Afflictor: Glad to see that Time magazine has a double issue this week.
- Recent Movies I Liked Now On Home Video: Shame, My Perestroika.
- More hate crimes Mitt Romney can commit.
- Barbara Walters is right about Megan McCain, but…
- Old Print Articles: Sailor supposedly swallowed by whale, survives (1891) + A report about horrors endured during the Klondike gold rush (1897).
- Classic Photo: Evelyn Nesbit, Before the Murder, Sleeping Peacefully (1901).
- Featured Videos: Jacqueline Susann on What’s My Line? (1967) and being insulted by a Canadian (1960s) + Harold Robbins was the wet-dream merchant (1971) + All about the recent Global Future 2045 Conference + Disgraced John DeLorean interviewed (1988) + Marshall McLuhan knew that secrecy was no match for electricity (1977) + The Williams WASP X-Jet was the coolest, most dangerous thing ever + Profile on machine-friendly artist Jim Whiting (1986) + Michel Gondry and Beck discuss dreams + Slavoj Žižek prefers technology to nature + Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault have a bull session (1971) + The JR-Maglev is the fastest commuter train in the world.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Looks like Marv Albert moved to the ‘burbs + Dude…the next reality! + Big sports fan here + Now a message from the Long Island Tourist Bureau.
- Oriana Fallaci spent a year in the 1960s charting the Space Race.
- Results of outré medical experiments rescued from covert Soviet-era cities.
- Mike McGrady co-wrote an incredibly popular hoax novel in 1969.
- Louis C.K. is still murdering homeless people and stuff.
- Long before Siri, Stanford pioneered work in computer voice recognition.
- Global capital flowing into India is giving rise to gated communities.
- P.D. Smith discusses the way views of cities have evolved.
- NBA players will likely soon have sponsor ads on their unis.
- New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly welcomes tastelessness.
- Berezniki, built atop a mine and prone to sinkholes, is constantly monitored.
- Privately owned and operated prisons are a terrible idea.
- Disney research turns all the world into a touchscreen.
- In the 1970s, Gary Anderson designed the ubiquitous recycling symbol.
- Dogs may have helped humans outlast Neanderthals.
- Bay Area bars are collecting customer info with face-detecting sensors.
- Yahoo purchased Flickr, royally screwed it up.
- A brief note from 1902 about an unhappy groom.
- A brief note from 1888 about a baker and his dog.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.