Afflictor: Hoping Anthony Weiner won’t be in charge of the food at his Labor Day barbecue.
- Old Print Articles: Farmer raffles off his three daughters (1897) + Woman sells husband (1897).
- Featured Videos: Frank Lloyd Wright was wrong about urbanism (1950s) + Harlan Ellison’s recent public appearance in Los Feliz + Dick Cavett is visited by Stevie Wonder (1970) and Judy Garland (1968) + The first trailer from the new Errol Morris doc about Donald Rumsfeld + Frank Zappa visits Mike Douglas (1976) + A look at the dawn of neuromarketing.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m too cheap to pay a dominatrix + Would you like to talk to a fellow solitary man on the phone for 30 minutes? + You probably should start taking the bus.
- Isaac Asimov wrote of the 1964 Word’s Fair for the New York Times.
- Workers are more honest if being “watched” by monitoring software.
- George Will’s 2012 prediction about Hillary Clinton is already wrong.
- Life also wondered about identity in a time of replaceable human parts.
- Bobby Riggs may have thrown his “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match.
- A local crime reporter explains why it’s so dangerous in Flint, Michigan.
- In a sense, the cable TV industry subsidizes Netflix.
- The driverless-taxi business may be next for Google if regulation allows.
- There was spying in the U.S. government long before Big Data.
- Some are skeptical about the likelihood of pilotless planes.
- A Mexican village has built its own mobile network.
- The NFL wants a team in Europe, which isn’t an assured success.
- Reporter Bruce Dunning was there for the end of the Vietnam War.
- Copyright law has limited usage of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
- A brief note from 1876 about a finger.
- A brief note from 1897 about a house call.
- A brief note from 1908 about a bear trapper.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.