Afflictor: Not mentioning that Willie Nelson looks like crap, since 2009. (Image by Joel Telling.)
- Classic Film: Being There (1979).
- Recent Film: Marwencol (2010).
- Old Print Articles: Stowaways are caught (1888-1902) + Window cleaners get hurt (1859-1902).
- Classic Photographs: Buying cakes and pies at the Automat (1936) + Italian woman carrying dry-goods box (1912).
- Featured Videos: California woman gets hand transplant + Klaus Kinski’s homage to Jesus Christ + Marshall McLuhan and Tom Wolfe talk literature (1971) + Phil Donahue squares off with Jerry Rubin (1970) + Millie Brown’s art makes her want to vomit + Autonomous DogBot climbs rocks + Timothy Leary and Art Linkletter speak by phone (1977) + Historic Haight-Ashbury home with hidden garage + Satirical commercial for human augmentations + Frank Serpico’s many faces + Short humanoid robot talks and listens + Rolling Stones Rice Krispies jingle (1965) + Sexploitation flick with Chuck Norris and an evil clown (1973) + Trying to make Domino’s Pizza look edible + Looking back at the world’s first computer + Autonomous automobiles explained + Robots dispensing medicine in California + Google Map Maker recruits crowdsourcers + First low-cost persoanl robot.
- Recently posted on NYC’s Craigslist: After a great career, I’m retiring from collecting celebrity hair + Buy a snow globe with my urine in it + I think someone will pay me five million dollars for a camel skeleton + Guy who believes his own bullshit thinks he can make you a billionaire + For some reason we want to put the name of your business on a missile + Looking to get back into the wig business.
- Barack Obama’s mother was many things, including a blacksmith.
- Robert Earl Hughes was the heaviest man in the world.
- Before ESPN and the Internet, there was Sports Phone.
- Philip K. Dick remembers the first story he ever wrote.
- Recalling the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
- David Owen points out the environmentally sound nature of NYC.
- British investor tries to revive the Cosmos soccer brand.
- David Grann goes on a great squid hunt.
- Dr. Franckinstein was a quack and bootlegger in 1880s Kansas.
- Figuring out how to get people to click Internet ads is a waste of genius.
- The Ethiopian newspaper-rental business.
- A brief history of communications hacking.
- Buckminster Fuller is reborn in Beijing.
- Hotels using new technology to prevent towel theft.
- Brazil’s national library has few book, many massage chairs.
- The Handsome Family explore childhood’s end.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.