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News at a Glance 173

Posted by Cliff from the pictures-not-words dept.
chris writes: "If you're too lazy to read headlines, a new way to find writings might just save your soul. Paradoxically, this site is showing all the pictures found in news and reviews over the Internet. Nothing to read there, just thumbnail galleries sorted by theme (with, of course, links to the original articles). This format is showing some interesting side-effects. First, you can see what's hot lately because the same picture is repeated over your screen. It is also very effective when looking for reviews of tech toys or computer gizmos... spotting a CPU or a japanese robot among other items is almost instantaneous. Another thing to notice is that pictures of human faces seem to keep the lead over pie charts and battlefields... they are a good clue to figure what an article is about."
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  • No one has ADD that bad... (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Of course I could be wrong.
  • I can't wait till MSNBC changes to a format like that. I can see it now, bill gates 1000x's on my screen just looking back at me with a different pose and look on his face.

    Since pitures take more bandwidth than words, maybe they will change it to ASCII pictures next? Talk about a fast news service!

    • I can't wait till MSNBC changes to a format like that.

      You must not have seen CNN Headline News lately.

      The left third of the screen is covered with a mundane graphic, normally with at least 3 different fonts. Bonus: If you can devise a way to say "Operation Iraqi Freedom" using 6 or more typefaces, you are CNN producer material!

      The bottom half of the screen is covered with a combination weather forecast/newsticker. Receive pictorial weather conditions for every city but your own! Not to mention the ticker,

    • Maybe slashdot could implement this. Instead of submitting a comment, we could just submit a small picture. Of course, the lameness filter would have to exclude the goatse.cx images that would occupy most of the discussions.

  • May be a little Obvious (Score:4, Funny)

    by headbulb ( 534102 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @02:54AM (#7500479)
    But no I didn't RTFA

  • RTFP (Score:5, Insightful)

    by cloudless.net ( 629916 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @02:55AM (#7500484) Homepage
    It would be much more useful if it adds a short caption/title under the images instead of just the name of the source. I think it is quite good for slashdotters, as most of us don't RTFA. Now we can simply RTFP.

    • Re:RTFP (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Golias ( 176380 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:07AM (#7500526)
      Funny you should say that, I was just thinking I would have found it more useful if it was just tightly-tiled pictures without any context of where the links were coming from. Kind of like the massive bank of monitors that Veidt used in "The Watchmen" to keep track of current trends in human culture.

      In the current layout, you still have to skim through it, and only get a handful of images... so you might as well just go to Google News or Drudge Report or something for your news links.


    • Now we can simply RTFP.

      er...that should be STFP.

      Now that we've got that cleared up, i think i can STFU

    • Re:RTFP (Score:3, Insightful)

      by lpret ( 570480 )
      Another thing is that in the Business section, there are a lot of charts and pictures of analysts. This could mean anything -- earnings reports, Dow crashing, Yield-Earnings ratios, etc. Or it could be an editorial about the way charts can lie to you. Pictures don't really work all the time...
    • Now we can simply RTFP.

      You give us too much credit.

      I, for one, will not read any slashdot article or picture. Ever.

    • Re:RTFP (Score:3, Interesting)

      by cpeterso ( 19082 )

      Another interesting news experiement is memigo.com [memigo.com]. It's a meta-news site, like Google News, except it uses an Amazon.com-like algorithm to predict the news stories that you will want to read.

      It's a clever idea, but the stories get a bit repetitive after it learns your preferred news topics. I think the algorithm should include a few more random and underrated links.

  • so... ? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by edmz ( 118519 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @02:56AM (#7500486) Homepage
    how is that any better than the pictures already at news.google.com ?

    Sorry, but it seems something that someone with good scripting abilities can do in a matter of hours.

  • Per-Country (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @02:56AM (#7500488)
    A nice feature is it you can get pictures from various country-specific news sources. This is one thing I think news.google.com lacks. I can't do " site:.au" on news.google.com :/

    • Re:Per-Country (Score:2, Insightful)

      by hool5400 ( 257022 )
      no but you can do news.google.com.au

    • Re:Per-Country (Score:4, Informative)

      by Hittite Creosote ( 535397 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @05:47AM (#7500853)
      If you cared to look at the bottom of the page on news.google.com you will see

      International versions of Google News available in:
      Australia - Canada - France - Deutschland - India - Italia - New Zealand - Espana - U.K. - U.S.

