music This clip of 1940s "rapping" with a modern soundtrack is great Devin Nealy

happy mutants 8-Bit Trip 2: stop-motion Lego tribute gets a sequel Rob Beschizza

Old school On "Fraidycat", and the pleasures of non-algorithmic tools for following stuff online Clive Thompson

Old school "spacehey", a new social network that reboots the design of MySpace Clive Thompson

Games "Anarch", a new, public-domain Doom-like game coded from scratch in <256K Clive Thompson

art "The Art of Computer Designing": stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 Cory Doctorow

Old school The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back! Cory Doctorow

movies To do in LA, Jan 18: a special screening of Charlie Chaplain's "The Gold Rush" with live, improvised piano accompaniment Cory Doctorow

videos Open Memory Box: hundreds of hours of East German home movies, 1947-1990 Cory Doctorow

Old school 1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Coop's tribute to Randotti Skulls, from the golden age of Haunted Mansion merchandise Cory Doctorow

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

art A visual history of Soviet anti-religious artwork Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male? Cory Doctorow

art Just look at this Emshwiller galactic 1961 F&SF banana Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

History Paleocomputing watch: Tech magazines cover the BBS scene Cory Doctorow

science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow

books The Folio Society is releasing a facsimile of Marvel Comics #1 Cory Doctorow

Old school Podcast: "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow