Yes, it requires registration — get used to it, registration is going to be the trend of ’04 — but The New York Times has a number of good pieces today, including:

• an American perspective on Canada’s changing socio-cultural values;
• how one scientist’s flawed studies feed the fears about Ecstasy;
• a detailed dissection of the iPod in the paper’s latest issue of its Magazine (the theme: Design 2003).

There goes the environment.

The HTMLDog lists some “bad tags.“ Although I agree with most, the hr is unfairly maligned. The horizontal rule is, semantically-speaking, equivalent to a section break — commonly found in longer narratives — and could also be used to delineate the navigation and content on unstyled pages.