Afflictor: Forcing orangutans to ponder their dubious life decisions since 2009. (Image by Nonie.)
- New DVD: Exit Through the Gift Shop.
- Strange, Small & Forgotten Films: Stay Hungry (1976).
- Featured Videos: First computer mouse demo (1968) + Intro of the push-button phone (1962) + A board game called Ball Buster (1975) + The real Dog Day Afternoon footage (1972) + Horror movie about cats (1977) + Magnavox Odyssey game console (1973) + Computer Sketchpad demo (1964).
- Old Print Articles: Delight Beecher celebrates her 100th birthday (1900) + Wronged widow thrashes train executives (1889) + Millionaire cuckolded by “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1898/1908).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Freeport garbage picker hopes to strike it rich + Candy Darling’s childhood stickball cap + Stressed-out youth wants free golf clubs + Autographed celebrity hat for $400 + Need human and animal skeletons + “Creepslist” needs a sense of decency and respect.
- Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions for the 21st century.
- A.J. Liebling reveals Brooklyn’s illicit 1880s sporting world.
- President Lincoln watches John Wilkes Booth act.
- Marshall McLuhan comments on Facebook (in 1967).
- Nikola Tesla fails to report for jury duty in 1902.
- Classic Photographs: Wall Street panic (1907) + Ben Hogan’s ticker-tape parade (1953).
- Pet monkey washes dishes for Queens woman in 1949.
- Almost everyone in Colonial America was very drunk.
- How to turn freeways into urban power plants.
- Chinese Internet addicts get electroshock treatments.
- Daniel Polevuy’s amazing anachronistic images.
- Edward Albee really hates technology.
- Neurological disease that obliterates fear.
- “Ideas Entrepreneurs” help Target sell kitchenware to kids.
- Tasmanian museum features rotting beef and excrement.
- Miscellaneous Media: Postcard for Billy Brandwein In Chevy Chase, Maryland (1962) + Postcard for Edna Mae Williams in Charleston, West Virginia (1941).
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.