Afflictor: Attracting the attention of the intelligentsia since 2009.
- Old Print Articles: Comic valentine leads to murder (1886) + Children sent to the House of Refuge (1870s-90s) + Revered lobbyist Sam Ward dies (1884).
- Featured Videos: Monkey man in India railway station + Robot baby with human facial expressions + Underground artist Wesley Willis + Scary preachers exploit Y2K + Monkey cares for human baby + Creationist teaches high school science + Sexy Libertarians in 1975 + Grandma reads Conan’s Tweets + Driving a car with a brain interface + Woman jumps, goat jumps + Iranians sell kidneys + Train roars through middle of Thailand market + Hexacopter heads for the heavens + Spider versus computer mouse pointer + Even worse than Bon Jovi + Short doc about the Sartorialist + Making graffiti rainbows + Robot plays violin in Tokyo + Las Vegas teenager squats 700 pounds + Mr. Rogers goes to Washington + Little Marcy sings about Jesus, wears dubious sweater.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Looking to buy a GED + Selling my hair + I’ll be your slave + I trapped a skunk + Get even with your lowlife, cheating pig husband + Bad boyfriend gave me butterfly collection + Selling vintage blowgun.
- Classic Photos: Bohemian family rolls cigars (1890) + St. George’s Church burned to the ground (1894).
- Miscellaneous Media: The Wild Reader (1956).
- Mark Zuckerberg’s ex-girlfriend is also a real piece of work.
- Paul Erdös was a mathematician like no other.
- Ricky Jay is an magnificent magus.
- Richard Brautigan waxing sardonic about the Singularity in 1968.
- Garry Kasparov tries to make sense of the strange life of Bobby Fischer.
- Project Xanadu is a fascinating tech boondoggle.
- Abraham Lincoln was a brawling slob, among other things.
- Nikola Tesla predicts mobile phones in 1909.
- Omer L. Baumgartner averted a desperate ice cream shortage.
- Detroit is getting its RoboCop statue.
- Grant Hadwin murdered a very rare tree.
- It bothers Bill Joy when the Unabomber’s writings make sense to him.
- Ten questions science must answer.
- Kevin Kelly on seeking sustainable disequilibrium.
- Transnistria is the land that time forgot.
- Building new nations on the ocean.
- Virginia commune has a mid-life crisis.
- Bronx Beatles impersonator deals with cancer.
- An 1896 hat-tipping contraption that caught on.
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