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What Magazines Do You Read?
Osgyth asks: "Everyone is quick to complain about a magazine when the author makes a mistake or a stupid comment. Wired and PC Magazine are only some that have fallen to this attack. Which 'PC related' magazines does the Slashdot crowd read? Are they informative and accurate? Or merely read for their entertainment value?" Why limit the topic to just PC Magazines? What other periodicals do you all read that you find interesting?
I *read* Playboy. No, really...it's for the articles!!
T...The Magazine for the Slashdotter who missed the story the third time around!
Extra!, the paper magazine of the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
FAIR analyzes how the media reports, what they report, what they don't report, and calls out their biases.
They've done a lot of work around telecommunications policy , looking at what the governement is saying, what business is saying, and how it will affect you and me.
They don't speculate--I love them because they are so analytical. They are data heads who use the LexisNexis database to stastistically evaluate how the media does. Is there a conservative bias in media? They'll give you the numbers and let you decide.
Subscription is $21/year.
I'm much funnier now that I'm a subscriber.
Asian temptress, and Hot House wive regularly.
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The ones that I do like to read are most of the men's fitness/health magazines. My all-time favorite is Mens Health though. They seem to be very accurate on alot of things and I still haven't seen it matched by the myriad of other ones that are out there.
Hmmm.
When I can sit and reload slashdot all day!
CIO Insight, eWeek, CRM, PC Week, PC World, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Information Week, Info World, Maxim, FHM, Stuff, Golf World, Seventeen, Glamour, InStyle, Wired, EGM, Outdoor Life, Something Music Retailer, Something about Embedded Electronics, American Baby, Parenting, Home Channel New, plus a few others that I probably missed. Of course those are all the free ones I've found. The only sub I pay for is Playboy of course. :)
For the jokes, and the pretty pictures
I have only subscribed to one magazine ever... Maxim . The first time I picked up Maxim I said to myself, "what a joke." I didn't realize just how right I was! I have subscribed most of the way through college and it continues now. The stack on the shelf behind the toilet is chock full of great articles, beautiful women, and some of the best "toys" that you could find. I wish I could afford all the goodies they list.
:)
The best part of Maxim is that my gf enjoys reading it as well and doesn't complain about the half-naked hotties that dot its pages.
It's inexpensive (generally under $17.00/year), it's funny, it's well put together, the articles are worth reading, and the women are plentiful and gorgeous. The only thing that I wish it had that it does not are the 1000+ line BASIC programs for me to type in that Byte used to. Now *THAT* was HOT!
No, I don't work for Maxim but I wish I did.
Computer Power User - it's what Byte tried to be, before they were forced to have 3 pages of adverts for every page of content, and renamed themselves "MaximumPC"
------- "From bored to fanboy in 3.8 asian girls" ----------
Wired and PC Magazine are only some that have fallen to this attack.
While Wired can still be interesting (I read it since I started getting a free subscription somehow) it has steadily turned into the "shiny things" computer magazine. Anything stupidly expensive instantly gets coverage. PC Magazine went from being a reasonable source of information to a huge glut of advertisements with worthless content sprinkled in here an there.
2600 is entertaining still and I buy it regularly (don't want to be on that subscription list though *GASP*!) although some of the articles list tech information that's just nowhere near correct. A little too heavy on the lame windows exploits/security information too.
Non tech: Maxim and Stuff really do have pretty interesting/funny articles (and other things too)
Casual Games/Downloads
Linux Magazine (UK), Wired, SI, and 2600
I'm a hamker. Hams, hackers, same ethos, different medium. == 73 de KB0STG
Hustler and National Review. Proceedings of the ACM now and again.
Wired, Computerworld (for the funny stories at the end,) View Camera, Lenswork, Black & White, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope.
The best magazine around. It's not PC related, but I got tired of reading PC rags right about the time they all started sucking up to the manufacturers 7 years ago.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
EETimes
Dr. Dobb's Journal
Linux Journal
Linux Magazine
Wired
dead tree edition... then see the articles posted here after they hit the wired website a few days later =)
*shrug*
e.
Build Your Own PVR/HTPC news, reviews, &
I was reading Mental Floss until my local Barnes & Noble stopped carrying it... I might just have to start up a subscription.
I do subsribe to National Geographic but I've found myself not reading it that much but just looking at the pictures.
Men's Health. I'm a geek, not huge in to athletics, but it's a good read for a person like me.
I have a free subscription to eWeek which I enjoy very much. I got tired of tech magazines for the average Joe. eWeek is a little higher class, but still manages to feature stupid MS ads.
I read wired cover to cover every month. It's the only paper publication I read. It's as pretty as it is poignant.
--What, you ain't know about them country fried sessions?
Smithsonian and Discover are the magazines of choice, but only for the pictures! Oh and Sysadmin Magazine, which always has useful articles in it (can't wait to dig through the CDROM they sent with their back issues on it).
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Wired Uncut (for music) The VillageVoice The Onion All my computer needs (other than the Wired) are being covered online.
I gave up buying consumer PC mags as they didn't tell me anything that I hadn't already found out at least 6 weeks before. I still read some of the weekly trade magazines though, mainly because I get them free at work.
Other than that, the only ones I buy are related to mountain bikes, or occasionally hi-fi kit.
In no particular order:
Regularly:
- Reason
- Linux Journal
- Linux Magazine
- Economist
- FP
If I happen to be in a bookstore and think about it:
- Q
- Fortune / Forbes / Money
- Liberty
MacAddict
MacWorld
YogaJournal
...Scientific American, National Geographic, 2600, Mens Health, Instinct, Gourmet, Wired, Time (latest 3 weeks), and a myrid of catalogs on a variety of topics.
I read PC Gamer, Wired, GMR, PSM, Newsweek, Time, Scientific American, and Technology Review.
Does anyone have any recommendations on good Linux magazines?
Cyde Weys Musings - Scrutinizing the inscrutable
Print is Dead.
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Nothing in the IT industry has taken me by suprise since I started reading it.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
1. National Geographic
2. kideboarding magazine
3. ASCE Civil Engineering
I used to read newsweek as well but I had no time.
That's a good name--ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
You know? It's been soo damned long since I read a hard paper magazine..
What I -DO- read on a daily basis though:
cnn.com
wired.com
userfriendly.com (lol)
slashdot.org
Honestly, at least for myself, I find paper magazines to be useless, out of date, and pointless. Even the p0rn is old! (lol again)
"It's not stealing if you don't get caught!"
yeah, that's right, the one where ol'Dicky is supposedly a robot.
Why? Because if I want to read lies, I might as well know I'm reading them.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
PC gamer
The Financial Times offers analysis as well as news and rarely makes the thicko comments inferences found in other papers (including The Times I'm afraid to say - I mean 'Loosers' was clearly a reference to Wayne Rooney - not to Rebecca Loos...)
As an aside - none of the newspapers have decent IT columns///
Creative Computing...
Ah, the memories of Air Traffic Controller.
MaximumPC (for the reviews, mostly), and CPU. I continue to look at Computer Shopper, mostly because "The Hard Edge" and Alfred Poor's column remain invaluable and interesting.
After that? Maxim, Dragon and Esquire.
Brazil has decided you're cute.
But only for the articles.
Actually, my most regular read is MacAddict. I'd better go put on a flame-proof suit now....
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Come to think of it, the only magazine I read with any regularity is the Star Wars Insider. I have a really bad habit of not keeping up with news in general as much as I ought to.
>insert witty sig file here
The Economist. By far the most thorough, witty and unabashedly opinionated source of news and analysis in the English-speaking world. Politics, technology, business, arts and literature--it's all there.
Star Wars Insider of course!
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
Scientific American is the only magazine that is interesting enough to make me regularly read it cover to cover.
Yes, given the state of education in America, the magazine title is becoming an oxymoron. :(
Magazine starts with an "M" just like Manual - and we all know geeks don't RTFM...
Only magazine I buy periodically is the Reader's Digest - usually at airports.
And yes, ACM CrossRoads too, though I find it has very little useful content nowadays - they need volunteers btw.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
wow, i'm surprised no one mentioned 2600 i also read Wired and Maximum PC, Wired for the info and Max PC for the casemods in the back.
All your base are belong to seit.
available exclusively at Waterfront Books in the Waterfront Mall. Not only is it a scandalous rag, but it increases my defense and will power every time I read it! Too bad it crumbles to dust each time and I have to buy another one.
Excuse me, I have to go beat up Benny & Clyde now.
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
Newsweek, Wired, 2600, and Maxim
I used to read more magazines before i got broadband. Now im always on. If i want news i dont even wait for it to be published in tommrrows paper, i access it online.
I think there are many sites that have in my opinion replaced the need for magazines. But there are some who still prefer it to be printed or dont have suffciant access to the internet to use that as a news source.
In America we are imprisoned by our fear of them.
I just saw this ad after the article... those morons at SF have really sold out.
Yes, funny and insightful ones. Like Neil Gaiman's, and Anne's.
I look forward to every new issue just to see what they'll do next.
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
I occasionally skim through PC Magazine, but I can't get the links to work. Lousy paper based publications.
If there were a magazine that was more theory based and more high level it would be more of a draw to me, but most of the stuff that I get 'comp' subscriptions for I just don't read.
There's that and the fact that they hassle you to renew your subscription with a survey that just takes 'a couple of minutes' and ends up being 15 pages on demographics just isn't worth my time...
--pete
Smithsonian, the official mag of the Smithsonian Institution. I always tell people, if you can't find at least one article of interest in any given issue, than you are a very boring person.
Save Maine's economy: write stuff down. All comments are exclusively my own, not my employer.
The only tech mags I currently subscribe to are the C/C++ User's Journal and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
I miss Byte pretty badly.
News comes from The Economist. One of the best news sources in the world. I highly recommend it to everyone.
My favorite magazine, however, is Bicycling. Allez, Lance! Allez, Tyler! Allez, Levi!
In a fit of drunken meterosexuality, I've recently subscribed to Esquire and Men's Health. I'll see how long I keep those subscriptions going.
I also get Minnesota Monthly, which was part of my Minnesota Public Radio subscription.
If you want to know what's really going on in the world, and slowly be converted to believe in free-market capitalism as the cure for all evils. As a consequence the occasional read of New Internationalist brings a healthy balance (?)
Linux Journal, Sysadmin, Wired, 2600, Blacklisted411, phrack, Road And Track, Car And Driver, various tuner mags
For example, I always send my old magazines here. Don't just throw those old magazines away!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I do have interests other than my profession. Now if they came out with an IT Mag in the same vein as EasyRider, I'd be more apt to subscribe! Centerfold girls and the latest apple gear which to look st first?
Hey, I know its not "cool" but I got the best kick ass vaccum cleaner they make for $150 dollars and its more quiet then my fridge.
;)
Oh, and PC Mag occasionally, although the writting has gone down hill.
Wired has great articles, but who has time to read them.
"Club" - if you don't know what this mag is, don't ask.
Informative and Funny. How can you go wrong? Seriously, this is the more entertaining than I thought a computer magazine could be. The writers are brilliant.
I also read whatever magazines the previous occupants of our house subscribed to. This usually amounts to Latina and Stuff. I wouldn't recommend Stuff. It's like Playboy without the softcore porn and competent writers.
My dingo ate your honor student.
Scientific American.
Utne.
Wired.
Railroad Model Craftsman.
US News & World Report.
I only regularly read Sports Illustrated. I subscribe to several boating magazines and to EGM, but those were all free subscriptions that I don't plan on renewing.
I use to subscribe to a few PC magazines, but with the advent of the Internet and e-business, I saw no reason to continue my magazine subscription. With Internet news, I get instant information of things changing in the world and in most cases the information is free. Why pay for a magazine that will arrive with the same information, a month late?
Lots of good info on Asian movies and culture as well as half-clad Asian actresses.
you need to read: Grassroots Motorsports
and of course:
Sports Car
I also read Weird NJ, Macworld, and a few others...
The New Yorker because it has funny cartoons to get you going, fiction and non-fiction. They had a really good articles about google a while back. Lot of interesting off beat stuff. Good short stories.
The economist is more on world events the economy (although it includes that too). They have interesting perspective on things.
Both are unfortunetly fairly $$ as magazines go.
Was the 0.8 asian girl really, really short?
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
The two things I do subscribe too are national / international news magazine called The Week it's great for the stuff that you don't think about till the weekend.
And a literary magazine called The sun, that does mostly personal essays, fiction, interviews, poetry, and photographs.
"think of it as evolution in action"
Living in Sweden, I'm not sure how relevant my answer will be to you, but here it goes:
* Nätverk & Kommunikation
* PC för alla
* Mikrodatorn
* Internetworld
* Computer Sweden
* Linuxworld
Of those N&K is the most "professional" and "PC för alla" is the most versatile.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
My computer mag of choice.
And never go to the can without Reader Digest.
Since the question was Which 'PC related' magazines does the Slashdot crowd read? I can't really comment. I don't do to much off-line reading about tech. the problem is that it changes so much, by the time you get the magazine, what you're reading is out of date...
But i do keep my car and photography magazines around.
The Following: FHM Loaded Maxim Rolling Stone Wired 2600 Stuff Tattoo Internationl What can I say, it's a long bus ride to hell and back everyday ;)
I'm partial to Mad and Cracked for the parody (though Mad isn't as funny as it used to be), along with Linux Journal, Sysadmin, and Guitar Player.
This sig no verb.
Car and Driver. Best major auto rag out there.
for lining the bottom of my recycle box
...oh wait, nevermind...
wired is great for collecting those subscription postcards
Mac Addict is fun, Linux Journal was most useful when I ran linux. BSD Magazine is
Wired, Linux Journal, 2600, Information Week, Dr.Who Monthly.
;)
I would like to read more, but I just don't spend that much time on the toilet
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
CoNNections - very brief periodical on Neural Networking related computational theories and articles. Usually written by foreigners and pretty difficult to read, from a "grasp of the English language" standpoint.
Potentials
Robotics & Automation - Usually chocked full of robotics related articles, some computational info related to robotics as well.
Forbes - used to get it, too expensive to renew the subscription right now, excellent business info. Good grasp of the business side of computers as well, including usually good writing about Linux and OSS related topics.
Infoworld is about the only tech related mag I have time to read.. it's weekly, certainly not "wearing rose colored MS glasses" and I find the articles informative and unbiased. Plus.. .Cringe! Oh... and it's my favorite price.. FREE.
-Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat-
"Bass Player"
The Week is a good weekly news magazine. Has a little bit of everything and is politically neutral.
One thing I'd be interested in subscribing to is a good sci-fi magazine that has short stories or whatever every month. The local bookstores don't seem to sell anything like that, and thus I have no access to the magazines' names nor their subscription cards. The names of a few good ones would be a nice start. Thanks!
Cyde Weys Musings - Scrutinizing the inscrutable
A densely packed periodical with a ton of well thought out opinion pieces that cover the whole world. Their articles contain a lot of fact but are - ultimately - opinion pieces. I don't always agree with them, but when I don't I have to sit down and think about my reasons.
Although, if you read their technology quarterly you realise that they aren't delving that deep into each issue they research.
IMHO, as per.
J:)
Oh well, no point in steering now.
It is an interesting read, gives great international news, offers fair political views, and gives new view points to a geek.
Most market analysts have to pay good money for personal opinions and demographic information.
So, I'd say $5 would secure my reply to that question. Oh, and FYI I only recommend/specify purchases rather than approve/authorise them.
The best part is that The Week doesn't write any original content, they monitor media sources from around the world, and often present various views on the same story.
I like this because:
I read Cosmo... and I'm a guy. they have some pretty good writers, are focused on the "short attention span" crowd so its always a quick read, and I learn a lot about women (spare me the anti-social, slashdotters don't know women rhetoric...I have three wives and 8 children).
Oh, and they're always readily available in the magazine basket in my bathroom.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
the following magazines, time permitting:
Print Magazine
Communication Arts
Dwell
Step Inside Design
MacWorld
MacAddict
Writer's Digest
Maxim
Of course, it's rare that I actually get to READ them all, but I like to at least have the material available to me.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.
I stopped reading magazines all together years and years ago. Too little content for too much money (seriously, why pay for advertising?)
Reminds me of the Fight Club quote:
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear.
How all of you geeks find time to read all that non-work related stuff? All I ever get around to reading is scientific periodicals - Nature, Cell, Science, J Invest Dermatol, Am J Med Genet, Hum Mol Genet, Am J Hum Genet, Br J Dermatol and that's about all I can handle if I want to read an actual BOOK every now and then or goof around on slashdot! Do you have time management skills that I need??
----- One learns to itch where one can scratch.
I'm a bit of a political junkie, so I like reading Time, and Newsweek. I also read assorted gaming magazines, and miscelllaneous stuff. I also have a subscription to the Financial Times (it's so interesting to read a European perspective on things).
Fortean Times, Private Eye, Macworld, Blender and Revolver.
I used to read Counterpunch, but got tired of Cockburn.
I read Time, Newsweek, GamePro, and PC Gamer. I find that the integrity of GamePro has been lost (they started muting themselves in the "Head2Head" section.) It's hard to keep an unbiased mind when writing passionatly, but writing passionatly is what most writers should do to create a good piece.
http://www.skintwo.com/
I think it means "Modern Assembler Developers" or something.
All I know is it has a picture of Linus on every cover!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
The only two magazines I read are Newsweek and Maximum PC, for the sole purposes of reading when I have some spare time at my nighttime job @ a gas station. Otherwise, I read everything else of interest online. There are websites with constantly updated news (ie, slashdot) as well as some blogs that I find to be better than any magazine with out of date content. The Sites I regularly check: http://www.fark.com http://www.dailykos.com http://www.mydd.org http://www.slashdot.org http://www.trektoday.com http://www.neowin.net
CPU - Computer Power User. They have writters from lots of the major websites. Most have a very good understanding of what the hot topics currently are, and can give educated and interesting opinions. I love the articles this mag has about really hardcore stuff like how to overvolt your RAM and things like that. 2600 -- No its not because I am a l337 haX0r, it has some pretty interesting articles about just messing around with everything electronic. Hacking iPod, Xbox that sort of thing. Great Mag. Covers are always fun to see. Maxim - the chicks.
Computer Gaming World, Maximum PC, eWeek, and Information Week.
Everything else I get from Slashdot (Well, ok, everything else I get online.)
excitingthingstodo.blogspot.com
C't. IMHO the best computer magazine out there, covering Windows, Linux and Mac. I also like their fair and balanced (no joke intended here) product tests.
...covering only the most relevant information for those interested in taking over the world!
Rock and Ice
Climbing
vBouldering
American Rifleman
I think that's about it on a regular, "I read every issue", basis.
"If a quarter is two bits, then a dollar's a byte." -R Deric Miller
Minerva Magazine is awesome, although the web site is rather weak in comparison.
What, my username didn't tip you off?
"I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX
For tech mags:
Linux Format
Linux Journal
Oracle
Java Developers Jrnl
XML Developers Jrnl
Web Developers Jrnl
For games:
XBN
For others:
Maxim (I like the UK version over US)
Motortrend
Easyriders
Biker
I read regularly:
National Geographic
World Wide Challenge
Hey, you asked me.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Major Topics
steal this sig
...but, as if anyone were interested, I regularly read:
:-)
The Economist - intelligent political and economic coverage with a distinct UK/European background. Smart enough to make you think even if you disagree with its editorial slant, as I often do.
The New Yorker - good writing, often thought provoking and cartoons.
Atlantic Monthly - more intelligent current affairs writing.
Granta - excellent if sometimes inconsistent modern fiction.
GQ - decent men's magazine, although the US edition is noticebly dumbed down in comparison with the UK edition.
Premiere - movie reviews and in-depth articles on the entertainment industry; think Entertainment Weekly with brains and a staff of almost journalists
Of the computer-related magazines, I used to subscribe to Wired, but it has descended into mediocrity in the last few years. At least it had verve during the dotcom years. I also enjoyed Byte and have issues going back to the early 80's. It was beginning to head towards just another PC review magazine before it folded, but in its heyday it really was a hobbyist's delight.
Sailing over the event horizon
Mostly because they have alot of interesting articles on things that have little to do with technology. I want to find something that will stretch me in other directions.
I read the biggest mishmash ever. "Electronic House" (which is way cool), eWeek, CIO, Maxim, FHM (we need our fix of hot bodies, yah?), Information Week, Muscle and Fitness, etc
Why? Because it's really damn cool to see the crossover of my geekiness. Oh look, an iPod in Muscle and Fitness. Or a cool funky little product in Maxim. Or CIO or Businessweek talking about how the latest server can do this. Or how the same server that gets a scaldingly bad review in PC mags will get good reviews in a business-based magazine focused more on business ROI than how fast it computes A and B.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
CPU (Computer Power User) - on occasion when I feel like I'm out of the loop.
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GMR - To keep up with what new video games are coming out, and how recent games have been reviewed.
2600 - To satisfy my "oh that's so cool" craving.
The only other thing I read is
Wired even though it has had its ups and downs with it becoming the weight of a phone book of ads during the dot com era has remained indisposable in terms of staying alert of new technologies and their impact on society.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
"Unix Sys Admin" - always great
"TapeOp" - home recording
but that's it, it's all on the Internet these days, no?
CVB
free ipod and free gmail!
Whichever ones show up for free on slickdeals.
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
What else ?
:wq
I love and always will love Maximum PC. Its the best magazine out there for PC enthusiasts. They got some good PC game reviews, Good hardware reviews. The best thing is the experiments they do like see which thumb drive lasts the best through very harsh conditions such as running it over with a car. They also have great articles on keeping up to date on the new technology like pci express and the new line of processors comming out. The magazine is extremely entertaining as well as being informative.
Maxim, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Night Sky, Popular Science, Scientific American, Brew Your Own, Zymurgy, Playboy (for the articles, of course).
Vio
I avoid all computing rags. They are either all fluff, or to simplistic, or out of date. The only exception I've found has been login; from Usenix.
