Afflictor: Wishing everyone a happy Labor Day, since 2009. (Image by Alix Kroeger.)
- Old Print Articles: Doctor wants to perform vivisections on convicts (1896) + Two ninnies waste a judge’s time (1887).
- Classic Photograph: Apollo 1 astronauts float in a Texas pool (1966).
- Featured Videos: Mike Douglas interviews Star Wars cast, plus Pete Rose and Tom Seaver (1977) + Futuristic Braniff Airlines ad (1975) + Chatbots have an inane conversation + Man with bionic eyeball + Clifford Irving perpetrates a hoax (1972) + Pink Floyd appears on Tomorrow’s World (1968) + David Bowie meets Dinah Shore and Henry Winkler (1975) + David Bowie and Iggy Pop visit Dinah Shore (1977) + Great film about Henry Miller by Tom Schiller (1975) + Mike Douglas interviews Brian Wilson about drugs (1976) + Man draws while asleep.
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: Dude loves his tiny cousin + I’m too cheap to pay for a motel room with hourly rates + I am probably unaware of something horrible I’ve done + I found a crate with medical supplies to treat the human knee.
- Kevin Kelly believes more and more in the so-called impossible.
- When William Gibson discovered personal computers.
- Is China capable of turning out a company like Apple?
- In crazy 2011, Jon Huntsman is considered to be too liberal for the GOP.
- Jaron Lanier considers human captial in the age of machines.
- Timothy Ferriss gets the profile he deserves from Rebecca Mead.
- Jon Gertner looks at the future of manufacturing in America.
- Bill Blackbeard was a prolific creator of comic strips.
- Civil Rights activist Stetson Kennedy passes away.
- Roger Ebert, wonderful though he is, is occasionally wrong.
- A profile of British math prodigy Simon Phillips Norton.
- Manual typewriters still thrive in India.
- Eye-scanning on a mass scale in India.
- Sex tax meters installed in Bonn, Germany.
- You can buy soundtracks for digital books.
- Asteroids have yet to hit the East Coast this week.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in August.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.