Selected patents from 2009

For all the doom and gloom around old media. the NYT is doing a great job with the web. Other publications should be looking to them for inspiration.

The NYT hasn't forgotten who they are. They are conveyors of information. It is their job to tell complex stories to the public. The Internet doesn't interfere with that, it enables it. The NYT used to be confined to a static 2d black and white paper to communicate a message. Now they don't have those limits.

And the graphic should be an image map with links to the patents.

I actually quite like this presentation of the patents. Though I agree the background lines are confusing if they are actually meaningful. And it would be great if you could click on the titles and be sent to the actual patent description.

EDIT: re. "Device and Method for Preventing Unwanted Oral Activity" I call prior art on ball gags.

Anyone figure out what the lines in the background are for?

My favorite patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=6AoYAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

If you ever want me to not read or understand something make a poster like this.