Afflictor: Fearing that Mitt Romney is eating one of Big Bird’s breasts.
When the bad man murdered me, it hurt so much.
- Even more proof that Donald Trump is a complete moron.
- Old Print Article: Doctor convinces people they can cure their illnesses by snapping their fingers. (1896)
- Featured Videos: Merv Griffin interviews Gene Wilder (1979) + The Urbee is a cleaner, printable auto + Computer operations at NASA during the 1960s + Randolph Hearst comments on his daughter Patty’s walkabout through the Radical Left (1970s) + Tom Snyder quizzes Gore Vidal about his many feuds (1981) + Solar-powered 3D printer in the Sahara + Water droplets dissolve transient electronics.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m probably not going to be that difficult to hypnotize + I am so completely boring. Oh, except for my double life as a prostitute + Can you help me out with $100,000, bud? + I’m sure we’ll remain friends.
- This beer commercial seems better suited to selling cocaine.
- Philip K. Dick was mentioned in the New Yorker just once during his lifetime.
- Technologists have had trouble creating truly conscious machines.
- In 1973, the Radical Left becomes taken with a teenage guru.
- Thoughts about the first Presidential debate.
- Before Phone Phreaks, Yippies were the main phone hackers.
- Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder did PR work for Howard Hughes.
- Elon Musk fires back at Mitt Romney and other critics of Tesla Motors.
- What the end of the record business means for members of Grizzly Bear.
- Dr. Neal Bernard, son of cattle ranchers, advocates for veganism.
- When Timothy Leary was in prison, Marshall McLuhan paid him a visit.
- Steve Wozniak imagines how computers can aid education reform.
- More and more tasks will be handled by people-less vehicles.
- In a fairer world, Obamacare would be applauded by conservatives.
- 3D printers are amazing and, yes, potentially dangerous.
- Salman Khan thinks scholarly lectures should be limited to 15 minutes.
- Solar eclipses have recently spawned a healthy tourist industry.
- Technology has toppled some businesses, aided others.
- Ubiquitous screens may soon assist us without prompting.
- Foldable computing gets a little closer to reality.
- Robotic insects get a little closer to reality.
- Tiny telescopes are implanted in human eyes to aid the blind.
- Venkat Rao updates the country mouse-city mouse tale for the Digital Age.
- A brief not from 1907 about free love.
- A brief note from 1901 about gargling.
- A brief note from 1891 about an outhouse.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in September.
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