Afflictor: Giving pretty dollies to deserving children, since 2009.
- Old Print Articles: Robert-Houdin supposedly mystifies Algerians (1857) + Stories about camels (1856) + Tales from the Ward’s Island Lunatic Asylum (1880).
- Classic Photograph: Tage Erlander videoconferences in Sweden. (1960)
- Featured Videos: Americans gone wild + Tom Snyder tours the Spruce Goose (1979) + John Denver interviews Carl Sagan (1977) + Hugh Hefner interviews Lenny Bruce (1959) + Dick Cavett interviews Evel Knievel (1971) + Neil Armstrong interviewed on the BBC (1970) + Scientology video that is hopefully not real + Salvador Dali commercial for Alka-Seltzer + Sharon Tate was arrested for wearing a bikini (1968) + Electric fingers + Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan (1930) + Trump’s gaudy fucking plane + Plague of frogs.
- Recently Posted on NYC Craigslist: I’m hoping there’s an excuse for my poor life decisions + Looking for a mid-range mail-order bride + I’m fat and happy + I was probably pissing, too + Of all the horrible things in life, I, for some reason, most fear a tapeworm eating my brain + Someone stole stuff from me.
- Collection of posts about Steve Jobs
- Collection of posts about earthquakes.
- Joe Biden may have doomed Obamacare back in 1991.
- Frank Deford profiles jockey Robyn Smith in 1972.
- A mall grows (perhaps) in the Meadowlands.
- The hazy near-term future of robotic warfare.
- Classic 1967 Joan Didion article about Las Vegas weddings.
- Grantland profiles the horrible life of aged wrestler Ric Flair.
- Nathanael West worked at dumpy Manhattan hotels.
- Social etiquette, as practiced by simians.
- The bodies we’ve inherited conflict with the world we’ve created.
- Rob Walker looks at the consumer desire for planned obsolescence.
- Algorithms increasingly control our lives.
- Tim Berners-Lee wants the Web to remain unfettered.
- Our use of pronouns may somehow predict the future.
- Jorge Luis Borges profiled in 1971.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.