Archive for February, 2008

The Dear Leader needs an upgrade

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

When reporters visit North Korea, they’re usually given a highly restricted itinerary, consisting largely of visits with happy workers, tours of gleaming-but-empty buildings, and lectures about the glory of the Great and Dear Leaders. And, based on this Times report , the latest batch of reporters—who accompanied the New [...]

New York mag’s fab flashback

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Back when I was at Engadget, we did a mega-post called Engadget 1985, in which we imagined what the site would have been like had it been created 20 years earlier. We filled it with ASCII art, a BBS-style UI, and our picks among hot products like th NTT Shoulder [...]