Cody Brown, developer of software that makes it easy to generate classy website news features in the style of The New York Times' "Snow Fall", made a mistake: he used photos from that legendary web layout in a youtube demo. The NYT sent a cease and desist letter, and he took it down. But then something strange happened: the NYT ordered him to remove all mention of the NYT from his own website.
NYT lawyers to indie dev: "you need to remove any reference to The New York Times from your website"
In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon
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Journalist who investigated Epstein's New Mexico compound says she's been hit with directed-energy weapons
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How 1925 press dismissed the Klan at peak power
In September 1925, a month after some 30,000 hooded Klansmen paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest Klan rally in Washington's history, the satirical weekly Judge declared the Ku Klux… READ THE REST
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