Afflictor: Storing the pepper spray in the watermelon patch since 2009.
- Classic Film: The Conversation (1973).
- Old Print Articles: Profile of a California rat killer (1885) + Italian junkman gets buncoed (1890) + Monkey runs wild in church (1897).
- Classic Photographs: Mayor LaGuardia outweighed by a halibut (1939) + Weegee perched above gun shop (1937).
- Featured Videos: Father of withering, hairless boy restores your paintings + Yoga class that just feels wrong + Sun Ra’s pilgrimage to the pyramids (1971) + Orson Welles explores the possibility of extraterrestrials (1975) + Bob Dylan and John Lennon share a taxi + Controlling cat ears with brainwaves + Earth destroyed by asteroid impact + Airbag suits for motorcyclists + Jack Kerouac irritates Italian reporter (1966) + Playing catch with a robot + Say Hey Kid turns 80 + Woman Police Constable uniforms + Disabled people control their homes with smart appliances + Rare Benny Hill interview (1956).
- Recently posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I am a middle-aged man and technology makes me cranky + I will shave my head and sell you my hair + Need to build a strong fence on account of neighbor being a jerk + I have no ethical problem with selling a jar of Twin Towers dust + I’m selling a home-made sex toy + Looking to rent your puppies.
- Why do we seem to like being subjects of surveillance?
- Tyler Cowen’s instant reaction to the Bin Laden killing.
- Bin Laden strikes, dies when we least expect it.
- William Langewiesche looks at centralized power in the tech age.
- An oral history of the Manson Family murders.
- Best science book of the aughts looks at the world without people.
- Astronaut Frank Borman clashes with campus radicals in 1969.
- Astronaut Ham becomes the first chimpanzee in space in 1961.
- Werner Herzog leaps into the 3-D craze.
- Vladimir Nabokov shows off various editions of Lolita.
- Osborne 1 is the first commercially viable computer in 1981.
- Disco fever burns in 1970s Manhattan.
- Meet the nonagenarian novelist who co-created Mr. Magoo.
- Biochemist Mark Roth gives a TED Talk about suspended animation.
- Ian Frazier walked around NYC, removing plastic bags from tree branches.
- First horseless carriage arrives in Riverhead, New York, in 1902.
- Systems guru Stafford Beer tried an enormous project in Chile in the 1970s.
- Are new wave airships a big part of aviation’s future?
- A behind-the-scenes look at the Disney World intern program.
- William Carlos Williams on the importance of having good tools.
- Listeria: Meat prices in NYC in 1938.
- Afflictor Nation results for April.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.