Afflictor: Thinking this was the week the GOP took the next logical step in its progression.
- Even more proof that Donald Trump is a complete moron.
- Old Print Article: Rogues photographed in Brooklyn (1877).
- Featured Videos: Merv Griffin interviews Pearl S. Buck (1966) and Rev. Billy Graham (1966) + Clive James visits with Roman Polanski (1984) + Orson Welles discusses fortune tellers with David Frost (1970) + Amazing jetpack news footage (1966) + Walter Cronkite presents a report about D.B. Cooper’s daring crime (1971) + GM factory robots can wrap gifts + A Copenhagen program encourages the building of homemade spacecraft + Claude Shannon’s Ultimate Machine gadget + DARPA demonstrates obedient robots.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I want to sell you vague information about my sex life + My pick-up line needs work + My Kindle just committed suicide.
- IBM predicts five technologies that will soon alter society.
- Popular Mechanics predicts the next 110 years of innovation.
- Thoughts about the tragedy in Connecticut.
- In America, there are 300 million guns in circulation.
- Mayor Bloomberg discusses gun-control (though nothing about 3D printers).
- The harsh realities of gun control in the nascent days of 3D printers.
- It turns out the Newtown shooter’s mother was, indeed, a prepper.
- Motopia was to be a city that totally separated traffic and pedestrians.
- A Los Angeles male prostitute does an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- There was an e-reader designed eight decades ago.
- An excellent essay about the meaning of “fake culture.”
- NASA is purposely crashing a pair of spacecraft into the moon.
- An analysis of the enduring impact of the Jetsons.
- Jared Diamond explains the hunter-gatherer method of child-rearing.
- An answer to those who feel we’ve failed to realize our boldest tech visions.
- Venture capital may turn Downtown Las Vegas into a new techno hub.
- Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil has joined forces with Google.
- A brief note from 1899 about a holiday greeting.
- A brief note from 1843 about a man who sinned.
- A brief note from 1896 about a forlorn monkey.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.