Wednesday, April 4, 2012

NEW FRONTIERS IN INTERACTIVE REPORTING: If you've ever wanted to blow up the NYT website, here's your chance.

Kind of hoping this catches on. We could fly across the interwebs raining destruction on circular arguments, unnecessary comma-splices, and irritating sidebar links.

Hat tip: Fuchs.

17 comments:

  1. Samir Patel11:54 AM

    You just made me miss a solid ten minutes of my materials engineering lecture.

    This is amazing.

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  2. Marsha2:15 PM

    Samir, I thank G-d every day that there was no such thing as the internet (as we know it today) when I was getting my education.

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  3. Samir Patel3:04 PM

    WHY IS THIS FEATURE NOT ENABLED ON EVERY PAUL KRUGMAN ARTICLE.  IT SHOULD BE.

    [Yeah, the caps lock was entirely necessary there.]

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  4. Samir Patel3:05 PM

    You know, I didn't even really read the actual article about Angry Birds and Farmville.  I just had fun zooming around the page in my little virtual paper spaceship and turning article headlines into fireworks.  [Take that, editor!  You wanted an attention grabbing headline?!?!?!  THIS ONE'S PRETTY EXPLOSIVE!]

    I'm sorry, my inner twelve year old just escaped.  BRB, need to go catch him.

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  5. Samir Patel3:05 PM

    You know, though, if you're responsible about it -- it's a good thing.  I honestly don't know if I'd be getting As in any of my science classes [especially quantum mechanics] without Google and/or Wolfram Alpha.  So.

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  6. Marsha3:28 PM

    Samir, I didn't have any wllpower at that age. As evidenced by the fact that my law school average would likely have been several point higher if there were no such things as Usenet and Doom II.

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  7. It would be a nice addition to any editorial page or "politics" section, wouldn't it?

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  8. Maddy6:25 PM

    Yeah, I mean not to sound completely my age, but I don't know how you all did it without the internet.

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  9. Anonymous9:14 PM

    There were these things? Called libraries?

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  10. Anonymous9:15 PM

    As if you couldn't guess that guest is me -- Watts

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  11. Joseph J, Finn11:02 PM

    Sadly, the shots do not insert a space in cramped, single-space-between-sentences atrociites in NYT articles.

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  12. Roger3:33 AM

    What's a "liberry"?

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  13. Roger3:34 AM

    You can enable this as a bookmarklet you can invoke on any website. http://kickassapp.com/

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  14. Watts9:49 AM

    It's a very quiet place where they keep old ladies who like to read.

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  15. Bookmarklet!  That's a new one on me.

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  16. sea0tter123:37 PM

    Because that would be wrong :)

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  17. Maddy6:43 PM

    I'm definitely a fan of libraries, but even there, it's the internet I find most useful for doing research (the online databases like JSTOR are super helpful).  I really do like books, though, I promise!

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