So I’m a poor college student and I’m always looking out for a good deal, especially if it will help me with school work. A few days ago, The New York Times announced they were opening up their TimesSelect premium content to anyone affiliated with a US college or university, i.e. anyone possessing a .edu email address. As you know, I’m at a university just not in the US. So I was a little disappointed. But, I started thinking about it a bit… I remembered that my alma mater gave me lifetime email forwarding for anything sent to my undergraduate address. Woo hoo! Let the hack begin! Here are some of highlights I’m excited about:

• Access to columnists David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Thomas L. Friedman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Krugman and Frank Rich. Notice the economists in there?
• Preview of The Sunday Times before it’s published.
• And the best feature… The ability to search The New York Times back to 1851.

I presume most universities offer the email forwarding service to their alumni, which means there are going to be a hell of a lot of people switching to TimesSelect for free. That’s a savings of 50 bucks a year! Whether you’re a student, faculty member or graduate with a school forwarding address, all you have to do is click here and enter your .edu email address to get started. Enjoy and spread the word via digg or your favorite social bookmarking site.

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Streaking through campus!
Originally uploaded by jbritton77.

I couldn’t grab my phone in time for this one, but there were at least 7 others that streaked through campus in front of the Olin Library at Washington University in St. Louis. It was a nice way to liven up a balmy 50 degree fall day.

I decided to take an HTML course to fill up some extra credits for my degree at Washington University. Feel free to check out my ever evolving project as I tackle a formal and proper lesson in HTML and CSS. This new site should change on a weekly basis until mid-December 2005. I’m really excited about the course. You may also check out my professor, Scott Granneman’s website. He is a published author of several technical books and a regular columnist for Linux magazine and securityfocus.com