Otherwise, it's Sports Illustrated, Bicycling, and the occasional Woodsmith.
Dump the IRS - http://www.fairtax.org
while most articles are german, there is an english edition.
topics include information society, privacy, computer games, influence of american politics on europa, technological advances and so on.
however, beware of the wide range of article quality. most authors are freelances. some obviously suck, but they are easy to identify.
Always an interesting read cover to cover. It's a weekly though, so don't stumble or you'll find a mountain of unread magazines piling up.
Maximum PC (my favorite!)
:-)
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Wired
Used to be a lot more but I never remember to renew my subscriptions to anything else...
D
I likes the Car & Driver and Road & Track Newsweek & Archies' Double Digest.
"This is you left and that's your left. This is your right and that's your right. You're gonna die!
There are two magazines whose subscriptions I have never let lapse:
Science News and National Geographic
Others have come and gone over the years, but those two have been consistently excellent.
I currently read 2600 and Car & Driver. I kept up with Time and Newsweek until high school, then I realized they condensed the FUD into 15min on CNN.
There used to be a Ziff/Davis rag called Internet Underground that was entertaining - but sadly it disappeared from the stores.
Sometimes they don't get entirely read, but for the most part they do:
- Wired
- Linux Journal
- Newsweek
- Entertainment Weekly
Usually the first two are read more thoroughly than the last two.
FLR
Government Technology Newsletter
Government Storage Newsletter
Knowledge Management Quarterly
Maxim
BusinessWeek
The Economist
Videogames: Edge
Science/Tech: New Scientist
The real news: adbusters
Best in the country.
...you insensitive clod. Slashdot is my only window on the world.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. --Sun-Tzu
Sierra Club and OnEarth (from NRDC) for a robust defense of the envirorment, something rarely seen anywhere else, and for giving some perspectives on the environmental crimes of the current administration.
SoftwareDevelopment, LinuxJournal, Dr.Dobbs, JavaPro, and occasionally Wired.
Oh yes, FineWoodworking, for keeping me sane!
I read both Sky & Telescope and Game Developer regularly cover-to-cover and occasionally 2600 (when I am somewheres that sells it). All three are informative and interesting. As for accurate, the first two seem to be pretty good - although I am reading them to learn the stuff so I wouldn't necessarily know if they were incorrect but I hope they aren't, and I haven't read a 2600 in a while so I can't remember.
I used to love reading computer related magazines. There's just something great about laying on a couch while you read. However, the net destroyed all of that fun. I'd read stories online and then read the same "news" a few weeks later in the magazine. Rather than pay for deja vu, I stopped subscribing. News stops being news when it turns old.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Back in the day PC accelerator was the shiz.
They had some of the best game reviews I've ever read, including my favorite PRO given for a piece of software: "Has very clean uninstall".
I'd pay _money for a magazine like that today.
Linux Journal
Linux Magazine
Zymurgy
Brew Your Own
National Geographic
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Well... I like to get free subscriptions. I tried to get maxim... but that didnt work. So... I currently get FHM... and yo... thats wayy better than STUFF... so I say... FHM is THE magazine to have... especially if u cash in on the free deals that they have ever so often... as seen on any deals website:D;)
SysAdmin
IT Professional
Linux Journal
Harvard Business Review
login;
Baseline
Wired (when I have time)
Scientific American (when I have time)
For the last couple of years I have been reading an amazing mag called Atomic.
:)
This magazine is desgined and written by geeks for geeks. There is no "filler" crap that gets lumped into there for the sake of filling pages. All the content is well thought out and created for people who know a fair amount about PCs and want to take their knowledge to a "higher" level.
One of the main selling points IMHO is the fact that Atmoic has one hell of a community. Its great to talk (and meet) like minded people and pursue your interests, and gain vast amounts of knowledge at the same time. And then the Atomic sponsored LANs are just amazing
Most of the issues the cover are about pushing your system to the max. At the moment they have a indepth article (series) on OCing the P4. As well as the famous Linux series they did (which was very well done). And my most fav of the magazine. The Hotboxes. A place where peopel can show off there highly modded beige monsters. A truly geeky magazine that is slowly gaining mainstream attention (just won a award for Austrlia's best Tech Mag). Well worth a look.
US News
American Photo
Scientific American
The Atlantic
Budget Traveler
Wired
Foreign Affairs
Mental Floss
National Geographic
Playboy
Bicycling
EE TImes
E-Week
Baseline News
Electronic Design
EDN
Design News
Electronic Business
Product Design & Development
Industrial Product Bulletin
PC Magazine
Sensors
Scientific American
Discover
Wired
National Geographic
Archaeology
Biblical Archaeological Review
Genealogy
Kiplinger
Linux Format
2600
Architectural Digest
QST
CQ
I'm sure I've left off some. My wife gets some others, too.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I read 2600 http://www.2600.org I like it lots of information
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Maximum PC dishes out the latest and greatest PC stuff.
Popular Mechanics is a cool mag for all kinds of stuff.
If you decide you like Maximum PC though, be sure to subscribe. It's about $8 newsstand and about $12/year subscription.
Reading rather quickly, I don't see too many SysAdmin in the group. Here is my list.
1. Guitar
2. Bass Guitar
3. The Hockey News
4. SysAdmin
5. 2600
6. Every single car magazine in English publication (via my brother)
7. Dragon
8. Dungeon (both through my weekly RPG get togethers)
9. Maximum PC
Essentially, guy stuff.
ChozSun
ChozSun.com
I like DarkHorse Comics. Aliens vs. Superman rocks.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Though I'm not renwing my Dr.Dobbs subscription
because they starte covering more MS technology and less Open Source. Of course they know who pays the bills right?
- these are not the droids you are looking for -
The ones I like to read, although they are not about PCs, are mainly about robotics, circuits, and microcontrollers. Some that I would HIGHLY recommend are:
Circuit Cellar, Nuts and Volts, Poptronics, and Robot Magazine.
IEEE puts out some REALLY cool magazines too.
Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
I read free magazines. There are several sites such as Free Biz Mag and others that offer up free magazines. Many of the free magazines are boring but I have recieved free subsciptions to Wired, Rolling Stone, Maxim, etc.
I also recycle my magazines by giving them to others and reading free magazines from other people or at the library.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
"Don't cross the streams. It would be bad."
Oh yeah, just to stay on topic, my list: Oui, Adbusters, Time. (parent is actually ontopic, considering this is a story on a website about which magazines we read (not e-zines)) Also highlights how great GB is... I mean, for an eighties movie, when virtually No-one knew about packet-switched networking, saying "Print is Dead" was eerily prophetic. Yeah yeah, I'm a fanboy. :)
A bird in the hand is worth -OW! Hey, it pecked my hand! Come back here, you @#%@#!!!!
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
too much coffee man (www.tmcm.com)
I find it a little hard to believe that not a single person has mentioned 2600...
Probably going to start up a little flame war here, but I'd say its one of the more informative magazines out there.
I used to read gamepro. But now there are video game websites. So there is no point in paying for something that gives me information I already know. I do still like to read Dr. Dobbs and Linux Journal and such, but only because they are free. I also liked computer shopper back when it was a huge tome of newsprint, now it sucks. There really is no reason for magazines to exist anymore since the web has completely obsolete them. Just occasionally you find content in magazines that you normally wouldn't find on the net.
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
Notably, Wired took the #1 spot:
Myself, I read Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Aperture, Harpers and Scientific American. I'm thinking of picking up Reason, Foreign Affairs, The Economist and The Weekly Standard.
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
American Rifleman
BMW Owners' News (motorcycles, not cars)
Guitar World
I get most of these second-hand, although I used to subscribe to Guitar World.
Linux Format
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2600
Eye Spy
Journal of American Affairs
Aviation Week
mechanical Engineering Magazine asme.org
Mags I read in the store but wouldn't pay for:
Max PC -- these guys are mostly idiots, but you occasionally pick up something.
I've been disgusted with most mainstream PC mags as of late.
anandtech.com
tomshardware.com
hardocp.c
is where I go for hardware related news.
I thumb through Linux mag / Journal and the like but never buy them. Same goes for 2600. Never bought an issue, read plenty of them.
I have two subscriptions: Cooks Illustrated and Eating Well.
Cooks is bar none the best foody mag out there for recipes and approaches. They do crazy things like prepare each recipe 50+ different ways looking for the best technique. Really saves on the "hmm, maybe I will use this instead" kind of thing because often they have.
Eating Well is admittedly a little biased to the left. But they do have interesting articles about health, green living, green agriculture, genetically modified foods, etc. Plus they often have interesting menu ideas.
I have a subscription to AOPA Pilot which comes with membership. Any other pilot types out there?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Any car magazine that's devoted to Italian cars (it's what I own and drive on a daily basis)
Magazines devoted to very specific niches (BeOS, Palm OS, Monitor Lizards)
Anything else is just for laughs, because they never get the details straight. (/. for example)
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
Can we do a, "What are your favorite activities?" thread and then a thread on "What is your household income?" next? Might as well try and finish out this thinly disguised market research form...
( : =
I just read an article about a new compression technology using the simple, but up until now overlooked, process of compression through simple multiplication.
Apparently it works by dividing a file's binary stream, represented as a number, by 2, resulting in a number half the size of the original file's number. When uncompressed, the number is simply multiplied by 2 to get the original data, exactly as it was before. Think of it like multiplying 5 and 20, which are both small and easily stored numbers. When multiplied, however, they equal 100. This process can take a 600 meg file and compress it to 300 megs!
Even more amazing is that very high numbers can be used, like 300 for example. A 600 meg file which has it's binary number data divided by 300 would end up being about 2 megs large!
This is certainly great news for all around the world because this compression is easy to decompress on the fly, making current broadband offerings able to transfer files of unbelievable size.
Quite amazing that such a simple process was overlooked for so long!
MCN is the geek's motorcycle mag. Good reviews, scientific comparisons of products, and NO ADS. Think about that for a second.
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Linux Journal
...I peek at Maxim at Barnes and Noble, and used to read Entertainment Weekly, until I realized it was killing my brain.
Electronic Games Monthly
X-Box Nation
I used to read RS, but have found it to be increasingly policitally charged (more than ever) recently, to the point where I can no longer read it. It is not as much the direction that the magazine leans politically as it is the fact that it leans at all. A music mag should be about music.
No one reads "Circuits" in the New York Times?
Nature, Science, Wired, Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, NEJM and Foreign Policy.
Heh.
... before it became pretty much an 84-page full color advertisement. My subscription ran out a few years ago, but I keep getting them anyways. There's no way I'd pay for it anymore, since it's almost $6 an issue now. Why get that when I can get 6 years of Playboy for that much! :)
I read Linux Format. It has current news, reviews of new open source software, programming tutorials and tutorials on specific programs etc. They also have a dvd full of the latest free software which saves downloads which is very useful for people with limited bandwidth.
Currently subscribe and read cover-to-cover:
Read frequently:
Big fan of BYO (Brew Your Own) magazine... As well as Eurotuner (drive a VW) and last but not least the free subscription I got to Autoweek for attending Mazda Rev It Up (autocross)
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I mostly read Cook's Illustrated, Sports Illustrated, Time, Outside, and Stereophile. There's other things I'll read that are somewhat less common (The Believer), but Cook's Illustrated is the best thing I read. Small, but no ads, very good recipies that are easy to make if you can follow directions, and good reviews of ingredients and cookware. Also, my GF enjoys it when I cook things from it, and far more fun than just eating pasta all the time.
Evo
Motor Sport (who don't have a website, sorry)
Autosport
plus, occasionally,
Guardian Weekend (who don't seem to have a specific site)
Esquire
Fundamentally, though, I want well-written, beautifully illustrated stories about fast cars and I'm happy! I don't ask for much :-)
Greg
(Inside a nuclear plant)
Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!
Time, because it's just damn brilliant. Private Eye because it's the best satire going. Linux User And Developer because they have full distros on their coverdiscs-last one I got was full SuSE 9.0 :)
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Judging by the responses I've seen, slashdotters are a horny bunch. I think it has diminished my opinion of the opinions I read here. Sucks.
Partly for the content (lets face it, the articles are ten times more interesting than the drivel in PC Magazine), but mostly becuase I feel like its important to have subscriptions to smaller run magazines with topics important to me.
As for Linux Magazine, I want to believe, but they just get thinner and thinner...
StrategyTalk.com, PC Game Forums
For just pure enjoyment and general science knowledge, you really can't beat Scientific American. The articles are generally extremely good for people with a little exposure to their fields of focus, and are often worthy of being read by the experts (or at least those trying to become experts). Science and Nature can both be good, but a large portion of both are quite technical. Even so, I enjoy reading those periodicals even when the articles are not within my field of primary interest. Since the articles published are typically on "big picture" findings that have potential to resolve major disputes or begin new ones, they can be really exciting to read.
This is the only mag that I read as it were my Bible. It's geared towards people who treat their computer's like Hot Rods (the car, not the Transformer...er, he was a car. Nevermind.)
You don't have to have a huge budget to enjoy this magazine. But when I do make that huge purchase once a year, I can never go wrong when consulting them.
Recently, I purchased the Western Digital Media Center External Hard Drive for my backups and love it!
Well, I used to get Byte but then the publisher saw fit to replace that with Business 2.0, which I promptly cancelled. Now I get Game Developer and Fine Woodworking.
I read no magazines at all. If people think the internet is bad for ads, they haven't seen a magazine in a while. You're lucky if only half the magazine is ads. I think it's outrageous that they charge so much for magazines, when 60% of the thing is ads.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Linux Journal
Scientific American
Archaeology Today
Science News
Utne Reader
QST
I actually had my first article accepted for publication in LJ, am happy about that. Don't know if it will be in the dead tree version or online yet though.
Scientific American has changed a lot over the past ten or so years. It is much more accessible today. It used to read more like a scientific journal. They have gone a bit overboard with the layout (too many cutesy fonts/colors/pictures etc.) but by and large the articles are high quality and don't require a PhD to understand.
Science news is my weekly dose of science geek stuff that I gobble up in a half hour!
QST is the magazine of Amateur Radio.
Utne pisses me off sometimes with its "look! you can change the world! woohoo!" attitude applied to everyday mundane things (such as walking to work, what a concept) but there are gems in there too.
Archaeology Today is OK - I liked Discovering Archaeology better before the publisher scammed all of us subscribers - it was quite nice while it lasted, and focused more on prehistory (more than 10,000 years ago stuff) which is more of my interest.
I really should read more books though and put the magazines aside... oh well!
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
Knights of the Dinner Table
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Something cleverI don't read ANY computer magazines anymore! The "free" online content you can get trumps any content in today's computer magazines.
Best Buy can have you arrested
I've red Car&Driver, Road&Track, MotorTrend, all the others for many many years. Finally signed up for Autoweek because I wanted more timely news and race reports as well as inside the car industry news.
I've found their magazines to be way better than the monthly rags, but I have a hard time actually reading them as they come....
--D
IEEE Spectrum
National Geographic
Scientific American
Atlantic Monthly
Playboy
Zymurgy
I read World Press Review, which collects, translates, and publishes articles from around the world. It's a great source for a different perspective, and it's interesting to know what is front page news in other countries.
Dragon (RPG magazine)
Dungeon (RPG magazine, with maps and quests)
NYTimes (does that count?)
Bicycling (good road articles)
Scientific American
Various comic books
Game Informer (Video gaming magazine)
The Scientist (online subscription)
Mac Design
Mac World
They are all for entertainment value... the only informative stuff I read is pretty much the SAP Professional Journal. Yuck.
-WS
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
I find Model Engineer to be interesting.
Canadian Aviation is a very well done magazine for those who long to fly a float plane. Sigh....
I read the Linux Journal (which, IMO, is entirely too openly biased) and Dr. Dobbs Journal. At least, I pretend to read the latter. It isn't really as interesting as it once was.
Everything else I read online.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
I read the magazines c't and iX from the german Heise Zeitschriften Verlag mainly for my own (practical) use. I'd advise the german-speaking /. readers to give them a try!
I've pretty much given up on techy magazines, theres just so much free stuff on the internet that makes buying deadtree pointless. However, I do still read New Scientist, Analog, and Ride.(not porn, a motorcycle magazine :P)
Life is what you make of it.
Playboy Amish, man I love those ankles PC MAgazine Infoworld Linux Journal Computer Power User Network World
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Science News is a slim, weekly magazine that prints short abstracts of current science publications. I've read it for years, but one of the things that really impressed me about it was the time when I glanced through an issue of Popular Science and realised one of their articles was reporting on a finding I had read about in Science News eight months earlier. They print articles on everything from pure math to structural mechanics, and everywhere in-between. Subscription is a little steep (from my point of view) at ~$80 annually.
One of my favourite reads is the British monthly, Prospect Magazine. Similar in style to the Economist, it sacrifices breadth in order to provide astonishing depth on a multitude of political, cultural, etc., topics. It takes no editorial line, so the reader can absorb a variety of opinion without the polemics of many American magazines (or the pedantry of my fellow Canadians). It is rather expensive, (I have an international subscription) but the quality is unmatched.
I let my PC subscription lapse, there was little in there that I hadn't already read at /..
The Atlantic is good though, there's usually a few thought provoking articles per issue.
Maxim? Playboy?
Honestly, pr0n is on the net for your single-life pleasure needs. Otherwise, try expanding your mind with literature that neanderthals *wouldn't* appreciate.
"I only speak the truth"
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I don't remember when, where, who or how, but I once received a piece of advice I've never forgotten, which seemed wise at the time, and which I've since found invaluable.
There are magazines devoted to everything -- sports cars, handguns, knitting, ferrets, Italian cooking, Civil War reenactments, log cabins, etc. Magazines are a terrific (and cheap) way to expand your horizons.
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Please don't read my journal
American Iron Magazine because AIM has a good balance of tech, reviews, and custom bikes.
Backpacker provides not only reviews of equipment and hikes, they're now including GPS waypoints with the maps.
It's all fun and games until someone loses the key to the handcuffs.
I read the Drudge Report. I get enough mail in my mailbox, and I hate always going out to get the mail, so the last thing that I want is paper periodicals. So I stick to internet.
His page has links to all different kind of news, some interesting, some important, and some just funny or weird. Its simple html with only two banners, and he often breaks news of his own.
In fact, it was Drudge who first leaked the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He found that before any other huge newspaper!
The other thing I like about him is his "mission". He used to work for foxnews, and his editor scolded him once for showing some news that he did not get approval for first, so he said "I don't need approval for what I show on my own program, so I quit!" He turned to the internet as a basis to show what he wanted to show, with no censorship. And now it is a huge success; one of the most viewed and searched for (it is about 46th right now). I love supporting a success story like this on the internet. That is exactly what the Internet should be for.
First on my list is Heavy Metal Magazine. I have read it for 20+ years and will probably be buried with one in my hands if they are still around.
I also read: Eweek, News Week, Time, The local weekly rag here San Diego, PC Mag, Tons of Comics i won't go into, Photoshop World, and lots of on-line zines as well.
As much as i read, i'm surprised i get any work done.
I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
PC Pro and PC Plus have always been my favourite... and PC Format was good for the first couple of years, that was until they went for 'busty women on the front cover to boost sales to teenage boys' crap, plus the content becoming shit (then I nicknamed it PC Floormat). I've always prefered PC Zone for games (and would subscribe, if I could be arsed). Other mags I like are FHM and Attitude (yep I bat for both sides).
I hear you regarding the UK press though... I've always liked The Independant, much better now since they do a tabloid size edition... the regular tabloids really do set themselves up as 'campaigners for justice x' (wheras they only want to sell papers), and spend enough time slagging each other off and devoting multiple pages spreads to Big Brother.
RE the 'Loosers' bit, I haven't read into that too much but the 'Loosers' that was scrawled on the Beckham photo must refer to that slapper and the fact that England did lose... Rooney was the player who comes out of the tounament smelling of roses... either I've misread your comment or the person who damaged the photos couldn't spell :)
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
Analog and Scientific American.
;-)
That way I can read about what the future will bring and know about it when it gets here.
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Not to mention that a lot of the UK mags have CDs glued to them.
Well, just from what I have on my desk and my limited memory of what I regularly browse at the library:
.. some space related journal.. AJ Astrophysics?
Popular Science
Popular Mechanics
Scientific American
Linux Journal
Linux Format
Linux Magazine
PC Magazine
PC World
BYTE
Network[ing?] World
Wired
Time
The Economist
Bicycling Magazine
Fine Woodworking
Electronic Design News
ACM
Electronics Week
Nuts and Volts
Circuit Cellar
Monitoring Times
2600 Magazine
Dr. Dobbs Journal
Linux Developer
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Flight!
Navy Times
Strategy and Conflict
QSL{? The ARRL's magazine}
Stars & Stripes
I only read mags that come free (depending on the industry you are in). There are dozens of them for the tech industry, and most are pretty good.
Sky and Telescope (my favorite)
Scientific American (2nd favorite)
National Geographic (interesting photography)
Air and Space
Smithsonian
HCG 50a = 2MASX J11170638+5455016
11h17m06.4s +54d55m02s
-2600
-Wired
-Time
-Linux Format
-National Geographic
I have gas, but my car uses petrol.
WIRED
2600
MacAddict
Linux Journal
Linux Magazine
Py
Woodworker's Journal
Wood magazine
UTNE
Mother Jones
Z
The Economist
Guitar Player
Acoustic Guitar
Java Developers Journal
this is getting old and so are you
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What I currently subscribe to:
PC Magazine: Though I'm not renewing it again, used to be packed full of info on the latest hardware with some neat tips and utils, but now is a bit too "newbie" oriented, lacks a lot of content that it had before, and I suspect advertiser influence on some reviews. Better unbiased product reviews can be had at amazon.com from the users and the tips can be had anywhere...
Computer Gaming world: Fun magazine, points out good games and prevents me from making any mistakes in buying games.
