Afflictor: Thinking NBC has an in-house candidate ready should Jimmy Fallon prove to not be edgy enough for the Tonight Show.
Let’s go Jaywalking.
- Old Print Article: Sailor tattoos six-year-old daughter from neck to feet. (1882)
- Classic Photograph: Margaret and Kate Fox, the Original Rappers.
- Featured Videos: Norm Macdonald, who now looks like a Wayland Flowers puppet, welcomes Bob Einstein to his video podcast + Muhammad Ali visits Dick Cavett (1978) + Because poor people all have food now, we just invented a hovercraft golf cart + Petman is now camouflaged and lifelike + A 1948 PR film about Preston Tucker and the “Tucker Torpedo” + Robotic dragonflies take to the air.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m a great wife and a terrible human being + The ban in NYC on large sodas is still a bad idea, but… + I make even my bunny sad.
- Douglas Coupland, now 50, talks about his breakthrough novel, Generation X.
- The critics agree: Stephen Colbert is the best host in late night.
- Sure the economy is fucked, but David Stockman is still full of crap.
- Don King profiled, as he slips further into irrelevance.
- Michael Kelly was the first journalist to die in the needless Iraq war.
- Evgeny Morozov worries that seamless technology disappears consequences.
- Charlie Rose, that handsome robot, just did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.
- Can we–and should we–geoengineer our way out of climate change?
- Gerrymandering has kept Congress Republican, but it has killed the GOP.
- Transcranial direct-current stimulation works, may have side effects.
- Data will not kill narrative, but it sure will alter it.
- We have really poor priorities when we think about the future.
- The era of hamstrung government in California may soon be over.
- Los Angeles is the first city to synchronize all its traffic lights.
- The increasingly harsh weather may turn the Jersey Shore into a ghost town.
- A new software is capable of automating the grading of essays.
- The self-quant movement will make you better and less private.
- An excerpt from a 1931 New Yorker report about Bell Labs.
- An Economist report about H7N9, a scary new strain of avian flu.
- Rodney Brooks considers the next wave of manufacturing robotics.
- A brief note from 1908 about monkey arson.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in March.
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