Vogue went all old-timey with its most recent cover which, to my eyes, hearkens back to the imagery of Jim Crow-era propaganda.

King James won’t be happy with a ring, he wants your women (all of them) too!

23/6 makes the apt comparison below:

Did you know that if you press the ALT button and click on any word on the New York Times website a pop-up window opens with the word’s definition? The feature is powered by Answers.com.

Does anyone know when they added this feature? Not that the newspaper uses to many 10 cent words, but the feature is clean and useful. Now, if the ALT-click opened a window with a Wikipedia entry for the clicked word, that would be extrememly useful.

Update: It appears that this feature works on individual articles, but not on section pages (e.g. the homepage, business, sports, etc.)

We have three very large (and very expensive) flat screen televisions on the first floor of one of the law school buildings. They are always on, always silent, and always tuned to CNN. Every once in awhile, as I enter the lobby, I pause to see if anything new is being reported. Today, as I passed the silent screen, I saw “Late Breaking News” and stopped to tune in. On the screen was a picture of Maryland with a pulsating circle located right above Camp David. “Oh no they didn’t…” I thought to myself, wondering whether Camp David had been attacked. The caption underneath the picture read:

Bush says Zarqawi’s death won’t end the insurgency.

At least CNN got it half right. It ain’t news, but they certainly broke it late.

Fred Wilson nails it with his post about how NYTimes Select has killed the influence (online at least) of the top op-ed writers at the Old Grey Lady. Back in the day, the first thing I did in the morning was go to NYTimes and read the latest from Dowd, Friedman, Rich, Tierney, etc. Their opinions mattered. We discussed their ideas on blogs, they were thought leaders. They are no longer - due entirelyt to the NYTimes decision to hide them behind the “Select” vail.

An even sadder side effect of the walled garden that is the Times Select is the fact that their “most interesting articles” feature has been watered down. That list used to be a first class shortcut for finding the articles that I had to read. Now, I rarely find an article on the list that really captures my interest. It has become a B-list of sorts - what would have been the #25 - #50 most forwarded articles by users.

I’d love to see the data for the months following the implementation of Times Select. Did readership dip online? Have they actually increased revenue by getting more pulp subscriptions? I suppose that if they have increased revenue or if their readership online hasn’t decreased, then is their value to having their key writers widely circulated on line? And I wonder if there will be a larger, more noticeable difference further on down the road?

Sidebar from CNN’s politics page. I can’t tell if this is an editing mistake by the folks at CNN or an off color joke about Detroit being a chocolate city. I am referencing the section on Rice below.

When a cartoon makes the Joint Chiefs of Staff angry, you know some truth telling is going on.

Did Wired just change their design?

ps. I didn’t know that Lycos still existed.

I was looking through my the various draft posts that I have left in Wordpress. I often start to write a post and then realize I haven’t yet formalized a coherent thought. Other times I know I want to flesh out an idea but don’t have the time to finish. This one is from December.

I can’t take it anymore. There is simply too much information for me to digest in any useable fashion. I have 3 email accounts (personal, school, and one for signup forms), 2 IM clients (AIM and GTalk). Accounts I use daily include, Flickr, Del.icio.us, and Bloglines. I maintain two blogs, and try to keep up on news, events and other goings on by monitoring over 100 websites.

The wheels are coming off.

I suppose I never posted this half thought because it made more sense to do something about it.

1. I stopped using my school account (I scan the “from” field to see if it is from an administrator - I want to know if I get an email that is alerting me to the fact that I am not graduating).
2. I totally wiped my bloglines subscriptions and started from scratch. This cut the number of feeds by 75% because I couldn’t even remember what I had subscribed to. I plan to do this every two months or so. I think I might actually go back to a feedless existence soon. I miss “surfing.” I miss choosing a jumping off point and following the issue, meme, idea, etc. wherever it leads. That type of online meandering doesn’t give you the elevated heart rate that you get when you realize that after 2 days of not opening bloglines you are 500 posts behind on your reading material.
3. I had to put the total and utter kibosh on AIM.

I stumbled across this site and it made my day. Happynews.com’s credo is “Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive.” Headlines today include:

• Millions of Iraqis vote in relative peace.
• Report: more children get school breakfast
• ‘Integrity’ tops Web Dictionary’s lookups
• DNA tests free man in prison 25 years

Even the weather carried good news.

The weather sure is nice in Atlanta today!

Atlanta, Georgia
Clear 45° F
Humidity: 46%
Winds: W 13 MPH
Barometer: 30.13 in
Heat Index: 45° F
Wind Chill: 38° F

The stocks, however, are covered with a big image that reads: Warning! Unhappy news Alert - Click at your own risk.

Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series. The service, called In2TV, will be free, supported by advertising, and will start early next year. More than 4,800 episodes will be made available online in the first year.