Dr. Dobbs Journal: Good developer mag, with all around tips for good code.
Wired: Fun! Insightful looks into the future and helps me spot good investments believe or not. Tho a bit ad cluttered, but it's also pretty cheap.
Consumer reports: The best unbiased product guides out there, and for all aspects of life including computers
Time: Wife's magazine tho it is a good read ask her why she deems worthy of a subscription
Bon Appetit: Ask the wife....I dunno why I'd even touch it...
Also stuff that I look at but haven't subscribed: 2600, National Geographic and C++ users Journal.
...in bed
Pretty much any Woodworking magazine.
I guess their coverage of the various Porter-Cable (PC) brand products is up to par, but I don't see what that has to do with anything.
Okay, I admit that was lame.
(I'm a woodworking geek as well as a computer geek. Interestingly, I noticed that in the past year or so my brain now defaults to the power tool as opposed to the network traffic management device when it hears "router". Heh.)
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Are they informative and accurate? Or merely read for their entertainment value?
;-)
Are you talking about magazines, or Slashdot articles? Most of what I read here is useful for entertainment value...
Computer trade rags get skimmed briefly then tossed, or just tossed.
So I just read slashdot.
I particularly like the fitness magazines. Since I'm a sysadmin, sometimes the hours make it difficult to hit the gym up since they aren't 24 hours here (sometimes I close the gym--the staff are litterally chasing me out because it's 30 minutes past closing). M&F also has the yearly "get hard" program where they challenge their readers to a certain workout and diet.
;-)
It isn't like some other magazines where they just fill it with "junk-science". You can get great receipies for low-carb/fat foods. It also motivates me because I see other people (like in their yearly challenge) meeting their goals too.
And of course we can't forget Maxim! But, I don't know if you can "read" pictures
If you like good analysis of current events with a liberal flavor, no one beats The New Yorker ' talk of the town'. You learn a lot about writing and argumentation just by reading their articles plus their cartoons have a well deserved fame. Too bad they almost never write about technology.
To follow current technological trends, you can turn to the MIT technology review is not as watered down as popular science but still is broad on coverage.
Finally, for bad algorithms and outdated programming techniques, you can waste your time with Dr. Dobbs Journal. I don't know if it's not what it used to be or if it has always been bad.
Carlos J. Hernandez
Kiss Machine is always interesting to read.
I read the Economist to stay informed on matters of polical and economic happenings. I read Scientific American to stay abreast on the latest scientific developments. And I read Playboy to stay current on pop culture.
I used to read quite a few PC-related magazines, but over the last few years they seemed to target the new or business-type of user. There content was basic and no real information learned.
I started reading Maximum PC about a year ago, and found the magazine agreed with about 90% of my personal hardware choices. I've grown to trust their reviews and recommendations as I don't have the time to research as exensively as I used to.
With relatively few ads, high quality articles, and $12/year, why not?
www.forteantimes.com Chock full of oddness and humor.
Scott
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Scott Gallagher-Starr
Assistant Director, North Bend Public Library
North Bend
Scientific American and The Economist as often as possible (Science when possible, too, but I don't get old ones from my dad anymore, so that's not very often - yes, I'm a cheap bastard).
Guitar mags, keyboard mags, tattoo mags, cooking mags, design/architecture mags, and political/social commentary mags show up in the mix too, but not often enough to mention by name.
Oh! Outdoor mags, Wooden Boat, Fine Woodworking, and geographic mags, too. Usually borrowed. Cheers!
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
I have every wired from 1.1. Its interesting to go back and read the old ones, track the rise and fall of the wired index, and look at adds for BLAZEING FAST pentiums 2's!
come comment on the madness at http://slashdot.org/~phreak03/journal/
Wired, Fast Company, Shutterbug, and Motor Trend.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
The only thing I always read cover-to-cover is Discover.
Terrorist, bomb, al Qaeda, nuclear, yellowcake, kill, assassinate. Carnivore is dead... long live Echelon.
Nuts N Volts is a great electronics mag, from beginner to advanced. Electronic House is a great resource to steal ideas from. Those are the only 2 that I really get "in person" anymore. I keep meaning to re-sub to Wired, but haven't. Most everything else is read online.
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As far as PC Mags go... hmm. I don't really buy them anymore. I'll flip through PC World and whatnot, but honestly, most of the reasons I'd buy a PC Magazine are now addressed online- from product reviews to software help to what have you.
My good looks paid for that pool, and my talent filled it with water.
What Foods Do You Eat?
Anonymouse Cowarde asks: "Everyone is quick to complain about a fast food joint when the chef makes a bad menu choice or a stupid flavor combo. Taco Bell and Wendys are only some that have fallen to this attack. Which 'food related' establishments does the Slashdot crowd frequent? Are they tasty and appetizing? Or merely went to for their alimentary value?" Why limit the topic to just fast food places? What other reataurants do you all go to that you find interesting?
The only magazine I've held on to over the years is Car and Driver. The people that write for it really love and understand cars, and they're not afraid to give a bad review with its call for.
I really like the editorials at the beginning where the editors sound off about things that bug them. And the reader feedback section is about 50/50 people criticizing them and praising them. They basically let it all hang out, and I like that.
I, of course, can't afford a nice car (as the aging Ford Taurus in my garage will attest). But I very much enjoy reading about them. It's kinda like playboy for car people. You know that centerfold will never be yours, but you can read through her turn on's and imagine...
"Failure is not an option, it's part of the standard package"
The best "PC Related" Magazine that I know of is c't.
Very insightful, good know-how articles, writers that know their stuff and even an occasional homebrew hardware project (like a USB / RS232 Interface in the latest issue)
What other PC tabloid these day still has detailed architectural comparisons between the latest AMD and Intel creations. Or will devote pages to the advantages vs. disadvantages of the current RAM technologies.
I would compare c't to Byte Magazine in the mid-80s, before Byte went "mainstream".
Thomas
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You do realize Brad Pitt said those things right? The same guy who married Jennifer Aniston.
Once titled Dr. Dobbs' Journal of Computer Callisthenics and Orthodontics, is currently the only computer-related magazine worth reading
...anybody? anybody? Bueller.....?
Yes, there are many good book review periodicals in English (my wife is an unreformed LRBie), but none matches the TLS. The reviewers are usually experts in the subject, and the reviews themselves often contain excellent potted summaries of the same. The books reviewed are ecclectic; aside from fiction, you can expect to find science, history, art, philosophy, religion, etc.
Oh, and "JC" is usually rather funny.
"The good reader is a rarer swan than the good writer."
Astronomy :)
Star and Telescope
Smithsonian
National Geographic
Southern Living
Cosmo
All of these are mostly for entertainment value. I find that I still desire to be informed when it comes to astronomy and physics though nothing I do has anything related to those fields. Smithsonian and National Geographic are mostly for the beautiful eye candy that they provide. Their photography is amazing, and the articles are usually very well written. I read cosmo to keep up on the things I'm supposed to be providing as a husband, and usually my wife and I have a chuckle over some of their poorly composed articles. Southern living is usually a "ran out of things to read and this looks interesting" mag. My 'rents sent us a subscription when we were first married (w00hoo 1 year!!!) and it's been a favorite of my wife.
Computer magazines do not interest me anymore despite reading nearly every one of them when I was a teen. They're usually just about the newest and greatest "stuff" which is usually buggy/junk/too expensive for my taste. I get that kindof entertainment from the web these days, and it is usually more up to date and better written than the paper periodicals. Not to mention I don't have to lug a crate full of mag's to work every day!
I don't buy magazines anymore - you just don't get enough bang for your buck - the worst was 3D World, although great, but it's like $15-$20 per issue, with the money i saved not renewing my subscription I bought an upgrade for my 3D application :)
And game magazines, which I used to buy, are pointless, as everything and more is available on the net.
Magazines are nice for on the can though - but buying a novel gets me a lot more bang for my buck.
the onion (the paper version has more content)
the baffler (tho it's more like a journal)
cook's (the best cooking magazine there is, and no ads)
A guy I used to go to school with would conduct this experiment every so often. He would ask anyone around him in each class if he could borrow a pen and of course most people would give him one. He would ask as many people he could per class for a pen throughout the entire day and then count them when the day was over. He had this entire spreadsheet about how girls gave pens up more frequently then males did and Thursdays (i forget which day exactly) was the best day to receive a free pen.
I take the same idea with magazine subscripitions, I try to get as many as I can without paying for them. So far my list of free magazine subscriptions is as follows:
-Maxim
-Stuff
-Readers Digest
-Newsweek
-Sports Illustrated
-PC Magazine
-Time
Anyone else try to play this game? Its fun!
Just in case you were wondering only two of those subscriptions were gifts, thats a cop out.
chris.
I ask for a car and I get a computer. How's about that for being born under a bad
I used to read Playboy, but now I am blind!
Magazines come and go, but Mad is the only one that still gets my subscription money every year. Keeps me laughing. Alfred rules.
Bush is a cylon.
I'm most excited about getting a Linux Journal in the mail, and I read each Perl Journal cover to cover, but some other favorites:
DownBeat for the music
Fine Woodworking and its sibling Fine Homebuilding for one of the hobbies
Babybug for the kiddo
Siggy Wiggy Figgy Tiggy a bana bo Biggy!
Regularly: Popular Science, WIRED, Jane's Defence Weekly, AirForces Monthly, Air International.
Irregularly: various aerospace engineering journals (Air & Space Power, Aerospace Engineering etc.). Astronomy, The New Yorker, The Economist.
All computer-related (anything games, linux, graphics, hardware etc.) info that I read comes from online sources.
FA is a solid collection of essays on policy by some substantial thinkers. Always food for thought, and always relevant.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
I pay for The Nation, which is an excellent news/politics weekly. Some of the stuff is online, but there's nothing like having the paper itself for the train.
I used to get Harper's but I really don't have time to finish a Harpers and they usually just end up in the bathroom after I've read the main story. A fine magazine with some very intelligent writing. The Harper's index is worth the admission price alone.
I subscribe to salon.com too. I never understood the allure of Lumpen and the other 'hip' liberal weeklies.
Thanks to the web and tivo I watch almost no televised news and get my AP/Reuters and NYTimes, Wash Post, etc for free.
T3 has a lot of tech-stuff, besides everything else a man could need (check out the cover girls).
Top notch mag!
Economist right wing? I find that a little hard to believe. This is not a magazine that is afraid to criticize the Bushies (on the other hand, sometimes they have good things to say about Republicans too).
Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
The reviewers in the New York Book Review usually bring up challenges to the argument/methodology used in the books reviewed. Most of the reviews also cover 2 or 3 books on the same topic, comparing the strengths/weaknesses of each.
Just a warning though, there is an obvious liberal bias to the review. It isn't of the Michael Moore/Al Franken variety that "all republicans suck" but is more reasoned and researched arguments against specific policies. And even though I'm liberal it would be nice to have some intalligent consevative views printed more often just for variety's sake.
About the only critcism I have of the magazine is that nearly every issue for over a year now has had an article (usually an editorial as opposed to an actual book review) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (almost uniformily critical of the Israelis). Which is fine, Israel is certainly open to some criticism, but after ten articles it becomes a little tiresome.
I used to subscribe to Men's Health and found the health and fitness articles informative and well written, but after 2 years the articles became a bit repetitive. Other than medical updates there is only so much you can really write about doing arm curls.
I personally read Wired to get a sort pop-technology perspective, but usually I keep up to date with Slashdot and Kuro5hin (maybe "up to date" isn't apt enough, but they still have some good things). Other than that, I read music production magazines like Remix and BPM. The former being more tech oriented, the latter a broad overview that encompasses anime and theory. And pertaining to the original post, yeah, magazines can be a bit exaggerated but you need to look at the medium itself. With newspapers and websites, you can add more news later to build the story up, but with a magazine, it's more or less a one shot deal. Of course they're going to ham it up as they need to sell more copies. It doesn't make it right, but just keep that in mind.
I'm always excited when I see these in the mail. Each one of these has very nice websites as well:
2600 - This self-described magazine for hackers is information packed. http://www.2600.com
Skeptic - This takes a good look at the supernatual world and disassembles it. From UFO abductees to simple bad science, it's intelligent and fun. (And it even comes with a special kids section at the back pages of each issue.) http://www.skeptic.com
Skeptical Inquirer - Like Skeptic, only it's a little dry (not meant as a criticism) and doesn't deal with the sensationalist stories as often. Intelligent stuff in this one - I've gotta be focused to read it. http://www.csicop.org/
Venus Swimsuit Catalog - "Honest, honey - the people who lived here before us were on the mailing list!" http://www.venusswimwear.com
Linux Journal
Linux Format Magazine (UK)
Scientific American
Technology Review
Dr Dobbs (get free - why?)
Single issues
Solar Today
New Scientist
2600
Trains
On line
Linux Weekly
Mainly, When I not in front of a computer, I read Fortune and This Old House. I used to subscribe to Wired, but realized that it sucked. I typically don't read technical magazines, I get all the technical info I could ever want while working. For any tech related articles, I usually refer to the websites slashdot.org, washingtonpost.com and osnews.com. With the explosion of the web, there's a ton of great articles out there without ever subscribing. Being an app developer, I typically live by the rule, leave work at work. Somedays, I may get in 10-12 hours, but still I don't take it home with me.
2600 & Dallas Morning News only too offlines I read anymore...
The only magazines I regularly read are "Lodown" and "While You Were Sleeping".
I used to read "Shift", before they went under, and it's been YEARS since I've bothered to pick-up Wired.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
I still subscribe to a few magazines. It is always good to give my geek eyes a rest from monitor refresh rates. It would be nice to see if I would have less eye problems using an LCD display.
+ Popular Mechanics/Science
I always tear through these the day the come in the mail.
+ PC Gamer
Still the best gaming magazine IMO.
+ Comic Books
I get a few titles regularly. Just good fun.
-newman
Tiger Beat! and Dynamite!
(and other magazines that end with exclamation points)
MikroBitti, Suomen Kuvalehti, Dr Dobb's Journal, Software Development, Embedded Systems Programming, C/C++ Users Journal, National Geographic and Time
the magazines i read regulary in austria (schwarzenegger) are c't, iX and the online-mag telepolis. on telepolis there're english articles too and an interessting column named WTC Conspiracy, with the first article about 9/11 posted on 9/13! other good literature is: linux magazine, freeX and of course SPIEGEL. on the web good places are golem, ORF, n-tv. unfortunately are the english magazines quite expensive (wired or hustler, both over EUR 10|-!). grtngs
I've always liked the economist because they are willing to bash on anyone they disagree with (I happen to agree with them 99% of the time). Also the captions are usually wonderful.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
...but are novels and movies any less part of crass consumerism than TV or brand-name underwear? Or is it that novelists and screenwriters are just so above it all.
You are aware that Brad Pitt's character was an ironic caricature, right?
Maxim? Wired? gee, maybe I should check them out next time I pick up my new American Idol CD at the walmart.
Here's what I like, when I can find them:
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
I still buy AdBusters on occassion, but not as much as I used to; it focuses too much on a hipper-than-thou, "Graphic Design Will Set You Free" mindset these days.
I read Servo magazine. Its a great read. Too bad its published by a bunch of theiv'n liars.
I used to collect the renewal reminder cards and send them in all at once. At one time I was paid up for nine years in advance.
I read (READ!, see above) Playboy.
I read Wired.
I sometimes read the Utne Reader or Adbusters.
I read Newsweek.
I read Maximum PC and CPU at work, on the john, 'cause someone keeps leaving them in there. In fact, almost all the computer-related reading I do takes place in the bathroom. I get a half-dozen computer magazines - none that I actually subscribed to or paid for, so I stack 'em up on top of The Throne and save 'em for my porcelain vacations.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
you will never know what I read, for I have covered them, as well as my house, myself, my cat and everything in tinfoil..
it is getting a little hot in here though..
*sniff sniff* fluffy? FLUFFY! NOOOO
It's pricey and only comes out every two months but if you really want to know what's going on on this wacky planet it's one of the best mags out there. Foreign Affairs Homepage
What if Digg added local news and a Slashdot inspired comment karma system? ---
http://houndwire.com
Wel, the Economist is quite conservative, but in an old-fashioned European sense of the word, which often makes them seem like raving Marxists when you try to look at them on an American political spectrum.
I tend to stick to online stuff lately, and with laptops and wifi and i can sit on the can (the customery place to read magazines) and read slashdot/wired/crash.net/alwayson etc. via my RSS aggregator.
The only printed magazine I currently subscribe to is Aperture.
My wife subscribes to New Yorker and I read that sometimes too. Mostly for the comics.
But really, printed material is usually 1 or more months out of date and i've already read about all that stuff in some online version by the time it gets in my hands. Not to mention online is almost invariably free.
in this age of communication i'm just not getting through
You do realize that "Brad Pitt" is a "Real Person" and that he was "playing" a "character" in a "movie" and that the "character" said those things, right? The same "character" named "Tyler Durden".
I read wired (though lately not in print, because I'm starving) and a british magazine called Computer Arts (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/) because I'm a graphic artist, and there's really nothing in holland that can compete with this beauty.
And when my budget allows for it, the Dungeon and Dragon monthlies. cause I'm a geek like that.
Machine9dotNet
There was a time when some journalists were driven by the ideals of their profession, to inform the public. As our society has become more materialistic, however, that has become much rarer. Nowadays, journalism is driven by the profit motive. And the way to make money in a mass market is to entertain, not to inform.
There are a few exceptions - some people are also driven by the wish to convince others of some agenda. But, of course, this also leads to bad journalism. Our media have degenerated into a mixture of entertainment and propaganda.
I used to read The Economist. Now I don't read periodicals at all. I get raw news from the Internet, and I'm old enough to be able to make some sense of it. But we rarely get the full story about anything.
Here's a old man's observation: the only time you can be pretty sure you're getting the truth, is when the government tries to ban or suppress a story, but it comes out anyway.
I mean, 300 comments and nobody mentioned it yet? Maybe I have a grossly inflated opinion of them, and someone can clue me in as to if they suck, and why.
The magazine is short, to the point, has a truckload of awesome tips and tricks sections (most of which would be of interest to even advanced computer users), has phenomenally accurate hardware and software reviews (to the point where I'm almost inclined to take their reviews as gospel) and it has a good geeky attitude that makes it an entertaining read. I've been a subscriber since they were called Boot magazine in the mid-1990s, and to this day I've never seen anything to make me doubt their integrity or make me want to cancel my subscription. It's also a damn cheap mag, renewals are usually $12 for the year.
Basically if you give a damn about computer hardware, you should have a subscription. Very highly recommended.
Hell is being intelligent in a world full of idiots.
I only seem to find myself reading Crutchfield lately. They are a Car/Home Audio/Video magazine. I mainly use them to find the newest equipment I want and them I buy it off E-Bay.
What do the cool people read? I wanna claim I read that.
"Derp de derp."
PC:
Maximum PC
Non-PC (by order of personal significance):
Scientific American
Popular Photography
National Geographic
Flying
Aviation Week & Space Tech
Smithsonian
A big share of my computers and infotech information comes from the web and books over periodicals.
USNG: 14TPU4605
Scientific American, Discover, Playboy, Maxim, Stuff, the occasional Newsweek.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
A great little eclectic Canadian 'zine Maisonneuve
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
A few snuck automatic renewal in in light gray print on the back of the reorder form.
Seems like my magazine reading falls into groups:
Business:
- Wall Street Journal (subscribe)
- Economist (subscribe)
- Harvard Business Review (subscribe)
- Forbes & Fortune (buy sometimes on newsstand)
Sports:
- Backpacker (subscribe)
- Triathlete (subscribe)
- Runners World (buy sometimes)
Technology:
- Widescreen Review (subscribe)
- Maximum PC (subscribe)
I check out Perfect Vision and other Home Automation magazines on the newsstand.
Hobbies:
- Fine Woodworking (subscribe)
- Workbench (subscribe)
- Fine Homebuilding (subscribe)
- Inspired Home (subscribe)
- Cook's Illustrated(subscribe)
I check out the newstand for other woodworking mags regularly.
Plus I get a half dozen trade rags.
If I had to pick only 1 magazine, it would be the Economist. I like getting a world view of news, rather than most of the US centric mags like US News & World, Time, etc. I've been subscribing to the Economist for ~20 years or so now.
...in electronic copy edition. This is the only magazine I pay for. I find enough reading material online to fill both my geek and non-geek news quotas.
2600 is a great magazine, and not just because of it's target group. It allows anyone to write in articles with a good chance they'll be accepted if they're good. There arn't any advertisements like you get in pretty much every other magazine, and it's always an interesting read.
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
What can I say about the Fortean Times? It's erudite, witty, quirky, and in all a very stimulating read.
I've pretty much stopped reading paper magazines for tech news... Slashdot and related links keep me in tune with what's going on in the tech and scientific worlds.
Subscribing to the SecurityFocus mailing list keeps me alert to the latest bugs, exploits and such.
For "news" news, I keep an eye on the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Like a poster above, I read The Economist as regularly as I can... it's a great source for stories from a non-US perspective.
Because it's an election year, I look at and subscribe to factcheck.org - they do a great job of analyzing political advertisements and correcting the exaggerations and outright mistruths on both sides.
Last but not least, Arts & Letters Daily always has quite a lot of thought-provoking articles and essays.
"For every right, an equal responsibility..."
For every magazine article worth reading, there is a website which explains the same topic in much more detail, for free, and more up to date.
In most computer magazines, even the articles are ads. Then there's ads between every page in the article, and ads on every page with article text on it. Then there's ads between ads. Then there's two subscription cards for every page in the magazine which you have to tear out to keep them from turning the page for you.
Occationally I have a lapse of reasoning and subscript to Dr Dobbs Journal, but it's been a long, long time since I've seen anything usefull in there.
The Walrus(recentlt y minted Canadian current affairs mag) and Granta(the bleeding edge of english prose) and don't forget GIANT ROBOT(great Asian-American culture mag), probably the hippest read going.