      So Google didn't miss it out, they just didn't stick the links up at the top so people with the attention span of a gnat wouldn't miss them...

  • Like Ozymandias in WATCHMEN (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Allen Varney ( 449382 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @02:58AM (#7500493) Homepage

    Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created a superhero, Ozymandias, in their 1985 graphic novel WATCHMEN. He had a huge wall of TV screens that showed the whole world's channels, each screen switching randomly every few seconds. Being incredibly intelligent, he could divine the state of the world through these Burroughsian blipvert glimpses, like a prophet reading entrails. This page reminded me of Ozymandias.

    • I saw that in Matrix Reloaded!
    • what does he divine when the late nite skin flicks come on?
    • It's worth noting that Alan Moore is anti-science. He also has poor dress sense. Check out this from the James Randi:

      http://www.unc.edu/~faint/jamesrandirespondstoal an mooreinterview.html

      Look at the picture of Alan Moore and then try to help me answer the question - just who does Alan Moore think he is?
      • National boundaries are being eroded by technology and economics...As the physical and material world gives way to this infosphere, these things become less and less important. The nationalists then go into a kind of death spasm, where they realise where the map is evaporating, and there is only response to that is to dig their hooves in. To stick with nationalism at its most primitive, brutal form. The same thing happens with religion, and that is the reasons behind the Fundamentalist Christians.

        Well, I

      • Well, I think he's a acid freak who switched from atheism to worshiping a Roman snake god after it broke into his living room and demanded worshipping in the middle of his 'shroom trip. But then again I've been seen wandering around in a Hawaiian shirt and a power tie too.

        He's not really anti-science, at least not that much. It's not like he's claiming that magic is "real", he's just decided to take the stance that, as a human, who live just as much in their imaginations as in the real world, magic and t

  • Browse news by looking at it's image (Score:3, Interesting)

    by chord.wav ( 599850 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @02:59AM (#7500497) Journal
    Sounds like /. and PHPNuke category icons system to me. Category icons are even better because you get used to, and remember the pictures, making your browsing even faster.

  • Repetition Blindness (Score:4, Interesting)

    by pgrote ( 68235 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:01AM (#7500504) Homepage
    One area of study had been Repetition Blindness that thinks a person's ability to remember pictures when subjected to many at a time lessens.

    This is described as remarkable lapses [mq.edu.au].

    They also describe how people cannot tell subtle shifts in scenes.

    A neat way of looking at the news, but I wonder how much is missed?

  • Here on /. (Score:4, Funny)

    by ndogg ( 158021 ) <the.rhorn@nOsPAm.gmail.com> on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:01AM (#7500505) Homepage Journal
    There's nothing to read, and yet people will still not RTFA.

  • Thought association (Score:4, Insightful)

    by saforrest ( 184929 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:01AM (#7500507) Journal
    Another thing to notice is that pictures of human faces seem to keep the lead over pie charts and battlefields... they are a good clue to figure what an article is about.

    The first thing this reminded me of was this quote by George Orwell:

    "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face
    forever."

  • Not very different from google news (Score:4, Insightful)

    by gokulpod ( 558749 ) <gpoduvalNO@SPAMhotmail.com> on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:03AM (#7500510) Homepage
    This site doesn't strike me as being very different from Google News [google.com]. The only difference seems to be that Google includes short captions for each item, while this one just shows you a picture.
    If they could just include some text/descriptions etc., it could be a worthy competitor to google.
  • Just looking at http://www.news-images.com/1118de/p0-0.htm, you can see the third picture on the right, it's a cooky, yet the page it links to shows "Bundeskanzler Schroeder". In fact non of the "Spiegel" pictures are right.

    Maybe "Der Spiegel" has some kind of protection against using images outside their site?

    If I am correct, some (most?) warez and porn sites have this kind of protection. But a paper? Why?

    • Maybe "Der Spiegel" has some kind of protection against using images outside their site?

      Shouldn't there be a way to get around this?

      I saw another example of an incorrect thumbnail. The wrong image was grabbed. It was an ad picture.

  • This is kinda neat.
    One of the things that I get annoyed at when reading news is when they don't include a picture for an article that obviosly calls for one.

    One example is last year there was a big story about a man who found a multi-acre field completely covered in a huge spider web. Yet they didn't bother give us a picture.
    /end gripe
  • I knew the public schools in the USA were bad, but I didn't realize enough people were illiterate that we needed a pictures-only news source. Doesn't anyone read anymore?

