Afflictor: Thinking I’ve found the shower curtain design I’ll use for the rest of my life.
Previous shower curtain design I used.
- Old Print Article: Eugenicists believe horrifying things. (1921)
- Classic Photograph: Babe Ruth, Upon Becoming a Yankee. (1920)
- Featured Videos: Apollo 8 astronauts recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Super Bowl III (1969) + Hunter S. Thompson carried a rifle on a commercial flight (1988) + A newly created “bionic man” comes with artificial organs and synthetic blood + A little-seen Swedish documentary about Norman Mailer (1966) + Ray Bradbury at Cal Tech for the Mariner 9 launch (1971) + An MIT aeronautics professor has invented a skintight spacesuit + Jack Kerouac reads to Steve Allen from On the Road (1959).
- Recently Posted On NYC’s Craigslist: My best ideas come to me like something that can instantly murder hundreds of thousands of people + Suddenly, $3 seems like a lot of money + And airplanes are having sex with my dog.
- Did David Fincher become a filmmaker because he grew up near filmmakers?
- Truman Capote’s final novel is resting in an unknown L.A. safety-deposit box.
- Paul Krugman considers the ramifications of the rise of the machines.
- A deeply religious family retreated into the Siberian taiga for 40 years.
- Drones will eventually (probably soon) be in the hands of America’s enemies.
- Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman never spoke or shook hands.
- Peter Turchin examines cycles of wealth inequality and violent upheaval.
- Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi does an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- David Gelernter believes streams will soon replace searches on the Internet.
- People in Loma Linda live longer than other Americans. Why?
- Martin Amis gives his state of the state on President Obama’s second term.
- Big-budget Hollywood movies must have stars that are popular in Asia.
- Kevin Kelly explains why it’s good that a robot is going to take your job.
- One NYC mayoral candidate has already done a lot to solve homelessness.
- Gun historian Shaun Randol thinks we should put armed guards in schools.
- The U.S. Postal Service is the best in the world–well, for now.
- An ingenious new pen vibrates when the user misspells a word.
- Australians think their phones are vibrating when they’re not.
- A brief note from 1843 about a masher
- A brief note from 1847 about a broken engagement.
- A brief note from 1868 about a skeevy steamboat.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.