What Magazines Do You Read? 1165
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"... (Score:4, Funny)
I *read* Playboy. No, really...it's for the articles!!
I read "T"... (Score:5, Funny)
T...The Magazine for the Slashdotter who missed the story the third time around!
I read (Score:2, Funny)
Why buy magazines... (Score:3, Funny)
I read (Score:2, Funny)
smithsonian and discover (Score:3, Funny)
Weekly world news (Score:5, Funny)
Why? Because if I want to read lies, I might as well know I'm reading them.
Re:I "Read"... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I "Read"... (Score:5, Funny)
I read, on the bus, (Score:2, Funny)
World Domination Weekly (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I "Read"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I "Read"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Economist and the New Yorker (Score:1, Funny)
I prefer Playboy, lots of interesting beat off stuff. Good shorties.
I can't stand mags because of dupe articles (Score:0, Funny)
Re:The magazine I can't live without... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Read Something Different Every Month. (Score:5, Funny)
"There are magazines devoted to everything -- sports cars, handguns, killing ferrets..."
Re:I read "T"... (Score:5, 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
Re:I used to Read ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I "Read"... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Maxim! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:hmm.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I "Read"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Periodicals, not necessarily mags (Score:1, Funny)
If by that you mean "the training of puppies," then I heartily agree.
You know... (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Simpson's Quote (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't forget to donate old magazines (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Read Something Different Every Month. (Score:5, Funny)
Turns out, each time, i just convince myself that I could stand to know more about breasts. *sigh*
Re:PC Magazine = shit (Score:3, Funny)
Vibe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I "Read"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Read Something Different Every Month. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maxim! (Score:3, Funny)
Why does every girl in Maxim have to be slathered in glycerine and dressed like a cheap hooker?
Re:I read "T"... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd mark that +1, Insightful. But alas, I get no mod points. My dick is too big.
Halliburton's Stem-Cell Profits (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?
Re:I "Read"... (Score:5, Funny)
"Read it? I RUINED it!"
God I am a geek (Score:2, Funny)
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!)
Re:C'mon guys (Score:3, Funny)
Just for you Mr. Indie, I have bitten some rhymes:
I'm so indie that my shirt don't fit
you wonder out loud 'frontalot yo why you come so ill-equipped?'
because being all prepared to get on the mic is selling out
and I ain't even about to relinquish indie clout
I look confused, like I just got out of bed,
my rhyme style reflects this
use my overdeveloped sense of irony to deflect dis-
missiles, exploding all around me
unpromoted, don't know how you found me
soundly situated in obscurityland
famous in inverse proportion to how cool I am
and should I ever garner triple-digit fans
you can tell me then there's someone I ain't indier than--mc frontalot [frontalot.com]
Oh, yeah and I read giant robot too.
"You all?" (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:I "Read"... (Score:2, Funny)
nice pun!
Re:I read "T"... (Score:2, Funny)
My dick is too big
It would seem that it goes with your head. Perhaps you're a dickhead?
Moderators have small penises
Or (revolutionary idea) none at all and proud of it.
Re:EXTRA! The magazine of FAIR (Score:3, Funny)
From their website:
Stratfor was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Washington, D.C., with an intelligence network located throughout the world.
Nevermind, now it's clear that they are impartial, and nothing like Fox News.
Re:PC Magazine = shit (Score:3, Funny)
We're talking about male genitals of a company called "micro" "soft". From a man's point of view, that's all bad.
PC Gamer (Score:2, Funny)
I hope this hasn't been mentioned yet. (Score:2, Funny)
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!
My brain hurts..
I read... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I read "T"... (Score:3, Funny)