Afflictor: Thinking it's nice that some of Newt Gingrich's wives agreed to the open marriage.
- A brief commentary about the Academy Award nominations.
- Old Print Articles: Harry K. Thaw attempts suicide, gets arrested (1917) + How Victor Hugo was cured of crying (1898).
- Classic Photograph: Typist, Wearing Surgical Mask, During Flu Pandemic (1918).
- Featured Videos: Documentary about Salvado Dali (1970) + Gandhi is asked about possible martyrdom + Steve Wozniak holds forth on the future of the web + Walter Cronkite interviews Anwar Sadat at the pyramids (1977) + Richard Nixon encourages the futile drug war (1972) + Violent video games used to be very chatty (1982) + Texas Instruments Spell-Checker commercial (1989) + Miami Vice house composer Jan Hammer interviewed (1980s) + Chris Elliott as a comedy robot (1986) + Ralph Steiner’s poetic film about machines (1930) + Streetcar mail delivery (1903) + Mark Boyd’s psychedelic light show (1967 ) + James Gleick on the shift from oral tradition to the written word + Bots play catch in Germany + What’s My Line? with Gloria Swanson (1950), Joan Crawford (1957).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Like a Happy Meal, without the happiness + My bartering skills are questionable + Probably better to just drop the math class.
- Brilliant reportage explaining why Apple makes its products overseas.
- Peter W. Singer examines the intersection of technology and war.
- William Styron wrote a Life article about William Faulkner’s death in 1962.
- Newt Gingrich conveniently forgets his mud-throwing past.
- Timothy Egan recalls Gingrich’s “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.”
- George Soros fears the whole world might go down the tubes.
- The Urban eXperiment surreptitiously restores Parisian landmarks.
- Ray Bradbury wrote an essay about Disneyland in 1965.
- Tom Vanderbilt thinks driverless cars have arrived.
- 3D printers will create a new wave of piracy.
- Luc Sante offers a new appraisal of Patti Smith.
- Kentucky government helping to build creationist theme park.
- A history of the first car phone, which was designed in 1920.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.