Afflictor: Wishing everyone a Happy New Year since 2009.
- Classic DVD: Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978).
- Old Print Articles: Brooklyn Home for Aged Men builds new location (1886)+ Feminist and abolitionist author Lydia Maria Child passes away (1880) + X-rays improve medical care (1896).
- Classic Photographs: A balloon ascends from Wanamaker’s (1911) + Bicycle stunts at Keith’s Union Square Theatre (1902).
- Featured Video: Futuristic plastic lawns (1968) + Europe’s first home computer (1967) + Don’t smoke in the office PSA (1974) + I Drink Your Blood trailer (1970) + First voice-activated computer.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Free, unplowed snow + Bullied chicken needs new home + Free disgusting bicycle that has no brakes + Looking to buy really smelly old sports equipment + Selling newspapers from the 1700s.
- Gleaned: Alexander Woollcott’s While Rome Burns.
- Scary New Year’s Eve in NYC in 1827.
- The Ferris Wheel is invented in 1893.
- Jean Genet had a feeling of fellowship for Lee Harvey Oswald in 1964.
- Gene Tunney drinks with Thornton Wilder in Paris in 1928.
- Listeria: NYC vital statistics, 1895-1896.
- The lasting influence of mime duo Shields and Yarnell.
- IBM predicts what life will be like in 2015.
- Walt Disney World builds a high-tech bunker to control crowds.
- The best science books of the twentieth century.
- A market for human excrement grows in North Korea.
- A one terrabyte hard drive would have cost a trillion dollars in the 1950s.
- Archive of radio interviews with contemporary authors.
- Robots teaching English to South Korean children.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.