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- From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (jedi master)
- Subject: Re: WIRED
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.072650.1991@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 07:26:50 GMT
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- Somewhere in Cyberspace, rich@astro.umd.edu said about 'WIRED':
- |
- |I just picked up a copy of WIRED at a news store in Washington DC today.
-
- Huh? I didn't think it was coming out until the 26th?
-
- |Other than a good article by Bruce Sterling, most of it looked a bit too
- |trendy for me. The articles were much more focussed on technical and
-
- Reviewers and persona themselves @ wired seem willing or at the very
- least non-bothered by the trendy label. Trendy-as-trendy, wow, meta.
-
- |political issues and less on cultural ones than Mondo ( at least on a
- |quick scan through, I didn't see anything on smart drugs or jockstraps).
-
- Yeah, darn, taht's the one thing I hate about Mondo, those damn
- jockstraps all over the place. Man, you'd think they'd stop there,
- but then they had to sign that ad contract with Fruit of the Loom and
- Hanes. Is there no justice?
-
- sarc. for the blinded, there.
-
- |I was surprised to see that I had already heard about most of the subjects
- |of the articles; since I don't consider myself to be very well informed
- |on this scene I suspect that those who actually consider themselves
- |"cyberpunks" aren't going to get much out of it.
-
- I don't think I for one will be blown away by any magazine that bares
- any sort of remote parallel to Rolling Stone.
-
- |The only part of the mag that really annoyed me was the crowded color
- |overlays that they slapped on top of the text, and the "arty" way that
- |they would intersperse 3 or more short articles on a page going in
- |different directions in 3 different fonts. I guess its old fashioned
- |to like your text to be readable.
-
- Go back and read The Face circa 87-88, when Acid House was at it's
- haight [sic]. First time I ever saw that sort of look-n-feel
- in-full-force, and am looking forward to feeling the same way in
- Wired.
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