Comments on: Welcome back NFT

Welcome back NFT

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:39:13 -0800

NFT (not for tourists) has relaunched their web site. Their city guide books are excellent and they offer free city guides in PDF format (editorializing inside).

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:39:23 -0800

When I traveled New York in 2001, I picked one of these guides up on a lark and I'm glad I did. The writing style is fun,informative and easy to read. To me, these are the best city guidebooks I've ever used.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:41:28 -0800

Service Unavailable Mefied already.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:44:19 -0800

Woah.. Delaunching already? That's weird. Maybe I caught them in mid-launch? Crap... Honest y'all, it was there a second ago.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:48:04 -0800

Try refreshing a few times, and it'll load.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:07:03 -0800

Not Ready For Prime Time.

By: nkyad

nkyad — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:10:28 -0800

R. Mutt writes "Not Ready For Prime Time." Not even for even or odd time, I'd say - it looks like their server get uncomfortable with more than a couple of simultaneous users.

By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:29:41 -0800

Coral cache link to the same, which doesn't work either.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:04:41 -0800

Its back and it knows I'm coming from MetaFilter, it said hello to me in the corner. I bet this would be a really excellent way of finding new places in your chosen city, I might get the San Francisco book just to have.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:06:37 -0800

Plus, you've gotta love a company that lets you download the entire book in PDF! Here's the San Francisco PDF.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:14:03 -0800

Thanks for the coral grouse. The NY hardcover version was incredible so I'm juiced to get the rest of them.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:20:45 -0800

The NYC book version is wonderful .

By: drmarcj

drmarcj — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:59:15 -0800

This seems pretty cool, except that the whole "membership" thing is harshing my mellow. I'm fine with "registering" or whatever, but sites that don't tell me what (if anything) it's gonna cost me, and instead INSIST on having me fill out a million bits of information (address? yearly income??? what's it to ya?) and click "continue" really stink. If it's free, then shame on them for turning me off with the whole stupid registration thing (wouldn't an email address be enough for them? Even NYT doesn't ask for more than that, and they're all evil and stuff). If it's not free, then shame on them for making it look like it might be.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:29:54 -0800

harshing my mellow ?

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:43:53 -0800

oh, I see ... nm. (from Urban Dictionary) 1. Harshing my mellow: When someone takes away from your high, or tries to be cool by fucking with you when you are buzzed. What happens when a nancy (see Nancy) brings down your elated feelings while high. (Dude, you're really harshin' my mellow.) 2. harshing my mellow: Bringing down my good mood. (I didn't like her.. she was really harshing my mellow, man.)

By: whatzit

whatzit — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:18:17 -0800

Heh. And when I read it, I glossed over it as "marshing my mallow," and decided I needed to use that one in conversation more often...

By: jaysus chris

jaysus chris — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:45:31 -0800

I got in just fine using bugmenot, dr. marc. Mellow completely unharshed.

By: intermod

intermod — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:26:06 -0800

The PDFs don't seem to open in Mozilla. The map isn't clickable, and if I select something from one of the many many dropdown, I just get routed back to the same page. I wonder if they've looked at their site in Mozilla or Firefox.

By: louigi

louigi — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:33:33 -0800

intermod, try allowing popups for the site. When you tried to click, something probably appeared near the top of your browser window saying that Firefox just prevented the site from opening a popup. When you click on it it will give you the option of allowing popups from this site.

By: intermod

intermod — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:57:26 -0800

Yup, that did it -- thanks louigi. I'm using Mozilla which is more subtle than FF about letting you know that it blocked a popup. Seems like they could have easily done this with target="_new" instead of popups. Oh well.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:37:10 -0800

Oh, it's for America. Oh well.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:57:45 -0800

MetaFilter: This seems pretty cool, except that the whole "membership" thing is harshing my mellow.

By: bonehead

bonehead — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:51:43 -0800

Oh, it's for America. Oh well. My reaction too. Now Asia or eastern Europe or West Aftrica would be cool.

By: paperpete

paperpete — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:02:20 -0800

And being able to download the entire book as one would be even more cool. But they look good. Very good.

By: MeetMegan

MeetMegan — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:24:24 -0800

Gotta say, though, that the Chicago version SUCKS. It misses the majority of good stuff in lieu of the locations of parking garages (some of which are defunct or open to residents of buildings only) and fast food restaurants. Perhaps they did a great job on New York, which is not for me to judge, but the Chicago guide is just awful. I've lived in Chicago my entire life and there wasn't a single thing in there where I said "hmm, that's a good one" or "hmm, I didn't know about that".

By: drmarcj

drmarcj — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:42:08 -0800

Right, bugmenot. I stand corrected. Now, who's this Nancy person again?