King of the press

The New Yorker Magazine, which it seems can do no wrong under the stewardship of David Remnick (read his "King of the World" to understand why people connect deeply with the sport of boxing), just keeps getting better. OK, so it's support for the war in Iraq was just plain dumb; everybody gets one do-over.

Following last year's complete collection of cartoons, the folks at Condé Nast have put out "The Complete New Yorker," an eight-DVD collection of every single issue the magazine published in its eighty-year history (until this February; updates will be issued annually). And when they say "complete," they mean it. Each disc contains several years of scanned issues - tables of contents, ads, cartoons, articles - you name it.

The best part? The whole thing can be picked up for under a hundred Canadian dollars. Imagine what that would cost in Nexis searches.