Month: January 2005

New York Times Link Generator

For those of you who have ever considered linking (or e-mail links) to stories in the New York Times but worry about it disappearing into its archives never to be seen again, worry no more. The form on that link will generate a non-decaying link to New York Times stories and when folks click on one of these links, they don’t have to sign into the NYT site, and they won’t have to pay a fee to read the story, even if it’s in the archives.

Now I just need to go through my archives for NYT stories and see if any of them can be salvaged. Link via BB.

January 27, 2005

eBay Marketing Techniques

How does eBay market itself and bring in traffic? It’s actually responsible for creating all those strange auctions that you read about. Really.

January 27, 2005

Boys Arrested For Crayon Drawings

Don’t blame police, really, as the kids were making drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, but I don’t know if arresting them was the appropriate action. Good counseling would probably have been more appropriate. Full Story.

January 27, 2005

Soviet-era Missle Removed From eBay

Not because it violated eBays weapons policies, but because it broke eBay regulations by listing it alongside its vehicle launcher, which should have appeared as a separate item. Full Story. Thanks Barney for the link.

January 27, 2005

A Horrible Name For A Urologist

“Hi, my name is Richard Chopp, but my friends call me Dick.”

January 26, 2005

Nice And Secure

If you can’t make your site secure, just put an SSL icon at the bottom of the page’s design, like these guys did. Thanks NTK.

January 26, 2005

He Must Have Really Screwed Up

When the five-dozen roses he sent her didn’t seem to help, a Florida man ran a full-page ad in the local paper (to the tune of $17,000) trying to win his wife back (who left him two weeks ago). A picture of the ad is here. Link via Romenesko.

January 26, 2005

This Is Frightening

This woman has managed to collect over 1,000 My Little Pony dolls, as well as over 1,000 Pony-related items.

The lady’s even got more pictures on her eBay profile with MLPs stacked to the ceiling of her house.

This has all the workings of a really bad horror movie. Anybody have a title for the screenplay that is better than my “Attack Of The Ponies”?

January 26, 2005

I Beat Anorexia

A perfect t-shirt for a gigantic man.

January 25, 2005

The Apple Product Cycle

Sadly, this isn’t that far from the truth.

January 25, 2005