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I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog.

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2026 3

  1. Kumiai-Ki: The Mighty Labor Union Mech - Animated Series and Toys
  2. Anime Before Astroboy
  3. Spacehawk - The Game (GBC)

2025 13

  1. Networking for Tomorrow
  2. Be Your Own Netflix: a “Why To” on running a personal streaming server
  3. Joelanta Is Over, Now What?
  4. Expedition Sasquatch - Episode 20 out now
  5. Unplugging the Beast: Leaving Disney+, Hulu, and the Rest of the Streaming Oligarchy
  6. The Death of the Open Web?
  7. Guest Post: The Squatch is Back and So Am I
  8. Out Now: Expedition Sasquatch for Gameboy Color
  9. Designer Art Toy Fest 2025 is in the Can, What's next?
  10. The Revolution Will Be Playful: Philly's Designer Toy Art Festival
  11. PROJECT LAUNCHES - SKY PIRATES, SPACE HEROES, AND REVOLUTIONARY JOY
  12. Heroes, dead and otherwise
  13. Top 10 Books

2024 9

  1. I Launched a Cable Network
  2. Community Software: Building The Future Inside The Rotting Husk of The Past
  3. Episode 10 released of 研究 戦隊 ポッドキャスト レンジャー - Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers
  4. Remember the Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon?
  5. VHS Is The Future
  6. Some Surprise Expenses
  7. Status Update - May 22nd
  8. Harry Houdini vs A Steampunk Cyborg - The Novel and Podcast
  9. Public Domain Music - The Prohibition Years

2023 25

  1. Archiving Space Patrol
  2. Holiday Gift Guide
  3. The Loose Ends of Act One - Michael Cera Palin - Vinyl reissue pre-orders from Analog Revolution
  4. Announcing 研究 戦隊 ポッドキャスト レンジャー - Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers
  5. Harry Houdini Vs a Cyborg in The Master Mystery (1918)
  6. EXPEDITION SASQUATCH RETURNS (Again!)
  7. The Oldest Active Torrent
  8. The Grim Future of Youtube
  9. The Uncertain Future of Bandcamp
  10. Microsoft Buys Activision - What does it mean for digital preservation?
  11. Making a living Producing and Archiving Media
  12. Analog Revolution Put on a Show - July 22nd, 2023
  13. Hifi Edition - Analog Revolution Put on a Show - July 22nd, 2023
  14. Community Media: A Handbook for Revolutions in DIY TV
  15. V-Discs - Music from the longest strike in American history
  16. The Gracie Allen Murder Case
  17. Announcing Cassettes For Me
  18. Put on a Show
  19. Newsletter!
  20. Ellijay Makerspace Anniversary
  21. Jupiter's Ghost - Cartoon PILOT
  22. Announcing Jupiter's Ghost
  23. Giant Robot Jetpack - New from Analog Revolution
  24. Happy Public Domain Day
  25. Miles Davis - Filmore West - October 15th 1970 - RESTORED!

2022 10

  1. What Everyone Seems To Get Wrong About Mastodon (or What Mastodon't)
  2. What the eff is gemini?
  3. The small things Manifesto
  4. New Ellijay TV
  5. Bandcamp Friday - Again
  6. Tiny Music from the American Public Domain
  7. Expedition Sasquatch Returns
  8. Bandcamp Friday
  9. Local Radio
  10. Public Domain Day 2022

2021 16

  1. Making Toys
  2. Peertube Video Roundup
  3. Space Patrol - The World Beyond The Moon - Made for TV Movie
  4. Improved Transfer - Flash Gordon - The Underwater Menace
  5. Shouting into The Void - Coming this fall
  6. Better Film Preservation
  7. Unreasonably Low Bitrates
  8. Flash Gordon (1954)
  9. Space Command (1953) with James Doohan
  10. High Definition Television in 1949
  11. Downloading 78s from the Internet Archive
  12. Mountain Town Radio
  13. Thoughts on
  14. High Lotek - Gemini and the Small Internet
  15. Revisiting
  16. The Forgotten History of DIY Media

2020 8

  1. 100 Years of Zorro!
  2. Further Experiments with DeOldify
  3. DeOldify - Automatically colorizing videos
  4. Old Computers and gizmos for sale
  5. Tiny DOS Computers
  6. Reaching the World from Windows 3.1
  7. More Public Domain Movies I watched in 2019
  8. Public Domain Day 2020!

