TimesMachine
The New York Times’ online archive is called the TimesMachine. This is why I love the New York Times.
The New York Times’ online archive is called the TimesMachine. This is why I love the New York Times.
Anand Girdharadas at the New York Times: Many liberals I know take for granted that anyone conservative is either racist or under-informed. People who run companies like Amazon operate as though it never it occurred to them that it could have been them crawling through the aisles. And the people who run labor unions possess [...]
Another one from Grantland. Some of the back story to David Foster Wallace’s famous New York Times piece on Roger Federer (as well as the full excerpt of the article).
The following tweet flashed across my twitterstream yesterday: The HuffPost wants you to write for free. The NYTimes wants you to pay up to $455/year to read online news. There’s got to be a better way. I immediately tweeted back: The NYT wants you pay (between $195 and) $455 to read the NYT. You’re welcome [...]
After the discussion in a previous blog post, I tried to create an alternative to the current New York Times Opinion page that dealt with the issues I had. (The image was mocked up very quickly and I didn’t bother properly lining things up, so apologies there.) Linklines I’ve dispensed with the headlines as I [...]
I hate clutter. I’m typing this while writing in a room that looks like a bomb hit it so allow me to be more specific. I hate information clutter. Really hate isn’t the right word because it’s not like I get worked up about it.1 I mean hate in the sense of can’t stand it [...]