Afflictor: Thinking Paula Deen will be returning to her former, less glamorous life.
- John Hodgman has a Netflix-only special. Please stream.
- Old Print Articles: Snakes used to exterminate NYC rats (1903) + A wealthy recluse is found living in a hovel (1871).
- Featured Videos: Roman Polasnki, a Howard Stern fan, does a Skype interview with an American theater + A robot that runs like a cat + Steve Wozniak rails against the cloud (though it’s too late) + Uh oh, somebody told Noam Chomsky about Google Glass + Gilda Radner uses a potty mouth with pets + Dick Cavett meets Mae West (1976).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Teach me also about the subtle art of emoticons + No, nobody’s afraid to ask. It’s just that it’s such a stupid question.
- Does it seem like people cry more in public?
- Edward Snowden and Russell Brand comment on intel leaks.
- Radio clips: computer dating (1957) and computerized shopping (1962).
- Ralph Graves had a helluva run at Life magazine.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad respected term limits, unlike Mayor Bloomberg.
- A space-age city languishes in the decades after the Soviet collapse.
- Horace Bullard lived in a Coney Island of his mind.
- Thomas Beller wonders about the intersection of Twitter and literature.
- A WSJ surveillance expert answers did an Ask Me Anything.
- Your ebooks are spying on you, including that copy of 1984.
- Google, Apple and Facebook may all be past their prime.
- Google has figured out that its brainteasers are idiotic.
- VHS and Betamax are among the most disruptive recent technologies.
- Renzo Piano has designed a mobile home.
- A brief note from 1921 about PEDs.
- A brief note from 1900 about a steep fall.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.