Bonus: This is a magazine.
Who said I wasn't eclectic?
I am not a gamer, so I don't really care about the latest stuff out there. It's been years since I've read much of a PC related magazine, and when I've glanced at them, they've been very brain-dead.
For programming magazines, I get Perl Journal. I used to get Linux Journal, but since what I do is not very leading-edge, I wasn't getting anything out of it. I read a couple others as needed but out of the library.
I read Sky & Telescope, Astronomy (since they changed their focus, they weren't very good before), Nuts & Volts, and National Geographic. Once in a while I'll pick up a specialty magazine (like Bicycling or something) off the rack for a fix, but I don't need 12 issues a year.
I used to get more magazines, but the web has replaced many of them. Likewise, I don't buy paper books anymore, only ebooks, and since I don't do DRM, only Baen publishing is getting any of my money for books.
What are these mag-uh-zeens of which you speak? ...
OOhhHHHHhhhhhh--- you mean PAPER?! How barbaric!
Sometimes I have to say to hell with it and just eat my jellybeans.
CMJ New Music Monthly. It's a little pricey but I like it and the included CD usually has a tune or two that I like.
Spin magazine - I don't like it as much as I used to but it only cost $12 a year.
MAD Magazine - I don't subscribe, but every now and then I pick up an issue and it amazes me that it is still funny.
I used to love Mixer magazine, but it's no longer printed. I've picked up BPM and URB, but haven't subscribed to either since they are not as good as Mixer was.
I subscribe and read Better Software Magazine. Yes, it is expensive but it is worth it since it fits my job. :)
Other magazines include Wired. Other computer magazines but I get those for free from friends, family members, and relatives.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I read Cook's Illustrated seriously, (They are the guys behind the TV show "America's Test Kitchen") and I occasionally leaf through Bon Appetit or Gourmet when I feel like reading more about food related things like restaurants and entertaining and pretty food pictures rather than actual cooking.
Cook's Illustrated rocks. =D
I used to be quite the zine connoseur back in the day, and read everything from Factsheet 5 to Beer Frame to Cometbus. I kind of fell off on that scene after many of my favorite zines either died (Animato!, I shall miss you) or got overly glossy and professional (*cough*giantrobot*cough*). Anyone got any suggestions for some good, quirky self-published magazines that are currently being produced?
I sometimes print articles from slashdot, staple them together, and put them in a special little box. Does that count or is it just sad?
Esoteric reference.
EETimes
Automation World
eWeek
American Rifleman
National Review
The American Spectator
Scientific American
-- Note to liberals, yes please flee to Canada.
VG and CE for nostalgia, maybe an old Nintendo Power or two...
I also read the economist in print, the onion in print, slashdot, wall street journal in print.
Come on, guys, there are subtler ways of collecting demographic info.
The New York Review of Books is very good, although it takes a lot of time to read an issue thoroughly.
I like Harper's as well, but it's a distant second for me.
I enjoy Linux magazines. I don't always buy them, though -- many of them are from Europe, and they cost $10 or $15 a copy. Sometimes I'll flip through them at my local Barnes and Noble, and make notes of interesting software projects they talk about, so I can look them up on the web.
Is my favorite magazine. Monthly linux article, hardware reviews, an xml series, look into the future tech, computer industry news, and a monthly pc modder feature. That is all great but the feature that makes it stand from the crowd is the columnists. Anand Lal Shimpi, Kyle Bennett, Alex "Sharky" Rose, Mike Magee, Rob "Cmdr Taco" Maldo (You know who he is!), Pere Loshon, Alesx St. John (Direct X, Wild Tangent), Joan Wood, and Chris Pirillo. These people are why I get this magazine. They talk about topics that interest me and I usually end up feelling smarter after hearing from them. Also they don't cater to the 100% gamer market (i.e No "Kick Ass" award). They also have a monthly q & a (between columnist and inerviewe) feature with some leading tech person (Monster.com, Nvidia execs, Hardware vendors, Nvidia n Ati back to back). So overall a kickass product!
I read video game magazines such as Electronic Gaming Monthly and GMR, and also tabletop gaming magazines like Inquest and Scrye.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
very nice articles about clusters.
You need people like me so you can point your fuckin fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So what that make you? Good?
Others include The Economist, Scientific American (going downhill fast), Newsweek and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
I read several periodicals as I like varying sources of information:
National Geographic
Smithsonian
Scientific American
Discover
And I can never seem to have enough information! My grandfather even gives me his old mags so that I'll never be bereft of print to sink my eyeballs into!
I used to get PC Pro, but there are only so many VB Script Articles you can read.
Both Linux Magazines tend to cover real programing problems at a reasonable level. Plus the DVD saves me downloading vast amounts of OS software.
Choose your allies carefully, it is highly unlikely you will be held accountable for the actions of your enemies
I read other people's magazines when I visit their house, because I'm cheap.
-- "Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke!" - Moe Szyslak
Can I see Armund Tanzarian's copy of Swank?
Computer!Totaal http://www.computertotaal.nl/
of the Hobby Computer Club
Kijk http://www.kijk.nl
Not as much fun as it used to be.
PC Magazine Dutch version
Not as good as the Computer!Totaal
RogerWilco the Adventurous Janitor
DDJ, Newsweek, and MIT Tech Review.
Gailin
I wish there was a fscking blue pill
Grand Royal was the best magazine I have ever read.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
America's Finest News Source
The piano has been drinking, not me... -Tom Waits
Harpers
Economist
Skeptical Enquirer
Saturday edition of the Globe and Mail on occasion
That's about it. The rest comes from the web.
Wired, Bicycling, Cooks Illustrated.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Nat'l Review is the only magazine I have a subsciption to, but I get it mostly for the Buckley tidbits and the political cartoons. I'm also rather fond of The Economist and American Spectator. I used to read a wakeboard magazine a few years back, but I left the sport for a while (no boat) and don't see it on the newsstand anymore.
Not really, every month I get a couple of magazines but none of them are computer related anymore. I simply got sick and tired of the lies, damed lies I read. Every time a new whatcamacall it came out every magazine review called it the best thing since sliced bread. Only rarely did the thing they were touting do much better than it's predicessor. It was so obvious that all that they were doing was pandering to the advertisers. So, I quit reading them - in a sense, I discovered more honest reviews on the internet.
I do read Pop-sci every month and I have to say that when I read about a product that they may advertise, I will take their review with a grain of salt too.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to get through them all, but I at least look flip through them and read what really gets my attention
If you've ever thought about subscribing to Car and Driver or Motor Trend or a similar mag, I urge you to check you Grassroots Motorsports. It definitely caters more to the autocross and weekend racer market than the average consumer, but the articles are long, informative, entertaining and written by people without God's budget. Every year they do a this-year-dollars challenge, which this year ended up with 70-something highly competant racecars for under US$2004. To stay on-topic, I read 2600, The Economist, Scientific American, and after reading this thread, I'll take a look at StratFor, Extra!, and Mental Floss.
Sadly, not in english... c't is the best computer mag I've ever read, with highly technical articles that are still easily followed by laypeople. The best reviews and comparisons in print, nothing like the 'reviews' in North American mags, which are really nothing but subtle ads...
Maxim, Stuff, Blender, Mac Addict.
Girls and G5s... I lust after both.
However, my buddy Dom reads Rolling Stone. I picked up a copy and noted "that's funny, what's a fashion magazine doing reviewing music?"
The only dead tree based periodical I read is one about dead trees: WoodenBoat Magazine. It's been a staple of mine for 20+ years.
It is an excellent summary of worldwide news, and being British, it does a good job of avoiding the limitations of left-right politics that most news sources here seem to have.
I look forward to Reason magazine every month. They even had a /. article about them a few months back when they produced a personalized version of their magazine for every subscriber.
I also like Imprimis. It's a little strong in it's opinions but I enjoy the quality of the articles.
Never confuse feeling with thinking.
linux format
forbes
fhm
maxim uk
Skeptical Inquirer:I buy every issue of it and read every article...okay, every article that isn't completely over my head. Not everything in it is for the average joe, but that's okay...there is a lot to be learned in there.
Smithsonian is a brilliant magazine that is beatuiful to boot. I think that it really puts National Geographic to shame. Something there for anyone who wants to explore.
2600: I only get for the hot women in it...uhhh...wait...I am mixing that up with something else.
Linux Journal. I like their linux articles. Not too technical, not too newbie.
Juxtapose for some insight into the cutting edge pop art world.
Alternative Press while on a quest for some new music to listen to.
-- Now more the mirth, scrape here in the face...
phrack! great zine
2600, Maximum PC (though less and less since I ditched Windows), Popular Science, Stereophile, What HiFi?, and Linux Magazine.
I love it as well. You should also try Skeptical Inquirer . It has had some pretty good articles in the past.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I have a sub to MacAddict. I find it is actually one of the few publications where the advertising is tamed. Though the issues are thin, there's tons of great information, how-tos and reviews. They also keep all the advertising in the last few pages so you don't see it if you don't want to. It also comes with a CD that has demos and freewares.
I find the articles to be informative and technically sound ... however unsettling from the victims' point of view.
~ I am logged on, therefore I am.
It is good enough and covers enough topics that I suspect you could probably get a GED and good college entrance scores just by reading it carefully all through high school. (OK, maybe a week or two memorizing those nicely useless facts that exam writers favor would help out a bit.)
Zoom Zoom
Over 25 years of playing, and reading various mags, I found it consistently the best. Doesn't mean I don't like the others -- I'm really fond of the UK mags, and the German _Gitarre und Bass_ ... but Guitar Player's my favorite.
I like to pick up Soldier of Fortune or the occasional gun mag for the same reasons I'd read a Tom Clancy book.
I subscribe to Wired. When I was young, I subscribed to OMNI, and I would have been a lifelong subscriber -- but OMNI died first.
When I get married, I plan to subscribe to Consumer Reports.
... when there's all these damn slashdot comments to read through
Time, Newsweek, etc. have utterly degraded into rah-rah rags for the ruling clique in Washington and their meaningless wars and wag-the-dog endless yellow alerts along with feel good fluff articles for the Atkins Diet/Crispy Cream/Oprah/Jesus Freak/Jerry Springer crowd. It is sad seeing how these magazines used to do real reporting and serious journalism in the 50's and 60s and have now become little more than (low quality) parakeet cage lining.
Even if you have no interest in the material (clothes and makeup for 20-something women), pick up a copy of Jane and analyze it for its design and its point of view.
Black Belt Magazine. Diversify, young grasshopper. Explore the big blue room.
"It's not safe out here! It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." - Q
Study everything, you'll find something you can use - Jason Bourne
Been reading Adbusters for years. You want an anti-coporatist, Fight Club periodical, you've got it here. (Out of Vancouver, for the Canadian connection.)
For what my wife calls raw, "urban literature", try SubTerrain out of Vancouver. If you happened to pick it up by chance you might be offended by the topics, or just wonder what the hell was going on, but this is well written and explores topics and issues you just won't find in the mainstream press.
Finally, Geist, probably the most overtly Canadian of the bunch. Started reading this one before Maisonneuve and SubTerrain, but now the self-deprecating humor and somewhat provincial view-point is starting to sour a bit.
Ack! Good God man! Snap out of it!
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I'm surprised that I can't find any mention of Hot Rod magazine here. It's the auto equivelant to modding ones pc, and there are always heated arguments as to which is better, chevy, ford, or mopar, which is right up the alley for all of those heavily opinionated geeks (myself included).
I found that whenever I read a computer magazine the content is stuff I read about a month previous online. So purchasing dead trees for this information became pointless.
"Let him go, Ralph. He knows what he's doing." --Otto Mann (simpsons)
I subbed to Linux Journal and SysAdmin for years, but LJ seems to reach a point where it just cycles back to newbieville once or twice a year and SysAdmin is much more mature about things. They both eventually piled up way too high and now I only buy the latest SysAdmin CD-ROM once a year. Its up to like 12 years or something now, with a searchable web interface. Can't be beat. I get to give my hand-me-downs to my friends.
I also can't get rid of Dr Dobb's Journal no matter how hard I try. I friggin' hate that pile of crap -- I mean waste of trees. Finally, the only paper mag I look forward to are the quarterly publications of IBM Systems Journal. $105/yr, free to IBM employees. 200 pages of ad-free, hardcore tech theory each quarter. It takes a few months to read each issue, too! It truly is a "journal", and not a magazine by any stretch of the imagination. Also, it gives me a great head start on what technologies IBM (and I as an architect) will be delivering to our customers over the next several months to a year. If you want ad-free, hype-free cutting edge tech theory with nothing but deep-dives, find an IBMer and ask them to subscribe! Its an incredible read. Oh, and I have unlimited access to Factiva.com, too.
Intelligent Life on Earth
I also subscribe to PC Magazine which certainly has its faults, but now that CPU Magazine exists, I doubt I'll be renewing. I also get eWeek on paper weekly as well which is pretty well done, and the price is sure right.
All in all, it sure is a lot of stuff to read on the crapper.
I really enjoy The Door Magazine. It's a religious satire magazine that's not afraid to point out exactly what's wrong with current "Christian" attitudes (and they need subscribers...check out http://www.thedoormagazine.com for info). I also subscribe to National Geographic (although lately it seems to be more about animals than anything else). I also get Mother Jones. It makes me good and angry.
...Linux Journal, SysAdmin, American Artist, Pastel Journal, Art in America, and any decent cooking or gardening seasonal publication.
Computing is creative. Art is planned and meticulous. Cooking, gardening and fishing bring me back to earth.
No incumbents, not no where, not no how.
Vote them out every term.
What I'm reading:
I used to read a plethora of magazines but with limited time I've boiled my dead tree reading down to:
1.Grappler: The greatest magazine ever esp: the Anime column.
2.Maximum PC: Pretty brutal on the reviews, their "Kick Ass" products are invariably good buys. Their articles often provide good overviews and handy tips.
3. CPU: More columns than the Parthenon, handy tips, reasonably tough reviews.
4. Wired: Still worth skimming, 80% bull, but that has always been the case.
5. Newtype: Always good for finding out about new anime before it hits the US.
6. Animerica: Good coverage of US anime market, a surprisingly high proportion of good articles.
7.Anime Insider: Good dose of Wizard magazine snark. Good background pieces. Handy on releases and Con dates.
80-Micro
Creative Computing
Byte
Does anyone alive here still remember these?
Scientific American, and Computer Games magazine.
SciAm is hardcore science, and CG gives me reviews and info straight --- no bloody fanboyness.
I try to read the New Yorker when I can get my paws on it. Great writing.
One thing that makes the Economist stand out is its lack of bylines. Apparently, most magazines lacked bylines back in the day. I would be curious to know if anyone knows of other mags, which lack bylines or once did.
I love AvWeek. I read every article every week. If it gets to be Wednesday or Thursday and it hasn't shown up yet -- I start to get quite annoyed. Like this week :) Once you get past the rah-rah war stuff (and there's a lot of that) you do see an interesting cross-section of state-of-the-art computer, aerodynamic, and mechanical engineering.
My father-in-law was a test pilot for Grumman, and his daughter (my wife) asked him what would happen if he had to choose between his wife and his AvWeek. He said "Fortunately, I've never had to make that choice."
thad
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
It's free
in bed.
Everything else is online...
I have widely divergent interests. I read: Maximum PC PC World Western Horseman Equus Maximum PC is an excellent computer mag, I generally do read it cover to cover each month.
Subscriptions: In These Times, Wired, Harpers, Dwell, Fast Company, Business 2.0, ReadyMade, Found, Nest, MacWorld, Details, The Sun, Entertainment Weekly
Regular purchases: This, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs, Ten by Ten, Colors, Fortune, Newsweek, The Economist, Maximum PC, PC World, Anthem
It's as close to the internet as you can get without a screen. Easier to hold and more durable than a newspaper. Often higher quality writing or deeper analysis than in dailies or online, and more infographics. Who doesn't love infographics?!
Anything they give me free.
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I subscribed to PCMagazine for close to a decade back in the 1990s. Used to always have 2 or 3 back issues of Computer Shopper laying around as well. Computer Shopper was the only way to shop for PC parts. PCMag was one of the few places that would test a dozen products at the same time and give you a nice grid comparing features.
But ever since the world wide web hit mainstream and you could order PC parts online or get technical news online, I haven't seen much need to subscribe to any (paid) tech rags. Heck, by the time tech news hits the pages of PC Magazine, it's already been discussed to death 2 months before on the various online forums. Worse, with a print magazine, you're stuck with the author's view/slant.
The only subscriptions that I've had in the past few years are either business-related (BusinessWeek is a must-read), regular news (US News & World Report, etc.), or hobby related.
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
Communications of the ACM and Dr. Dobbs Journal.
Well, actually my subscription of DDJ lapsed a while back, and a rarely read CACM anymore.
But if I were going to read a magazine, those would be the ones.
plus-good, double-plus-good
"Journal of Irreproducible Results"! The funniest!
http://www.jir.com
"Aviation Week and Space Technology," VERY informative
"MacAddict," kinda advertisement overkill
"MacWorld," Better reviews and a few how-tos
"PCWorld," Better reviews and a few how-tos
"The Washington Times Weekly Edition" A great weekly news recap.
"Consumer Reports" Great reviews.
"Science News." Superior! Technical and current.
I gave up on "Smithsonian" and "National Geographic" when they went political.
"MacUser"; "Byte" -- No, wait --
Though nothing can touch my old, now defunct, number 1, Grand Royal, Jane is prolly one of the more interesting/cool magazines still in print.
I was actually a bit sad when my wife decided not to renew...
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Home Theatre Magazine, Wired, Handyman
I think paper magazines are better for just entertainment.
;))
;P)
Only magazine I subscribe to is Aku Ankka. (Finnish for Donald Duck. Apparently way more popular here than in states.
I read economy related and the yellow press while visiting the local pub. They are quite entertaining too. Bickering and speculating about stock prices, or gossip about latest teen pop-star. What's the difference anyway?
To come think of it, I don't even own any computer related magazine more recent than two years or so.
Bot Assisted Blogging
I read Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, and Macworld. I got a subscription to Car & Driver, but it's a sophomoric publication that doesn't see any value in automobiles that aren't grossly overpowered, gigantic SUVs, or cost less than $80,000.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
I subscribe to as few print rags as possible. Nevermind the nagging guilt over all those dead trees, I simply don't need the clutter! If want to read up on something, I'll do it on the web.
;) It's also one of the few that discusses actual programming instead of marketing BS.
I only get two magazines at work, "EE Times" and "Embedded Systems Programming". I'd ditch EET except then I'd have to check "none of the above" on the ESP renewal form. Sounds silly, but ESP is one of the few that's actually selective with their free subs (ie. you have to lie a little better than the average joe
At home the only thing I get is the never-ending subscription to "Popular Science" that I got suckered into a few years back; it barely even rates as bathroom reading...
Linux Journal is a great magazine too. Their articles are incredibly rich in technical details - and the coverage isn't just linux kernel focused. They also have great articles about system administration tools, embedded systems, new hardware and general open source software development. They do accept advertising, but the ads are actually useful and relevant -- embedded h/w suppliers, cluster computing manufacturers, hosting providers, etc. I'm sure this is all preaching to the choir, though.
The Believer is an excellent literary magazine put out by McSweeney's. Dave Eggers has a regular column, and they usually include a postcard of a fine artist's work. The current "music" issue has a few great articles, including a story of travelling to an elliot smith memorial, and a fascinating interview of David Byrne (also by Dave Eggers.)
Really,a fantastic magazine. Long, insightful articles without having to wade through airbrushed naked pictures. To boot, it's printed on really nice paper and just feels good in your hand.
Glamour
Ladies Home Journal
I can't stand most women's magazines anymore, after reading technical books and magazines....it almost makes me gag when these woman don't have anything legitimate to complain about. Idiotic articles, training other young women that all they should be worried about it how fat they are and what kind of mascara doesn't run when skinny dipping or something stupid like that.
And I feel terrible about it because as being a woman, it makes me feel guilty to blame my fellow women as being idiots and prisses. Why can't you give yourself some credit and learn something useful? Hell, I'll even take traditional 'female' activities like sewing or knitting or something. Or you could go over the edge like me, and learn about Java and embedded systems during summer break ....go nuts!
I also read QST (amateur radio magazine) and Popular Science on a regular basis. I tend to read a lot of gaming magazines too. I don't think I'll be renewing my subscription to Popular Science. Too many articles about airplanes and idiotic devices. I need real world articles...like the recent article about FM in QST.
which no one else i know seems to enjoy ;-)
"Skeptic"
http://www.skeptic.com/
"The Skeptial Inquirer"
http://www.csicop.org/si/
-and-
"Chance"
http://www.stat.duke.edu/chance/
are my guilty pleasures.
jeff
Blech. Make it Communications of the ACM, for me!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
The articles are far too long to read online, and many of the good ones are only in the paper edition.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Forbes
Fortune
Car & Driver
Economist
New York Times
Wall Street Journal & Opinion Journal
News.BBC.co.uk
Detroit News/Free Press
I get set plenty of freebies; Information Age and Computer Weekly being the regulars. I used to get Linux User (and I might need to have a crack at getting back on their list). I'm planning on getting a sub to lwn.net.
Finally, as far as non-computer magazines go, the Big Issue is a regular for me, along with Venue (Bristol's equivalent of 'Time Out'). From time to time, I'll pick up The Economist or Private Eye.
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I read both of these... also Skeptic!
I also had a subscription to Linux Magazine at one time.
Okay, so FAIR picks examples that support their view, which is left of center. Why? Because when media bias agrees with their own bias, it doesn't look like "bias" to them or if it does, it doesn't bother them: One man's "malfeasance" is another man's "pardonable excess of zeal".
Right-wingers use the same method to "prove" that the media are biased in favor of the left. By golly, they find plenty of examples, too.
