This week, the Internet turned on Hero Cat when she failed to prevent a second gruesome tragedy.
“I now pronounce you man and wife.”
“You suck, cat.”
“Mission unaccomplished, kitty”
“Unpatriotic, racist cat.”
- Old Print Articles: Long Island cult tries to make baby immortal (1939) + New York State executioner commits suicide (1929) + Miser dies in Brooklyn (1903).
- Featured Videos: Fran Lebowitz visits David Letterman (1983) + Isaac Asimov explains how the human race can survive on Earth (1989) + Designer Mary Quant appears on What’s My Line? (1966) + Sir Edmund Hillary discusses working at high altitudes (1977) + Harry Reems talks about being pursued by the FBI (1976) + Germaine Greer opines on the nature of creativity (1979).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Any prostitutes doing pro bono work? + Let’s both go to prison + I’m that guy at the bar.
- David Carr delves into the Jill Abramson firing fiasco.
- Extreme Memory Tournament competitors help explain total recall.
- Google seeks unorthodox ways to get ads to your eyeballs.
- Google autonomous cars have never been ticketed.
- Driverless cars that don’t get ticketed means less state revenue.
- EVs have a real opportunity to gain on gas-fueled cars.
- Ken Silverstein explains why Big Oil is so corrupt.
- Eccentric college football coach Mike Leach did an Ask Me Anything.
- Bronze Age expert Eric H. Cline did an Ask Me Anything.
- 4D printing is being worked out even before 3D printing is popularized.
- Ray Bradbury’s home is for sale.
- Joshua Ferris discusses being a novelist in the Internet Age.
- Tom Robbins talks Hunter S. Thompson and Philip Roth.
- We’re very attracted to dystopic art. Why?
- It isn’t easy for economists to frame the climate-change debate.
- Amazon is transforming downtown Seattle into a company town.
- David Cronenberg talks about the car’s place in the Sexual Revolution.
- In computing, we’re heading from the cloud into the fog.
- Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden are imperfect, but…
- A look at the very beginning of the print newspaper.
- Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein, Rolling Stones money manager, passed away.
- Happiness shouldn’t necessarily be your main goal.
- A brief note from 1911 about light exercise.
- A brief note from 1932 about true love.
- This week’s Afflictor keyword searches.