Afflictor: Receiving looks of rebuke from mimes since 2009.
- Classic Film: The Rapture (1991)
- Old Print Articles: Grisly July 4th accidents (1889) + People throwing tomato cans at people (1886) + Cactus thieves in Brooklyn (1890).
- Classic Photographs: Harriet Quimby pauses before takeoff (1911) + Auguste Rodin, mid-career (1893).
- Featured Videos: Jackie Gleason campaigns for Richard Nixon (1968) + Two 1970s movies about head transplantations + Robert Moog demonstrates the Minimoog (1980s) + Aftershave commercial by Jean-Luc Godard + First Earth Day comes to NYC (1970) + In Search of…UFOs (1977) + Testing the first cell phone network (1979).
- Recently Posted on Craigslist: Sell me your luxuriant hair + IKEA is a fantastic maze of shit + Please give me a boat + Worst conceptial art project ever.
- Venzuela’s San Antonio prison is like spring break with cockfights.
- Mexican migration to the United States has seriously ebbed.
- Baseball writer Bill James turns his eye to crime.
- Environmental predictions from 1970 that were far too dire.
- Charles Bukowski argues that crowds lack wisdom.
- Douglas Adams wrote a perceptive piece about the Internet in 1999.
- Ted Conover reports on a murderer who became a tech millionaire in prison.
- Joseph Mitchell writes about Native Americans building NYC in 1949.
- MIT’s Sherry Turkle examines identity in the Internet Age.
- Architectural critic Reyner Banham describes Las Vegas.
- If you mistreat pigeons, they will never forget your face.
- Marc Andreessen discusses wearable computing.
- CrowdOptic is using augmented reality to monetize audience behavior.
- Eyeglasses that can read human emotions.
- Terry Southern writes about William S. Burroughs in 1964.
- In 1998, David Gelernter preached about making computers beautiful.
- Before there was the Internet, there was the Mundaneum.
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