Afflictor: Enthralling monkeys since 2009. (Image by Steve Evans.)
- Strange, Small & Forgotten Film: They Came Back (2004).
- Old Print Articles: Corpse is too big for coffin (1884) + Whale kills sea captain (1896) + Monkey gets drunk in Louisville (1901).
- Classic Photographs: Mayor Gaynor, wounded by gunman (1910).
- Featured Videos: Alan Resnais’ short film about plastic (1958) + Teshigahara captures Tokyo (1958) + Frank Lloyd Wright designed a gas station + Amazing robot soccer + David’s appliance function without him + Vincent Fournier’s incredible space-themed photos + Germany’s futuristic shooting range + Tom Snyder discusses the coming tech revolution (1979) + Ericsson looks into the future (1985) + Motion picture sound is born in NYC + Photographer Garry Winogrand interviewed (1981).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Horny nonagenarian thinks his oversharing neighbor is a “dish” + I’d like to own a kilt but don’t want to pay exorbitant kilt prices + I’d like a vampire tattoo but don’t want to pay exorbitant vampire tattoo prices + KFC eliminated its five dollar meal + Looking to buy a ukulele that’s not pink.
- Barry Bremen was a professional impostor.
- Evgeny Morozov’s concise history of the Internet.
- Barbara Ehrenreich discusses cyborg insects.
- The Lavasa Corporation is building you a new home in India.
- The police are ready to scan your iris now.
- Freeman Dyson reviews two new books about Richard Feynman.
- Looking back at the 1970s Yankees family-swapping scandal.
- Wall Street Journal shareholders just realized that News Corp. is sleazy.
- Ben Katchor carries on the work of Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling.
- Lauren Collins’ 2007 Banksy article is online for free.
- Classic story by George Saunders is online for free.
- Front lawns are completely useless.
- We’ve begun using the Internet as our default memory.
- Bill James suggests newer and better prisons.
- Bill James thinks someday we will all be on steroids.
- Margaret Talbot explains the concept of “mission creep.”
- The praying never stops at the International House of Prayer.
- Some cars used to have record players.
- The Chinese village of Huaxi is very wealthy and sort of socialist.
- Jose Feliciano’s rendition of the National Anthem was scandalous in 1966.
- Mike Davis profiles eminent Angeleno Harrison Gray Otis.
- A 1996 Tom Wolfe essay explains how neuroscience became ascendant.
- Supposedly dead media (telegraph, telex, etc.) that continue to live on.
- Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla!
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.