Photo Of The Day: President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Joe Biden posted this photo to his Twitter of President Obama running ‘round a pool with a Super Soaker in his hand.
Presidents: they’re just like us.
POTUS looks like a huge nerd here
This is one of the most incredible photos I’ve ever seen in the newspaper.
Never change dude
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Ochs with Large Photos & Illustrations
TLDR; - You can programatically adjust NYTimes image URLs to get larger 1024x[Variable Height] versions - Ochs, a Google Chrome Extension for NYTimes, now takes advantage of this.
I’ve updated the Ochs extension to use the largest image available on Article pages.
So…
I’m a big fan of the beautiful photographs and illustrations I see every day in The New York Times.
Here are just a few I’ve bookmarked over the last year.
Amazing work, no?
However the biggest image you’ll ever see on nytimes.com is 600 pixels wide with a variable height (usually between 350px and 460px). This will be on the Article page or sometimes a popup link from the Article-Inline area.
Now click the image and you’ll see the 1024 by 883 pixel version in a new tab.
Nice, right?
There are exceptions to this, on the LENS blog, T Magazine tumblr and maybe a few others…
When you look at these ‘exceptions’ you can really appreciate the power of a large image. Its part of the reason the Big Picture blog is so popular. You often see smaller, column friendly sized photographs. Their reduction, in my personal opinion, often means a reduction in impact. A measured approach is often necessary, but not always.
I welcome feedback on whether this works for you. Usually people only provide feedback if they don’t like something so if you think its a keeper then make sure you let me know.
The plan, time permitting, is to allow you to toggle between the standard size and this larger version via an option that appears in the top-right corner of the photo. This state is remembered across all pages unless you change it again.
You can install (or update) Ochs here.
This is soooooo great](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0wdo29C3A1qzbv9jo1_500.png)
Ochs with Large Photos & Illustrations
TLDR;
- You can programatically adjust NYTimes image URLs to get larger 1024x[Variable Height] versions
- Ochs, a Google Chrome Extension for NYTimes, now takes advantage of this.I’ve updated the Ochs extension to use the largest image available on Article pages.
So…
I’m a big fan of the beautiful photographs and illustrations I see every day in The New York Times.
Here are just a few I’ve bookmarked over the last year.
Amazing work, no?
However the biggest image you’ll ever see on nytimes.com is 600 pixels wide with a variable height (usually between 350px and 460px). This will be on the Article page or sometimes a popup link from the Article-Inline area.
Now click the image and you’ll see the 1024 by 883 pixel version in a new tab.
Nice, right?
There are exceptions to this, on the LENS blog, T Magazine tumblr and maybe a few others…
When you look at these ‘exceptions’ you can really appreciate the power of a large image. Its part of the reason the Big Picture blog is so popular. You often see smaller, column friendly sized photographs. Their reduction, in my personal opinion, often means a reduction in impact. A measured approach is often necessary, but not always.
I welcome feedback on whether this works for you. Usually people only provide feedback if they don’t like something so if you think its a keeper then make sure you let me know.
The plan, time permitting, is to allow you to toggle between the standard size and this larger version via an option that appears in the top-right corner of the photo. This state is remembered across all pages unless you change it again.
You can install (or update) Ochs here.
This is soooooo great
“There are amusing moments, among them when Senator Carl Levin, the grandfatherly Michigan Democrat, approached Mr. Feingold and the late Paul Wellstone on the Senate floor during the 1999 impeachment trial. ‘I am a little embarrassed to ask you guys this,’ Mr. Levin said sheepishly. ‘But what’s a thong?’” — In New Book, Ex-Senator Says Fear Clouded Judgment After 9/11 (via langer)
(via langer)
“At the halfway house, Wallace got to know people with radically different backgrounds. “Mr. Howard,” he wrote his editor, “everyone here has a tattoo or a criminal record or both!” The halfway house also showed him that less intellectual people were often better at dealing with life. They found catchphrases such as “One day at a time” genuinely helpful. To his surprise, so did he. As he later told Salon, “The idea that something so simple and, really, so aesthetically uninteresting—which for me meant you pass over it for the interesting, complex stuff—can actually be nourishing in a way that arch, meta, ironic, pomo stuff can’t, that seems to me to be important.” —
David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass Infinite Jest : The New Yorker (via pegobry)
David Carr said something similar about self-help clichés in “Night of the Gun.”
(via pegobry)
“A typed note that Wallace left in his papers laid out the novel’s idea: “Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.” — David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass Infinite Jest : The New Yorker (via pegobry)
(via pegobry)
I want a kid like this lol
(via whatsupdanny)
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Detroit skyline from over Windsor (Taken with instagram)
“The greatest thing about the invention of the bicycle and ladies starting to ride them is: everything. The clothes! The bikes! The attitude! But perhaps especially: the scads of satirical cartoons made at the time that were supposed to make women look shocking and inappropriate but just makes them look super stylish and badass instead.”
Her posture is boss
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“It was the worst meeting I’ve ever had in my life, honestly.” —
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, on her meeting with Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. According to Boxer, DeMarco said “his interest is making sure Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] do well financially,” not making homeownership more affordable. (via officialssay)
why do we pay for this, again?
(via theatlantic)