They're both half-right (which makes them both dead wrong, in another sense).
Never attribute anything to malice that can be adequately explained by apathy, ignorance, stupidity, incompetence, or too little time to get the story right. A lot of it simply has to do with what sells: The media jumped all over the Abu Ghraib story. Right, left, and center, they went after it like pit bulls. Why? Because it was lurid. It was exciting. It sold newspapers.
FAIR generates "talking points". They're a spin machine. They may invent considerably less of their evidence than, say, the Alexis de Toqueville Institute does, but even if every speck of it is true, they still leave out anything that doesn't support what they want you to believe. They don't try to prove themselves wrong. Remember what Richard Feynman said? He said that the goal of science is to prove yourself wrong as quickly as possible. That's why scientists produce useful results and politicians, pundits, and spin doctors don't. Naturally, more people tend to get more emotionally involved in political theories than in scientific ones, but look at the ones who do get emotionally involved in scientific stuff: The creationists, for example. They just know they're right, don't they? And then once they've got their minds made up, they go out looking for a plausible justification. Just like Rush Limbaugh does. Just like FAIR does. Just like you, too.
There are lots of ways to lie with statistics; only the rankest amateur (e.g. the AdTI dingbats) bothers making them up.
I find it informative and educational. I actually look forward to it each month. I am even disappointed if it is late. I probably should get a life.
I really expected it would already be in the list, and I would just do a quick "Me Too" response. Instead I seem to be the first.
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The same newspaper the world leaders read: The Economist.
I had to buy 40 subscriptions to Vibe from some guy named Steve, who came from a rough area and used to be addicted to crack but is now off and trying to stay clean, in order to keep him from telling anyone about my money laundering scheme so I can stay out of federal reserve pound me in the ass prison.
I read PC pro (future publishing UK) and PC magazine digital (1 year free subscription) oh and Slashdot
If you have nothing useful to say post as AC.
Natalie, hands down. Preferably naked, petrified and in a bowl of grits, IIRC.
Bicycling
Triathlete
Velo News
Bicycle Retailer
Limbaugh Letter
WSJ
NY Post
Washington Times
EE Times
Main Line Times (local rag)
Philadelphia Inquirer
I read the local newspaper, and I get the GameStop magazine to keep up with new games. That's it.
Everything else I get off of the internet.
-jls
Techno-pagan
C/C++ Users' Journal, Reason, and Monato.
I'll accept substitution of near equivalents.
...but the main magazines I get and read are Nuts and Volts (hobby/professional electronics), Servo Magazine (spin-off from N&V, focused on hobby/pro robotics), Game Developer (managed to get that one as a free rag, somehow), 2600 (been a subscriber for a long while), and New Times (Phoenix area edition, local news/magazine)...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
And a good quote is always an acceptable substitute for thought.
You can quote me on that.
My old professor at Occidental College Michael Shermer started the great Skeptic magazine. They debunk crying Jesus statues, UFO pictures, that Jonathan guy that talks to dead people, etc. Check out this article on Creating your own UFO pictures.
The two magazines I actually read on a more than casual basis are:
- Scientific American
- Discover
I used to get Popular Science, but it's really not as interesting to me as the above two. Also, I don't have subscriptions to them, because I don't have time to read them (I have to read other things, like Slashdot), but those are what I always pick up in the airport when flying, or sometimes I'm attracted by a cool cover when I'm in a book store randomly.
In college, I was a member (one of those cheap college memberships or something) of AAAS (American Association of for the Advancement of Science) which provides also a free subscription to Science managine which is more like a journal than a magazine. Often some really neat articles in all sorts of different fields (chemistry, physics, geology, biology, genetics, etc.). But it's extremely technical in those fields, so I find it difficult to understand some of the content. It's like reading the proof for Fermat's last theorem when I have trouble understanding the GLOSSARY.
I'm a member of SID (Society for Information Display), because you have to be to go to the trade shows. I go to the show because I do graphics stuff (chip design, X11 drivers, LCD panel controller boards). A magazine comes with that membership. Although the magazine looks like it has some really cool technical articles on display technology, I've never had time to read it.
When I was in college, I was a member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and thus got a free subscription to Communications of the ACM.
Kevin Cameron - Technical column in Cycle World
Ask Mr. Protocol by Michael O'Brien
William Langewiesche
whenever I go to the library I read a bit each from popular science, popular mechanics and national geographic, and that's about it. When I was younger I read foreign affairs just to keep up with the globalists stuff (before they were really called globalist, but I knew there was something fishy going on). And I agree with several posters on playboys long interviews. I have a couple boxes of them I have saved, newest though is from the late 70s I believe. I used to read mother earth news until they went political and yuppie garden home beautiful upscale pretentious. I want my tech to be tech in a magazine, my tomatoes don't have to be liberal or conservative or have thousand dollar naked statues spewing water around them or anything else in other words. I have considered going back and getting homepower magazine, as I really like alternate energy, but there's no need really as you can get it in pdf and just go lookup any subset topic you might be interested in on the web anyway. Really, all the magazines now have that the online versions don't have is all the classified ads that are sometimes interesting.
With the net now I see no actual need to get dead trees magazines regularly. My girlfriend who barely uses computers gets cooking and gardening and popular culture(?) magazines like people, but I don't look at them ever. I think most of the time she just milks the system, she could care less about snail mail spam, we have a woodstove so that's actually just getting free kindling delivered, and she just keeps putting them off to subscribe to get all the swag they offer she pulls in with the ever decreasing price they want for their whatever subscription.The first price is never the bottom price, they are relentless, will keep sending you free stuff plus dropping the prices until it's almost free it seems. She gets something useful to her in the mail every week or so, and overall is way ahead with cash spent/products received, just being careful with the offers and holding out for the rockiest bottom prices they will eventually offer.
Maximum PC
Scientific America
TONY (Time Out New York)
New York Magazine
NYTimes Magazine
Laptop
Professional Mariner (trade mag)
Wired
Sound and Vision
I enjoy the varied stories as a break from all the computer rags, both online and offline. Analog has great stories. Some are even turned into books, including "The Peace War" by Vernor Vinge. I remember reading that as a serial sometine in the 1980s. Great story.
CPU and Computer Games Magazine. These are on par with Playboy, where as PC Mag, Max PC, CGW, PCG and a whole slew of others are of the same calibur as Maxim and FHM, i.e.: when I want information and insight, I read the former. When I want entertainment and stupidness, I read the latter.
I actually had to force myself to stop my subs to Maxim and FHM because, honestly, how many times can you "learn how to do [something] to a girl or [something] to your boss or [something] to your buddies" etc. I read about two years' worth of those, and then they started to get seriously repetative. All the pretty girls started to look the same. And what is the deal with not being able to see a little nip here and there! Foreign versions of Maxim and FHM don't care... grrr our puritanical society
And when I even glance at a Stuff mag, I can actually feel my IQ oozing out of my ears. That magazine actually insults my intelligence.
There is simply too much glass..
If you want a free subscription to many of the nation's popular magazines, check out this thread on Slickdeals.net. Updated each week, this list will point you to websites that provide subscriptions to some of the magazines already named by other Slashdot members -- Wired, Stuff, etc...
He decided to just watch the government, and kind of scale it down to size, and run his life that way. --Laurie Anderson
2600
Infiltration
Asian cult cinema
Rue Morgue
Video Watchdog
Industrial Revolution
Game Pro (free subscription)
some other game magazine (free subscription)
Aside from Slashdot? ...
What do you mean that doesn't count?
That green slime had it coming.
Fabulous recipes. Each article is basically an experiment where they try 10s and 100s of different variations to make the recipe taste the best, and also be reasonable to prepare. They also have reviews of equipment, knives, etc.
Plus the illustrations are really great.
that's a good magazine, it started in 1998 so far it's been good, and they have the attitude and dont mind about their mistakes.
many pc magazines are not just useless, it seems they are bought by some big pc firms and writing long articles as advertisement for products instead of doing really serious reviews.
New Scientist is a British import I really wish I had the cash to subscribe to. Their science coverage is a notch above Scientific American and a few steps above Discover. It is a magazine that I make a special trip to the library for at least once a month. In addition, it is quite interesting to see how a European science periodical approaches issues such as GMOs and energy policy.
Fortean Times sort of a brainy "Ripley's Believe it or Not". It manages to cover the weird and bizzare without falling into either smug skeptical dismissal or empty-headed conspiracy. Their recent coverage of H. P. Lovecraft's connection with the occult was excellent. (verdict: Lovecraft was a life long atheist who did just enough background research to fill his stories) In some cases they are willing to step in and declare a myth to be bullshit. For example, with the WWI angels legend, the creator is both still alive, and explicitly honest as to having created that little bit of propaganda.
I read Magazines Today. It keeps me up to date on all the latest trends in magazine publishing.
I also recommend:
Bill Magazine - By and for people named Bill.
Also, we have the extreme sports mags:
Cliff Jumper!
Bear Baiter!
Glass Eater!
Unknown host pong.
Atomic is a magazine devoted to case moding and games. An interesting read as it always seems to have interesting content.
:)
That and they have given my free stuff.
I have every issue of their 2 year run. Too bad they went bellyup.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
30+ years of subscription.
Do I need to say more?
Trolls are like broken clocks. They show the truth two times a day. The rest of the day they talk nonsense.
How many women do you know that read playboy for the articles, and more importantly, what doctor do you go to that have playboys laying around?
Banaaaana!
I've been on the market for a good 3d software magazine that talks about MAYA, 3ds, and/or generic 3d modeling/animation information. Does anybody here know of any?
Excellent magazine.
:)
They always seeem to be covering just what I'm thinking about. They had an interesting article on P2P engines and the implications for business content distribution.
BitTorrent was mentioned. Great software, but best for popular files. Obscure files download slowly, if you can find them at all.
My quess is that somehow Skype will end up somehow being involved with that.
As the pipes get bigger, what will be needed is an effecient search algoritm to locate files. Skyp has that stuff already. People will also be used to paying for VM and land line hookups. It be a perfect fit.
Laugh at my ignorance while I learn Rails - a Real ne
I'm not saying that I subscribe to the most knowledgeable set of magazines, seeing as I read magazines most for entertainment value than anything else. I subscribe to:
Maximum PC
InfoWorld (free)
Playboy
Stuff
Maxim
YOU'RE WINNER !
Another lame blog
Ad Rags
PC Magazine
PC World
The world according to Linus
Linux Journal
Linux Magazine
Weekly rags
eWeek
InfoWorld
Information Week
Mass High Tech Journal
BtoB
Network World
Fun
Scientific American
Invention & Technology
MIT High Technology
Popular Science
Popular Mechanics
Wired
National Geographic
Handyman
Maximum PC
Technical
C++ Journal
Dr Dobbs
MSDN
Visual Studio
Sys Admin
JavaPro
Industry related
Network Computing
Network World
Business Integration Journal
Processor
Almost content free
CIO Magazine
Oracle
Portals
I read fairly quickly
I read Discover magazine- has great little interesting articles of a scientific nature.
Also, Card Player magazine- a must read for any poker enthusiasts.
I've subscribed to Boot magazine since the first issue came out and still am receiving Maximum PC.
The psuedo-trademark "Kick Ass" still gets my attention.
Then there is CPU magazine which is a shiny competitor of Maximum PC.
Between the two of them, I'd say that Maximum PC is still about their "maxim" where as CPU covers a broader topics (much like PC Magazine).
The reviews of bleeding edge technology (of x86 platforms) is best cornered by MaximumPC and no other publications.
Then there is Maximum PC's "Watchdog." Ooooh, nothing like blasting inept and shoddy vendors out of the water with scathing choices of English Language. Woof!
Those are my humble two cents worth (after adjusting for inflation).
In my free time I don't read any PC related magazines. Books? Absolutely, but the magazines are just waste of time.
I subscribe to only one magazine, National Geographic, and then mostly because of the photography that accompanies their articles.
Maximum PC (Minimum BS) Stuff Maxim
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I read Computer Business Review magazine (http://www.computer-business-review.com), which is basically the Economist mixed with CIO magazine. It too has a European theme... well as European as the Tech industry can be, i suppose :-)
Ack! Good God man! Snap out of it! :)
"think of it as evolution in action"
As others have mentioned, The Atlantic is a bright spot on the American media landscape. It's impressive in that it shows a lot of the deeper trends, and it isn't afraid to explore ideas. Instead of focusing on controversy, the articles tend to be more about getting past the shrill argument and down to the real matter at hand. William Langeweische and James Fallows write brilliantly. It's worth noting that the Atlantic has offered perhaps the best overall coverage of 9/11 and its aftermath of any American magazine.
For those who complain about supporting advertising, check out The New Republic. It gets right down to business. The pages don't have much advertising. Excellent coverage of a wide variety of topics make it a worthy suppliment to the Economist, and proof that not all American publishers underestimate the average American's brain power.
It can be very worthwhile to read The New Republic and then read The National Review. Also not aimed at children, the National Review is solidly right-wing Catholic. The experience of reading both magazines one after another can be incredibly jarring. But for me it reveals a lot about why American politics is dominated by polarization and controversy. It also forces me to confront a world-view that overlaps with my own only infrequently.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Computer Graphics World
Advanced Imaging
National Geographic
The Stranger
Flagpole
Slashdot Eds Link Anonymous Posts With Logged Posts
They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
I Hate \.
Oh yeah, Fight Club, there's a great movie to use as a philosophical base.
Best technology magazine is not even a technology magazine, namely The Economist., Don't miss the technology section every week, the Tech Quarterly every quarter, and the regular Linux articles in the business section.
If I oculd only read one magazine, this would be it.
Michael
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PMOM=PlayMate Of the Month... although you've probably figured this out after a few seconds of contemplation.
just Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky.
National Geographic - this one is nice, as it has culture pieces quite often that take a non-contemporary look at society, as well as fascinating findings on historic and geographical importance. It's rare for me to pick one up and not read all of it.
Linux Magazine - I get this one confused with Linux Journal, which I'll occasionally pick up by mistake: Journal is more about business stuff, while Magazine offers more technical issues. There's quite a lot of informative stuff, but I find it quite entertaining as well. I tend to pick this one up in the Minn./St. Paul airport while traveling.
2600 - it's usually garbage, but occasionally there'll be an interesting snippet of perl in it, or a well-written essay. They'll also have interesting little quips that people write in with about nuances theyve found out about our society's technology that are fun and remind me of my childhood. However, it seems that most of the stuff in them is written by k1dd13s in high school, as I'd say 3/4ths of the mag is dribble.
Popular Science - mostly just entertainment nowadays, but there's still some good scientific stuff in there. Piques the curriosity in me. :P
Reader's Digest - occasionally there's something in here that looks interesting. Usually just for the "Humour in Uniform" and other humour sections, really.
Time - my school gives them away for free, so I'll grab one once a month and put it by the toilet. :P
I'm sure there's something else here I'm missing, but I can't think of what it is for the life of me.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
PC Gamer
PC Magazine (It's mainly for n00bs, but I like reading Dvorak's column.)
Wired (because I like knowing what Japanese schoolgirls do)
Retro Gamer (although it's mainly for British retro gaming, which is suprisingly different a lot of the time than American retro gaming).
My blog can kick your blog's ass
The Atlantic features in-depth stories on topics that are relevant, yet one seldom finds the same kind of information that any story in the Atlantic features. For example, as the Iraq situation heated but before the rest of media seriously used the word "invasion," the May issue featured Tales of the Tyrant, a piece about Saddam.
Earlier than that, the April 2001 issue gave us culture closer to home in The Organization Kid, which anyone who has been involved in the education process as a student, parent or teacher should be forced to read. The article adopts a skeptical tone of today's do-it-all culture without being didactic or heavy handed.
The former NYT Editor who left after the Jayson Blair scandal aired his opinions concerning the Times, the importance of the Times and the direction of news in America in a piece so long and thoughtful that I planned to read the lead before a run, and instead spent 1.5 hours reading and digesting the article before running even crossed my mind again.
And then there's the "Primary Sources" sections, which I'll leave for another rave. Fact is that The Atlantic is a consistantly great read.
Maxim
Stuff
Playboy
Maximum PC
Wired
Business 2.0
Reason
Liberty
Skeptical Inquirer (but I don't plan on resubscribing, not what I was expecting)
Weekly World News (cubicle art!)
and about 5-6 IT Industry rags that I get at work.
I don't read the mainstream crap everyone else does, what would be the point of that? I read:
The Art Newspaper
Geijutsu Shincho (a japanese art magazine)
MdN, a graphic design magazine from Japan. Since I can read Japanese, I can steal tips from them and use them for a couple of years before anyone outside Japan discovers them.
For computer geekery, I read MacPower. If you've never read Japanese computer magazines, you're really missing out. They're far more detailed and comprehensive than anything published in the US. Also CGWORLD is another rather good Japanese magazine covering 3D and animation topics.
For English media, I like Computer Arts Magazine, I can't count all the times CA has saved one of my projects by publishing some vital tip that had me stumped. Photoshop User Magazine is consistently useful. EFX Art & Design Magazine is also one of my favorite graphics magazines, oddly it is published in Sweden but in English.
I had a subscription to Linux Journal for a couple of years and loved the technical details and general nerdiness. Since going to the Mac side for my desktop computing, I've been wishing for a Mac analog to Linux Journal. I'd love to see a magazine for OS X/Cocoa developers.
"The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get." -Robert Smith
>I also enjoyed Byte and have issues going back to the early 80's.
:-)
For some reason, the style and/or tone of Byte always made me feel nauseous. I still remember the band practice in 1983 when someone lent me an issue. No other magazine before or since has had that effect on me. Seriously, I would feel ill reading it, didn't matter which issue.
Somehow the articles always seemed geared to the clueless CIO ("We review the 200 fastest 386 desktops!"). All the articles I read about programming techniques, nifty gear, research projects, etc. and none of them ever helped me a bit as either a hobbyist or a CS major.
Maybe it was the Intel-centric view of the world. The only issue I ever kept (still have it in my office somewhere) was the one with the cover story "Amiga 3000: Ready for Prime Time".
For world-news analysis, I like to read the Harvard International Review. It's a smaller magazine that, because it's a quarterly academic magazine, tends to be less sensationalist and more about analysis of world events by many famous and influential people (like Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Wesley Clarke, Dick Cheney, Nelson Mandela, Francis Fukuyama, Noam Chomsky, Alberto Fujimori, etc.), but also by academics and those who devote their lives to research. It has a fairly balanced presentation along with actual information. Since it's a quarterly, it tends to sit back and look at the bigger picture, to find trends. It really is an awesome magazine to get a fuller understanding about what's happening in the world.
Such irE
It is only quarterly, and even with a subscription it is $4.00 an issue, but I love it.
I can't believe more people on here don't read Discover. It has very good articles and great "mind bogglers" in the back. The website needs an overhaul, but when I subscribe to magazines I rarely go to the website anyway.
I was given a stack of Wired mags from a friend who had them at his office, and they were actually pretty recent. He actually keeps his waiting room material up to date but I digress.
After not having read Wired in some time, other than a few online articals, I was pretty dissapointed at it's paper version. (Not that I really find it's online version that much better.) It's at least 50% ads and they are the hip trendy kind too that seem to feel much more important than the content of the magazine itself.
And if you do happen to find your way to an artical amist the ads they rarely have anything to do with IT. And while I appricate things outside the IT world if I'm going to buy an IT mag I kind of expect it to have some IT articals in it.
Wired seems overly pleased with itself and if others seem to appricate it I suppose that's fine. However if they are kidding themselves that they are still an IT mag I have some news for them...
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
Linux Journal
Unix Systems Administrator
Annie's Attic Plastic Canvas Magazine
The Cross Stitcher
Occasionally glancing at Threads
=] try and figure that one out... =]
a great read for tech people in business.
Fortean Times
Skeptic
Cooking Light
Video Watchdog
Vincent J. Murphy
Spandex Justice
good rag.
Not only do I not read magazines, I agressively avoid them attempting to get into my life.
I used to collect comic books and, at one point, realized that they were just worthless baggage. Magazines are similar - a pathetic waste of my time as I attempted to gleen useful information out of them.
Useful information may exist in magazines, but the signal to noise ratio exceeds even that of Usenet. They have gone the way of infotainment a long time ago, and I have yet to see a successful exception to that. Even the "informational" ones fail to compare favorably to half an hour's research on the web.
By the way, you'll know that Slashdot has gone the way of infotainment the day they implement optional images to go with articles.
Wake up - the future is arriving faster than you think.
...when Iraq kicked the inspectors out.
Yeah, whatever. I'm intrigued by your theory that Fox should issue retractions not only when they're wrong, but also when they report stuff that you wish were wrong.
But hey, I'll say it again: Yeah, whatever. And by the way, lack of retractions is a problem all over the media. Usually, the best you can hope for is an eight-point retraction on page twelve for a 72-point error on page one. If you're lucky. Right, left, and center. I've noticed retractions attached to old articles on salon.com and thenewrepublic.com, in the same point size as the article (with the text of the article corrected); kudos to both of 'em. But, really, they're the exception, not the rule.
Oh, and that's "clandestine" with two 'e's, not just one. I trust you'll issue an appropriate retraction.
- DDJ
- National Geographic
- 2.6k
"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good taste'" -Pablo Picasso
I suscribe to New Scientist, it's basically the UK version of Scientific American, but I find it a much better read.
possible the best magazine ever! Out to protect us from the MADD conspiracy. Drunkard!
I quit reading computer magazines due to a lack of balance. I don't get why PC Magazine has an article every month on a Microsoft product (even when there's no new MS product that month), and yet rarely has any articles on open source programs. Of course, it's most likely because MS advertises in their magazine, but it still doesn't make it right to make my reading experience any less worthwhile for that reason. And this isn't just in PC Magazine; most of them do this as well.
Socialism Today, Socialism Weekly, Socialism Digest, Socialism World, .....
