Paper seemed pretty dead flipping through section A today. Read about Daschle and digital piracy but overall didn't find many articles that really cried out for me to read them.
That changed with section D. I thought the article about the environmentalists who decided to get rid of their fridges was fascinating. I hadn't heard anything about it before, and I consider myself fairly well versed in the various environmental experiments that catch headlines (I frequently visited No Impact Man's blog, which is referenced in the article, along with 365 days of Trash and other wites similar). Thought the article did great job presenting people who did it, and people who couldn't fathom doing it. Really says a lot about how difficult it would be that both sides were represented by environmental types. Definitely a thing to do when you're single or with a very tolerable, like-minded spouse. Maybe I'll have to add it to my to-do list.
Also liked the "diet betting" article in the Styles section, mostly due to interest in food and nutrition.
Finally, I liked the article in Styles about the 25 Random Things About Me lists. The article couldn't have been more perfectly timed. In the past week, it seems half my "friends" have written one of these. I haven't, but I guess it says something about me that I read them, even (as the article references) people I don't really know. Also liked the little line about the guy having 1790 friends, 17 of which he knew personally. So true, so true.
And I don't know if this was in print anywhere, but saw this on the times website and was convinced once again that Christoph Niemann is a genius.
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em
Read the coffee timeline he drew on napkins back in December too.
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