Andy

I'm a designer for Netscape in New York City, and a rabid Mets fan. I am desperately seeking to avoid MySpace, and could really use some gold stars.

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Member Since: April 19, 2006

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Redesigning The New Yorker to a High Degree of Fussiness

Art & Design – The New Yorker magazine is known for its high editorial standards, so why doesn't its layout get the same treatment? KT Meaney argues for redesigning an institution.

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China blames Internet for rise in teen pregnancies

Family – Nearly half of the pregnant teens in China's financial hub, Shanghai, met their partners on the Internet, state media said on

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Small Pieces: How Pentagram Made the NYT Sign

Art & Design – How do you add a block-long, 15-foot-tall blackletter logo to the front of a minimalist building without obstructing the view of the Times staffers working inside? The answer was to break the sign up into smaller pieces, 959 of them to be exact.

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iPhone hype has gadget geeks camping and drooling

Gadgets & Tech – LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With free wireless Internet, a hot dog stand and a few friends, Daniel Eran Dilger calculates he could survive for days outside a store in a dogged attempt to grab the latest must-have consumer gadget.

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Wiiitis on the rise with Wii players, reports doctor

Video Games – We've officially got a new gadget-related medical term on our hands people, coined by Dr. Julio Bonis, who woke up one morning and realized his Wii was causing him sports-injury like symptoms

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New York taxi license hits record price: $600,000

News – The price of a license to operate a New York taxi cab hit a record $600,000 in May, according to a lending company which financed the purchase.

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Finger length may foretell academic potential

Science – The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.

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'Crazy Love' revisits one of New York's most famous - and famously twisted - love stories

Love & Personals – Spend some time with Burt and Linda Pugach in their cramped Queens apartment, and it's hard to believe their lives were fodder for one of the juiciest stories ever splashed across the front page of a New York City tabloid.

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Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration

Do No Evil – It's easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental (a ziggurat of flattened cars), the sinister (ocher sludge foaming on a riverbank) and the sublime (a plastic bag fluttering in a Japanese maple). The empty bottle and crushed aluminum can are none of these. They are almost too commonplace to notice.

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What's Love Got to Do With It? - New York Times

Love & Personals – Should you ever feel that your relationship is strange, it could never be any stranger than this love story that has spanned many dysfunctional decades.

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Florida tries to wipe out cat-sized African rats

Science – Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals.

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For the Love of a Good Burger - New York Times

Food – I'M sure you know how to make a burger. But do you make a burger you love, one that people notice, one that draws raves?

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How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry - New York Times

Gadgets & Tech – When you whip out a BlackBerry or a Treo in public, what does it say about you? You might think that it says: "I'm an important person who can't afford to be out of touch. I can do e-mail all day long, and I'll never miss that critical deal."

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

Art & Design – "Once I saw a project in a student portfolio that undertook the dubious challenge of redesigning the Tiffany's identity. I particularly disliked the font that was used, and I politely asked what it was. 'Oh,' came the enthusiastic response, 'that's the best part! It's called Tiffany!'"

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U.S. Regulators Approve iPhone for Sale - New York Times

Gadgets & Tech – It's coming. The Apple iPhone. If you just recently purchased the new blackberry, perhaps its time for you to sell it to the craiglist market and hook yourself up with this new phone. DAMNIT! Argh!

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