2019 17

  1. Silent Cinema - The Mark of Zorro (1920)
  2. Almost Silent Cinema - Vampyr (1932)
  3. Silent Cinema: Our Hospitality
  4. Silent Cinema - The Phantom of the Opera
  5. Cataloging the Public Domain - PD movies I watched in 2019
  6. Preserving old film
  7. Towel Day
  8. DIY convertible computing
  9. The Endless Evolving Synths of Dreamworld Adventure
  10. Expedition Sasquatch - A comedy podcast about a bigfoot hunter
  11. Floppycast examples
  12. Floppycasts - 1.44MB Podcasts
  13. Tech for the future
  14. Judex (1916 Silent Serial)
  15. Folding Bluetooth Keyboards
  16. Public Domain Movies on Peertube
  17. Gaming like it's 1923

2018 22

  1. Social Networking for the 90s.
  2. Space Sci-Fi of the 1950s and Serials of the 1930s and 40s
  3. Blogging at 19200 baud
  4. Feature Film Friday - Nancy Drew Reporter
  5. Feature Film Friday - Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven
  6. Pitch Dark - A Text Adventure Game Browser for the Apple II
  7. Palm Pilots
  8. Status Update
  9. Monday Night Movie: His Girl Friday
  10. Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep)
  11. Hyperzine - Hypercard Zine now accepting submissions
  12. Silent Cinema: The Black Pirate
  13. Announcing Space Age Radio!
  14. Announcing Space Age TV!
  15. We bought a House!
  16. Hendrix Plays The Beatles for The Beatles
  17. Document Your Art: How to Archive
  18. Permanent URLs from Archive.org
  19. Document your art. Archive your art.
  20. Document Your Art: The Ace of Cups
  21. A Modern Office with Vintage hardware
  22. We Are Living In The Future and It's Time To Start Acting Like It!

2017 85

  1. Steps Towards a Web without The Internet
  2. Life and Work in 2018
  3. A Home Hi-Fi Digital Audio Player - Day 1
  4. Listen Like it's 1949
  5. A Quick Update on my Hi-Fi Home DAP
  6. A Radio Link to the Past
  7. A Hi-Fi Digital Audio Player for Your Home Stereo
  8. DIY Media
  9. Net Neutrality, The Consolidation of American Media, and you.
  10. Canada set to Axe Net-Noot
  11. Gopher: Remembering the web that wasn't
  12. Jackson Boone - Starlit - Lofi Psych Pop in the vein of Syd Barrett?
  13. Man Or Astroman? Live - Space Surf of the highest order
  14. José and The Hawk - Independent, Buddy Cop, Puppet, Web TV
  15. Analog Revolution Mixtape #4 - Seventy-Eight Rotations Per Minute (Blues, with a dash of rock)
  16. R-COIL continues the legacy of Vector Arcade Games
  17. A Brief History of the Future: Summer 2017
  18. Football 17776
  19. Gaming when I was 9 (a social media post from 2013)
  20. Mixtape for a Heist - Analog Revolution Mixtape #3
  21. The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo - A Horror Game To Which We Can All Relate
  22. Scanline - A procedurally generated platformer made for cgajam.
  23. Robo Sumo
  24. So, you want to start watching Star Trek?
  25. A Big ol' List of Public Domain Media
  26. Recoil Deluxe - Retro Arcade Shooter with a Twist
  27. Podcasting!
  28. Wax - Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
  29. New Music - Carolina by Harry Styles
  30. Trippin' on the Lunar 07 - 101 Strings (Jerry Cole)
  31. Sarah Vaughan - Hot Jazz
  32. This Star Wars // Star Trek Mashup trailer is the best thing I've ever seen
  33. Chuck Berry - Big Boys
  34. The Candymen - Stormy Monday Blues
  35. The Surprising History of C.W. McCall's Convoy
  36. Noir Jazz: Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission
  37. The Politics of Art in the Middle East
  38. Combo Pool: a Pico 8 Puzzle game
  39. Miles Davis - Fillmore West October 15th 1970
  40. Pico Fox: Star Fox for Pico-8
  41. Pico Monsters: A Pokemon-style RPG for Pico-8
  42. Tempest: a survival roguelike in Pico-8
  43. Listen to Neuromancer, the Technoir, Cyberpunk Masterpiece
  44. Ruby: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe - Cyberpunk Podcast
  45. Psychedelic Pop Mixtape - (Analog Revolution Mixtape Vol. 2)
  46. My Garage and Psych Mixtape - Volume One
  47. Get your own minimalist hut for less than $30,000 (Japan Only)
  48. Astro Sounds from beyond the year 2000
  49. Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue // Bambu
  50. Them - Self Titled (1970, post Van Morison)
  51. The First Horror Film: The Devil's Castle
  52. A Trip to the Moon (Science Fiction film from 1902)
  53. Space Patrol (1950)
  54. Space Patrol Orion: The other groundbreaking scifi series from 1966
  55. The Solar Grid: A Comic Book by Ganzeer
  56. Dragon Ball: Reborn As Yamcha
  57. Jazz Noir - Speaking of Happiness - Gloria Lynne
  58. The Galactic Patrol - A DIY 3D printed Starship Dogfight Tabletop game
  59. The War of the Stars: A New Hope Grindhouse Edition
  60. The National Jazz Museum In Harlem Presents: The Savory Collection
  61. Bourgeois King from Canyons of my Mind by Andrew Combs
  62. Count Basie and Billie Holiday -
  63. My Own Kind of Freedom - The Free, Full Length Firefly novel by Steven Brust
  64. Getting Started with Mastodon
  65. Mastodon: A Decentralized, Federated alternative to Twitter
  66. Student Journalists Uncover New Principal's Phony Degrees
  67. My New Writing Setup
  68. The Zero Terminal - A Handheld Raspberry Pi
  69. Journalism as a weapon - [Newsletter 2017-04-03]
  70. Discovering Jandek
  71. L'Amour - Lewis - Forgotten Soft-synth Mumblepop
  72. Music for Parties: Minimalist 1980 synthpop from Silicon Teens
  73. Silicon Teens by The Pulsars from the album Pulsars
  74. Blogging from the Kindle Fire
  75. Goodreads (I'm a member, are you?)
  76. Don't criminalize browser security research!
  77. Monty Python's Spamalot: Live, and way off broadway
  78. Seedship: Help the remnants of humanity found a new colony
  79. Starship Farragut - The Animated Episodes
  80. Weirder Stuff - Stranger Things Remixed
  81. Your Congresscritters sold you out
  82. Why Are You Still on Facebook?
  83. Mooncop by Tom Gauld
  84. We are terrible stewards of history
  85. Computer Wizardry After School Specials

