Afflictor: Surprising Salvador Dali and his puddy cat since 2009.
- Classic DVD: RoboCop (1987).
- Old Print Articles: Bicycle Troubles (1890s) + Female joggers (1902) + Roller coaster designer killed by roller coaster (1899).
- Classic Photographs: Life on Mulberry Street (1900) + Delmonico’s moves uptown (1902).
- Featured Videos: Mind-blowing Civil Rights panel + Water balloon placed on barbecue + William Tell filmed with high-speed camera + World’s largest contortionist + Robot Marathon in Osaka + Sacheen Littlefeather turns down an Oscar + Masdar City scraps plans for podcars + Russian performance artists kiss policewomen + Folding machine gun fits into back pocket + Gay Talese recalls heavy drinking at the New York Times + Transforming typewriters into computer keyboards + John Belushi’s SNL screen test + Swordsman battles shadows in Tokyo + Residents of London residential tower filmed in the elevator+ Skateboard larger than it need be + Luxurious bubble house + Basketball-playing robotic seal + Classical music composer dressed like a Viking + Francis Bacon documentary.
- Recently Posted on Craigslist: Drunk guy with pregnant wife selling cigarette butt + Selling VHS tapes of sex freaks + Give me a good idea so that I can make money + Trade places with a chubby, gassy woman + Will purchase macabre Victorian items + Move my film equipment and I will pay you beer.
- How to tell if someone is dead in 1902.
- Hunter S. Thompson classes up the Kentucky Derby in 1970.
- How Jack Dorsey created Twitter.
- How Whitfield Diffie created PowerPoint.
- What made Professor Amy Bishop go on a killing spree?
- Taking a vacation in Chernobyl.
- Homeless philosopher spreads “hate” in Berkeley.
- Sputnik’s success inadvertently aided U.S. computer development.
- A nun was the first female computer science Ph.D.
- Cheetah Bots will soon be chasing you.
- Advertising Bots are already chasing you.
- David Foster Wallace explains why lobster was once only eaten by the poor.
- Isaac Asimov explains American democracy.
- Kevin Kelly defines technology, broadly.
- Bio-printer creates working human kidney.
- The long-term future of AI may not be heaven or hell.
- How to entertain a baby in 1900.
- Who will still be famous in 10,000 years?
- Apple and the Post-PC universe.
- Is this thing the future of print?
- Is this thing the future of government buildings?
- Miscellaneous Media: Ken Maynard’s Songs of the Trails (1935).
- Bologna on floor even worse than regular bologna.
- A note about childbirth from 1915.
- Listeria: Seven Wonders of the modern world (1917).
- Who ruled Afflictor Nation in February?
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.