There are lots of photos of empty offices, stores with signs of imminent closing, and photos of people curtailing their usual “luxuries” to enjoy their time some other way.
Jer Thorp put them up for viewing in both black and white and color variations, but I honestly prefer the color because of the contrast and the beautiful work of art that these end up becoming. Not that the black and white ones are beautiful, but I just like the color ones a lot more. [via]
The New York Times recently announced a new way to read and skim news headlines using their article skimmer. The NYT says that the article skimmer was made originally to mimic the feel of having the Sunday Times spread out across the table while having brunch — an act of consuming news that I’ve never personally done myself but that I’ve seen others do in the past.
In terms of getting a good overview of what’s being written in The New York Times, the article skimmer proves to be a fantastic tool. As most of you know, I’m an information and news junkie and getting my fix from the NYT has definitely been much more satisfying while using the article skimmer.
In fact, I consider it a “Google Reader” for the New York Times especially when I make use of its keyboard shortcuts.
We’re also geeks, so there are plenty of keyboard commands for the efficiency lovers. The space bar takes you down a section, and shift-space brings you back up. Arrow keys do the same. You can navigate sections by holding down the “s” key (s for section), typing the number that appears, and releasing the “s” key. Same goes for articles, but with the “a” key (a for article). If you need a reminder, just click the “?” in the upper right corner.
The article skimmer is a prototype at the moment and there isn’t an official name for the news reader, but I really hope the NYT puts some money behind this project. I could see it potentially replacing the NYT front page altogether. I think that would be nice.
Umm, wow. Way to milk the fame of President-elect Obama. Urban Outfitters is selling a mock New York Times cover presumably put out on the day that Obama was elected to become the next US President. Of course, Urban Outfitters changed the original image that was on the real November 5, 2008 cover, in case anybody at the NYT took notice and wanted to to do something about it. Actually, I’m sure they could still do something about it. And they should, because this T-shirt is terrible.
So there’s a rumor going around (that sounds like it is probably true) that the Yes Men were responsible for the fake New York Times from the future (the date on this issue is July 4, 2009).
If you haven’t heard, volunteers all over New York today were handing out issues of a newspaper seemingly identical to The New York Times. The cover story of this fake newspaper read “IRAQ WAR ENDS” and featured many stories that sounded too good to be true.
The tagline to this fake New York Times newspaper read “All The News We Hope To Print”.
I’ve read reports that by mid-day, copies of this fake newspaper were very hard to get, so when I saw a stack of them at New School just sitting there, I grabbed 5 copies and took them home! So now I have 5 copies of this fake New York Times that at least one former NYT reporter has said could become a collector’s item.
Everything about this newspaper seems genuine. Whoever put this newspaper together really labored over a real New York Times newspaper and took every identifiable cue from it to make this fake one seem as legit as possible to the naked eye.
