Afflictor: Thinking the recent crackdown on gay people in Russia is just a cover for Vladimir Putin’s secret feelings for his new friend.
Would you like to stay at my place, Eddie?
Can I go home now?
- Old Print Articles: Jersey farmer gets tarred and feathered (1910) + Arizona’s only female sheriff visits NYC (1915) + Edward H. Rulloff was a genius, a murderer and had a large brain (1871).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: If I ejaculate one more time, my dick may break + Or, perhaps, it’s Spitzer + In addition to being a psychiatrist, it would help if you’re a dipshit.
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- At Deadspin, Nate Silver did an Ask Me Anything.
- Some things have a cause and some things are statistical outliers.
- David Blum interviews President Obama about the economy.
- There are reasons we spend money on lotteries with near-impossible odds.
- Reza Aslan, theologian and Fox News survivor, did an AMA at Reddit.
- Williston, North Dakota, is a boomtown for oil men and strippers.
- Sasha Frere-Jones doesn’t like Jay Z’s performance–or President Obama’s.
- Garry Davis, who just passed away, was President of the World.
- As homes get smarter, they’re also more prone to hacking.
- A small town in Utah is home to the massive NSA data center.
- Estonia is a very unlikely tech powerhouse.
- Autonomous cars might make us give up the wheel–even ownership.
- Consider the “school-bus problem” that attends driverless cars.
- Tech-centric San Francisco has become a tale of two cities.
- Big Data is entering the classroom, elbowing aside lecturers.
- A brief note from 1880 about new shoes.
- A brief note from 1907 about a boy clairvoyant.
- A brief note from 1882 about a father’s arrival.
- Afflictor Nation: Great Britain rules in July.
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