  • 50 thumbs on a page is too few ... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by leoaugust ( 665240 ) <<leoaugust> <at> <gmail.com>> on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:29AM (#7500577) Journal

    I do believe that we will some day move to a more pictorial language where the alphabets will be replaced by pics ... (no, we will not all be chinese then though chinese has 10-20,000 pictorial characters)

    and just like we look at combinations of alphabets to grasp words, and combinations of words to grasp phrases, and combinations of phrases to grasp paras ... we will look at cluster of pics to grasp the articles ....

    Looking with that analogy, 50 stock thumbs means that we could either look at it as 50 alphabets on that page, or if there is a little caption beneath the pic, then there are an equivalent of 50 words on that home page ....

    1. this is too few as it is the equivalent of a page with 50 words at the most ...
    2. this is too few as it means that each topic like Business, Sports,etc is created by stringing 6 words (pics) which does not even begin to capture a headline let alone a summary ....
    I think the density of information could be increased here, and we could have many more pics. In addition if the pics are arranged according to some reasonable criteria, even more info can be conveyed ...

    • Re:50 thumbs on a page is too few ... (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Why don't you just replace your post with a picture of a steaming pile of shit if you think you can replace words with pictures?

      Nah seriously, try and explain your ideas in your pictogram style, you cant. Further, William Gibson predicted an over-use of "infographics" (like the man and the woman on the toliet doors) to the extent where there would be an overload and people would just stop bothering. (his was in relation to the net, his reasoning why we will go to a 3D net over infographics - which is still
    • I do believe that we will some day move to a more pictorial language where the alphabets will be replaced by pics

      I don't. Pictorials alphabets are the equivalent of complex instruction sets, and besides pictures mean different things as you move across cultures. Letters carry less cultural inertia, and are "lighter" -- you can do a lot with only a few alphabets.

      It isn't a coincidence that the spare, 26-letter, nearly-unaccented Latin script that English uses is the most popular script is so popular and r
      • The basic diffrence in our conception is that you want to convey as clearly as possible what needs to be conveyed as if it is being done to a machine, or a machine-like human. I assume the communication is between people who are looking for more than just unambiguous clear-cut instructions. Ambiguities do not have to be resolved in human communication. And things don't have to be made "lighter." They just have to be made as light as possible, but not lighter than that .... (with apoogies to e=mc2)

        I am ass
        • My comment was in context of communication between people and other people, and encompasses more things than just instructional.

          I don't mean to denigrate images as a means of communication -- after all, we do have paintings, sculpture -- objects that speak when words fail us.

          However, as a way of disseminating news, images suck. What do you make of this image [leeds.ac.uk]? Is this a guy inspecting a bunch of tanks? Or this [rense.com]? Is this some kind of pervy kiddie porn?

          Actually both these pictures are classics, communicatin

    • Already done but forgotten: Egyptian hieroglyphs

      What's in a Sig ??

    • "I do believe that we will some day move to a more pictorial language where the alphabets will be replaced by pics"

      Unless, of course, you're blind or near blind, at which point 50 slow-to-load, blurry or invisible pictures becomes hundreds of even slower-loading, blurry or invisible pictures.

      Or are you volunteering to start www.text-descriptions-of-news-pictures.com?
    • I disagree.

      Think about a very simple "picture", the smiley. :) ;) :P

      Different people interpret them as meaning different things.

      My girlfriend uses :o) exclusively because she thinks it looks cute, but I'm sure many people would see it as "smiley with a big nose" and infer something from that.

      If such a simple image means so many thing to different people, how will it work for more complicated images?

      Cheers,

      Roger
    • You've obviously never studied language, and are making crap up.

      For one, how are people supposed to write in your "pictoral language"? Draw? Speak, and the computer does it for them?

      Your language works similarly to hieroglyphics, in which characters can stand for either the things they physically represent (a fish), a combination of letter sounds ("swnw", [hieroglyphics has no proper vowels, we add them in to pronounce things like "Soonoo"]), a grammatical construction (this word is a noun!), or a syntax
    • though chinese has 10-20,000 pictorial characters


      Actually, with all the specialized 'jargon' picts, Chinese has in slight excess of 40,000 characters.

