Links tagged with “newyorktimes”
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Olympic Races, in Your Neighborhood - The New York Times
Very nicely-done (couldn’t be simpler) thing showing you how long and fast races are from your address. A bit like BERG’s old How Big Really.
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The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
This is good - this generation’s “thing” is starting small businesses. “Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur.” Although it falls apart a bit when suggesting hipsters have only been around for 15 years. (via Waxy)
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LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay
On the future of the newspaper industry. Many good nuggets, including: “New York Times, if it stopped printing a physical edition of the paper, could afford to give every subscriber a free Kindle. Not the bog-standard Kindle, but the one with free global data access. And not just one Kindle, but four Kindles. And not just once, but every year.”
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Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right - NYTimes.com
interesting article on the “Tea Party” Right in America. Also scary. Hadn’t realised how much they had in common with crazy paranoid Patriots.
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Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com
This is fascinating, showing a way the make-up of parts of cities could change drastically due to the recession. Although I wonder whether the journalist is extrapolating from an isolated one-off incident. (via Kottke)
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Article Skimmer
NY Time’s prototype news viewer. Nice idea but it equalises the importance of all but one of the stories. I want a newspaper to tell me what it thinks is important (even if it’s wrong). Otherwise it’s not a newspaper, it’s a database.
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Blogs Without the Links - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
More press for Pepys’ Diary.
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Breaking Through - New York Times
Just because I find it interesting what movies make a performer’s reputation, and in some cases makes it harder for them to different roles later. (via Kottke)
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Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. “Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline.” (via Blech)
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The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen - Review - Fringe Festival - New York Times
A play from 2005. Great idea.
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Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times
I have no interest in sport but David Foster Wallace always makes tennis fascinating. Not that I’ve got round to reading this yet. (via Kottke)
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Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times
Tom Standage on why you’re an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.