Afflictor: Fearing the Dixie Chicks will fare poorly once the Teapublicans take over.
- Christmas is cancelled sort of early this year.
- Old Print Articles: The Hatfield-McCoy feud rages on (1890) + Goat-to-man blood transfusion (1843).
- Classic Photograph: Women in short dresses monitor satellite (1972).
- Featured Videos: Jessica Savitch NBC News promo (1978) + Baby confused by print magazine + 60 Minutes investigates the disco scene (1978) + Dick Cavett interviews George Harrison (1971) +Ants marching in a death spiral + Jim Henson does experimental sketch for Johnny Carson (1974) + Art Clokey and Gumby go to the moon (1955) + Ken Doll facial hair commercial (1973) + Cloth-climbing robot from Berkeley + Marshall McLuhan fears the Global Village (1977) + McLuhan explains the changing nature of books (1960s) + 60 Minutes profiles Joan Baez (1987) + Walter Cronkite reports on Three Mile Island (1979) + Maria Callas three years before her death (1974).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: If I was around Tom Selleck for even five minutes, he would want to strangle me + Worst Cymbalta ad ever + One you allow me into your home, I will steal your prescription medicines + It’s likely I will be a helicopter parent.
- Christopher Bonanos eloquently explains Steve Jobs-Edwin Land connection.
- NFL legend Al Davis was a mixed bag.
- The first email ever was sent in 1971.
- Slavoj Žižek addresses Occupy Wall Street protestors.
- A touch-screen war-planning tablet is now in development.
- Jonathan Rauch teaches you how to care for an introvert.
- Jonathan Franzen explains his love for Charles M. Schulz.
- Jason Brennan argues that not everyone should vote.
- Are we using amazing tools really poorly?
- Matt Bai examines the Republican Party’s search for its center.
- Terrible economic prediction from Wired in 1997.
- Did Steve Jobs need to be a jerk to be great?
- Steve Jobs believed the computer was a “bicycle for the mind.”
- Recalling what caused the rift between Edison and Tesla.
- Wi-Fi has its origins in 1970s Hawaii.
- Genetically modified food is most likely a necessity.
- Cory Doctorow and Ray Kurzweil discuss the Singularity in 1995.
- Scientists trying to turn human respiration into an energy source.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.