TimesSelect is dead:
Effective September 19, 2007, TimesSelect has ended. Content previously published for TimesSelect is available free to all NYTimes.com visitors
You still need to register to read a lot of the NYT site, though. Lots of sites do this, to keep an eye on who’s reading their articles so that they can better market you to advertisers. Of course, if you’re using Firefox — as you should be — you can just use the BugMeNot add-on to get around even that.
I don’t know if I buy that information wants to be free, but Internet users sure want it that way. Making Internet content commercially viable is going to require a change in the advertising model (TV advertising falling apart will end up helping here, in the end), not creating ways to irritate would-be readers.
Aaaar! It’s that time of year again, by thunder: Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Here be some powerfully piratical links for you land-lubbers to catch up with:
(Courtesy of PirateMod, who produce Cap’n James’ onesie above, as well as t-shirts owned by his father, arrrrrrrrrr …)
So, I survived. More than that, I had a pretty good time. I went up in airport manager Garry Abbott’s restored 1952 Beechcraft Bonanza C-35 (it was the cool silver one with blue flames painted all over its nose).
The world’s largest American flag attempt didn’t go off as planned — “that’s why they call it an ‘attempt,'” as Abbott said — but that meant a lot of time flying over the High Desert.
The thermals off of the sand, asphalt and so on made for a somewhat choppy ride, especially as the day wore on, but it was an interesting way to start off a Saturday. There’s talk of possibly trying the world’s biggest American flag this weekend during the Hesperia Days parade. We’ll see if that happens and how it goes.
Well, it finally happened: a bill requiring hands-free devices for cell phone use in vehicles goes into effect next year:
Smoak said he hopes the new laws will stop people from talking and driving.
“We would prefer you to pull off at the next exit to make a call,� Smoak said, “but if you just have to make the call, pull to the right shoulder and make the call safely.�
Smoak said he has seen many collisions where a distraction was the cause.
Besides cell phones, people often lose sight of the road while turning radios, changing CDs, putting on makeup or reading a book.
“You name it, we’ve see it,� he said.
I’ve had a hands-free earpiece sitting in a box here at home ever since I got my Treo 650. I guess it’s time to bust it out, power it up and tell my phone how to find it via Bluetooth.
You know, some time before July 1, 2008.
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