My former business partner and I were once interviewed by the Times about the businesses colonizing space that had been abandoned by the dot-bombs. It looked like we'd get a fair amount of press until I mentioned that our neihbors had brought in a shaman to cleanse the space. We still got a couple of paragraphs, but there was a whole two-column-with-photos feature devoted to the shaman. My business partner was *really* POed, although he did get his picture in the paper.

If you're like me and you can no longer remember your username and password "gaimanfan" (for both) still works to read the Times online.

I will say, the photo makes the terra cotta bit look more like a book press than a book end. Did it run in the proper orientation in the paper itself?

They probably thought--with good reason--that more people would be familiar with the latter.

And congratulations!

--Mary Aileen

I feel a Douglas Adams quote coming on again- my apologies; listening to 'Hitchhikers Tertiary Phase' and 'Douglas Adams at the BBC' has made me realise how much I miss him:

"Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’ What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’."

By the way, I hope that you of all people will not take it amiss when I say that it's "Spider-Man" with a hyphen and a capital M.

A note that I read after paying $4.50 for the opportunity to verify the information personally. Very well, it's a lesson whose tuition does not pinch me, and the diploma does serve for wrapping fish. The crosswords were a fair diversion, too.

For those who get only an intro and an invitation to subscribe from Teresa's link, you can find the article with a search engine. Alternatively, you can subscribe for free, or use well-known subscription avoidance techniques, but I found this method preferable.

My website was mentioned a few years ago in the very last line of an article that ran on pg 69 of the NY Post--my site rec'd 38,000 hits that day.

And the proud momma ordered a copy of the paper and has the article in her scrapbook. There you go.

First ML is mentioned in James Patrick Kelly's article "On the Net" in Asimov's and now the NYT! I wonder if it is going to get crowded around here.

Is that fangirly enough?

Congrats. It's a nice littler article, misquotes, sideways photo and all. At least the misquotes don't render you completely ditzy, as sometimes happens to other friends.

Congrats. The NYT! Wow.

Hm, the copy I got didn't have any sideways pictures. Want me to save it? (Let's just hope Himself didn't take down the recycling.)

But -- if you get mentioned in TIME Magazine, you would be Timed. So weren't you actually Timesed? If one is mentioned in Hustler, has one been Hustled? Just wondering...

Franklin Mint has announced a line of Flatiron Building collectable Renovation Rubble.

Each piece comes with a numbered authenticity certificate confirming that the hand-painted collectable (molded from quality resinoid) is based on rubble from a genuine Flatiron Building dumpster.

Newspaper does have lots of post-reading uses: Drying / polishing just washed windows. Covering a table before doing artsy-craftsy stuff. Packing. Absorbing grease when microwaving bacon (under a layer of paper towels).

Yes. Because they've tried to wrap fish in a blog and it doesn't work because [fill in punchline here].

In a previous generation they tried another technology, and that didn't work either. I think it was called microfiche... [fill in punchline here].

Entirely unrelatedly, it struck me that you (or others here) might like this: Songs Rewritten as Bulleted Lists. I've just this second blogged it with my modest example.

My daughter now thinks Teresa is even cooler than before (and says thanks for the last batch of rocks, which I carried around in my backpack for a couple of weeks before remembering to give them to her, my bad). The kid also swiped a piece of Flatiron debris from the dumpster when she visited on Friday, a little curved bit which is now on her bedside table at home.

I thought it's correct to spell it "pre.cisely" when you're trying to get people to read the "e" as a long "eee," for emphasis. Because hyphens are, well, less precise. Too casual.

Theresa: Congratulations on the article. You say that photo is sideways? I just assumed that you use bookends to keep stacks of books from floating away if the artificial gravity fails. (I may be confusing New York with New New York.)

I tried that, because I heard it was a way to save money. Not only didn't it save me any money, I bruised my fingertips.

He is now officially my hero-for-the-day.