Hooray! The New York Times will now stop charging for access to much of its content.The change takes effect Tuesday night — two years after The Times started its ‘Times Select’ subscription service. Regular stories used to go behind the subscription wall after a week of availability online.Money quote from the article: “The business model for advertising revenue, versus subscriber revenue, [has become] so much more attractive.”
Adventurer Steve Fossett is still missing. And the Amelia Earhart comparisons have started.
What is the true birth name of Nelson Mandela?Hint: It’s not Nelson.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1308:]]
The Toronto Star’s colorful remembrance of First Ex Jane Wyman ends this way: “In person, Wyman sported the earthy language of a longshoreman. She carried her pack of Kent cigarettes with her everywhere.”
Oscar-winning actress Jane Wyman has died at age 93.Wyman was the first wife of actor Ronald Reagan, who went on to become America’s first divorced president. Reagan and Wyman were married from 1940-48. Reagan married another actress, Nancy Davis, in 1952.
The Amazon Mechanical Turk page is asking Internet users to help scan satellite photos for Steve Fossett’s plane.Welcome to the 21st century.Fossett’s official site also has updates on the search.
Aviator Steve Fossett is still missing in Nevada, and the headlines are getting grimmer.
The BBC has transcript excerpts from the latest Osama Bin Laden video.
The headlines are turning grimmer for Steve Fossett, the adventurer and pilot who’s been missing in the Nevada desert since Monday.
Luciano Pavarotti has died of pancreatic cancer at age 71.Bloomberg calls him the “most famous opera tenor since Caruso,” and that sums things up pretty well.That Bloomberg obit is full of good quotes, including his former manager calling him “a rock star for people over 30,” and rock star Bono saying “Some can sing opera; Luciano Pavarotti was an opera.”