Afflictor: Thinking runners in the NYC marathon without health insurance better not collapse this year.
Ugh.
Don’t worry. I’ll quickly sign you up for Obamacare.
HOLY FUCK!
- Old Print Articles: Inventor protects perpetual-motion machine with gun (1895) + Girl scared to death by mouse (1908).
- Featured Videos: The Rolling Stones sing a Bulgakov-inspired song for David Frost (1968) + David Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour (1973).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Elder abuse is just another service I offer + There is no God + The car I’m most likely to wind up in is a police car.
- Netflix wants to further disrupt Hollywood with a universal film release.
- Big Data treats questions as if they are answers.
- A family that lives off the grid did an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.
- When Hurricane Sandy was over, the real trauma began.
- Charles Krauthammer is still trying to sell Paul Ryan’s draconian budgets.
- Performance enhancement is likely the most ethical choice.
- Lou Reed, may he rest in peace, once wore a virtual-reality helmet.
- Reed worked as a typist in his father’s accountancy firm.
- Two quick points about the interminable length of baseball games.
- Douglas Hofstadter is hoping to take AI way beyond Siri or Watson.
- Brandon Bryant was one of the first recruits in the world of push-button war.
- Baseball player Adrian Cardenas retired from the game. No, he actually quit.
- Children who receive more candy are not necessarily happier.
- There’s a market in the U.S. for big-budget haunted houses.
- We have found “another Earth,” which is very different than Earth.
- Solar-cell prices may go from manageable to microscopic.
- Steve Jobs’ childhood home is now an historic resource.
- Michael Reynolds builds off-the-grid, self-sustaining “Earthships.”
- Google believes its driverless autos are already safer than human drivers.
- Brad Templeton doesn’t think the Trolley Problem should be applied to robocars.
- The Hyperloop project has team leaders and a timeline.
- A look at literary criticism in the time of Twitter.
- A new bracelet aims to moderate body temperature.
- A little black box is enabling states to tax drivers based on mileage.
- A brief note from 1898 about childish fanatics.
- A brief note from 1892 about a barking man.
- A brief note from 1895 about a holy frog.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.