Ordering those tiny pimps to get off our stoop since 2009.
- Fred Wilpon installing tampon machine in Mets clubhouse.
- Old Print Articles: Children forced to become street musicians (1873) + Young ruffians torment candy store owner (1890) + A gallery of rough characters (1884-95).
- Classic Photographs: Charles Mingus celebrates the American Bicentennial (1976).
- Featured Videos: Monsanto’s House of the Future at Disneyland (1957) + Creepy VHS buddy wants to be your friend (1986) + Eames solar-powered “Do-Nothing Machine” (1957) + Young David Letterman rocking a gold necklace + Hunter S. Thompson political ad (1970) + Orson Welles two hours before he died + Thoughtful short doc about hippies (1973) + Hokum about so-called ancient astronauts (1970) + Astronaut pratfall on the moon (1972) + Unlock your door with your smart phone + Experimental BBC adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s Crash (1970s) + J.G. Ballard discusses violence (1986) + Governor sees UFO (1973) + Colonel Sanders invades the Soviet Union (1960s) + Last handwritten newspaper in the world.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m selling my lady eggs + You can do my college paper for me if you just focus + Jesus and band of zombies in Times Square + Yikes! + A guy named Dominic wants to be rich + Selling 1868 letter written by armless, legless sideshow performer.
- How Quisp Cereal and other dead products come back to life.
- Jeffrey Toobin profiles embattled Mets owner Fred Wilpon.
- Hunter S. Thompson understood the ego-feeding aspect of the Net in 1997.
- Artist Cory Arcangel remimagines video-game graphics.
- Douglas Coupland explains why he loves plastics.
- Bernard-Henri Lévy labels Los Angeles a “post-historical city.”
- Roger Ailes, that ghastly man, thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot.
- “Invisible Machine” is a 1968 doc about computer use in communications research.
- Geoffrey Hoyle recalls his visionary 1972 children’s book.
- Charles Darwin documents his terrible stomach problems in 1865.
- Steve Boone writes an excellent series on homelessness in NYC.
- How Neal Cassady came to drive the Merry Pranksters’ bus.
- Scientists are encouraging robots to develop their own language.
- Paul Simon sings about the terror of technological progress.
- U.S. intelligence experts trying to understand metaphors from around the world.
- Chris Anderson’s original Long Tail article from 2004.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.