Afflictor: Thinking Uncle Jerry was relatively restrained at Thanksgiving dinner this year.
- Pardoned turkeys are murdered gangland style.
- Old Print Articles: Alexandre Dumas’ crazy personal physician dies (1898) + Coroner gives his staff free turkeys (1902).
- Classic Photograph: Bradbury Building Gets Its Close-Up (1960).
- Featured Videos: Orson Welles defends his work (1965) + Natalie Wood on What’s My Life? (1966) + Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (1939) + Assembly of the Eames Lounge Chair (1956) + Trippy ABC News promo (1969) + George Carlin was the spiritual godfather of OWS + Rezero is a ballbot from Zurich + Dick Cavett gets in the ring with Muhammas Ali (1973) + Airport security checkpoints of the future.
- Recently Posted in NYC’s Craigslist: Can anyone sell me some cocaine? + I was rejected by eHarmony + It’s probably good that I’ve had a vasectomy + If you don’t have a gambling habit yourself, I can help.
- Who is Kalle Lasn and how did he start Occupy Wall Street?
- It was plausible in 1955 that flying saucers would be the future of aviation.
- Guillermo del Toro gets a picture-perfect profile from Daniel Zalewski.
- Why TV news is ineffectual, or even worse, damaging.
- Fund manager Kyle Bass just bought twenty million nickels.
- Susan Kare created many of the iconic images for the Macintosh.
- IBM’s cognitive computing project attempts to build a “human” brain.
- E.O. Wilson wonders if humans are designed to do away with themselves.
- Computerized contact lenses are being tested on rabbits.
- Penn State’s cover-up culture unsurprsingly runs deep.
- Elon Musk has bold plans involving a spaceship to Mars.
- Businessweek looks at Sony’s decline during the Internet Age.
- Huntington Hartford possessed great wealth and incredibly poor judgement.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.