As Bruce mentions in a previous post, the NYTimes ended their Times Select pay program. Most content is now available free of charge, including huge sections of their archives. Here's what The Times has to say:

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

Kottke, does all the heavy lifting for us and digs through the archives picking out some of the more interesting articles that hitherto were unavailable.