Afflictor: Providing career counseling to sad elves who've grown too tall for elving, since 2009.
- New DVD: Waste Land.
- Old Print Articles: Insulting remarks are hurled (1880s-90s) + Street vendors find trouble (1890s) + Giantesses succumb (1879-90).
- Classic Photos: George Appo “smiles” for the camera (1894) + Dirty dancing from the Barrison Sisters (1890s).
- Featured Videos: Terrible advice for aspiring models + Man and goat review Shyamalan movie + Trolley cars in 1938 Brooklyn + Robot butlers in Abu Dhabi + Edward Burtynsky photographs industrial ruins + Really big holes in the Earth + Penguin walking around on an airplane, as if that’s a good idea + Futuristic automobiles from 1948 + Tom Waits, Hall of Fame and a drunk piano + William Shatner explains microprocessors in 1976 + Lions are affectionate until they maul you + Playing computer chess in MIT’s AI lab in the ’50s + Seniors in China enjoy hip hop + Marvin Minsky’s robotic arm from 1968 + Robot brawls + 1950s car with a fifth wheel + Kyle causes wincing at the guitar show.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Hire me to gamble for you even though I’ve lost lots of money in the past + My new apartment doesn’t allow dogs or monkeys + Do you have $100,000 you don’t need? + Looking for autographs of dead people, not people who are almost dead + Brooklyn taxidermy teacher needs owls + Selling anti-radiation pills + If earthquake in Japan causes global food shortage, you can eat our creamy potato soup.
- A 2000 profile of the wild and wildly inventive Philip K. Dick.
- Tom Wolfe profiles stock car racing legend Junior Johnson in 1965.
- Recalling Patty Hearst being kidnapped by the SLA.
- What became of the first person ever diagnosed with Autism?
- Claymation version of a famous 1910 chess match
- Susan Orlean profiles the sibling musical act, the Shaggs, in 1999.
- Owsley Stanley, the “King of LSD,” passes away.
- Some movies that Errol Morris never got to make.
- A description of Bill Gates when he was 30.
- Why software legend Richard Stallman doesn’t carry a cellphone.
- Radio ranter Alex Jones is insane and insanely popular.
- Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone sketches.
- Carla Bruni sings Emily Dickinson.
- China’s economy from 1974 to now.
- Larry Summers questions China’s economic efficacy.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.