remix Breaking down the sampling tricks on Daft Punk's "Discovery" Thom Dunn

music Someone made a live album remix that takes the music out of concerts Thom Dunn

memes Reactionary meme characters are now gay and in love Jess Sabine

mashups The Magic iPod is interactive nostalgia for your mid-2000s mashups Thom Dunn

music The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century Thom Dunn

halloween Examining the generational loss of ancient Halloween traditions Thom Dunn

Japan Thoughts from a Japanese Media Pirate Japanese Media Pirate

racism Dhoruba Bin Wahad was jailed for 19 years in the FBI's illegal COINTELPRO project Elías Villoro

music Black Thought's "Dear Hip Hop," an ode to global Hip Hop Elías Villoro

music LSD, New Order, and 40 years of "Power, Corruption, and Lies." Elías Villoro

music Animated feature Black is Beltza, Basque music, and the political art of Fermin Muguruza Elías Villoro

music "Taste the Biscuit" in retrospect Rob Beschizza

music This remix of Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline is the apotheosis of Western Culture Rob Beschizza

stingray What does the stingray say? Andrew Yi

star wars Documentary about "Star Wars Kid" and the consequences of his pre-YouTube viral video Thom Dunn

television Reviled Bush associate to step down after 20-year reign of terror Rob Beschizza

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

art How a Black woman turned quilting into a surprisingly radical art form Thom Dunn

anxiety A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety Thom Dunn