Afflictor: Believing two heads are better than one since 2009.
- Classic DVD: Woman in the Dunes (1964).
- Old Print Articles: Isaac Sprague was the “Living Skeleton” (1883) + People find human skeletons (1890-1902).
- Classic Photographs: Touring NYC’s Chinatown (1890s) + Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island (1902) + Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge (1905).
- Featured Videos: Telly Savalas woos gigantic lady head + Kevin Kelly on the history of Wired + Human moves, robot moves the same way + Elvis Presley in his sad decline in 1972 + Recalling the Stanford Prison Experiment + Danish robot professor smiles (a little) + Steve Martin as the “Elephant Guy” + Georgia O’Keeffe takes bones from the desert + Some guy invented Control-Alt-Delete + Experimental Canadian short that influenced George Lucas + Documentary about baseball pitcher Ferguson Jenkins + Alain de Botton preaches pessimism + Amazing Chinese street dancer+ British headbangers from 1980 + Washing a baby but good in 1896 + Mister Brainwash is a spectacular idiot + Stephen Hawking on the future of the species + World’s smallest street legal car + Guy with soccer ball climbs pole + Slow Loris loves tiny umbrella + Puppy battles an ice cube + Guy walks around in exoskeleton suit + Batgirl PSA from 1974.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Aged woman needs TV + Sell me your lousy boyfriend’s iPad + Need a huge cactus? + I will retouch your photos, make you less hideous + Offering taxidermy squirrel, size of a cat + My bearded dragon will crap in your sink.
- Joseph Mitchell’s great 1939 New Yorker article, “All You Can Hold for Five Bucks.“
- The story that won Meyer Berger the Pulitzer.
- Rene Ricard’s 1981 Artforum article about Basquiat and Haring.
- Did Abraham Lincoln encourage freed slaves to leave America?
- Charles Bukowski on the dark side of democracy.
- Why Chris Rock likes the Tea Party.
- How much of Lolita did Nabokov borrow?
- How Mark Cuban got to be a billionaire.
- Shigeo Tokuda is the king of elder-porn.
- Marshall McLuhan was frightened of the Global Village.
- Mike Huckabee sends a bad message to children.
- Chris Christie is popular for some reason.
- Robot fish lead real fish from danger.
- Stock markets are still, of course, really dangerous.
- Playing Nudestock may be the worst gig ever.
- Solar-powered, zero-energy TVs are a reality.
- Dubai is a ridiculous, fascinating country.
- The next generation of the Google search.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.