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Be there square?

msittig — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:01:31 -0800

"Later that day, Arthur Mgqweto, a math teacher, strode into the classroom, jauntily wearing a township take on the fedora called a square." A square? From a New York Times article, can somebody point me to a more complete description or better yet a picture of a (South African) square? This Arthur Mgqweto guy sounds like a cool cat.

nytimes spyware

leotrotsky — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:54:07 -0800

What's up with the NY Times trying to install spyware? ...and why is it still trying to this morning? You'd think that their tech folks woulda fixed it by last night.

Archive.org for yesterday...

typography — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:01:32 -0800

Is there a way of seeing what the New York Times had on the front page of their website at certain times in the recent past? I know this is easy to find the front page of the actual newspaper, but I'm wondering if there's something similar for the website.

Why is Megan McArdle a good fit for the NYTimes?

waxbanks — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:30:00 -0800

Why is Megan McArdle so highly regarded? Economist/business types: Apparently Megan McArdle of the Atlantic - the blogger formerly known (laughably) as 'Jane Galt' - is being talked about for Bill Kristol's spot at the NYTimes.

Why? What has she done, written, thought that qualifies her for such a position? Note that I'm not interested in a comparative discussion: I'm aware that e.g. David Brooks's only qualification for his NYT columnist spot is being David Brooks. I just want to know what her writing is worth, on its own. I've never had any reaction to her blog but the proverbial 'Meh' - what am I missing?

(Note that I'd have the same reaction to the NYTimes picking Yglesias, Sullivan, Ezra Klein, Amanda Marcotte, or any other ideologique(?!) blogger whose major experience seemed to consist of, um, blogging. Actually of that crew Sullivan would make the most sense to me, as he's older by a decade and more popular by a factor of ten than the others, and has a longish record of public-intellectual/advocacy experience re:, among other things, his signature topic (LGBT civil rights).)

Is this ideological tokenism? Some other, more insidious form of tokenism? Or is McArdle a good fit and I just haven't seen her best stuff?

Help me Mefi-wan Kenobi! You're my only hope!

ps. A link to e.g. a single impressively original insight would be a good start.

Barack Obama Photo on NYTIMES.COM?

sacho — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:29:45 -0800

help me find a photo of barack obama looking like a rock star from nytimes.com this morning! i saw this photo a few hours ago on the front page of nytimes.com (circa 11a pst?) and now i'm obsessed with finding it again. i feel like i've searched the whole nytimes.com website. i'm not sure what article it went with or who took it or anything .

the photo is an action shot of obama speaking on stage, it's dark but you can make out empty red chairs behind him (like a stadium). he is outlined in light, glowing really, and the photo has caught him mid sentence, there is a spray of sweat around his face. i saw it and thought: this man will be president.

and now of course, they've changed the photo on the front page and i can't find it anywhere. help?

Today's NYTimes in London?

Optamystic — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:54:51 -0800

Can I buy today's New York Times anywhere in North London? My kid brother's band got a nice write up in the Arts section, and I'd like to hang on to the paper for posterity.

What sort of tables would work as a writing desk for a couch?

geoff. — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:14:52 -0800

In today's NYTimes House and Home section, there is a picture of a desk table that fits perfectly with a couch. Is there a style or name for this kind of table? Where would I find one? I am guessing the table in the article is well out of my price range. I'd like to try to find a table with the same functionality. I hate hunching over a coffee table, and my card table is too high. This table looks adjustable in the picture ... but I could be wrong.

How do you read the NYTimes?

pwally — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:26:43 -0800

How should I be reading the NYTimes? I subscribed last month and I love it, but I only end up reading about five to ten percent of the paper every week. I really enjoy the Science Times every Tuesday, and I also like the Book Review and the Magazine in the Sunday paper. Is there anything else that comes on a specific day that I should be looking for? Also what is your general routine for reading the paper? What are all the little nuances that you have when it comes to folding and putting the paper back together, what do you do with the blue bags etc.? Should I be recycling all the old papers? I'm just trying to get more out of the experience, any advice is valuable!

