From pcrispe1@ua1vm.ua.eduThu Jan 25 22:19:31 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 17:21:48 -0600
From: Patrick Douglas Crispen
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Subject: TOURBUS - 25 JANUARY 1996 - THE TIMES
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TOURBUS - THURSDAY, JANUARY 25
TODAY'S STOP: THE TIMES
TODAY'S STOPS: http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/sub-bin/new_sub.cgi
http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/verify/verify.cgi
http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/sections.html
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/front/quick.html
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/cynavi.html
Well, I'll admit it. I'm embarrassed. It turns out that the "Navy story"
about the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the lighthouse is in fact a very
old urban legend (probably created by someone on the USS Carl Vinson (I'M
KIDDING!!!)). As an alert reader pointed out, the Enterprise/lighthouse
story has probably been floating around (no pun intended) since the days of
Lord Nelson and the HMS Victory. This, of course, explains why Nelson won
the Battle of Trafalgar ... he had air support from the aircraft carrier
Enterprise.
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OH THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGING
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If you are looking for proof that the World Wide Web is dominant force that
is here to stay, I think I've found it: The New York Times is now online!
Before you start celebrating and going "yippee" (and you do that a lot,
don't you?), there is some bad news: you have to have a graphical,
forms-capable Web browser like Netscape or Mosaic to be able to fully use
The New York Times Web pages. Why? Well, while The New York Times on the
Web is absolutely free (see note below) to everyone, you need to
"register" with The Times to be able to access some of their pages ...
and you have to have a forms-capable browser in order to register :(
<< Note: turns out this may be just a 30-day trial, perhaps only for USA >>
The New York Times main homepage is at
http://www.nytimes.com/
and you can register with The Times for free by clicking on "REGISTRATION"
on The Times homepage, or by jumping directly to
http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/sub-bin/new_sub.cgi
After you register, The Times will send you a four digit verification code
through e-mail. Once you get the verification code, jump on over to
http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/verify/verify.cgi
and plug in your New York Times subscriber ID and password (the ones that
you created when you registered with The Times), click on "log in," and
then enter your verification code when you are asked for it.
That sounds pretty difficult, but look on the bright side: you only have to
do this once :)
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO ...
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Once you have registered with The Times, you can jack-in to The Times
anytime you want by going to
http://www.nytimes.com/
but your best bet is to jump directly to The New York Times "sections" page at
http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/sections.html
instead. Either address will work, but I've found that it is a little bit
easier to find your way around all of the Times' pages from the "sections"
page.
From the sections page, you can jump to any of the following sections
(imagine that!):
FRONT PAGE NEWS BY CATEGORY
CYBERTIMES POLITICS
EDITORIALS/LETTERS OP-ED
ARTS & LEISURE TRAVEL
REAL ESTATE JOB MARKET
DIVERSIONS ARCHIVES
CLASSIFIEDS
Most of these categories are pretty self-explanatory. "Front Page" has the
front page of the New York Times, as well as a really nifty "quick read"
summary service at
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/front/quick.html
(you can access this by clicking on the "quick read" icon on the sections
page) which, like NandO News (which we visited a little while ago), gives
you one paragraph summaries of the latest news stories, with hyperlinks to
the full articles.
While I like reading the news as much as the next person, one of my
favorite sections of The New York Times Web page is CYBERTimes at
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/cyber/index.html
which contains the latest news from the techno-world. Also located in the
CYBERTimes section is The New York Times Navigator at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/cynavi.html
which is a delightful collection of links to search engines, collections
for journalists, reference materials, on-line publications, Election '96
web pages, and other neat Internet resources. According to the folks at
the Times, "Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York
Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent was to give reporters and
editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of
journalistic functions without forcing each of them to spend time hacking
around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own."
Needless to say, The New York Times Navigator page is rapidly becoming one
of my favorite Web resources :)
I was going to talk about the op-ed section and make a joke about William
"congenital" Saffire, but I'll resist. Instead, I'm going to bring today's
tour to a close and let you play around with The Times on your own. I
*strongly* suggest that you take a look at The New York Times homepage at
http://www.nytimes.com/
and take a look at all the news that's fit to ... well ... um ... SURF!
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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MARKINS - Noun. Citizens of the United States .
Usage: "My fellow Markins ..."
(Special thanks goes to Larry O'Glasser for today's wurd)
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