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Got a good deal on Circuit Cellar online sub (I do embedded stuff so it's "career-related"), so I DL and read that.
Magazines I read when at the newsstand, library or doctor's office, but generally won't buy:
Popular Science
Scientific American (I think it was substantially better many years/decades ago)
Newsmagazines (Time/Newsweek/US News/world report, whatever)
When I've exausted those, I'll read almost anything that's there. Why waste time when I can become even more misinformed?
Mag I actually do read and need to resubscrbe to:
http://www.audioxpress.com/
Audioxpress and many other mags now have back issues on CD as well as putting many articles online. I read a lot that way too.
Also career-related, that for years I've been reading exclusively online:
Electronic Design [especially Bob Pease's column]
EE Times
Oh, and a little anti-literary thing called:
Sic, The Book Humor Magazine
[poor Joyce will be
Tag lost or not installed.
all this between a daily dosage of microsoft product publicity and taco Bell latest offers ?
Sounds like you ought to check out Discover magazine. They have lots of good stuff for those who are science literate, but don't want to get in over their heads.
While thinking philosophically, we see problems in places where there are none. -Wittgenstein
My favorite magazine/newspaper is Aftonbladet. But then again that might because they wrote an article about one of my websites:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0003/11/hallick2 .html
And SWEDEN rocks :)
/mike
1 2 1 2 The Naken Crew
Back when I was working for a regional stock brokerage in Atlanta in the early- to mid-90's, I always recommended the various popular computer magazines to the brokers as a leading indicator of the news that would be making its way into the mainstream press within the next month. At that point just about any positive widely released press coverage would cause a jump in a tech stock. It was interesting to watch the progression of "news" stories about technologies and firms as they went from press release to periodical to general news outlet, and how they would affect stock prices (in the short term). We got pretty good at figuring out which articles had the pizzazz to make the transition. Some of the brokers made a good bit of money at a time when fundamentals weren't particularly good predictors just based on this news life-cycle.
i read wired, pc gamer, electronic gaming monthly, time, newsweek, national geographic, scientific american, maxim, fhm, GQ and visual studio magazine.
Its not the ads we dispise its the format they use. On paper you can decide to not look at it.
On the web if you dont get the Japanese blinding and neuroleptic color changing with twirly version , you get the flash add that jump in the middle of the text your reading or my all time favorite the pop-up wich whas designed for special message or emergency but as turned into a plague wich sound the beginning of the apocalypse if you dont have some kind of popup blocker.
But I do agree on the principle that the mag is already paid for by the add , but I think its the mag vendor who make the most profit from the sale and make the price higher.
Blacklisted 411 is back in print. I just picked up a new copy in Denver, CO at a Borders...
Cybie! aka Ralph Bonnell
pr0n for sailors. and I'm surprised that New Scientist has only been mentioned 4 times. Half of what shows up here was written about in there first...
I read Men's Health because I was a geek and couldnt play any varsity sports high school. I never learned how to build muscle or exercise or what to eat.
I read CPU (Computer Power User) for reasons mentioned earlier. I dislike many things about it, but there is no other magazines out there that compare... for reasons mentioned earlier.
I also read Play. It's a magazine about video games. I only mention it because it has excellent layout and graphic design.
I'll still look at RC aircraft model, National Geographic and Travel magazines. Some hobby magazines still have good content even the advertisements. The other stuff is good for pretty pictures only.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I have been reading the dead tree version of this magazine for years on and off. I find that they really have good articles and good reviews. So with the fan-boy base of /.ers I can not believe that not one of you read the Linux Journal, hmmm.
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
Wish I had a spare $25k lying around to spend at Summit and another $25k on wood working tools. Life would be cool. I read Fark for the boobie links.
I drank what? -- Socrates
Scientific American, National Geographic, and OXM. That's about it.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
You see, most people see the word "Opinion" on the "Opinion" page, and they think, "Gee, maybe there might be OPINIONS here!"
Heh heh heh.
If you think the reporters who write stories have no influence over which facts they report or how they report them, you're confused.
Seriously. If it weren't for the Onion, the Economist would be the wittiest magazine in the English language, in addition to all of the other deserved praise.
Dr. Dobbs - trends in software development
Tape Op - recording for the rest of us, although biased against digital tech
For music, I like:
CMJ New Music Monthly - only for the included CD
Revolver - heavy music, sometimes misogynistic though
Bandoppler - for reviews of other music
I also like British magazines like Future Music and Sound On Sound. But they're too expensive for subscriptions in the USA. When I'm at the bookstore, I like to flip through Artforum and I.D.
Those are the only ones I am reading right now. I stopped reading "PC Magazine" and the likes because they're primarily PC/Windows-user centric and they contain too many product reviews and advertizing, very little technical information about anything.
Gee, I just use the internet to research topics about which I know nothing about. I am web-surfing, data devouring junkie.
Meh.
Must I say any more? I find it very interesting what little tricks even people with little to no technical no how can do.
Regular reading:
- Economist
- New Yorker (harder hitting w/ Tina Brown out, the "what's playing" section reminds me how far in the sticks I live)
- Road & Track
- Smithsonian
- Natl. Geo (ok, mostly photo-viewing)
- Aviation Week (what I design today...)
- World Airpower Review (...blows up our neighbors tomorrow)
When I'm bored out of my skull:
- People
- InStyle (gets me in touch w/ my inner L.A.)
While in HMO waiting room:
- Harper's Bazaar (man, the ads in the 1st twenty pages are HOT)
- Cosmo
Luke, help me take this mask off
Yeah, I saw that! The Economist was aware of the reference, they printed the Simpsons quote about them in the April 29, 2004 issue, so I'm assuming the real headline was as a result of that.
"Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey
Is it any good? The last copy I have is probably from around '97. It regularly had more phreaking articles than 2600, which I liked at the time. Maybe post a small review/synopsis?
- SysAdmin Magazine
- Linux Journal
- Linux Magazine
- Software Development Magazine
- Mac World
- Dragon Magazine
I also get a boatload of other magazines like SD Times and FCN and other "free" ones that I never have time for.I am, however, still waiting for my first issue of Sci Fi Magazine. Got two bills from them but no mag.
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If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
I find magazines to be too far behind. If you read slashdot you'll prolly be bored with magazines as the articles seem to be weeks old and they are never in depth.
And when I say read slashdot, I mean read the articles yall link to. Not the idiots who post things like "I read playboy."
Regularily (as in subscription)
c't, ix, Linux-Magazin, Fono-Forum, Concerto (all german)
Linux-Journal, Strings and The Strad (english/american)
When I catch them at a newsstand and have time to kill
Dr. Dobbs, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (german edition of Scientific American), the german National Geographic, Die Zeit, Outdoor (german!), BBC music magazine, Macwelt
And twice a year I have to get rid of all those old magazines to make room for new ones. Thank god for CD-Rom and internet archives.
Sven
FAIR reports that Halliburton has made US$4,508,231,125 trillion dollars mining stem-cell futures in Gadzookistan in the past forty-five minutes alone.
Jesus, who was a liberal, said that abortion is wrong. Since only aborted harp seals can operate the machinery used to mine stem-cells in the giant redwoods of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, this practice is clearly in opposition to the will of God, and also against the will of God's boss (Noam Chomsky).
You are, therefore, a fascist, an atheist, a corporatist bourgeois swine, a damned foreigner, a sexist pig, a child-molester, and a jerk. I hate you. The whole world hates you. FAIR has demonstrated that the New York Times has run NOT ONE STORY in the past year reporting that the whole world hates you and the God-fearing, Bible-believing multicultural harp seal fetus that you rode in on, you evil freak. This is stark media bias at its most reprehensible.
You can get Jesus out of the schools, but you can't get him out of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge! He hates you too, by the way. Because you hate fags, you damned fag. And because you don't use Linux. BSD is, after all, dying. Where will YOU be on Judgement Day? Installing XP Service Pack Twelve, you pathetic deluded sheep?
Science News is an excellent source for recent stories about science-related topics (even better than Slashdot most of the time, I think :).
Have you read my blog lately?
that's great news! Now I'm going to be scouring the city looking for a copy.
Now if they would just stop selling my address to all those snail-mail spammers that seem to think every nature subscriber is a microbiologist.
I can later tonight :) Its definatly entertaining. (has a section in it for Amiga stuff - 0Ld 5ch00L, but cool to see in print in 2004...)
Cybie! aka Ralph Bonnell
Rethinking Schools Flying Sport Pilot National Geographic formerly: Economist MIT Technology Review Linux Journal
I do.
In January, it's Miss January, in February it's Miss February, etc.
For greater variety, I occasionally go for things like "Girls Of The EFF", "Girls Of Mozilla", "Girls Who Knew Linus", . . .
Nobody's mentioned The Onion. Yes it has a paper edition, and yes its available at book stores.
Reason, Consumer Reports, Business Week, Sports Illustrated.
Reason is highly recommended. Lots of great content. You can get most if not all of it for free at http://www.reason.com/.
For the Slashdot crowd: Glamour is a girls' clothes/hair/makeup/lifestyle magazine.
Now, to be fair, that wasn't the only reason I bought it! My G3 Pismo was getting kinda old, and I really did need a new laptop, and the iBook is both cuter and cheaper than the G4 Powerbook. But seeing it in a girls' magazine did have an influence. Peer pressure is both subtle and profound. And weird. And even weirder for girls.
Of course, I saw another review in Glamour for the iPod, in which they claimed that it was nice, but "hard to use", which made me wonder what they were trying to use it for? I have doorstops that are harder to use than my iPod.
I don't think many Slashdot readers will start subscribing to Glamour, though! (In fact, I might be the only one. Yes, I know, I am weird. The question is, which makes me weirder: Glamour, or Slashdot?)
I've been reading c't (in German) for more than a decade now; and it's still the best magazine.
Well, they should come out with a braille edition then.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
IEEE Spectrum / IEEE Computer (I'm a programmer)
Physics Today (I have a physics degree)
Aviation Week (I work for NASA)
Car and Driver (I'm a gearhead)
MIT Technology Review (I'm a tech geek)
and...
Penthouse Forum! (for the... uh... articles!)
Ok, so this is way off topic to the original question, but it is the direction this thread has taken.
Is the glass half empty or half full?
I've always thought of it as 'the glass is too big'.
The point is, EVRYBODY is biased. Everybody has opinions, beliefs, and life experiences, and filters all knowledge through what they have already learned.
Couldn't agree more. That USED to be what made the U.S. of A. great. We ALL agreed we were in this together, and that we had common dreams and goals for ourselves and our families. One political party could take a position on an issue that would be considered by some to be 'Good', while the other party's position could be looked at as 'Not as Good'. But everyone accepted we had the same basic beliefs and goals, we just disagreed on the BEST way to get there. But both political parties have decided that the only way to differentiate themselves is by pandering to their extremes. The problem is that the vast majority of us don't believe in either extreme. Party A says that to be a good partisan you must believe in A,B,C,D, and E. Party Z says you must believe in V,W,X,Y, and Z. Well, I think B is just wrong. D has some merit, but I don't think it's the best choice. But Z just seems totally Un-American. And V and W don't seem to me to be any of the Government's business. So I, and most other people I know, have to vote for a candidate based on which one stands on a platform that rubs me the wrong way the least. Kinda takes the excitement out of the whole election process. I understand why many don't vote.
Everything must be seen in Black and White today. Every position on every issue is either 'Good' or 'Evil', depending on who's talking. And if the media (All of them) were just reporting the news (facts!), there would be no way for them to have ANY bias. I should be able to watch Fox News and CBS and get exactly the same FACTS reported. But Spinning is now a way of life, in all media. I remember when the 'best coverage' was determined by who got there first and who reported the most facts. Now it's determined by who makes my blood boil the least while reporting the facts, if there are any facts in the reporting at all.
I remember when stocks were bought based on the amount of dividend they paid. The only time anybody bought and sold the same stock on the same day was because of a clerical error. I remember when Corporations conducted business with Customer Satisfaction as their primary goal. Nowadays the primary goal is Shareholder Satisfaction. I have a theory on how and why that changed, and who's to blame. We are to blame. And 401Ks. Our own greed got us here. When was the last time you changed your 401K because 'XYZ' only paid 12% return last quarter, but 'LMN' paid 14%? I've done it. Why isn't 12% 'good enough'? Greed. I remember when a talented, hard-working, and loyal employee base was considered an asset. Nowadays it is considered an expense, which must be kept under control at all times, or the share price will go down.
And when did it become OK in our culture to follow 'most' of the laws that we are all supposedly living by? Instead, we 'pick and choose' which laws apply to us. When did it become 'the American Way' to steal anything that we deem 'too expensive' or 'overpriced' in our feeble judgement? What ever happened to market forces? If it was too overpriced, DON"T BUY IT! The market will take care of itself. That used to be one of the reasons new companies were started. And if we can't sell it for less, than maybe our premise of it being 'overpriced' was wrong to begin with. Cable TV doesn't fit in the family budget? Steal it! Quality of content on CDs not worth the price? Steal it! The list goes on.
We have laws about not committing violence against each other and each others property. And yet intimidating others to your point of view with violence or the threat of violence seems to be more widespread. When did it become OK to blow up other peoples' property and injure or kill others becaus
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that yet. Good newsweekly, not as lightweight as Time or Newsweek, or as time-consumptive as the Atlantic or the Economist.
John.
> ...I prefer the UK mags. American mags have WAY too much advertising and not nearly as much in the was of tutorials...
> a lot of the UK mags have CDs glued to them.
I agree on all counts: tutorials, CDs, and fewer ads! I enjoy Future Music (love the CD and the tutorials!) and Sound on Sound (great at explaining complex recording topics). They're too expensive to get subscriptions in the USA though.
I've been getting a free subscription for a couple of months now, and while there are a lot of ads mostly for interesting/expensive products, I find lots of good information about where the industry is going, what other big campuses are doing. If nothing else, I realize I'm not the only one fighting to upgrade a cable nightmare into a documented, organized system.
Every week, topical, broad, and well written. Rarely do they publish completely stupid articles, without at least acknowledging that many readers might find them so, New Scientist is the best magazine out there.
They publish good computer related articles as well, from social issues like privacy and security to physics issues of fabrication techniques.
Most importantly though, they still have a concept of journalism, unlike WIRED's mornoic McLuhian "there is no objectivity" "geeks are our heroes" "all technology is perfect and wonderful" breathlessness that overwhelms any actual intellectual value that might lurk accidently unexpunged from their articles. Unfortunately their worse-than-useless meme has infected most of the US technical press to a greater or lesser extent.
Technology Review used to be good, but took a huge dive into pathetic pandering and breathless sensationalism under the train wreck that was John Benditt. They started to recover a tiny bit under Robert Buderi, but alas, they've just replaced him with somone from that other "long boom" loosers magazine, Red Herring, though I don't know anything else about Jason Pontin and he may turn out to be smart - perhaps he left Red Herring out of disgust?
Why is it that random placement of irrelevant paragraphs and illegible typography has become central to any US magazine's technology identity? If there was one thing more stupid and ill-concieved than WIREDs self professed end of objectivity, it was the illegibility they passed off as cutting edge design, after stealing it from Mondo 2000 and cleaning it up a bit.
Even that centuries old bastion of reason and depth, Scientific American, has succumbed to the "expanded readership" afforded shallow, mindless optimism and has scaled back their thinking articles for more content that would be at home in WIRED's pages, and seems to have cut back on opposing views, letting corporate flacks define the market impact of their inventions without any critical review - the very heart of WIRED's journalistic abdication.
As far as I've found, aside from professional journals, that leaves New Scientist as the best source of real news about technology, and the only source I've found with any critical analysis of the consequences of an invention or discoverty.
The reason why I rant so is that, particularly since the advent of the internet, WIRED style breathless but glossy reprints of corporate press releases are irrelevant. When I want to know what Microsoft thinks is their greatest innovation, I'll go to their website and save my money. What I'm willing to pay for is a journalist who takes the time to read MSFT's latest boast, then finds the people who can meaningfully and authoritatively comment on the veracity of the release and integrates the answers, all properly attributed. Only New Scientist still does this.
Is anyone else reading GQ and Spin, just because it came free with their Gamespy/IGN account?
-Patrick
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
"Vanity Fair" (although I wouldn't pay for it)
pro: genuinely interesting, informative, thoughtful, well-written articles (esp.politics)
con: the first 30 minutes are wasted trying to find the TOC, which is hidden among *boo-coo* advert pages;
the ads exacerbate your fragrance allergies
I get most of my information online now.
I bought a PC World this month, just to see how it's evolved since I last read it perhaps 8 years ago. It was $7, about 80% advertisements, and the real articles were clearly tainted by marketting as well, or at least I strongly disagreed with many of their opinions, which appeared to me to favor products in most dire need of a good review. The word "Linux" appeared in only one place I could find, in a web hosting advertisement. And I didn't see the words "open source" anywhere. Nothing Microsoft wouldn't have wanted a consumer to hear. So I basically bought a catalog, which maybe it's supposed to be nowadays but I was expecting more, based on past experience.
I subscribe to The Scientific American, which I read monthly. Besides that, I tend to look for interesting articles on Science and Nature everytime I go to the library. I also browse through the more in-depth journals at the library looking for interesting papers. I also look on arXiv and other online paper repositories.
The only magazine that I read on a regular basis is Network World. It's probably one of the most informative telecommunication magazines out there. Better, yet I don't have to pay a dime for it.
* EDGE (UK):
The best games magazine there is, also offers insights into the development side of the industry
* C'T (Germany): One of the best computing magazines, Germans are very thorough.
* WIRED (US): They seem to be on top of all the new cool science and tech.
* Other science news magazines for average smart ppl:
- -- Truth addict for life.
Speaking of mountain bike magazines, I'm a fan of Decline. Flow is a lame Maxim-turned-off-road ripoff with poor writing and editing. Dirt Rag is good, but I don't go out of my way to buy it. All of these are trumped by Litter Mag. (For those who aren't mountain bike nerds it's a parody, although the creator has printed up at least one issue -- I have a printed copy.)
Computer Shopper seems to keep up with new hardware and gagdets and often has well-written reviews related to popular items. You might check it out. I once had a subscription to PC World but it turned to crap soon after which seems to have happened to most computer magazines today.
I print /. every day. Better to read this way.
Popular Photography (no, really, it's for the articles!), Popular Science (geeky stuff), Invention & Technology (historical stuff, largely), and Macworld (to tip me off on new software and peripherals).
1) your post would have been right on track in 1995
2) It would also have been completly wrong.
I mean, come on:
"My point is that the Internet is killing the newpaper/magazine industry. It's only us, the geeks, for now, but it is surely going to spread."
You still think only geeks use the internet?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
When I was still living in Germany, I used to read C't regularly, and many others did too. Among sysadmins, IX was also popular. Both from Heise.
PC related:
Linux Journal
Other:
Autoweek, This Old House, Fine Woodworking, Wood, Bassmaster
Yes I have many interests, I'm also pretty good at any of them.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
All the news that really matters.
don't see to many people listing professional journals. other than a very select few, most magazines i read are trade pubs or journals.
cigar aficianado
atlantic monthly
dr. dobb's journal
javapro
information week
software develoment
java developer's journal
wireless week
computerworld
but my fav of all time, bar none, is (was) Compute!'s Gazette.
and i just found out yesterday that a cousin i haven't seen in about 15 years still has boxes and boxes full of my old C!G mags and diskettes (plus a bunch of commercial software diskettes), as well as all the old C64/128 hardware! can't wait to enjoy several years of C!G all over again...
You enjoy your shallow, trashy, pop entertainment. We'll enjoy ours.
Linux Journal (subscription)
Linux Magazine
Wax Poetics (subscription)
2600 meaning to get subscription
sysadmin (subscription)
Ready Made (subscription)
Wired (only purchased in airports)
Mother Jones (off the rack, when the cover grabs me)
Stay Free! (subscription)
Future Music almost every month
And I buy about a dozen random magazines a month, news, music making
CIA Industries - Running the world for fun and profit
Paper based media is obsolete.
Bein' from Jo-jah, it took me a moment to unda-stand the statement "you all." Then, I just realized it be a bastardization of "y'all." Come own now - ain't no problem sayin' "y'all."
But in a weak attempt to stay on topic - I don't read PC mags. I saw a guy laughing over a Unix mag once and asked him what was so funny, and he said - "Can you believe these pleebs think that the standard carburator can run at 3700 jigawatts on a 1998 Googenheimer Blonhoowhatzit?" I looked at him vacantly. "Exactly! That's what I'm sayin'!" He said before turning back to the magazine.
In short, I don't read them because - more often than not - I feel incredibly out of the loop. Most advanced users and technology writers write and talk as if they're working for a specialized trade magazine, so it's harder for me to keep up.
That being said, I stick to the Victoria's Secret catalogue... not that I understand how their products work either.
I've unsubscribed from all the popular magazines and most of the more technical ones. I still read ";login:", COTS Journal (military IT), and some realtine and space imaging magazines.
time, cq, linux journal, linux magazine, doctor dobbs journal, ieee spectrum just a few
Torvalds is god
It's a "best of the web" site that links to what, in the editors' opinions are some of the best current journal or magazine articles online. They only post a few links a day, but there're inevitably to the Washington Post, New York Times, The Spectator, the Economist, Atalantic Monthly, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affiars, Foreign Policy, The New Atlantis (you get the picture)
Have a look down the left hand side of their web site for links to some fantastic reading. Can't recommend this site highly enough. Aside from the fact that they're moving ever so slowly to the right...
Popular Science
Better to just sample the mags and reach your own conclusions.
After all, how many parties can you name whose categorization (of others' writings) you would trust as not being biased themselves?
On a related subject, risk getting addicted to "World Press Review". It's a real eye-opener, especially if you're in the USA.
Also, "Foreign Affairs", if you've *lots* of time to spare.
