Big Love ~ What are female whales really looking for in a mate?

Smithsonian magazine has an article called "Big Love," which seeks to understand what exactly female whales look for in a mate.  Check it out if you’re interested. (Photo above by Whit Welles)
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Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

Fortune has spiced up this year’s "The 100 Best Companies to Work For" with lots of escape and scuba.  Even the start of the article on page 61 of the February 4, 2008, issue opens with a profile of, well, not the number one company (Google) but instead with number 88!  Woo hoo!!  Number 88, [...]

Appalling Golfweek magazine noose cover

One of the media representatives of the escapist, and often exclusive, sport of golf has caused quite an uproar.  It’s Golfweek magazine, which published this cover with a noose on it:

What?! It’s not like noose scares aren’t all over the news?  Is that where they got the idea?  This is a classic example of using [...]

Harvard Magazine ~ Autism: ‘Probing the roots of a devastating disorder’

The January/February 2008 cover of Harvard Magazine (the Alumni Association’s magazine) has been sent out and has this sunset cover on the topic of autism:

It’s a mother and her son walking on what appears to be a beach at sunset.  They are disjointed by a lightning bolt and some strange puzzle pieces.  The image shows [...]

Dubai ~ replacing New York as the center of the 21st-century world?

If you’re at all interested in Dubai, you may want to pick up a copy of the November 2007 issue of Metropolis magazine.  The issue is easy to find; it has a huge skyscraper on it, the Burj Dubai:

The cover design is great.  It shows the printer’s marks at the top to illustrate that the [...]

Happy Anniversary to The Atlantic magazine ~ unless that’s the Pacific ~ then you’re in trouble

I have referred to The Atlantic as being tied as my favorite magazine.  Through no fault of its own, it has now become my favorite because Time Warner just nixed Business 2.0 this month (and so generously offered to give us HALF of our remaining subscription in another magazine?).  This comes at a time when [...]

Smart Money ~ Busted Covers

I pointed out how Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal that is now owned by Rupert Murdoch’s corporation, has trouble not busting out of their island-beach-sailboat mentality in this post on their Market Watch product. The October cover of Smart Money is another example of this. This magazine frequently [...]

The South’s Past, Present, and Future ~ Gardens, Guns, and Surfer Girls

About two months ago, on my way through Charlotte, North Carolina, this amazing cover of Garden&Gun magazine jumped off the newsstand at me:

This cover might surprise everyone but the Southerners reading this post, but the magazine really is about people with guns and beautiful gardens. Some of the images within could have been taken [...]

Reporting live from the Monaco Yacht Show website

I’ll bet the weather is beautiful this week for the Monaco Yacht Show.  Too bad I’m in Texas at the moment.  The website music really takes me there.  You can get some of the custom boats for $50 million to $100 million.  I don’t know about you, but I’m going to buy three at those [...]

“I Love New York” ~ “I Need to Get Out of the City”

I don’t fully understand New York. People love the city and tell everybody that they love it, but then they run around trying to escape the bustle whenever they can. The New Yorker is a magazine that loves to celebrate that fact, mostly in their covers and cartoons. The August 20, 2007, issue’s cover is [...]