I'm indebted to Tim Bray for the pointer to jwz's They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo, which I must have read at the time but which I don't think I posted about here:
I'm going to draw a line through 1930s agitprop, Ronald Reagan, methane-breathing zombie space aliens, the Mozilla logo, Barack Obama and the International Communist Conspiracy. It's a long walk, so please stick with me. […]
It's a longish read, but it's about ancient history about important software and one of John Carpenter's best films: how could I resist?1
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- Also, a commenter pointed to a collection of essays on They Live by Jonathan Lethem that I bought sight unseen. ↩