Afflictor: Imagining what the 99% must look like to Mitt Romney.
- 3 Recent Films I Liked Now on Home Video: Higher Ground, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Senna.
- Old Print Articles: French man communicates with animals, hates priests (1891) + Tall people are not necessarily smarter than shorter people (1901).
- Classic Photographs: Breathing Lessons at Battle Creek Sanitarium (Early 1900s).
- Featured Videos: Kenner portable record player commercial (1967) + Alistair Cook visits the New York Times newsroom (1954) + Frank Lloyd Wright being totally wrong three times in under two minute + Gene Kelly and “Sugar” Ray Robinson tap dance together (1958) + Tiny drones operate within a swarm + Saul Bass reimagines the Bell Telephone logo (1969) + Chatty bot makes creepy conversation + Elsa Lanchester meets Dick Cavett (1970) + Assembly line robots repair themselves + Richard Nixon discusses the GOP’s future (1967) + Carrie Brownstein had a small part in a 2001 Miranda July short + What’s My Line? with Jacques Cousteau (1956), Jack Dempsey (1965).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m Mitt Romney and I approved this message + When we meet in person I’m probably going to rob you + We love football and our sex parts are nice + No matter how it appears, I really have good intentions.
- Christopher Glazek unleashes a seething indictment of U.S. prisons.
- Hunter S. Thompson thought Big Sur was headed downhill in 1969.
- Adam Curtis uncovers the utopian beginnings of the cruise-ship industry.
- Richard A. Oppel Jr. visits gun country (a.k.a. Ron Paul country) in Nevada.
- Dorothy Kilgallen’s final TV appearance before her mysterious death.
- Is GPS diminishing our natural navigational abilities?
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation may make us smarter.
- Nick Carr makes interesting points about social networking.
- Brian Phillips recalls an 1810 prizefight that influenced modern sports.
- Mass hysteria is likely behind a mystery illness in Upstate New York.
- Jonathan Franzen does not care one bit for e-readers.
- Professor Richard White opposes a costly California high-speed railway.
- In 1989, Keith Haring recalled the start of his subway graffiti career.
- Berkeley researchers translate brainwaves into words.
- Typewriters, like all tools and technology, refuse to totally die out.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in January.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.
Mitt is sending Pinkertons to murder these hoboes.