Comments on: The Future of Your Newspaper

By: squirrelb8.com

squirrelb8.com — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:01 +0000

You forgot the best purpose for a real newspaper–draping it over your face to block out the light for a quick nap in a secluded conference room.

By: BassMan

BassMan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:50:47 +0000

You can have my newspaper when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

I like a newspaper even though there are many things I don’t like about them.

Problem that makes it moot: I don’t have / can’t afford a laptop, nevermind all the crap you need to go with it. Would you hold your laptop over your head in a surprise downpour? Can you roll up your laptop and whack a fly (or person, or both) with it? Would you put it down for your puppy to piss on? Can you make a hat out of it?

I can take my newspaper anywhere and if somebody should steal it, it’s only a minor annoyance. Anyway, I usually leave it, when I’m done, where somebody else can look at it. Also, I don’t want to do the puzzles on line.

Finally, when I’m done with it, it lines the guinea pig cage.
Long live the newspaper!

By: Marco McClean

Marco McClean — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:42:31 +0000

“You’re later than I’d like… If you’d gotten here a bit sooner you might have beaten the bulletin saying a rogue Firefly was spotted pulling illegal salvage from a derelict transport.”

By: Neuromesh

Neuromesh — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:24:55 +0000

I’m more interested in a t-shirt version of this. Rather than hundreds of tshirts in your cupboard, a once off fee for the shirt and then a monthly subscription to the MentalFloss t-shirt feed :)

By: caitlen315

caitlen315 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:58:30 +0000

See, this I would go for. I’m not really interested in the Kindle because I like having an actual book in my hand. But, I’d have no problem reading my newspaper this way.

By: Jason!

Jason! — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:19:29 +0000

This kinda reminds me of the folding paper screens the Vickies used in Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age”.