NYT
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On Paying for the Newspaper (In Light of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius)
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare Act in the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case. Last night I read everything I could get my iPad’s hands on via the Web site of the world’s best source for news, the New York Times. But that wasn’t enough. I went…
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Archive of My NYT Anonymity Because Clause Tweets
From April 2 – September 24, 2007, I used my Twitter account (@juggernautco) exclusively to publish all of the “because clauses” in articles from the New York Times that contained information from anonymous sources. Here’s a fun list of those tweets. because the report will be issued this morning Mon Sep 24 22:28:33 +0000 2007…
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The Ballad of Tyler Hicks
Tyler Hicks is one of the best war photographers in history. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and worked with some of the best, including C. J. Chivers and Dexter Filkins, trying to explain a world gone mad. In March of last year, Hicks— along with colleagues Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Stephen Farrell— was…
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In Praise of Wolfgang Oehme
This morning I read the obituary of landscape architect Wolfgang Oehme in the NYT. Here’s a snip: For 30 years, Mr. Oehme teamed up with James van Sweden to develop self-sustaining gardens, free of pesticides, that could remain beautiful even as the seasons changed. They planted flowers and bushes not by threes and fives, but…
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The News The Day Before: Anwar Sadat’s Assassination
I love the New York Times archive. Since I get the paper delivered to my doorstep every morning, I get access to every word they’ve published since 1851. If I were a smarter person (or at least an actual coder), I would use their API tools to do all sorts of things, including the automation…