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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?

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  1. I "Read"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny


    I *read* Playboy. No, really...it's for the articles!!

    1. Re:I "Read"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I find that "Barely Legal" has better technical articles, while "Juggs" has a deeper insight into contemporary society.... sure....

    2. Re:I "Read"... by Nspace13 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, no one reads playboy for the articles. In fact with the advent of the internet and streaming free porn clips, who actually pays for printed "static" porno anyway?

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    3. Re:I "Read"... by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 4, Funny

      I read Penthouse for the pictures.

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    4. Re:I "Read"... by spuke4000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was at the airport one time, and the magazines were all one section over from where they labels of the section were. So computer magazines were in a section labled 'Fashion', Fashion magazines were in a section labeled 'Business' and so on. All the porn was in the 'General Interest' section. Seemed appropriate.

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    5. Re:I "Read"... by Anderlan · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm a little wary to ask, but what exactly does "getting through a playboy" real quick mean?

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    6. Re:I "Read"... by waynelorentz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can't remember the film, but I remember the line:

      "Read it? I RUINED it!"

  2. I read "T"... by MoxCamel · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...the official magazine of Commander Taco. This week's issue finds the Commander in the kitchen, where he'll show you how to re-use those leftover stories...again and again! Mmm-mm! Then, it's off to "The Taco Journal" where you'll learn that spelling really doesn't have to count. Also in this issue, take a road trip with the Travelling Taco, where he'll show you how to spice up a slow news day with obscure Menga websites! And finally, join us in the kitchen, where the Taco show you how to re-use those leftover stories!

    T...The Magazine for the Slashdotter who missed the story the third time around!

    1. Re:I read "T"... by MoxCamel · · Score: 5, Funny
      OH MY! You did know, of course, by slandering the patron Saint of Slashdot, you where destine for "flamebait", but it is still VERY funny.

      It only re-affirms my belief that Slashdot mods are just very confused people. I mean, if you're going to mod me down, at least use "Off Topic." Flaimbait? Here's flamebait: Moderators have small penises! There's yer friggin flaimbait, bitches!

      Oh, and so I can stay on topic, I read Sport Pilot, and Writers Digest. I'd say that PC Magazine sucks, but I think it's the official magazine of the Slashdot moderator. So I'll refrain.

      Mod: +1 Bitter Sarcasm

    2. Re:I read "T"... by dasmegabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

      Moderators have small penises

      I'd mark that +1, Insightful. But alas, I get no mod points. My dick is too big.

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  3. Why buy magazines... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I can sit and reload slashdot all day!

  4. Weekly world news by grasshoppa · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:The magazine I can't live without... by phyruxus · · Score: 5, Funny
    *knock knock*

    Is this room 215?

    Yes, can I help you?

    Hi, I'm here for the flamewar?

    Yes, please do come in. Won't you have some tea? we're discussing Star Wars.

    Ah, good. I was looking for some potential converts to the world of Gene Roddenberry. Phasers can shoot through light-sabers, you know.

    Careful, the tea's hot. And everyone knows that Imperial Shields can stop any energy/ballistic attack as long as the Shield Generators remain undamaged. Then Darth Vader would force-choke Captain Kirk into submission.

    Mmm, good tea. May I have a scone?

    Oh, please do.

    Thank you. But that's absurd, if Geordi modulated the phasars on a plasma-variance intercorrelation loop, the meso-barions surrounding the ---

    *knock knock* Is this the Paris Hilton vs. Natalie Portman thread?

    (all) next thread, by the water cooler

    Ah, much obliged. *leaves*

    --look, Kirk was a ninny, anyway.

    Hey, Kirk could kick Picard's pseudo-French hiney any day of the week!

    Oh yeah, well Picard favorably impressed the Q continuum, so in them he has the friendship of a literal race of Gods, I think I've made my point.

    See here, let's not have this bickering and whining about who killed who..

    Hey, that's Monty Python! GET HIM!!!!!

    Can't we all just get along?

    Apparently not, but we can argue about why next week.

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  6. Re:Read Something Different Every Month. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the corner of my eye it looked like you said:

    "There are magazines devoted to everything -- sports cars, handguns, killing ferrets..."

  7. Re:I used to Read ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to read Playboy, but now I am blind!

  8. You know... by lowe0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on, guys, there are subtler ways of collecting demographic info.

  9. Re:Read Something Different Every Month. by Psymunn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've tried that
    Turns out, each time, i just convince myself that I could stand to know more about breasts. *sigh*

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  10. Re:PC Magazine = shit by Further82 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure you actully mean PC Magazine == shit, otherwise you are trying to assign that property to what I'm sure is a protected variable of the computer magazine class. So you'd just get an error. Of course if PC Magazine is truley as shitty as you say then in all likleyhood they forgot to set it as private/protected which gives you free reign to set it to whatever you want. Tho if it were up to me I might set it to somthing like PC Magazine = Blow jobs

  11. Vibe by makavelli · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  12. Re:Read Something Different Every Month. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "....and buy a magazine devoted to a subject you know nothing about. Read it." ...and that is why the slashdot crowd chooses Playboy!

  13. Halliburton's Stem-Cell Profits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?