After that, it was mopping up operations. Never mind Binch's hiccup that VW drivers are the most savvy and own the most iPods – “sorry, the most Zunes�?

Haha. Poor Zune. It's like holiday fruitcake.

In other news, I have a massive Economist boner lately.

Who here subscribes to the print Economist or other print magazines?
(Comics not included.)

Just wondering if I'm the only relic that still gets glossy paper covered with type/pictures delivered to my mailbox every few days.

I finally broke down a couple weeks ago and got a hardcopy subscription. I find the model I use when browsing online is a lot more frenetic and soundbitey than when I have a hardcopy in front of me, and the Economist has too much good shit to skip just because I think I saw a link about zombies on the last page.

And balancing a laptop on one's knee while visiting the john is quite annoying. Not to mention the battery burn on exposed flesh.

I'm considering the Economist. NPR had a show last winter (06), about how the Economist is so widely read across all demographics and not easily pigeonholed like most periodicals.. you know, modifying the content for the demo. Unfortunately, that demo-fication happened to my beloved Entertainment Weekly... you could tell almost immediately when they transformed to the quick cut crowd style of information consumption, because everything became so fucking shallow and lame. As I get older, I now get what it is like to have your favorite institutions violated for the new kids on the block.

With that said, I may just reallocate my periodical budget from EW to The Economist.

Dude, The Economist is the shiznit. The artwork and photography alone are worth the price of subscription.

The subscription price can be a little hefty so I read it at the library even though you do get yours $90 worth a year if you subscribe.

I subscribed for about two years, but was not having time enough to read it in the last year, so I let my subscription lapse (For the cost, I want to make sure I'm reading it). By and large, it is a great read. Very comprehensive coverage of news covering the entire globe. Generally, when I was reading it, I thought it to be the most thorough and one of the most unbiased and 'newsful' news sources available (News stories that contain facts, you know data, and aren't just quotes rehashed from the opinions of the typical demogogues that dominate the news cycle).

I like The Economist, but I don't subscribe. I currently get ESPN the Magazine, but only because ESPN made it damned near impossible to cancel the free trial subscription.

Before that, I subscribed to Forbes, which was a worthy publication as well.

The LBP has just decided we're subscribing to National Geographic as well. She's unaware of this thread. She's also unaware of my flagrant history of subscribing to magazines and then letting them pile up while I breeze around being a dick on the Internet. Ah, well.