If you’re going to go through the trouble of whitewashing Huckleberry Finn by taking out the n-word, why not replace it with something more anachronistic. Like robots. I mean, it only makes sense, after Twain met Data, that he’d incorporate them into his stories. The more you donate to the project, the cooler the end result will be. [Nerdist]
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There’s little action, no sound, and the footage is grainy. But this brief little clip may be the only existing video of writer Mark Twain and his daughters Clara and Jean. It was captured in 1909 by inventor Thomas Edison.
Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens tests Tesla’s inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist.
