Highlights From Yet Another Week Of Afflictor

December 7, 2013 in Misc. | Permalink

Afflictor: Thinking Rick Santorum made the most tasteless comment in the aftermath of Nelson Mandela's death, equating Apartheid with Obamacare.

Afflictor: Thinking Rick Santorum made the most tasteless comment in the aftermath of Nelson Mandela’s death, equating Apartheid with Obamacare.

Lie down on the floor and open your mouth and I will lower my trousers and let you taste my breakfast burrito.

Mr. Santorum, I will now lower my trousers and let you taste my breakfast burrito.

Afflictor: Thinking Rick Santorum made the most tasteless comment in the wake of Nelson Mandela's death, comparing Apartheid to Obamacare.

Thanks, Bashir. I’m peckish.

Wait, what was the fist part of what you said?

Wait, what was the first part of what he said?

Christmas is officially cancelled this year.

Old Print Articles: French “Jack the Ripper” gets guillotined (1899) + Man has 12 wives, 66 children (1900) + The “Living Skeleton” visits a medical school (1883).

Featured Videos: Maria Callas interviewed by Mike Wallace (1973) and Barbara Walters (1974) + Sharon Tate’s mother appears on To Tell the Truth (1991) + Robot walks outdoors at the University of Michigan + A Specials tribute to Nelson Mandela.

Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Epic fail for Google + I got some really, really good weed + Can’t we just agree that we’re all fat? + It seemed impossible, but now New York City smells even worse.

In 1975, the New York Times tried to become wired and paperless.

The RNC is stubbornly sticking to a losing playbook.

In 1995, Clifford Stoll made some terrible predictions about the Internet.

Boxing might be completely banned in America eventually.

Vaclav Smil believes the decline of American manufacturing is a death knell.

In the 1880s, Nikola Tesla was enabling the creation of remote-control war.

Was the washing machine more transformational than the Internet?

Smartphones are aiding the development of drones and robots.

Can love be replaced by a robotic simulation of love?

It’s best if cities become smart from the bottom up.

Russell Brand demolishes Rupert Murdoch.

Female-driven films are big box-office business in 2013.

DARPA is working to wirelessly repair brains and restore memories.

Two new uses for the domestic drone.

The Amazon delivery drone may have just been Cyber Monday hoopla.

Carl Bernstein addresses Parliament’s interrogation of the Guardian.

E.L. Doctorow and David Simon speak to the possibility of an Orwellian state.

Authors can still make money but probably not from book sales.

Even Applebee’s is getting roboticized.

100 driverless Volvos will soon hit the road in Sweden.

In a world of driverless cars, there will be winners and losers.

In 2014, the Internet of Things might finally arrive.

Todd Gitlin tackles the scary topic of climate change.

Searching for the existence of the first modern human home.

In the 16th century, the childbirth-easing forceps was a mysterious device.

Thomas Edison’s Electric Pen was a flop.

In 1975, Garry Wills wrote about government surveillance.

Economics and business my be the last bastions of modernism.

Aldous Huxley’s Los Angeles experience made a mark on the world.

The lack of regulation is space might hinder interstellar projects.

A brief note from 1901 about an exploding frog.

A brief note from 1909 about a mini guillotine.

Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in November.

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