Afflictor: Trying to convince the Great Omi that his tramp stamp hasn’t gotten out of hand, since 2009.
- Classic DVD: Zelig (1984)
- Old Print Articles: Boxing matches break out at a birthday party (1886) + Mix-up at a Brooklyn baby farm (1891) + Mysterious woman loses ability to communicate (1902).
- Classic Photographs: Portrait of an Akeut woman (1915) + Street life in the Bowery (1896).
- Featured Videos: John Denver interviews Werner Erhard (1970s) + Internet safety video found at a Goodwill (1996) + Guy with rollerblade suit doesn’t kill himself this time + People who are drunker than you + Solar-charging your cell phone + Bikini chick teaches Windows 95 + Tree that grows spaghetti + Fastest piano juggler in the world + Skateboard that automatically balances itself + Amazing bot bird soars through the sky + Robots playing tennis + Flying robot iPhone app tours NYC + Home movies of the late-life Sigmund Freud + Stop-motion rap video about alternative proposal for Detroit Light Rail.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I will help you change your identity and start over + Please give me your wisdom for the sake of the children + Let’s create a ridiculous stunt that helps me quit smoking + Help me humiliate a Red Sox fan + My grandmother is being forced to live with my Aunt Marie + I’ll post your ads on my house as long as they aren’t sexy + I need a death certificate.
- David Grann reports about a mysterious Guatemalan murder.
- D.A. Pennebaker looks back at Don’t Look Back.
- Sidd Finch: When April Fools’ Day was still possible.
- Journalist Tom Bissell doesn’t regret wasting three years on Grand Theft Auto IV and cocaine.
- Oenophile Robert Parker is bitten by a Schnauzer.
- Stanley Kubrick photographs Chicago in 1949.
- Bell Labs launches first communications satellite in 1960.
- John Lardner’s greatest sentence ever.
- Paul Allen pinpoints 1968 as the year digital technology changed forever.
- Allen Ginsberg argues against marijuana paranoia in 1966.
- Why child psychology shifted during the 1950s.
- Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray considers the scary future of biotech.
- Mark Slouka on the benefits of idleness.
- How the iPad is like a microwave.
- Wallace Stevens on ice cream and life and death.
- Afflictor Nation: England still reigns supreme.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.