Today’s my birthday.
And if you think I’m going to spend it writing a topical gag for the end-of-the-week post, I have one thing to say to you.
- Old Print Articles: A young man has an unhealthy appetite (1871) + A bone gatherer works the streets of Old New York (1877) + Stories about rain-makers (1894-95).
- Featured Videos: Glenn Gould realized that new technologies would democratize creativity (1969) + Evelyn Waugh sits nervously for an interview (1960) + Al Goldstein interviews R. Crumb (1980s) + Two Hunter S. Thompson commercials (1970/1990s) + Hugh Hefner throws the dumbest party ever (1979) + Gary Numan creates a techn-dystopia (1978) + A jetpack tested at a U.K. race circuit + J.G. Ballard discussing the meaning of the automobile + David Letterman and Brother Theodore mix it up (1980s) + B.F. Skinner thought people were pigeons + The Xerox Alto was ground zero for modern personal computing (1979) + A “Making of…” featurette for Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) + A featurette for Norman Jewison’s cautionary tale about the free market run amok, Rollerball (1975) + Muhammad Ali ins interviewed by Sammy Davis Jr. (1970) and appears on Face the Nation (1976).
- Recently posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I should have done Mickey Rooney while I had the chance + Why does this roof smell like pee? + Or you could get them a gift certificate to Zappos.
- Tyler Cowen analyzes automation and unemployment.
- Sabermetrics is becoming popular in Cuba.
- Tommy John surgery now comes with stem cells.
- Before the mass suicide, the Heaven’s Gate cult designed web pages.
- Oliver Sacks argues that insects are not tiny automata.
- Legendary film producer Robert Evans did an Ask Me Anything.
- An explanation of why CEOs do well even when their companies don’t.
- Virtual advantages of the Internet are being leveraged offline.
- At the outset of the 1980s. coin-op computers reached the Bay Area.
- A pair of fascinating retro coin-operated machines.
- Mime Dan Richter recalls how he became Stanley Kubrick’s “Moon-Watcher.”
- Colonizing another solar system would require a mass of astronauts.
- Michael Wolff realizes what Stewart Brand knew 40 years ago: Print is dead.
- Like it or not, genetically modified foods are coming to your dish.
- Understanding ants could help humans master swarm robotics.
- Even during WWII, the U.S. military dreamed of drones.
- History should have universal standards, but don’t count on it happening.
- The complicated past and present tense of a former D.C. mental institution.
- A business being interconnected means that it’s vulnerable to attack.
- Synthetic yeast is a harbinger of ethical quandaries.
- Technology might or might not be an equalizer.
- A brief note from 1890 about a hungry man.
- A note from 1899 about a neglected graveyard.
- A brief note from 1929 about a wounded man.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.