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#1 2005-10-07 11:20 pm
- LKS_Rocky
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Magazines
The only magazine I read on a regular basis is Car and Driver, and ocasionally flip through my parents magazines, like The Nation. Periodicly I buy british or Austrialian car magazines too. Recently I started looking around to see if there were any other cool magazines and was pretty disapointed. It looked like most car and "lifestyle" magazines were all owned by the same companies and put out the same psuedo edgy material. Are there any good magazines left or has it all been watered down?
What magazines do you subscribe to or buy?
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#3 2005-10-08 12:18 am
- jkahless
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Re: Magazines
I'm subscribing to Beautiful British Columbia magazine.
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#4 2005-10-08 1:01 am
- bloomsday
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Re: Magazines
MacAddict
MacWorld
Time
Rolling Stone
Foreign Affairs
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#5 2005-10-08 1:11 am
- Moses
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Re: Magazines
Mac Addict
Car and Driver
Electronic Gaming Monthly
and for some reason I still get Boy's Life even though I dropped the subscription 3 years ago. 
I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
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#6 2005-10-08 2:25 am
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Re: Magazines
For a car magazine, get Top Gear. Published by the BBC.
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#7 2005-10-08 2:42 am
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Re: Magazines
I like Wired.
And when I go to Canada I buy Harpers (not Bazaar, just plain Harpers).
Sometimes The Economist if my wife brings it home.
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#8 2005-10-08 2:45 am
- Deadmanwalking
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Re: Magazines
Use to get MacAddict, EGM, SI. Nothing now.
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#9 2005-10-08 7:22 am
- brendave
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Re: Magazines
I get (in order of importance):
US News and World Report
Sport Diver
Diver Training
Alternative Press (good music mag)
Punk Planet (not subscription, but usually buy at store. great music and literature mag)
I am thinking of subscribing to The New Yorker and Popular Mechanics.
Edit: Oh yeah, just subscribed to MacAddict two months ago.
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#10 2005-10-08 10:29 am
- jondaris
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Re: Magazines
The Nation
The Atlantic
Wired
Utne Reader
Sometimes others. I read them on the treadmill, so I go through quite a few in the course of a month.
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#11 2005-10-08 10:48 am
- pottymouth
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Re: Magazines
Pop Sci
Backpacker
Stuff
Transworld Skate
EW
Nobody else get's Popular Science? Sheesh. And I thought we were all nerds.
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#12 2005-10-08 10:52 am
Re: Magazines
National Geographic
Popular Mechanics
Car & Driver
Reader's Digest (gift)
POB (free surveying trade journal)
Professional Surveyor (another free trade journal)
I usually subscribe to any magazine that sounds interesting and gives me a really low rate. For instance, I recently started getting Card & Driver for $5/year. I've just let my MacWorld subscription lapse because they wouldn't do any better than $19/year and I was loosing interest in the mag anyway.
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#13 2005-10-08 11:18 am
- brendave
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Re: Magazines
pottymouth wrote:
Pop Sci
Backpacker
Stuff
Transworld Skate
EW
Nobody else get's Popular Science? Sheesh. And I thought we were all nerds.
You gotta help me her. I used to hsve a sub to a skaate mag in the 80's. It was???? Thrasher????
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#14 2005-10-08 12:38 pm
- pottymouth
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Re: Magazines
Totally. They're still around too.
http://www.thrashermagazine.com/
Just trying to keep myself young.
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#15 2005-10-08 12:41 pm
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Re: Magazines
MacAddict
Macworld
and soon Wired
and a big Boooooo!!! to every one who does not read MacAddict!
W
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#16 2005-10-08 1:06 pm
Re: Magazines
Ha, it's funny how few people actually subscribe to MacAddict... 
I get Popsci, and I'm thinking of subscribing to Discover or New Scientist...
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#17 2005-10-08 1:13 pm
Re: Magazines
National Geographic
Wired
MacAddict
HOW
Computer Graphics World
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#18 2005-10-08 1:26 pm
- bedstuy
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Re: Magazines
I pick up iCreate fairly regularly. Also, *cough* L'Uomo Vogue. Otherwise I subscribe to Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.
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#19 2005-10-08 1:28 pm
- Robert B.
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Re: Magazines
I used to get The Economist, but It's so meaty and it just kept piling up becuase I didn't have enough time.
Dwell
Diver Training
Nat. Geo Adventurer
Plus whatever else I can snag from work.
When I win the lottery, I'm going to start my own magazine and run it full time.
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#21 2005-10-08 5:42 pm
- bloomsday
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Re: Magazines
with MacWorld in particular...
all of their content is online...
right when the new issue is released!
what am i flippin' payin' for here?
i don't like it.
not one bit.
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#22 2005-10-08 6:05 pm
- dv
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Re: Magazines
The one I had the longest was Popular Mechanics. Popular Science is for dweebs.
I don't subscribe to anything now - no money. Discover looks cool, though.
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#23 2005-10-08 6:33 pm
- jhota
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Re: Magazines
i have subscriptions to Air and Space Smithsonian (charter suscriber, actually. and i have all my back issues), and Jaguar Journal (magazine of the JCNA)
my mother has a subscription to Macworld, and passes them to me.
my great aunt has a subscription to Vision (Cadillac owner's magazine), and passes them to me.
magazines i buy regularly (almost every month):
Car (best car mag in publication. PC was better, but Car is damn good.)
EVO
magazines i buy occasionally (no more than every other month):
Octane
Top Gear
Land Rover World
Thoroughbred & Classic Cars
Classic & Sportscar
F1
F1 Magazine
Jaguar
Grassroots Motorsports
damn, i'm a gearhead.
the only Mac magazines i ever really enjoyed were MacFormat and MacLeak (oops, sorry, MacWeek 
) - but i don't buy MacFormat anymore, and MacWeek is dead and gone...
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#24 2005-10-08 7:29 pm
- deadgirl
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Re: Magazines
Physics Today
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#25 2005-10-08 8:33 pm
- joseph_tso
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Re: Magazines
jhota wrote:
magazines i buy regularly (almost every month):
Car (best car mag in publication. PC was better, but Car is damn good.)
EVO
magazines i buy occasionally (no more than every other month):
Octane
same here.
other car magazines:
Intersection - less about cars, more about fashion
Banzai or Modified or Import Tuner - crap 90% of the time, I only pick one up if there's a really cool RX-7 or Skyline GT-R feature.
Macworld sucks, however the Macworld UK edition somehow has the same content, but has prettier pictures and layout, and op/ed columns. I don't why Macworld got rid of them.
T3 - all the newest gagdets.
Wired
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