entirely safe and fun

Try using this little web utility to make blog-safe links to New York Times articles, or to dig articles out of the archives. This will help to ensure that your links are still usable down the line, and thus that web pages citing NYT articles don’t age into unhelpfulness within a week as their link targets become premium content. The net result is to turn this (basically an error message) into this (accessible content). I’m going to stick a link into my roll - more people ought to know about this.