Afflictor: Experimenting on the people since 2009. (Image by LeaW.)
- Exclusive: Charlie Sheen enters med school, aims to become pussy doctor.
- Strange, Small & Forgotten Films: Gates of Heaven. (1978)
- Old Print Articles: The state of cosmetic surgery (1896) + The wreck of a schooner and its aftermath (1898) + Homeless soldier finds lost Russian maid in Harlem (1900).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Tattoo my face on your back + Help me exterminate the cause of my bitterness.
- Gleaned: The Essential Lenny Bruce.
- Great Photography: The Comet Theatre (1917) + Subway graffiti (1973).
- Featured Video: Creepy grandpa offers gun lessons + Bay Area residents read newspapers online in 1981 + Man vs. Dog in eating competition + Fred Rogers breakdancing + Coney Island newsreel (1930) + Future Cop TV show.
- Stewart Brand makes scary-accurate predictions about the Net in 1972.
- If the sun were made of bananas, it would be just as hot.
- Freeman Dyson dreamed of creating a nuclear rocket ship in the 1950s.
- Computers go public in Berkeley in 1973.
- The origin of the parking meter.
- Is schizophrenia caused by a virus we all carry?
- What President Nixon would have said if the Apollo 11 astronauts had perished on the moon.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.