2600 $5.00 four times a year at a random Barnes & Noble


and any interesting flotsam regarding materials, energy, commerce, machines, manufacturing, liberty, design, engineering, science, nature, oceans, space, law, history, exploration, extreme politics, and cooking that the sea of information casts my way!

A week without a stop at the local transfer/recycling swap shop and/or the library's used magazine exchange is like a week without treasure! It's a hunter, gatherer, and tool user thing...

Commerce and industry trade publications and catalogs are a particularly addictive fetish! The local postal person will undoubtedly curse the discounted mailing rate at the daily mailbox or two of full size, glossy, full color, pulp and ink rich, catalogs, digests, news bulletins, journals, reporters, ad infinitum, that your name and address on a few mailing lists can easily generate. Start putting checkmarks on those little prepaid postcard requested information surveys inside the trade/industry rags and you'll be buried!