  • Images are even easier to manipulate than words. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by LeoDV ( 653216 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @03:58AM (#7500640) Journal
    People always seem to think that if there's a picture of something then it's the truth, but pictures are actually even easier to use when it comes to twisting the truth to fit your agenda. I don't mean actually editing the picture, but just using it so it fits your goal. Just alter the tagline and it changes a whole perspective. There was a series of ads for a radio statoin here that showed big pictures and would twist them. For example you'd see a bunch of small dots on a desert with fumes behind them so you could ony see they were vehicles and the tagline would read "Military offensive or rally race?"...

    We live in an image-based, image-controlled world. I want my news without images, not made out of images.
  • Where are the hotshot Indian programmers the Wall Street Journal keeps telling us about [laboratory...states.com]?

    Maybe they're wherever the profits from the dot-con companies went.

  • outdated crap? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by dummkopf ( 538393 )
    did you notice the palm 515 review as part of a "headline"? that thing has been out for years!!! there are two pics below... i wonder how they choose their stories, but as far as i am concerned, i will swtick to google news for the time...

  • Yahoo! Most Popular Photos (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I've been addicted to Yahoo's most popular photos [yahoo.com] for years. It's fun to make predictions on a picture's popularity (if it will go up or down on the list).
  • Just brilliant. The comicization of news.

    The mass production of comics -as in non-pop-art- is considered an exponent of American decadency by most cocky Europeans. Comicization of news is mass produced comics at its finest.

    I'm European and I already love it.
    • You insesnitive clown! :-)

      They're Grapic Novels not Comics - a serious art form which is bringing mainstream culture to a new generation. Todays youth is not restricted by the previous generations' inability to parse multiple data sources in quick succesion and is free from the straight jacket linear processing of redundant text.
      Witness the phenomenal sucess of the Graphic Novelization of War And Peace - 10 pages of beautiful pictures which are now part of our global gestalt, there can be argument that fr

  • So? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Binary Gibbon ( 413182 )
    What, this is supposed to be /useful/? Aside from the aforementioned lack of context with graphs, the other pictures aren't too helpful either. Here's what I gleaned from a quick look at the site: Arnold Schwarzenegger did something, some guy in a bike helmet did something, a fat dude in a suit sat down.

    How this serves as anything other than a mildly interesting diversion is beyond me.

  • Works great! (Score:5, Funny)

    by mattr ( 78516 ) <mattr AT telebody DOT com> on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @05:22AM (#7500799) Homepage Journal
    Felt good scanning the news for the first time in a while!

    Usually I have to lurch past interminable murders and battlefield pics to get to some maybe-already-read science story at the bottom of the page (on cnn).

    But with this it was easy. I clicked on Top Stories more.. and skip the photos which I don't know what they are. Right away I see my two choices, what seems like a gorgeous tanned piece of royalty in a crimson and silver dress, or a stressed out techie on the phone. Hmmm, which should I pick? It's over in a microsecond and obviously everyone else here is making the same decision since the story (Halle on her Disastrous Love Life [mirror.co.uk]) is slashdotted. But the theory works. I don't know who the heck Halle is but now I want to know and save her from a bad boyfriend too!

    I would even go for fewer thumbnails about 5 times the size of these and scrap the ones with bad pictures. That way we could see the news before it gets slashdotted. Next we'll evolve to networked torrents of femmes fatales (girls you pick hommes fatals or whatever you like). It is so much easier to make a decision without all those pesky letters they give me so much eyestrain anyway.

  • Better see the whole newspages (Score:3, Interesting)

    by smk ( 41995 ) <smk@dTEAorf.de minus caffeine> on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @05:43AM (#7500842) Homepage
    The Newseum [newseum.org] has hundrets of digitized frontpages of real newspapers. It's kinda better than that.
  • feedster [feedster.com] has been doing that for along time. more intelligent i might add, based on images in rdf newsfeeds.

  • Which representation of knowledge ? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by jdifool ( 678774 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @06:12AM (#7500893) Homepage Journal
    This is quite interesting to see that the same people asking for technical papers on IT are rejoicing about the prospect of feeling clever by looking at some non-sense pictures.

    I'm not going to discuss about the strength of the immediate impact of a very intuitive and emotional object, ie a picture, a photography. I think history gave us some very interesting examples of misuse of information through pictures, videos, etc. My main point is that we should be careful, because our relationship to visual stimuli are not that rational ; you can go there [bostonreview.net] if you want to learn more about the debate on the power of pictures, and what they really represent in our society.

