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El-P - Patriotism
Besides a few sounds that seem directly lifted from Punch-Out this is very well done. They also did OK Computer.
Anti-JFK coloring book from GOP in 1960s
The more things change the more they stay the same.
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Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator | Ars Technica
Video games are a piece of our history, and we need to respect the fact that there is a “true” form they had when released. Imagine if we only had a JPEG of the Mona Lisa, a RealVideo stream of the moon landing, or a MIDI rendition of “Walking in the Air.” We have the ability to keep our past alive, and I feel like it’s almost a duty to do so.
Trends are a funny thing. Someone takes a good [idea] and exaggerates it a bit, and then someone else exaggerates it further still. This occurs until we have a caricature of the original, thus causing people to denounce the design entirely and swing the other way.
Great podcast episode about Alan Turing. Turing was a mathematical genius that broke the German’s “unbreakable” code in WWII and then more or less invented the the concept of artificial intelligence and modern computer science. He probably could have accomplished even more but the laws and culture of 1950’s Britain ruined his life when the government learned he was gay.
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Here She Comes Now (The Velvet Underground Cover) by Nirvana
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