A MAN OUT OF TIME

“I wonder if people went through the same thing in the mid-1400s as they sat in coffee shops with their pesky paper books?”

New York Times blogger Nick Bilton, demonstrating the untoward effects of depriving a computing-device addict of his fix — in this example, causing him to misplace the origin of European coffee shops by two centuries, Bits, 2 August 2010

ALL THE CODE THAT’S FIT TO SHIP

“The New York Times is now as much a technology company as a journalism company.”

Times executive editor Bill Keller, displaying his well-documented if oft-hidden humorist within, Guardian.co.uk, 16 March 2010