Cloud of Atlases
Maps without legends may not be immediately informative, but determining what they represent is extremely fun. If you're into that kind of thing, here's a game for you.
2009 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence
We maintain a list throughout the year of our favorite new websites--the ones that entertain and inform our wired lives. Presenting the 2009 Eddys, celebrating the best of a fleeting medium.
The Rules of Engagement
Welcome to wedding season, when lovers and their kinfolk celebrate true love and go into debt. We rounded up a panel of experts--authors, academics, and the recently betrothed--to discuss the current state of the Great American Wedding.
2008 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence
The internet: There sure is a lot of stuff on it. In the course of a year of browsing, we've discovered some favorites that deserve some sort of award--in fact, this sort of award. Presenting the 2008 Eddys.
2007 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence
We read and see a lot of websites, and though most are terrible, some are extraordinary.
Two in the Hand
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal the top contenders and the winner of the Non-Expert's Contest for Total Idioms, with a way for you to save the world.
Just Can't Get Enough
Change is good. Change is terrifying. Change achieved by means other than permanent body alteration: priceless. We never plan our redesigns. One day, we’re perfectly content with how the site looks and operates, and the next morning we’re ready to throw it out the window. That moment happened
Fall Intern Desired
Update: The applications window is now closed; thank you to everyone who got in touch. The Morning News needs a fall intern to cuddle and train in the black arts. This is an unpaid internship where you supply your own computer and steam and we shower you with beer. Figure
Mucking Up The Courts
It’s not often we hear about TMN playing a role in law enforcement, especially when it’s in a plagiarism case (since we’ve enjoyed promoting plagiarism in the past), but some of Matthew Baldwin’s stories are too good to keep to yourself: Punishment Mounts for Missing Juror
What About Blackberry?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we test whether therapy is conductable over portable email devices.