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music Celebrate Independence Day with Cordell Jackson, the "Rock n Roll Granny" a psychobilly pioneer who played until she was 81 Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet Cory Doctorow

Old school A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop Cory Doctorow

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books The works of William James Sidis, the "smartest man who ever lived" Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The Hall Typewriter: the world's first 'laptop' Cory Doctorow

happy mutants "London Cries": the merchants' patter of 19th Century London Cory Doctorow

Funny 童絵解万国噺: a wonderfully bizarre 19th century Japanese fanfic history of America Cory Doctorow

books Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? Cory Doctorow

gift guide Stranger Things Dungeons and Dragons is a real thing Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tracking down Dick Davy, a mysterious "lost" comedian who once championed civil rights and antiracism Cory Doctorow

books The WPA's horseback librarians Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants A list of all the booze in Casablanca (surprisingly long!) Cory Doctorow

History The Nazis and your privacy Roderick Miller

Old school An archive of Freedom, Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham's radical Harlem newspaper Cory Doctorow