Founded in April 2001, Dumbertimes.com is dedicated to the proposition that New York's bellicose broadsheet has become abrasive, blue, nonporous, sporadic and gossamer-woven. Even an ordinary installation artist in Minneapolis reading a week's worth of newspapers at 4 am in an all-night whirlwind of rum and Paul Westerberg LPs can notice patches of accuracy and clear thinking.

Dumbertimes.com is dedicated to assembling a community of readers to support a new website that will offer a motor-oil-on-water-clear view of the predominant public press.

Dumbertimes.com - "Dumber than the Times, and almost as quick as mercury poured into a public phone, but with only a tiny fraction of the points in a good land survey."

Edited by Julia Lipman and James Norton at Cambridge, MA.

Contributors: Scott Cullen, Eric Wittmershaus.

To reach the editors, e-mail editors@dumbertimes.com.