    Our world is by now so complex, so wide-open, that only strong and addictive stimuli can catch our attention. This is not surprising that the story of pictural representations is tightly related to the complexification of the world we're living in right now.
    Thus, I have such an admiration for photographers such as James Nachtwey [seven-photo.com]; what the folks like him did and still do is all the more useful than everyday brings a little more sadness to our daily lives.

    But in no manner they represent - and themselves acknowledge it frankly - the truth. Because the truth is not in a picture, nor it is in a series of pictures. Photographers are here to draw our attention to urgent, revolting, funny, clever, ie interesting subjects. But I hate nothing more than people going to see Rwanda's genocide exposition in a museum, and then coming back with the so good-conscience feeling about the fact that yes, they did something, and what's more, they understood the problem.

    Pictures are a beginning. I see a beautiful -yes, beautiful- picture of kids starving in Ouganda, my first reaction is to take some time and read papers about it. If I have some interest in Africa's demise (yes, yes, you'll see that in some time, the Southern part of Africa will be empty of black people), and if I have some time to spend on that, I'll read very different papers. Read NGO reports on the subject. Try to understand how I can be of any help. Etc. etc. etc.

    A site that is supposed to make you understand the whole international actuality with pictures and snippets is the best way, first to make Ignorance's realm all the more important, and second to encourage, indeed, lazzyness. I don't even see why /.ers are not discussing more sharply such a decisive issue. Of course, this is socially gratifying to be able to discuss on a shallow way of roughly every subject on Earth. But when you meet someone that truly knows what he/she is talking about (exactly the same way that people on /. know what they are talking about when it comes to IT), then you are fucked up. It's worth to get involved in a more serious way of learning how our world is rotating.This is exactly what I try to do by visiting this site, and learning from people that are competent on this precise subject.

    And this is really what a responsible citizen should do with the general purpose information.

    Regards,
    Jdif
    • The question is not, as you put it, a question of truth or untruth in the pictures. It is not a question of the perception of truth in the pictures, althought that is more important. Nor is the question one of how easily pictures can mislead, as an earlier poster put it.

      The basically offensive thing about this is that it even further reduces the simplification of the news (or even of thought in general). We ARE living in a complex world, and complexity requires deep and subtle thinking to navigate and ma
  • Oh wow, it can show 82x60 thumbnails of the news. Maybe this would be cool on my cell phone, if it wouldn't take a year to load.

    But seriously, a site like fark is a thousand times more useful than something like this. And they have forums!

    Also, what's up with all the aljazeera links on that site?

    - Cary
  • If you're too lazy to read headlines, a new way to find writings might just save your soul.

    If you're too lazy to read headlines you're probably not interested in finding "writings". On the other hand, if one really is interested in these writings you speak of perhaps the headlines will be of more use, especially when some of the pictures are the faces of the columnists who produced said writings.

  • a picture is worth a thousand words.... (Score:4, Funny)

    by digirave ( 569748 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @06:51AM (#7500967)
    a picture is worth a thousand words...

    the pictures(images) on the site are around 1 kb which is about 1000 bytes which is about one thousand words

    hence a picture is really word about a thousand words!!

    1. make 1 kb sized images and substitute for long news articles
    2. save bandwidth
    3. ???
    4. profit!!!
  • I guess we can expect picture dictionaries next
  • Yahoo! News has a page that shows the 'most e-mailed' news pictures of the day [yahoo.com]. That page basically uses a sampling of Yahoo!'s visitors as a collaborative filtering team.

    You can guess which pictures are the 'most e-mailed' ones: media/newsmakers, accidents/catastrophes/war, cute fuzzy animals, human freaks, and, of course, cleavage.

    -Mark
  • Now the article author can be just as lazy about reading as he is about writing.

    Bliss!

  • Textz.com News [textz.com] may be of interest as well. It even lets you open the news images in an external window, turning them into a TV program, sort of. Btw, the site doesn't even use the Google API (there is a link to the source code at the bottom of the main page), it's all old-style HTML parsing...
  • http://www.cardboardutopia.com/commentPics/foShizz y.pl [cardboardutopia.com]

    This page picks up the news images off of Yahoo and Reuters, then it grabs headlines off of Yahoo, and then also grabs feedback off of randomly generated users on Ebay.
    Then it randomly combines the images.

    I don't follow the news much, but this helps me - sure the things don't usually go together, but they are amusing and you can still get an idea about what is going on.

