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Tech NewsWould You Pay $10 a Month for Apple News?
When Apple bought Texture, a subscription magazine app reportedly valued at around $50 million, last month, the move seemed like a bit of a head-scratcher. I mean really, who the hell still reads magazines? But for people who know anything about Apple, it was clear that Texture was just a jumping off point for something … Continued
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Tech NewsThanks to the CIA, Issues of the Agency’s Most-Hated Magazine Are Now Online
Long before Wikileaks was promoting “radical transparency” in the digital age, CounterSpy was publishing a magazine that named CIA station chiefs and exposed covert operations. Now, 23 issues from its 32-issue run have been pulled from the CIA’s own archives and digitized for your perusal. We can neither confirm nor deny that the agency is … Continued
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Tech NewsAn Essential Guide To Gun Safety For People Who Hate Guns
There are at least 347 million guns in America. No matter your opinion of them, it is highly likely that you will encounter one at least sometime during your life. This is what everyone needs to know in order to be safe around guns. This is not a political argument. This is not an argument … Continued
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Want To See a Naked Washing Machine?
Are your desires …unconventional? Enough so that you have a deep yearning for a periodical of tastefully photographed technology, stripped down to its barest elements? Boy, have I got the magazine for you. I have no idea if PlayGeek magazine is a real or some sort of crowdfunding gag, but I love what it promises—artful … Continued
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Get your Hispabrick magazine in English for free!
The newest Hispabrick magazine (issue 21) is now available for download free of charge. This issue is packed full of great stuff including details on the above Star Destroyer, a review of the upcoming UCS Slave I, a bunch of building guides, set/parts reviews and interviews with some great Lego creators. You’re reading Leg Godt, … Continued
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What if classic paintings were Photoshopped like today’s magazines?
Lauren Wade at TakePart re-imagined famous classic paintings to fit today’s “standards” by Photoshopping the subjects in the paintings to look like magazine cover models. That basically means: impossibly skinny waists, thinner arms, basically no joy of fat whatsoever but still have bigger breasts somehow. It’s quite embarrassing to see how starved our definition of … Continued
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22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
These amazing, almost 100-year old covers of the weekly French magazine Le Petite Journal are from the online collection of the french National Library. They show what were the most exciting innovations of the 1920s, and how people in Europe imagined the future of technology and science. The locomotion of tomorrow Image: Le Petit Journal … Continued
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Even Car Enthusiasts Loved The First Woman In Space
Yesterday the whole world celebrated the 50th anniversary of Valentina Tereshkova’s historic space adventure. The solo flight of the Soviet’s Vostok 6 spacecraft on the 16th of June 1963, aboard the first female cosmonaut, was a really big hit in the communist countries. Even the Hungarian weekly car magazine dedicated its cover to the brave, … Continued
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Mad Magazine: Alfred E. Newman Lands on the iPad
Mad Magazine is to print what Weird Al Yanokovich is to music. Exactly 60 years after pumping out its first parody, Mad Magazine is taking its spoofs to the iPad, with an app that offers the latest satire-laden editions, as well as back issues. What does it do? After you download it, Mad will immediately … Continued
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How Kids of the 1950s Got The Idea That They Could Hunt Dinosaurs on Venus
In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium promoted its new exhibit, “Conquest of Space,” by soliciting letters for the public to reserve a seat on the first trip into space. The letters all make for an entertaining read, but one in particular stuck out for me. A letter from a person named Arthur described how he’d like … Continued
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Time Inc. Is Putting All Its Mags On (Almost) All Our Tablets By Year’s End
Time is getting ready to push all 21 of their magazines onto every tablet they can get to. That will include the iPad, Android tablets, the Touchpad, and Nook Color. The Kindle, strangely, and Playbook, less strangely, aren’t invited. [AllThingsD]
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Google Wants to Know What You Love
Google quietly launched a new search tool that lets you find information about the stuff you desire. The website, called What Do You Love (www.wdyl.com), is a single search page that pulls up information from a variety of Google’s online tools including trends, product search, Picassa and more. The information is presented magazine style and … Continued
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Use Magazines To Rest Your Weary Feet
Nju Studio’s Sammeln Stapeln Setzen lets you use those old magazines as a foot stool while sitting on the couch. The piece of furniture is a simple block of wood with two straps and a pillow. Pile your magazines to the desired height, strap them in and, voilà, you have the perfect footstool for your … Continued
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This Super Soaker Uses Magazines to Reload
My Super Soaker of yore wouldn’t stand a chance against this beast of a weapon. Called the Thunderstorm, this new Super Soaker only costs $15 (cheap enough to dual-wield) and is battery-powered for automatic shooting (which requires no pumping). But perhaps most awesomely, it uses magazines to reload itself. That way you just fill up … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerce
When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your Kindle, Your Back Issues Disappear Too (Updated)
Consider this to be your dismaying PSA of the day: Apparently, if you’re a Kindle owner with a magazine subscription, and you decide to stop subscribing, the back issues you previously downloaded are also lost—for good. That’s right—there is no way to retrieve what you already paid for and supposedly, already own. To top it … Continued
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Free Access to The Daily iPad Magazine Means iOS 4.3 Coming on Feb 28?
The Daily, the iPad Magazine app that you can actually read for free on a computer, just extended their free access until Feb 28. Why? Because users need iOS 4.3 in order to do in-app recurring subscriptions. [Macrumors]
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The New Yorker cover takes a shot at the Spider-Man musical
And the hits for the Spidey musical just keep coming. After a few weeks without any reported injuries, Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man musical takes another swipe, this time from the New Yorker. Plus, more skits poking fun at the troubled production. The latest New Yorker cover isn’t afraid to ask the real questions about the Spider-Man … Continued
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Meet Vogue Magazine’s Cover Girl of 2010
Vogue cover girls. Pretty sexy, non? Except when you layer them on top of one another digitally, to get the year’s average. Suddenly, you find yourself ogling something resembling the Turin Shroud. It’s really interesting when it gets broken down country-by-country, too. Australia’s covers tend to use a lot of pink, whereas the Italian cover … Continued
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Apple Bans Android Magazine From The App Store
It’s not that surprising (given previous bans), but Apple recently rejected a small Danish Android magazine app from the App Store. It’s unlikely that many people would’ve bought the magazine in the first place, which makes it an odd-ish ban. According to the CEO of Mediaprovider, a small magazine publisher based in Denmark, Apple didn’t … Continued
By Casey Chan