Over the summer NYTimes.com heavily advertising their new "global edition" that they publish with the International Herald Tribune. They were actually pretty obnoxious about it, so much so that every time you'd go to the regular version a bar would pop up asking if you wanted to switch over. So me, the wish-I-was-worldly-but-really-am-not sort of person I am decided to switch over so every time I visited I'd all sorts of international news to keep me well versed in worldly issues. Oh, that and the stupid bar that kept popping up just got annoying and I just wanted it to stop appearing.
Too bad I'm actually quite unworldly. Aaaaand as a result I've barely read NYTimes.com since.
I just switched back after realizing why the site has been so uninteresting to me recently, but man is that a case of advertising gone wrong.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
German dates
"It's 9-9-9 today. Everyone's excited, except apparently the Germans. According to translators, they just keep saying 'No-No-No.' "
Monday, September 7, 2009
Financial Crisis Play-by-Play
Ever wonder how that financial crisis unfolded? I was pretty confused when all that Bear Sterns - Fannie-Freddie - AIG stuff all came down, and it was hard to wrap it up and put it all together in my head.
Luckily, PBS Frontline made a review called Inside the Meltdown of what occurred over the past couple of years, which really a) allowed me to make more sense out of all of it and b) changed my perception of Hank Paulson. So if you're curious, give this hour-long program a shot.
P.S. Also neat were some of their other programs, such as the one on Wal-Mart.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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