Afflictor: Thinking the key to Anthony Weiner being elected mayor is getting New Yorkers even more unpopular than him to run.
Vote for me and I’ll show you my sexy man boobs.
Make me mayor or I’ll put my foot right up your asses, you toxic queens.
If you don’t elect me, I will murder my vagina.
I could stick around for four more years.
- Old Print Articles: Owl scares hospital patient to death (1903) + Maniac children acting out in grade school (1912).
- Featured Videos: Antoni Gaudi turned 161 + A Parkinson’s patients receives regular electric shocks to control his motor symptoms + You can personalize your latte, if that’s something you need to do.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Would you like a good vantage point to see me beaten to death + In addition to my other problems, I overuse ellipses + But does anybody still wear leg warmers?
- Steven Spielberg thinks cinema needs to become more immersive.
- Henry Petroski explains how climate change is impacting structural design.
- Bono’s politically neutral, jet-setting philanthropy gets a smackdown.
- The extensive archives of the defunct Omni magazine receive a visitor.
- Crazy Ants are attacking electronics in Texas.
- Evgeny Morozov thinks a problem’s cause gets lost in Big Data.
- Mason Peck, NASA’s chief technologist, did an AMA about asteroid exploration.
- Harvard Law’s Noah Feldman did an AMA about the Supreme Court rulings.
- Jimmy Wales isn’t wealthy but he was right about crowdsourcing encyclopedias.
- Correspondence from a space simulation at Mars, Hawaii.
- German automakers believe driverless cars will be accepted gradually.
- What would autonomous cars mean for auto racing?
- Life is difficult but it would far worse if its purposeless.
- Transhumanism may make your (perhaps purposeless) life go on forever.
- Futuristic British tech projects that never reached fruition.
- Some dementia patients are given robotic companions that look like seals.
- A brief note from 1884 about a mad bull.
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