Does anyone still get 'Wired'... the magazine?
Is it any good?

I used to get Psychology Today...what a load of crap.
'Fluff'....like someone said.

Also my wife signed me up for Rolling Stone and that was about 98% garbage.
Occasionally a good piece on Iraq and a *rare* music review that was worth the ink.

Hmmm I was hoping for some good leads on WEirDo, interesting magazines from you guys...

I used to read Playgirl when I was 18. Browsing for that, they seem to have gone out of business last year...
www.playgirltv.com/
So how about this, then:
www.bhg.com/gardening/
National geographic, anyone?
www.nationalgeographic.com/
I subscribed to this after I read that the mother of the unabomber (who was a geek who went to Cambridge or Harvard physics dept. before he became that) used to read that to him when he was little. I had never heard of the mag before. Still getting it.

SHAPE ! Hah, I subscribed to that one for about 4 or 5 years. I found it inspiring too, as long as I did aerobics and it gave me some ideas what to do with the free weights, described how to do "lunges", expplained what the lat pull down machine was for exactly, together with anatomical drawings of muscle groups with all kinds of fancy Latin names... Finally I cancelled my subscription, and they wanted to know why. I told them, I am tired of reading their one and the same scam over and over again: telling you that you have a problem, i.e. you are FAT! Or not good enough, or your tits are too small or your arms are in need for more "definition", you are constantly in danger of loosing the ideal fat percentage, in urgent need of improving your heart rate under stress, you name the problem, they got it ready to serve it to you. Then they present you with the solution: read Shape magazine religiously because it will save you from turning into an unattractive blob with flab instead of "buns of steel". At the same time, they make sure you keep your habits. Every recipe will encourage your taste for sweets, even if the alternative concoctions sound awful: they take it for granted that you want to keep stuffing yourself with browniess. But you have replace the butter or the sugar with mashed prunes. And so on. Nobody asks you to give up the brownies, no, you have to read Shape for brownie recipes with less calories. And then the "Before and After Success stories". Always the same thing. Soandso looked pretty good while in her teens, then she stopped growing while in college and subsequently, the whopping amounts of French fries, mayonnaise and tequila took their toll on her body. 235 extra pounds later she discovered Shape magazine. And now- voila! And so on.
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