2016 55

  1. A collection of articles by Robin Sloan [link dump]
  2. Push Notifications with IFTTT
  3. Tech meets DIY/Punk
  4. Software for People (not for profit)
  5. Book Club Update #1
  6. Stuff to Read
  7. Mourning Leonard Cohen
  8. Science Fiction in Times of Stress
  9. Counter-Culture Book Club
  10. Actual Nazi Steve Rogers: How to Save the American Superhero
  11. A Game Of Tiny Monsters
  12. Freelancing
  13. Moving
  14. A story you can shuffle: The Family Arcana
  15. Warren Ellis' Blackcross (Project Superpowers)
  16. New Hanna Barbera Comics?
  17. Gameboy Light
  18. Where is my Flying Car?
  19. Potential Novel/Short Story Ideas
  20. A Game of Penny Dreadfuls
  21. The Internet Of Things
  22. Beacon 23
  23. Halo for the Atari 2600
  24. 3D Hub
  25. "You can't do it all" - Or can you? – ~ajroach42.com – I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog.
  26. 100+ Year Old Electric Cars (or execution is everything)
  27. Douglas Adams' Lost Doctor Who Episode (and resulting Fan Fiction)
  28. The Outer Edge Of FanFic
  29. Silent Cinema: The Devil's Castle (1896)
  30. The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz
  31. My Newsletter
  32. Silent Cinema: A Message From Mars
  33. Twine 2 (Harlowe) and Phonegap / Cordova
  34. Further Ideas for Computer Games
  35. Writing Computer Games
  36. 10 Essential Interactive Fiction Games for Beginners
  37. Mixtapes
  38. Chat Interfaces are the new Command Line
  39. Zorking Around
  40. Digital Publishing: Making RSS Suck Less
  41. Silent Cinema: The Astronomer's Dream
  42. Star Trek (TNG) Your Life
  43. Angband: Gaming like it's 1980
  44. Lost Pig - A Journey of Discovery
  45. Silent Cinema: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
  46. Silent Cinema: There it is! (1928)
  47. How to Fix Content Discovery
  48. On Incremental Change and Living in the Future
  49. Silent Cinema: The General
  50. A Brave New Podcast
  51. A Modern BBS: Reviving the local, distributed, weird precursor to Facebook.
  52. Dr. Jekyll
  53. The Future of Technology
  54. Great indie Science Fiction Flick on youtube
  55. Introductions

2000 1

  1. Elliott Smith Live at The Tabernacle on 2000-10-21

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