Get rid of the NY Times dictionary popups!?

gramcracker — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:10:12 -0800

How do I turn off the dictionary lookup popup thing on nytimes.com? I'm one of those people that highlights words on a webpage while I'm reading it, and the NYTimes' javascript popup when a word is highlighted is driving me insane. Is there some cookie or something to disable it, or some user control panel config thing on Firefox I can use to turn off Javascript only for nytimes.com? Thanks!

Are there actually more crying toddlers on the subway than ten years ago?

soma lkzx — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:23:38 -0800

Help me find a NY Times article claiming that the number of kids in cities has increased over the past ten years! I'm looking for a NY Times article written between 2000 and now that claimed the number of children in cities (maybe just New York?) had increased over the past 10 years. In contrast to the 70s and 80s flights to suburbia, the article claims, city-life and its growing attempts to have child-friendly amenities has attracted young families into staying put in urban areas rather than move to surrounding suburbs. Can anyone find this article? I've found a lot of work disclaiming this argument, so any other articles supporting this claim would also be welcome.

this is for zoomorphic, who is too busy building her fort to read six years of newspapers

One-click single page for nytimes.com?

ericbop — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:22:54 -0800

Anyone know of a firefox extension/greasemonkey script that would cause all nytimes.com articles to automatically open in the "single page" format. I read the whole paper online, and it's really annoying to have to click the "single page" button for every article that's longer than one page. Alternately, how hard would it be to write such an extension/script?

Anyone know the NYTimes article about urban games?

cloudscratcher — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:47:53 -0800

Sunday New York Times, probably November 27th, an article about urban games, possibly on the front page? I've done searches with restricted date range (so maybe my date is wrong) on the nytimes site, and I've tried searching every permutation of "urban games" "big games" etc. I've just spent a long time combing through the site.

Just wonder if anyone has way better skillz than I do, or better yet knows the article I'm talking about. Some kind of article about games that take place in New York City, maybe, where people are running around, maybe.

Only one thing certain: appeared in the Sunday NYTimes sometime shortly after Thanksgiving.

Desperate to find it, thanks in advance and happy non-denominational holidays to the lot of you.

How to block TimesSelect ad at nytimes.com?

Brian James — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:31:57 -0800

How do I get rid of this godforsaken TimesSelect floating ad that appears at nytimes.com? I'm using Mozilla 1.5RC1, but it also appeared with the prior Firefox versions (1.4 etc). I've even tried clicking on the ad, in hopes that that would make it go away. It's not a flash ad, and blocking the site from which it is served would block other nytimes images I don't want to block. Ideas?

nytimes crossword reruns?

jetskiaccidents — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:10:43 -0800

Does the NY Times ever rerun its crossword puzzles? I started doing the NYT crossword today (no. 0531) in my local paper and it seemed oddly familiar. After filling in some more squares, I KNEW that I had done this crossword before, and within the past two months. I figured it was just a mistake, but the other local paper has the same repeat puzzle. Would they actually repeat crosswords in the Times and not expect obsessive puzzlers to notice? I haven't been a junkie long enough to really know. And if anyone who gets the NY Times could confirm that this is not just a mistake in both local papers, that would be great. The clue for 1 Down is "warhead weapon, briefly."

elvis!

crush-onastick — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:25:52 -0800

is elvis mitchell doing regular movie reviews in print anywhere now that he's left the new york times? i assume he's still on NPR's weekend edition (which i never listen to), and i've seen him on PBS and (i think) CNN, but i miss the written reviews. my inability to find information on google leads me to believe that he isn't doing print reviews anymore, although it may simply be that he's writing for a publication with no on-line presence. that's okay--i'd probably subscribe to something that carried him regularly.

Bad links on major news sites

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:25:16 -0800

Why do the most professional news web sites so often - and increasingly often - include bad or wrong links? I'm talking NYT, WP, Daily Telegraph and Google News et al. (For a recent example, click on the Researching the New Joy of Sex highlight in today's Observer and you get this.)