Linux Today used to be one of my favorite magazines. Well, I guess is still is, but it doesn't hold a candle to MacWorld. Just like I have little interest in Linux on my desktop (I use it a great deal for servers), now that OS X is as good as it is, my magazine tastes have changed accordingly.
Unrelated completely, but I recommend Consumer Reports every chance I get. Not just the magazine, but the online subscription to see past reports. You will never have a better consumer advocate that Consumer Reports and their publisher, Consumers Union.
Back to tech, If I haven't already let my Wired subscription go, I will next time I get a chance. Fluff.
RP
Atlantic Monthly They regularly link to past stories in order to give better historical reference to current news items. I think the earliest story they have that mentions Saddam Hussein is from the late 1950's.
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Harpers Yet another independantly owned journal that's not afraid to piss off thier advertisers.
The New Yorker Not independant, but has a long tradition of actually checking their facts. Great comics (understated, yet twisted, humor).
I also read my hometown newspaper every day, plus the New York Times on Sundays, and I scan BBC News, Google News, and The Guardian world news online daily. Plastic is good for getting an idea of what (somewhat educated) people think of the goings on in the world, and B3TA is a somewhat effective cure fore too much awareness of world events.
I also get The National Security Archive newsletter in my email about once a week or so.
For tech, I mostly read Linux Journal, SysAdmin, and occasionally Doctor Dobbs Journal.
Of course I always read The Debian Weekly News and
Read, L
There used to be one. The federal funding for it was cut in the 1980's. (Yes, your tax dollars were used to fund the Brailling of Playboy.)
but those nudie mags certainly rock!
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
I read T3, the playboy for gadget lovers. They have a girl every month just like playboy except she's not naked and not all that hot. But when I read other magazines (Popular Science, Wired, etc), my favorite part is the new gadgets section anyway. T3 is one big gadgets section every month.
Scientific American - Chock full O' good 'merican geek seeking material, so good in fact, I even pay to have have it delivered on dead tree(s). M
Linux Format not as good as LJ, but often comes with a CDROM of linux software.
sys admin is interesting from time to time.
Nuts & Volts has PC projects from time to time.
I also like Popcom and ARRL mags.
Circuit Cellar is a decent electronics rag. Some of the projects are pretty interesting (and useful). Obviously, this magazine is intended for electronically mature individuals.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Forbes is definately my favorite mag. It somehow makes articles about mexican cement companies sound interesting (not easy I would imagine). I read it cover to cover maybe skipping only one or two articles.
MaximumPC is my favorite tech mag as they answer oddball tech questions I have or just things I've sort of wondered about. I mean how many tech mags mentioned how well a particular cd-rom or cd burner handles ripping mp3's (some screw up the beginning or end - I forget)? But, that's important to those of us who buy cd's and really only listen to them in mp3 form.
Mike
Newspapers: (I'd buy more but those are the only ones I can get locally with same-day editions. I've tried subscriptions via mail and it does not work.
Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star (the Star is what Mom taught me to read out of when I was 2. She thought it was an omen to become a teacher), Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal
Business 2.0, Business Week, C/C++ Users Journal, Computer Games, Computer Gaming World, Discover, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Maximum PC (nee' boot; all the way to issue #1), Newsweek, PC Gamer, PC Magazine, PC World, Scientific American, Smithsonian, TV Guide, Time, Wired (all the way back to issue #1)
There are probably other magazines; and if a magazine has a good article, it makes a trip across mr. scanner at the checkout counter - even if it's one page long. There are probably others, but these are what I dredged up. Twenty-five years ago in high school, I realized I wasn't in the tech tech business for technology; I'm in it for access to information. (it was that or traumatic surgeon)
Lets see - QST (From the Amateur Radio Relay League), Appalachian Trailway News (From the Appalachian Trail Conference), Equus, Horse & Rider. Hmmm, no computer mags on the list - anywhere.
The braile version was just the articles, but it was cut because of the "pornographic" pictures in the print version.
Gotta love the religious right, they're almost as crazy as SCO.
I highly recommend Natural History magazine if you are interested in biology, the environment, animals, genetics or evolution. I didn't even take any biology in college and I still find the articles fascinating (and so does my fiance).
I've subscribed to too many periodicals and eventually narrowed it down to Natural History and Analog. No news paper (local papers would be SF Chronical and SF Mercury News, neither are worth the paper they are printed on).
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
used to read Nuts & Volts, until they stopped carrying it at Tower Records (which, btw, is a MUCH better place to browse mags than Borders, Barnes, etc. -- greater variety, wider aisles, shorter lines, fewer shrieking / wailing rug-rats).
Guess I'll have to subscribe now.
What about Electronics Mag (uk), and Circuit Cellar?
Also, any/all mags named "Embedded xyz".
And the hard-core (vs. mass-market) tech mags, e.g. SysAdmin, Perl Journal, etc.
Linux Mag, Linux Journal.
OT, anything about world-beat / third-world / afro-pop / roots music.
yes, the stuff published in Wired dead-tree edition is two months old on Slashdot.
But, look at how many posts say "A story on Wired..."
Wired's online news beats Slashdot every time. I only need to read about 1/3 of the Slashdot headlines nowadays as they are just re-posts of stuff from Wired, Yahoo, and Groklaw. The polls are still good for a laugh tho.
To be honest, I only read Slashdot for its entertainment value.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Anyway, here's a partial list of ones I subscribe to, or purchase on the newsstand semi-regularly:
Information Week
Blah, blah, blah, inserted to get around blah, blah, lameness filter, blah, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc. blah, blah, lameness filter, blah. Blah. Blah.Infoworld
E-Week
Java Developers Journal
Java Pro
Network World
Doctor Dobbs Journal
Software Development
C/C++ Users Journal
XML Journal
Web Services Journal
XML & Web Services Magazine
WebSphere Journal
Oracle
DB/2 Magazine
Linux Magazine
Linux Journal
CRN
Federal Computer Week
VAR Business
Triangle Tech Journal
Baseline
Government VAR
Maximum PC
Communications of the ACM
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SciAm computer articles are often well ahead of their time. I used their article on Kerberos for my graduate level netowkring class presentation - and am still suprised at how well they nailed it.
M@
Krispy Cream is people
Locus , the professional news and reviews monthly of written science fiction.
Asimov's Science Fiction , the science fiction's premiere fiction magazine (also where I've sold most of my stories). F&SF would be the runner-up.
I used to read The Weekly Standard as well as National Review, but let my subscription lapse when I found myself falling rurther and further behind. Reason is also worth looking at.
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
Aviation Week and Space Technology, MacWorld, Sky and Telescope, Sunset, Undersea Warfare, Naval Institute Proceedings, Naval Submarine League Journal, The New Yorker, Fantasy and Science Fiction, plus four newspapers: SF Chronical, Sacramento Bee, Wall Street Journal and the Davis Enterprise. I read the NY Times and Washington Post online.
I desperately miss the original Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calesthenics and Orthodontia (Running Light without Overbyte). Totally wonderful magazine.
It's got great articles covering a wide range of science and technology related subjects.
"National Geographic but I've found myself not reading it that much but just looking at the pictures"
;-)
funny about that -- I used to do the same thing in early puberty
It was the Maxim for pre-teen geeks.
You must know about Peter Garrison's writing in Flying magazine ?
There is no other writer in aviation who has such a poetic yet informative grasp of the subject.
The rest of the magazine is a bit stale, but Garrison's writing never disappoints.
and you prefer that to "Gourmet"?
and might your real name be Hannibal?
"PC Magazine, but I can't get the links to work. Lousy paper based publications."
You're supposed to transcribe the links to the keyboard, not click on the paper pages.
I see, and have read, and laughed at a lot of joke answers here. But I thought I'd seriously answer.
Mac Addict
Mac World
PC Magazine
Guitar One
Guitar World
Computer Arts(import)
Wizard: The Comicas Magazine
and a heap of comics...
How's that?
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
I do most of my reading of topics of interest on the internet. Most of the information is free. I pay for Mad magazine, Cracked mag and Reader's Digest. Mad and Cracked because they are funny and RD because I am an insensitive clod and it is full of funny anecdotes and some stupid jokes.
I've tried just about everything, trying to find an efficient way to stay as informed as possible. One principle I've learned: The longer time there is between publications (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc), the better the articles. I guess it shouldn't be surprise.
...
Not just magazines, in rough order of how essential they are.
NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS
* National Journal Daily Briefing: If you read one thing every day, make it this national headline summary from the beltway publication, the National Journal. Available for free here: doonesbury.com/media/dailybriefing/index.html (there's nothing about it that will remind you of Doonesbury).
* The Economist: I can't add to what's been said above
* The Atlantic: They ask great questions, and think well. They get a little too far from the facts some times, but otherwise fantastic.
* Foreign Affairs: Written by the leading foreign policy experts.
* Stratfor.com: Cold hard geopolitical intelligence, not news. Far superior to most other sources in their predictions, analysis, and willingness to address the fundemental, practical questions.
* NY Times, Wall St Journal, Wash Post, LA Times, Christian Science Monitor: The dailies worth your time.
* BBC World Service Newshour: The toughest journalists around. The interviews are the best, with regular pregnant pauses from world leaders. Unfortunately, at an hour a day with no index to the segments, too time-consuming.
WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVES
* News International from Pakistan: (jang.com.pk/thenews) I've looked around for good '3rd world' media; this daily isn't perfect, but they're far ahead of most peers. Esp. good when balanced with
* Hindustan Times: Another excellent daily from the developing world.
* AFP: The major French newswire covers stories omitted elsewhere.
* Institute for War and Peace Reporting: (iwpr.net) Unique, close-to-the-action coverage of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and other hot spots.
* Far Eastern Economic Review (feer.com) Owned by Dow Jones (publishers of the Wall St Journal), matchless coverage of the 'far east'.
OTHER SUBJECTS
* SCIENCE: ScienceWeek (scienceweek.com) If you want efficient, serious coverage of science, there's no peer; Scientific American is for wimps. Absolutely take a look at this weekly. I can't recommend them enough.
* PUBLIC OPINION: PollingReport.com: Summaries of all major polls at one, well organized, no-nonsense website.
* BASEBALL: Baseball Primer weblog: (baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer) If you're as much a baseball geek as you are a computer geek.
I've been buying electronics and then, in the early 80's, computer magazines for years until I stopped a couple of years ago. The publishing lag time means they were always out of date with what I'd already read on the internet. The only thing I miss about a physical magazine is taking it with me to the dunny.
What I buy now...
Australian Wood Review
Wooden Boat
Australian Amateur Boat Builder
is much more fun anyway. It's good to leave work at work and get into something totally different when I get home.
"Don't forget the prunes." L. Francis Herreshoff
'B*rk!' "Nätverk & Kommunikation" On your recommendation, I tried to find those titles on Google, but I couldn't figure out how to put those funny dots over the vowels. :(
Powerlifting USA, The Horse, Ol' School Rodz, Street Rodder, C++ User's Journal, American Iron, and 2600.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
Fine Woodworking and Acoustic Guitar are about the only magazines I actually pick up and read. Life ain't all bits.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
QST, Easyrider, Linux Journel, Hot Bike
and a few others.
Life was hell, then I discovered Linux...
My subscriptions to tech magazines have fallen off in recent years. I used to read Macworld and MacAddict regularly, but let them slide when I realized I could get up-to-date info off the Web. Now, for some reason, most of my regular subscriptions (or newsstand pickups) are transportation-related
Pertaining to cars:
Dune Buggies and Hot VWs
VW Trends
Excellence (Porsche magazine - couldn't find a link)
I also used to take some of the general auto mags such as Automobile, Car and Driver, and Road and Track, but I've dropped those since an awful lot of their content is on the Web and more often than not they're reviewing something I'm not interested in. Also, for some reason, I'm subscribed to Car Craft, a muscle-car rag that I never ordered. I'll occasionally pick up a magazine focusing on classic Mopar muscle cars, and I just today picked up Warbirds International about vintage military aircraft.
My grandfather also takes Trains, Classic Trains, and Model Railroading (all from the same publisher) which I occasionally read, and my grandmother is subscribed to such varying things as Texas Monthly, Country Weekly, and (I think) Better Homes and Gardens.
"Usually written by foreigners and pretty difficult to read, from a 'grasp of the English language' standpoint"
"foreigners" -- and that would be referring to?
Aussies?
Scots?
Boers?
Alabamians?
New Jersey?
East-Enders?
Yorkshire?
"I read Cosmo... and I'm a guy....I have three wives and 8 children"
No more racy Cosmo for *you*!
Or at least, not until you start reading
the "Things Every Girl Should Know" articles.
Not even Sunday morning with Stephan Steponawfulus?
"I used to read Counterpunch but got tired of Cockburn"
Next time, try not rolling-up the magazine so tightly.
There is no medical evidence to suggest that mastrubation is a cause of blindness. One theory on how this myth got started is that most mastrubators discover the joys of self-pleasuring at the onset of puberty. At puberty, the body experiences lots of growth-spurts, including deformation of the eyes. Many people who wear glasses only need to wear them from their teenaged years onwards. As the discovery of you-know-what and teenaged eye-deformations happen at around the same time, it only takes a religious fundamentalist to put two and two together and spread lies with a zeal. The hairy-palms theory comes into this as well, as puperty means more hair.
A long time ago I used to read Microcornucopia, it was hard to find and rather expensive (I was living in Italy and only some booksellers carried US magazines).
Now however I can not find anything like it. So I read the web. Kind of sad.
once you graduated college, you shouldn't be reading maxium anymore, and you probably shouldn't have read it then either.
I tend to read PC Gamer and PC Mag regularly. Sometimes, whenever Science crosses my path I check it out. Can't say I've ever "read" Playboy, probably cause I get more turned on by the latest Falcon NW Exotix case (yeah, I'm a loser, so sue me). I'm sure Playboy and Penthouse are worth reading for their "intellectual" value, but it's the tech stuff that really appeals to me. Besides, I've got a girl (yes, in real life, yes, a real one).
...you insensitive clod
Hey There ...
...
I really really like WIRED!
If I didn't like it
I wouldn't find it so offensive when they publish rubbish.
In fact, I wouldn't even know about it 8)
Cheers,
-- The Dude
I haven't really seen anything good as far as magazines go for computers. Is used to read Dr. Dobbs and in the old days, Nibble. I guess its my maturity and my understanding of systems that makes most magazines on the subject I see useless and boring.
Here's why: Computers are VERY simple machines. Think of a bit--no smaller means of conveying data. Yet computers have reached complexity through sheer numbers. Now think of a trillion bits. Case made. As such, the ways these systems are currently being used is not unique or innovative--just rehashing old algorithms and paradigns.
What I'm interested in are the things that have NOT been done before-EVER. Where's the innovation?
To answer the question: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine is all I get and I love it.
I don't really read other mags. I don't have that much time. If I did have the time I'd read the WSJ (Wall Street Journal). That would help me with my investing.
This sort of thing may or may not be in vogue on Slashdot, but for a very solid look into the world of Christianity, you can do no finer than Books and Culture. Theology, academics, the modern world and the historical all rolled into one very solid journal. Very much The Economist or the Atlantic Monthly of religious magazines. They also have a weekly weblog which is an excellent aggregator of news you should have read (but probably didn't), both religious and non.
The cover was a picture of two camel's copulating: http://www.sover.net/~daxtell/CamelsHump.html
This isn't really a geek/nerd magazine but I just got my latest issue of Hot Rod magazine. It came with an AOL CD.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!
My brain hurts..
The Economist - insiteful views on world events .NET related tech articles
Vanity Fair - Christopher Hitchens is a genius
CoDe Magazine - best
MSDN Magazine - useful propaganda
Quoted from PC Authority, March 2001 issue 40, page 180:
Duplex conundrum revisited
Just how much bandwidth should you be getting through your network?
Looks like I hit some pay dirt for some of you with my recent column on bad network performance at 100Mbits/sec, full versus half-duplex and the sad demise of IPX at higher networking speeds. Several quite long mail exchanges have ensued, with chaps trying to make their LANs run slightly faster than treacle while battling with restricted budgets, intolerant management and, consequently, very old kit.
This is a highly sensitive subject, as 'how fast is my network?' is a judgement that most users are curiously unqualified to comment upon. I didn't realise just how sensitive I've become to changes in LAN performance, until I had cause to fiddle around with the LAN which highlighted the full-duplex issue. In that example (and when re-creating the problem on my own kit at home), I could see the difference just from watching the speed at which the Netware Login Script window arrived, scrolled and went. I didn't put a stopwatch on it, just watched the window and the machines with full-duplex mode still erroneously set, stuck out like sore thumbs.
This is the type of skill that network managers develop without even knowing that it sets them apart from the users they're trying to support - it's a bit like knowing enough about modems that you can hear a bad X2 or V.90 entrain sequence, even while the machine is trying to connect. It also highlights just how emotional people can get when using their computers. When 'the network goes slow' it requires considerable people management skill to explain to them what's going on, and it's harder still to present statistics on network performance without opening large cans of worms.
When someone asked me recently just what throughput he should expect from a 100Mbits/sec LAN, I was struck somewhat dumb. Should I tell him what I was seeing here, or at those clients who spents their hard-earned money on HP managed hubs? Might I be revealing rather too much if I came up with a throughput number that was lower than his?
In the end, I decided to publish and be damned, and presented him the numbers I see from my regular tape backup jobs, using a wide range of kit in all manner of odd network configurations. A basic Pentium/166 sitting inside a very venerable Compaq ProLiant backing up to DLT manages just over 90Mb per minute, working locally - any limitation caused by the slow CPU is offset by the fact that the communication is local and it's still at the lower end of the range of tape backup speeds. All the higher numbers involve working from a tapeless fileserver, across a 100Mbits/sec LAN onto a tape connected to a seperate machine.
Most modern kit can manage to hit the 95Mb to 110Mb per minute bracket when backing up over a gigabyte of stuff - the slower systems have zillions of small files, the faster ones have fewer, bigger ones. All these networks feature servers which have CPU horsepower above the 300MHz 'watershed'. I thought I might be seeing some limitation related to ArcServe when I encountered a huge pile of Compaq rack-mounted 1850s averaging only 80Mb per minute into a DLT attached to a single-CPU PentiumIII/450, but this soon leaped up once I removed tons of unused and unpleasant RADIUS authentication software (retired by subsequent advances in technology).
So, the short answer is that a 100Mb file moving to or from a server on a 100Mbits/sec LAN should move in around a minute. Any slower and you should expect that something's hogging your bandwidth, or distracting the processors at either end, or your Ethernet cards have a personality clash with your hub. Don't worry about how the maths can lead from what should be six billion bits in 60 seconds down to 100 million eight bit bytes moving in the same period - this is the real world and those are real-world numbers, recorded over about three months of nights
Scientific American is the best science magazine I've found thus far. I also subscribe to Discover, but I'm about to drop that since it doesn't really go into too much detail. And it has way too much biology (I'd much rather have some good chemistry or physics, thankye...).
Science geekiness is the stuff.
Scientific American is an excellent magazine, but it's a monthly, so I'd add New Scientist into the mix for a weekly mag. I'd generally buy a Time every few weeks to check what's happening in US politics. I'd be interested to see if there's an international equivalent of Time I could get instead.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Just whatever catches my eye -- and a lot of things do. Wired, PC World, Animerica, Newtype USA, Star Wars Insider, Linux World, Linux Journal, Java Development Journal (free subscription), Oracle (another free subscription), Shonen Jump, 2600 Magazine, Phrack Magazine (=P), GameStar, Nintendo Power, and a few others... hah.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
I read er..I mean look at Swank, Gent, Gallery ...you know the good stuff.
I though Cracked went out of bidness back in the 80's?
My definite favourite computer magazine would have to be Australian Personal Computer, and I buy it for the GNU/Linux distros, last month they had the Debian 3.0r2 DVD on it, not bad for AU$10.
It has ok reviews, and even some bleeding edge stuff.
The only problem with most Australian PC magazines is that they're packed full of ads that I know I don't want to see. If i want to buy something, I'll go to my local DSE [www.dse.com.au] or computer shop to get it, not order it from a capital city.
I recently took out a subscription to The Spectator, it was tricky to always find it in the stores, but I now have masses of well written ctitical comments on all kinds of things (never seen anythign on computers!) - not so right of centre as it pretends, but a blast to read its restaurant reviews.
I read Wired. Every week. Cover to cover.
Haven't found a print magazine that can touch it.
...and how often has that pickup line worked for you? :-)
..Many years ago, but with the advent of the Internet such habit stopped ... or was let's say "redirected" :P
I buy now Linux Format which I find very informative (and less embarrassing) - I try to buy it monthly now.
Also I get Code (MS Visual Studio mag) sometimes through my letterbox. Not a bad magazine - but I lost enthusiasm for MS technologies since about last year.
I'm mostly into model engineering, I subscribe to both Live Steam and Engineering in Miniature. They're excellent magazines, and only rarely have issues that I would consider to be clinkers.
Paul Anderson
"I drank WHAT?!" -- Socrates
I subscibe to Nature. If it was good enough for Einstien it's good enough for me.
I'm 100% certain no-one cares at all, but what the hell.
I am currently subscribed to Cook's Ilustrated and Cuisine at Home. I occasionally will buy Saveur, Gourmet and Good Food (a UK mag-I love Borders). If it's around I'll paw through the latest National Geographic and laugh when they blither on about global warming and evolution as if they're established, proven facts. If someone I like is on the cover, I'll pick up Maxim or FHM, but generally those magazines seem like they're made for guys who never matured beyond the fourth grade.
I also like Macworld OK, MacAddict more and Mac Design most of all. PC Magazines are all the same: how to make your PC faster, defend against viruses/trojans/worms, how to tweak windows to make it faster/crash less/take out the garbage/satisfy your woman better than you could ever hope to/whatever. So I read them for comic relief.
Told you you didn't care.
