Read the New York Times? Like many of you, I read the Times online every day. Recently, I found a very efficient way to access its articles, namely at nytimes.blogspace.com. This service has two compelling attributes. First, it acts much like a news reader, with no ads and with short useful descriptions of each article. Also, it is much more efficient to peruse articles because every article is now on the "front page", so to speak. Secondly, the actual Times front page has the annoying habit of refreshing every 15 seconds, and the link above doesn't. No one has ever explained why this quick re-fresh is necessary. The Times content is ever changing, but 15 seconds? Fifteen minutes would make more sense.