Afflictor: Thinking you should file your taxes this weekend and avoid an audit.
- 2 Recent Films I Liked Now On Home Video: Young Adult + Shut Up, Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure.
- Old Print Articles: Children reenact McKinley assassination (1901) + Man tries to corner snake market in Philadelphia (1900).
- Classic Photographs: Wyatt Earp, Gentle in His Rocker (1923).
- Featured Videos: Oingo Boingo, Chuck Barris and Buddy Hackett together (1976) + Jackie Stewart discusses auto racing with Roman Polanski (1972) + The Tubes were a product of television, of course (1978) + B.F. Skinner gets pigeons to play ping-pong and teaches pigeons to use blocks to acquire food + Dick Cavett interviews Ingmar Bergman (1971) + The Remington-Rand Univac at your service (1952) + Evel Knievel makes an understated debut on the national stage (1967) + Junior Johnson has car trouble (1953) + News report about the Fairlight CMI computerized synthesizer (1980) + Nam June Paik’s TV-Bra on display (1967) + Thom Andersen analyzes Hollywood’s disregard for L.A.’s modernist architecture + VCRs will murder your children + DARPA robot ascends stairs.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Some things can never, ever be revived again + Why won’t people let me cook for them? + Psst…you got ducks? + Let us crowdsource a truly horrible book + It’s probably best if you don’t ask questions.
- Briefly assessing the journalistic career of Mike Wallace.
- Eadweard Muybridge pioneered motion pictures, murdered wife’s lover.
- Luc Sante, that wonderful writer, gives bad writing advice.
- Facebook apps, seemingly free, are very costly.
- Chinese firm reproducing Austrian village, brick for brick.
- Afterlife options are expanding, but you must die to enjoy them.
- What if the new transparency doesn’t improve things?
- Stephen Marche wonders if Facebook is making us lonely.
- Hackers can turn our new medical tools into weapons.
- IBM worker John Burgeson created computerized fantasy sports in 1960.
- Jack Tramiel created the Model T of home computers.
- Until recently, there was dog feces all over the place in NYC.
- The Apollo spacesuit was more low-tech than you might imagine.
- Hoarders are actually just trying to deny death.
- Late Luddite Neil Postman asked questions about electric car windows.
- Ultra-runner Micah True was found dead in the Gila Wilderness.
- An entire country decided to get rid of guns and somehow did it.
- Eric Kandel discusses the influence of pathologist Carl von Rokitansky.
- Anti-capitalist scholar Franco Berardi preaches revolution through lethargy.
- A brief note from 1892 about curious eyeballs.
- A brief note from 1887 about a runaway bride.
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