    There is also the news generator page [cardboardutopia.com] that grabs the headlines and builds a mark
  • I concur with most posts that this isn't a really useful source of news, but it is a fun a way to see how up on the news you are. Plus you can check instantly to see if you're right. I get most of my news from the radio so it was refreshing to put a face on the news of the day.
  • Well, that made me ill. The U.S. edition, under U.S, only has stuff that points to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Unfortuantely, I followed it [rushlimbaugh.com]. It has a photoshopped pic of Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein together, and has this great line in it.

    Yes, the Department of Defense did release a statement calling these news stories "inaccurate," but they don't deny the connection at all.

  • This reminds me very much of Adrian Veidt's technique of making decisions based on what he sees on a large wall of TV screens set to randomly change channels every few seconds.

    By looking at the overall average of the concepts expressed in real time he estimates the moods of the markets and the population.

    I always thought this was an interesting concept, and quite possibly had some potential - to extract useful information out of a kind of aggregate of real time noise. Am I making any sense here at all?

    Ma
  • newsQuakes [www.skep.tk] - visual summary of world news overlaid on globe

    Visual News [bigfrog.net] - similar to site posted, but with multiple categories including the usefile hot [bigfrog.net] category (hot chicks pictured in today's news ). The "hot filter" is Bayesian filter that automatically seaches for attractive women.

  • Say what? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by HarveyBirdman ( 627248 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @09:25AM (#7501580) Journal
    If you're too lazy to read headlines...

    Wait... only reading the headlines is what lazy people do. That's why 99.9% of humanity lives in near complete ignorance.

    To be too lazy to even read headlines you have to be, like, in a vegetative state or something. Headlines are your least concern. Somewhere there's a family member looking to pull the plug on you.

  • I'm not impressed. (Score:4, Informative)

    by sbaker ( 47485 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @09:43AM (#7501693) Homepage
    So, here are the first half-dozen things I tried:

    1) A picture of a donut in the Science/Technology section. Links to a story about the record breaking sales of the Finding Nemo DVD??!? So, wrong image *and* wrong category.

    2) In the Business section, a photo of some diamonds with a link to a story about Ukrainian diamonds! Hooray! Unfortunately, the next four (unrelated) photo's in the business section point to the exact same article.

    3) Even when I selected the "US" edition, the top three entries in "Top Stories" were links to articles in German.

    4) The next photo in the Science/Technology section linked to an advert for some video game or other. Not what I'd describe as news.

    5) Local News (remember I have 'US' selected). The first three items are in Spanish. If these were stories about the US or maybe Mexico - for Mexicans - maybe I could understand that - but these appeared to be about Spain and were obviously 'Local' stories only if you happen to live in Spain!

    6) Clicked on the first photo in the Health section - got a broken link.

    Deeply unimpressive.

  • News via Images? (Score:3, Funny)

    by telstar ( 236404 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @09:46AM (#7501716)
    I thought that's what USA Today was for. Some days, reading that paper is like reading a comic book.
  • That word -- I do not think it means what you think it means.

  • Yahoo pix are good (Score:3, Informative)

    by msheppard ( 150231 ) on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @10:14AM (#7501969) Homepage Journal
    I've been watching this site for a while:
    Yahoo most popular pictures [yahoo.com]

    It's a collection of the most emailed news pictures. Usually pretty interesting stuff. from cutsey animals, to the Victoria Secret model show.

    M@

  • Mistaken assumption (Score:3, Insightful)

    by aero6dof ( 415422 ) <aero6dof@yahoo.com> on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @10:33AM (#7502130) Homepage
    First, you can see what's hot lately because the same picture is repeated over your screen

    Doesn't that just mean that the AD/PR campaign for that particular item has been launched?
  • I didn't do anything other than click on the link. But under the section on Local News there was a picture of Jupiter.

    That's one hell of a local market.
  • Given enough time, I guess everything gets invented. I mean, while it might not have ocurred to me, someone else seems to have come up with a novel idea... an array to tiny colored wicker images.

    The fun here is trying to figure out what each picture is depicting. Is that a man with a Sears washing machine on his head, a computer part, or a backhoe. Oh, the hours of joy this bring me.

  • When I clicked on the "U.S." link at the top, every picture in the Science/Tech section was of a Mac, Mac OS X, or something else from Apple. Not just some pictures, every picture.

    Like there isn't anything else interesting in the US.

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