david bowie For the song's 40th anniversary, Depeche Mode covers David Bowie's 'Heroes' Rusty Blazenhoff
john prine Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, and Billy Bragg sing a John Prine classic in this live performance from 1990 Jennifer Sandlin
mistakes Jones College Prep student dresses as Nazi, goose steps across stage during assembly, gets booed by fellow students Jennifer Sandlin
Art and Design These odd NSA motivational posters from the 1960s look like props from The Prisoner Mark Frauenfelder
spies Recently declassified documents there was an actual MI-6 agent in the 60s named James Bond Thom Dunn
podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn
generative art Reshuffling the epigrammatic phrases of Eno/Schmidt's Oblique Strategies into Grotesque Tables Gareth Branwyn
uk Berlin regulates Airbnb and safely deflates its housing bubble while returning 8,000 rentals to the market Cory Doctorow
science fiction Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future Cory Doctorow
photography Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's legendary, paranoid secret police Cory Doctorow