Afflictor: Worrying about everything since 2009.
- Old Print Articles: Chang and Eng pass away (1874) + Young tailor gets too close to his stepdaughter (1888).
- Featured Videos: Dick Cavett interviews Jean-Luc Godard (1980) + Tom Snyder interviews Divine (1980) + Marshall McLuhan discusses religion and communications + Ingrid Bergman talks about the travails of making Casablanca + Steve Jobs discusses the future (1985) + Paleontologist Jack Horner wants a pet dinosaur + Profile of the young Leonard Cohen (1965) + Two brief, beautiful films by Jean Painlevé + Spy glasses that transmit video in real time.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I keep seeing Fidel Castro in Central Park + I’m selling a human skeleton but it’s okay + Prom is tomorrow and I need to earn money for a tux + I am a wiseass who is raising a child just like me.
- Great 1974 profile of a mid-career John DeLorean.
- Arthur C. Clarke reveals the unlikely inspiration for the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Luc Sante remembers his days living in NYC tenements.
- Scott Carney’s devastating new book reports on modern-day flesh peddlers.
- Two sad scenes of American desperation.
- NUVIGIL will make modern life more tolerable, if it doesn’t harm you.
- Adam Curtis examines the rise of the machines.
- Gurgaon, India, is one of the most unusual cities in the world.
- Bill Simmons’ new site looks back on the short-lived National Sports Daily.
- Rent a grandma for all your grandma needs.
- Max Mathews was the pioneer who made computers sing.
- The world’s greenest city is to be built by Panasonic in Japan.
- What happened when George Plimpton tried out for the Detroit Lions.
- What happened when David Foster Wallace took luxury cruises.
- The promising start of pen-based computing in 1987.
- What obesity looked like in the 1800s.