links for 2008-04-26

• The New Yorker: Up and Then Down
  "Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match, so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with heat so intense that the alloy (called “babbitt”) connecting the cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City housing projects, is inadvisable."

Comments

[Ann Handley]

Totally great piece from my favorite magazine of all time.

But seriously -- reading the New Yorker online? It's the ONLY material I INSIST on reading in print. I've tried, and it's just not right.