Month: July 2013

The first office computers didn’t come in the 1970s and 1980s. They came at least 20 years earlier in the 1950s, and not from whizzy California, but from frumpy Hammersmith.

The Fingerhut catalog seemed to be one of those little pieces of Americana. For years, I wondered how the company got its name.

The Long Walk: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot. A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as “The Long Walk,” in which they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.