The journal of the Sigma Xi society, my dad is a lifetime member and I've throughly enjoyed reading these. They give you a great sampling of any number of cutting edge topics - and get this - they actually have math and an acceptable level of science! It's not as heavy writing as you would get in a purely scientific journal, but it is much more in depth for the most part than you'd see in something like Scientific American. Pretty color graphics, great book reviews.
Anyway; a real gem not many people are aware of.
American Scientist
..don't panic
Only magazines I'm subscribed to: MIT Technology Review and ACM Queue. Tech Review seems to combine both the gee whiz of popular mechanics with decently in depth informaiton of the technology from multiple perspectives (business, purely technical, ethical, etc). Queue has been useful for gather information on different software practices/issues.
Now that all the playboy jokes are out of the way....
Smithsonian Magazine for general interest, it introduces me to things I wouldn't normally discover on my own.
American Heritage for interesting history.
American Heritage - Invention and Technology, for history of technology (I'd guess that many Slashdot readers would enjoy this one).
MacAddict just for fun.
Fine Homebuilding because I like to see how craftsmen build (I'm an architect).
I've been meaning to subscribe to Skeptical Inquirer.
or maybe i'm an arrogant bastard...but check it anyway.
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Fun, Style, etc:
http://www.yellowratbastard.com/magazine/in
http://www.wyws.com/
Standard (but good) Geek Faire:
http://www.2600.com/
http://www.samag.co
http://www.wired.com/
Nice Graff:
http://www.x2project.com/
http://www.bea
Neural - Hacktivism, Art, etc:
http://www.neural.it/english/
Internet Protocol Journal:
http://www.cisco.com/ipj
I don't bother with technology or computer magazines. I read two magazines on a regular basis: "Trains" and "Model Railroader." Obviously, I'm a railfan. Am I alone?
Geez.
I have a subscription to Computer World, Wired and Maximum PC.
I apologize for the last one; They constantly lie in thier articles in regards to how much they pay for certain items in thier upgrades, and yes, they don't realize that hitting the pause button is the best way to PAUSE the computer during start-up to get a read on the BIOS (They once reccomended that in order to catch the bios version, you'd have to reboot and keep doing that until you managed to copy down the correct version number. PAUSE, idiots.)
Other than that, I never "READ" Playboy. There are articles in there that were at one time interesting because there weren't any other magazines with curses in the bylines, but guess what - Maxim, FHM and lots of bodybuilding magazines curse up a storm, and has reduced Playboy to rubbish.
The magazine for women with something to get off their chests.
Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Automobile and Road and Track. Being a former mechanic, I love cars. Once a gearhead, always a gearhead. ;-)
Parameters http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/ US Army War College... as well as Foreign Affairs from CFR and Stratfor which others have mentioned. Given the world in which we live, it pays to listen to the soldiers and diplomats both. The political hacks tend to tell fairy tales, the people who have to deal with the situations are usually less delusional.
I read Servo Magazine, and often Nuts and Voltz.
LosT
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
I think that I'll try to do that. It'll probably pick me up out of my discouragement. I'm sure that I'll start off @ the public library, though. I could save big bucks that way. I might try to start @ the "A" section of the magazine rack, then work my way over to "Z". It seems much more structured that way.
While I'm on the topic of public libraries, I'd like to suggest to everybody to go to the public library, & borrow some children's music to learn a foreign language. I tried that with French, & picked up some catchy tunes & new words.
testing out my trending skills
Fucking Rocks!
MIT Technology Innovation - Really cool Mag with details about the up and coming technologies
IEEE Spectrum - -same as above, but broader in topic coverage (includes EE)
Harper's is a great magazine. It is the oldest continuously published American magazine. I consider it in the same category as the Atlantic Monthly, but I usually enjoy it more. Harper's Index always has some funny bits.
Scientific American
Discover
The Atlantic Monthly
Harpers Magazine
The New Yorker
Natural History
Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
what? I do! I picked up the latest issue and read the review of this l33t new game coming out for my mac. They call it Rayman 3. It's t3h cool, yo. Seriously, It is the best of the Mac Magazines and the staff seems to have their shit together and they spit out articles that actually have useful info in them.
The only three magazines that come here are the above, but we're going to let OG go because it's become 99% fluff.
There go my geek points. Now I'll never get that secret decoder ring/USB MP3 player. Damn!
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Well, I live in Latvia (maybe You know such country :)), so I read our russian magazines and news sites. If You need titles: news server (some kind like /.) erased.info, newspaper (on paper :)) Digital Times (times.lv) and sometimes something else. Also I read Wired and SourceForge (:
Interesting articles from lots of EE-related fields: aerospace, computing, robotics, IC technology, communications... Unlike specialized IEEE publications, Spectrum is easy reading.
Plus you get Robert W. Lucky's always insightful Reflections column every other month.
Noone reads Linux Journal? I like it so much I just got a subscription...along with Wired which I've had for a while.
Other than those two, I sporadically get Linux Format(expensive, but comes with nice DVDs), Linux World(little too focused on enterprise for my tastes), 2600(compact, sometimes useful, often entertaining in its un-usefulness), C/C++ Programming(had a subscription but only read half of them), Men's Fitness(another subscription that rarely got put to much use...), and every now and then its fun to read Heavy Metal(adult-oriented cartoons if you've never read it).
btw, thanks to whoever mentioned free subs. to stuff like Wired...I just extended mine a year for free!
once you go slack, you never go back
Yes!
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Gun 'n' Ammo, Mercenary, Bazookas for the Back Yard, My Life in Crawford (by GW Bush - actually it's a comic book).
I used to buy Computer Shopper years ago, when it was still about 500 pages thick (compared to the 100 glossy pages now), and mags like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics/Electronics. I am kinda fed up with PSci. Every issue that I have seen in the store lately has nothing but new war toys on the cover. They have nothing else to write about. That's why I wait a couple of weeks till they get the newest copies at my local library. I have always loved National Geographic too.
/. or wired online than magazines or news papers, but actually buying a mag and flipping thru it is still a nice thing to do every once in a while.
:)
I read more
Its true thought that the Internet is hurting the magazine or news industry (in sales). Thats the way of the future though, and it saves some trees too.
Tom
"Save the trees, wipe your ass with an owl"
Thomas Schmid athschmid@gmail.com Skype: athschmid
Good job, Osgyth. We've had so many piss-poor Ask Slashdots for so long that I was startled to see over a thousand responses in a story that is broadly useful (not a question with an answer that only has value to you), unique (this data can't be effectively obtained elsewhere), and valuable (finding good publications is very nice).
My hat's off to you, sir.
May we never see th
DDJ (which these days only has about one worthwhile article a month) and Sysadmin for work.
At home, I subscribe to Annals of Improbable Research, Modern Drunkard, and The Chap. All three make great bathroom reading.
Don't tell,please,but even tho I've been doing amateur astronomy for many years,I still read each new copy of Sky and Telescope and Astronomy. Yes,I'm aware a new set of monthly charts isn't necessary every year,and that they highlight the same objects as if there weren't others. I do it because it reinforces my psyche to know there are others out there who appreciate that most sublime of disciplines. There,now you know... I'm so ashamed.
Ah yes, Fight Club.
Produced by 20th Century Fox.
Isn't it wonderful how companies can now actually *sell* us anti-consumer diatribes, and we don't see the irony in it?
Women's magazines are too tedious for words... what else is a girl to read?
I'm a Dungeons and Dragons nerd you insensitive clod!
In fact you are wrong.
The Economist is not 'conservative' - that'd be the Tory version you are referring too. They most certainly are not a Tory magazine.
Nor are they left wing - in fact they are very opinionated about socialists, Social Democrats and all of that ilk. State control is anathema to them.
To describe the Economist in the traditional way you would refer to them as Liberals. The original Liberals that is.
Now in the US you refer to Michael Moore as a Liberal - WTF? Go figure - he's a socialist dude! Make that Socialist with a capital S.
Liberal in the original British meaning basically means Liberty and freedom for all people to pursue happiness and self-fulfillment. Usually this is exercised in an economic sense by way of markets, where individuals and groups of individuals agree to exchange goods and services to mutual benefit.
Liberals espouse low taxes, self help and community participation. Liberals also believe that the role of government is only to provide and enforce the legal framework to ensure this freedom.
Bush is not a Liberal in this sense - Steel Tarrifs and his intervention in markets show him up as pandering to special interests.
Moore is not a Liberal in this sense as a close reading of his works shows that he favours favours for special interests as well. Affirmative Action and State intervention and a desctruction of incentives for self help are all through his writings.... but he does provide a useful tonic. And a bit of Bush-whacking never goes unappreciated.
The Economist is Liberal in the social realm too. Years ago they had a cover story stating "Let them Wed" with a wedding cake decorated with two grooms. The Economist is pro gay marriage, pro-choice (but anti-abortion) - anti-prohibition (alcohol and drugs) and all for the decriminalisation and legalisation of the sex industry. It basically sees the choice to make these decisions as the concern of individuals - not for the state to get involved.
There is a clear parallel between this social liberalism and economic liberalism. The Economist believes that given the opportunity people will make decisions that are best for themselves, and in doing so will make decisions in the interest of everyone. We are all members of society and when individuals thrive so does society.
So in what way does this make them look like "raving Marxists" ? - especially when it views George Bush as being dangerously ready to make state interventions in the economy.
I think that the mistake you are making is assuming that social liberalism is the province of "trendy lefties" (Socialists) when in fact it is a more rational set of ideas focussed on the notion of individual freedom.
Now that is something that most Americans should be able to agree with - especially as the Economist is one of the most Pro-American publications on the planet... even if has huge doubts about Bush. It will be interesting to see who they plump for in the US Election. They've been right (as in correct) in the last few elections... Clinton x2 and Bush x1.
But I think the US view of the world of left and right will prevail - and in such a black and white world the Economist can't be described - and I admit - Liberal is too confused a meaning.
So I propose that we refer to the Economist as Pragmatic. Whatever works is good.
I don't actually mean to collect them but I can't break the habit of buying them, always at newsstands as I don't like subscriptions, and I can never find the heart to dump them.
Beyond New Scientist which I like more for its timeliness than its quality, I'm most likely to try to read National Geographic then, in descending order, Discover, Scientific American, Sportdiving and Wired.
And I still miss Mondo 2000.
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.
"Teenage Schoolgirls", "New Cunts", "Color Climax", "Teenage Dreamgirls", "Anal Sex", "Seventeen", "Rodox", "Exciting". Quality stuff :)
http://www.yurmag.com/color_climax2.htm
Online, LinuxInsider has been having very well written articles.
ZDNet UK and ZDNet AU The Register and occasionally eWeek. The Register is one of the few that actually seems to do any investigative reporting.
I used to read Wired, InfoWorld, InformationWeek regularly, but only rarely now.
Nature, Scientific American, NewScientist, and National Geographic have been pretty good in print.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Woo! Truly, the geek's cooking magazine. Plus, no ads. It's great. I love it.
-- Erich
Slashdot reader since 1997
I used to get tons of free trade publications, but I had to cut down as I never had time to read them all. This is the current list.
Embedded Systems Programming: It's shrunk from its former glory and most of the good content is online, but it's still a good read. And it's free
Electronic Design: Good EE trade publication and free.
IVD: A trade rag of the In-Vitro Diagnostics (medical device) industry. Good read for understanding what's happening in the industry and improving my knowledge of the biochemistry behind the code I write.
Communications of the ACM: The ACM's (Association for Computing Machinery) monthly magazine. Well written articles, but sometimes too theoretical for me.
ACM Queue: a "developer" magazine by ACM. Very readable, a lot of useful and interesting topics generally more immediately relevant to the software developer than Communications
ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems: not really a magazine, but a quarterly report on research in the field. Sometimes interesting, sometimes waay too abstract for me to even get the point.
Smithsonian: Somehow we got a free copy and decided to subscribe. Excellent magazine!
Backpacker: mostly read for suggestions of things to do/places to go visit.
Art News: lots of nice pics that occasionally inspire me to get off the couch and produce some crappy art. Good articles on art history and current happenings in museums/galleries around the world.
American Craft: a craft version of the above.
PC Pro because the letters are interesting and Jon Honeyball's articles always make me laugh at some point. (all the stuff in the labs is way outside my price range, so I tend to skip over that)
And, because I'm a geek/nerd/dork, New Scientist, which rocks, except for the articles on nature studies.
Oh, go on, they were just reflecting public opinion. For many years Japanese and even Korean cars were better technically, and som European more pleasent ahesthetically ....
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
For comic books:
Comic Book Artist
Comics Buyer's Guide
Wizard
Sketch
Draw
Write
Computers:
Linux Magazine
Linux Format (UK) -- my favorite
Linux Journal
Other:
Wired
Rolling Stone
National Geographic
I get the comic ones (except CBG) at the comics shop each week, but the rest are subscriptions, just because I like getting mail once in a while that's not a bill.
-Augie
I read Playboy, Sound & Vision, Computer Gaming World, Popular Science, and MSN's Slate. each has a different point of view concerning computers and technology (yes, even playboy), and of the four i don't dislike the way any of them writes about the subject. S&V is 99.9% focused on Home Theater rather than PC related tech, but they do the best job in that category.
--- I fix computer problems for a living. yes, they do pay me.
Agreed, certainy. Pardon my gross oversimplification. I wasn't actually intending to make a point about the Econonomist's political leanings, as such, but about the degraded nature of political discourse here in the U.S. The political spectrum here has lurched so far to the Right in recent years that even "Pragmatic" opinions seem Far Left in comparison.
Its new, but after 3 issues its been great. It reviews cool gadgets and stuff. Whats the neatest part about the magazine is that there is a page somewhere around the beginning of the magazine with stickers/tabs that you can use to flag a page that has something you're interested in. Good idea.
Never hit your grandmother with a shovel, for it leaves a bad impression on her mind...
Don't be turned off by the title. I picked up a copy the a year or 2 ago was just shocked. Its like Time, NewsWeek, rolled up together but writting for and by smart people.
The other nice thing is that it is not a US centric magazine so you get actual news rather than just American Gossip...
They do have a bias, but is rather unique - sort of socially liberal but buisness wise sort of free market.
Mostly a current events / politics mag but a very good read for those in the states as it give you a chance to see what the rest of the world thinks of things.
PC Gamer and Shonen Jump. PC Gamer I only read while taking a #2 though, so I'm about a year behind by now. This is probably because my computer is 5 years old and can't run any of these new-fangled games with their hardware T&L.
Ok, as per usual everyone has blathered about crap that isn't the subject.
Here's my list of oft read magazines
Scientific American
Popular Science
Linux Journal
I have tried picking up the newer issues, but they don't have the same flavor-- the layouts have that whole "trendy graphic design" air about them, and the content itself is either too arty (I like Takashi Murakami as much as the next otaku, but...) or just not as interesting/appealing as in the older issues.
To each his own, I guess (shrug)
The Economist. News and commentary on the US, Europe, and the world. Nearly always well written and researched articles; and most important, it is usually unbiased.
It's expensive, but worth it. Unbiased news is valuable, and something you cannot get in the US anymore, since the news is biased to the left or to the right in this country.
The Economist is based in England, FYI.
20 something years ago they had the Economist in my school library. I was prigish and right wing. I was pretty appalled by what I thought was a cynical, left-wing, agit-prop kind of magazine.
Boy was I mistaken.
Sure, they have articles about how greedy bankers are lending too much money backed by too little capital and will cause a disaster. They have articles about corrupt businessmen buying corrupt politicians to stop the accounting standards body from forbidding auditors to do non-audit work for audit clients. They helpfully explain that auditors get bribed with lucrative 'consulting' contracts to overlook dodgy accounting practises. And they do this pre-Enron.
But it is the magazine of the establishment, grumbling about its members, and how they are letting the side down. Now I love reading it. There is a real feeling of "Ah that's how the world really works"
Big Business: the people who also bring you millions of jobs and most of the things you'd want to buy.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, as I've not yet had my medication today.
Science, Nature
Smithsonian
Various pubs of the AMA, ASA and MAA
Linux Journal & DDJ
Circuit Cellar
And a ton of technical trade journals (at work)
Havent' read PC mags in years since most went to an apparently all-advertisement format. . .
The pictures, the male specialized reports and the tech reports. Whatelse do you need ?
I like reading Mojo and occasionally Wire. The old standards Rolling Stone, Spin, etc. have gone to complete crap and are now 90% ads and 10% garbage. The only problem is that they're so expensive I feel like I'm buying one of those really nice photography, design, or architecture mags printed on fancy paper.
I accidently bought my subscription to Mojo about a year ago, not paying attention to the whole currency issue and ended up paying almost $100 for a year. Ugh. Don't drink and make financial decisions at 2:00am. It's worth the read 8/12 months, but I'd rather just pick up 5 or 6 of those than pay a mint to have it delivered to me.
On the computer side, I like DDJ alot and Sys Admin occasionally.
Mostly I just buy a few magazines at Borders or Barnes and Noble now and then and stick them in my bag. When I'm stuck in a waiting room or something, I have a decent magazine to pull out and read. I'm not very interested in Golf, People, or most of the other stuff they keep around Dr's offices and other waiting rooms.
The *only* mag I read is Nexus.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/
Reason Magazine ("Free Minds and Free Markets")
Front Sight (members' magazine for the United States Practical Shooting Association)
When they put out their 100th issue, they offered a subscription deal: the next 100 issues for $100. Now I can keep up on linux, and I'm set until 2010. In retrospect, though, they should have provided a special offer on a new bookcase too.
I have posted this comment anonymously because I moderated this discussion.
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NY Times email updates
NY Times Circuits (email too)
Freshmeat
Google News
Newsweek - because they start asking me to renew 10 months before my yearly sub is up!
Motocycle magazines for people that ride instead of pose:
Rider, Motorcycle Consumer News (*no* ads), Dirt Bike, Bike (import from England)
Linux Journal (sub since issue 4), sysadmin (sometimes). One of the other linux mags if there's a topic I find interesting
Analog (once a year or so)
Popular Photography.
Gee, I though I had more....
Maxim? In college I would've bought it if I wasn't man enough to buy real porn....
My list is thusly in no particular order.
Computer Shopper Remember the days it was as thick as a novel?
PCWorld
PCMagazine
Maxim Gotta have it
Stuff
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
For my spirit
http://www.thesunmagazine.org
For my wallet
http://www.businessweek.com
For my politics
http://www.thenation.com
For my news
http://www.theweekmagazine.com
Well, the fact that they criticise Bush hardly proves that they're not right-wing, considering Bush is hardly a right-winger himself.
The term "liberal" has become hopelessly conflated with "socialist", at least in American usage.
The Economist is what would generally be described here as "libertarian."
I also subscribe to MacAddict. It's lost some allure over the last year or so, but that's likely more because I haven't upgraded to Panther and they have.
Also, Vanity Fair. They've got some pretty decent articles. Nice left-wing bent.
I used to subscribe to Scientific American, but this is such a frigging rag now it's amazing. It's the barest squeek above Discover [shudder]. I'll pick up an American Scientist every now and then, but the last few issues have looked dull. I also try out Skeptic from time to time. Despite the heavy marketing, I'm not into the "lad" magazines--the good stuff is all on Fark anyway.
blarg.
The only time I read other magazines, usually, is when I'm waiting for the doctor or a haircut or I'm going on a plane trip - then I usually pick up Time or Newsweek, or the Paris Match if it's going to be a long transatlantic flight.
1. @Server
2. Application Development Trends
3. BtoB
4. Baseline
5. Business 2.0
6. Business Integration
7. Cargill News
8. CIO
9. Computerworld
10. CRM
11. DB2 Magazine
12. DM Review
13. Business Integration Journal
14. e-business advisor
15. Electronic Commerce World
16. Enterprise Architect
17. Enterprise Development
18. Executive Edge
19. eWeek
20. Forbes
21. Fortune
22. InformationWeek
23. InfoWorld
24. Intelligent Enterprise
25. Internet Week
26. Java Developer's Journal
27. Java Pro
28. Line 56
29. Linux World
30. Lotus Advisor
31. Manufacturing Systems
32. Mobile Business Adviser
33. Mobile Enterprise
34. Oracle Magazine
35. PC Magazine
36. Portals
37. R&D
38. Software Development
39. SD Times
40. Software Test & Performance
41. Technology Review - MIT
42. Transform
43. Wall Street Journal
44. WebSphere Developer's Journal
45. WebServices Journal
46. XML Journal
47. XML Magazine
Dont forget,
Open a copy of *insert name of mens mag* and you will see pictures of 'normal' women. Attractive / made up / airbrushed yes, but normal women.
Open a copy of *insert name of any womans mag* and you will see pictures of anorexic waifs.
Read into that what you will.
ZD Publications sent me an email offering me a complimentary issue of the new Sync 'Lifestyle' magazine.
I went against my better judgement and signed up for nostalgia reasons* figuring on getting the one issue and canceling.
Now I'm getting invoices for a full year via email and postal mail with no option to cancel, and I've yet to recieve the 'complimentary issue'.
They'll get squat from me and I resent having to spend the postage to contact them to cancel something I did not order Ziff Davis is dead to me, I'll never buy another publication with thier name on it.
* Ages ago Sync was a magazine covering the Sinclair and Timex/Sinclair computers.
For the everyday user, PC World is great mag. The reason is because it goes through with the each each step to be completed. Maxium PC,CPU are some good ones as well
Everything else I get on-line.
My opinion? See above.
...at least, while sitting on the crapper.
It is good sometimes to see how lucky you are wrt someone else's fuckups, bad luck or pure accident.
It's just about tech-free.
It is also full of some good tidbits should you ever work yourself into a legal jam, such as where to commit petty crimes and assaults (Chicago, just need to get your case in front of the judge who let off the baboon who assaulted the 1st base coach of the KC Royals at Comiskey a couple of years ago), etc., things that would be fit in '2600'.
I rarely read any printed pr0n, but when I do, I prefer magazines such as this one, this one, or this one. Fat chicks rule!