD: What do you think about the WTO riot crowd?

Mondo 2000 founding editor is interviewed in Shift.

S: Have you ever read Patrick Farley's e-sheep comic? He did this one, this autobiographical comic, where there's this guy, a parody of you… What he tells the main character, the autobiographical character, is that you made up all the stuff for your magazine.

R.U. Sirius, the founding editor-in-chief of three of my favorite magazines, High Frontiers, Reality Hackers, and Mondo 2000, has started a new magazine, called The Thresher. It looks great. Link Discuss