Posts tagged “New York Times”

• If you’re bored with the standard New York Times puzzles — or looking for more ways to avoid thinking about the impending collapse of society — Alphaguess and Wordiply are two other fun word games. Worldle is a fun geography game and Framed is a fun movie game. Or see if you can beat my streak of 19 at WikiTrivia. There’s also a sports version of Connections.
• Being a “safe space for both sides” means you’re not a safe space for one side. – via @lingeringperception
• Art Garfunkel describes tearful reunion with Paul Simon: “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him.” – via @timcarmody
• “I know that you have what it takes to start healing.” – via Coach Bennett’s Newsletter
• “It’s 91 degrees in November… no idea why I’m saving for retirement. At no point did Mad Max check his 401k.” – via @rpgregory87
• The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece – via @mariapopova
• This lovely Martha Wainwright track (from the absolutely fantastic Big Little Lies soundtrack) might resonate with some of you lately.
• See also: “The point of winning was not to make themselves happy, it was to make everyone else miserable.” – via @duckswithpants
• These 10 CSS Code Snippets Every UI Developer Should Know and 10 Bootstrap Tricks Every UI Developer Should Know are both handy. – via Niraj Narkhede

I seriously dislike when the NYT crossword gets cute with things. Hard clues I love. Making it so you can’t solve the puzzle without breaking the rules of crossword puzzles is just annoying.

• The story of the creation of the “Wanted” posters for Jonah Hex is pretty fascinating.
• About five years ago, on September 1, 2005, I sat at a coffee shop across the street from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and could not believe just how much it leans. And that was five years after they fixed it.
• Everybody loves lists, so Listiki — a site for finding, making, and sharing them — should be popular.
• Adjusting to today’s dollars, the United States has incurred more debt in the last decade then during the entire combined previous 211 years of the republic’s existence.
• How to Create a CD Ladder, from FrugalDad
• “In an era when very little remains shocking, Pierce might have actually managed to create a genuinely disturbing work of fiction, the literary equivalent of Schindler’s List rewritten by the Marquis De Sade and filmed as a Tim Burton animated feature.” (hat tip to rb)
• Just about 100 years ago — on July 24, 1910 — the New York Times featured an article titled “Will Future Generations Lose Historical Documents of To-Day?”.
• “When you are parting with your money, know the person on the other side of the deal thinks you are not so smart and is depending on the anchoring effect when they tell you how much you are about to save.”

• Not many things are cooler than Johnny Depp reading a letter from Hunter S. Thompson.
• The Zodiac Killer! Grey goo! There are all sorts of creepy Wikipedia articles.
• The team @Flip has done it again. They are just killing in the video recorder market. Their new product — the Flip SlideHD — is incredible. It shoots 4 hours of HD video and has a touchscreen. (via The Awesomer)
• Phil Mickelson visited Krispy Kreme, wearing his spiffy new green jacket.
• The best Twitter exchange of the year has got to go to Aimee Mann and Ice T.
• I don’t subscribe to Scientific American, but I always grab it in airport bookstores. My favorite recurring feature is the one that details an interesting article from 50, 100, and 150 years ago. So it was with some pleasure that I discovered that the author of one of my favorite blogs, Ironic Sans, has recently started publishing Sunday Magazine. Every Friday he posts the most interesting articles from the New York Times Sunday Magazine from 100 years ago that weekend. Trés cool.
• The towel-folding robot is just more proof that I am going to get to meet C-3PO (or at least R2-D2) in my lifetime.

• Only XKCD could produce such an emotionally-charged comic strip about the Mars rover Spirit. (How can you not feel badly about that poor little robot?)
• Where do all my taxes go? The New York Times has a great infographic that displays the recently-proposed 2011 US budget.
• You’ll find bunches of (mostly technical) fascinating links if you subscribe to my delicious feed; but in case you don’t and it’s the sort of thing that interests you, check out:
  • All About Cron Jobs
  • A Complete Guide to Regular Expressions
  • The Official Facebook PHP Guide
  • Create Nice 3D Ribbons With Pure CSS3
• Why the iPad will fail and help Windows 7 to succeed is required reading for anyone that is just blindingly stupid. It’s perfect for brilliant minds who also think the government is secretly poisoning us with fluoride and there’s really no hard evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer.