Comments on: Boring Magazine design contest winner!

By: donniebnyc

donniebnyc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t fall for facile “first search result” bullshit explanations. Screw Occam and his razor!

You need to start a full scale investigation of this. It reeks, reeks I say, of the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Illuminati, the Koch brothers, the liberal lamestream media, Skull and Bones, Area 51; the list of possibilities is endless.

We need someone with your discerning eye and laser focused mind to do the digging until every aspect of this evil conspiracy is brought into the soul cleansing light of day.

Be proactive man!

By: firstbakingbook

firstbakingbook — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Quilts”? Do you have any idea how dangerous is the beast you are prodding? If quiltart comes across this, you might well need to relocate to another country, under an assumed name.

By: wrecked_em

wrecked_em — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great, now we need to start printing Magazine Aficionado Aficionado.

Or maybe just Meta-Magazine Monthly.

As a web site.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Logic circuit designers have several more versions of not p:

/p, p#, p-, p\, pn

for starters.

We’ll have to start our own boring magazine to compete with Notational Review. We can call it Notation Week.

By: farcedude

farcedude — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The first one reminded me of one time I called Newegg (I screwed up the delivery address, and was calling to fix). They put me on hold, and I was delightfully surprised to be listening to music from the Lord of the Rings.

By: smammy

smammy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I sent some of the submissions to my dad, who gets a lot of niche magazines. His reply: Boing-Boing gets to ridicule “special” areas of interest? I don’t think so! Without these essential publications, we might be completely unaware of fascinating cultural events like CFC change-over and quantum tunneling memory chips.

By: Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! This is awesome news. Thank you very very much. I’ve wanted one of these bags since they first showed up on Boingboing! :)

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well earned, Jack Daniel!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is it weird that that FQ magazine cover is my new desktop?

By: facetedjewel

facetedjewel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No weirder than my desire to subscribe. God, I love a good poop story.

By: princessalex

princessalex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That winner was superb! I bow before Mr. Daniel!

By: jeligula

jeligula — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why is the UPC the same on Notational Review as it is on Magazine Afficionado? One would think that two different designers would not pick the same numbers, much less the same UPC symbol. I looked it up and was hoping for something truly boring, but it came up with nothing, sadly.

By: CountZero

CountZero — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jack, your â€˜TIREDâ€™ magazine cover is a work of sublime genius. I read WIRED every month, and love the mag, but I’m not going to be able to even look at a cover in future without flashing on yours and sniggering, probably in public. Congratulations, and I’m well jealous of the bag, too. The others are all superb as well, the FQ ‘Kraken’ line has now taken root in my mind, and won’t let go, either.
Interesting, the ‘Mirror World’ reference; Case Pollard, perchance?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fuck, I lol’d.
“Releasing the Kraken upon the Porcelain Sea” is now my favorite vulgar euphemism.

Also, A $350 SADDLEBACK BAG?! ARRRGH! THE ENVY, IT BURNS! Congratulations, Jack. Take care of that sweet Saddleback bag.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Moderator note: If you click on Jack Daniel’s name, you might also note that he’s BB commenter #17. To put it in perspective, as of this moment, we’re at 175,927 registered users.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My congrats to Jack Daniel and the other participants. I had fun with this one!

-absenthero

By: highway40

highway40 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! It’s an honor to be mentioned. I agree, the winning mag is excellent.

@jeligula If you google “barcode” it’s the first one that comes up that has enough pixels to scale well without looking bad. It was kind of an afterthought on mine. I like how Absenthero dressed it up with the date and prices.

By: gpeare

gpeare — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How could Zigzagatha have passed on Fiber *Digest*… Kudos to all.

By: chris23

chris23 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heh FQ reminds me of the scene in The Simpsons Movie when Homer rips the roof off the upstairs bathroom revealing Grandpa on the toilet reading the latest copy of Oatmeal Enthusiast.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I would actually read the winning submission.
God, I’m such a bore!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

it’s p with an overbar, you heathens!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

in before “barcodes monthly” (not sold in stores for fear it would confuse cashiers).

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Magazine Aficionado is truther than strange. The real world version (or the most similar tagline at least) is “Folio: The Magazine of Magazine Management”.
http://www.foliomag.com/magazines

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LOL, as a quilter yes, I felt a twinge of offense. But overall the magazines are funny. Magazine Aficionado is my favorite though!

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jack, email me at beschizza at gmail!

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That barcode is the first decent one that shows up in Google Images.

By: ZigZagatha

ZigZagatha — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

well played Jack! Very jealous. Glad the kraken got some props. should have photoshoped that pic. (>..<)

By: Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, done.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know, at work we subscribe to both “The journal of Vacuum Science A” and “The Journal of Vacuum Science B.” That’s a whole lotta journal about Nothin’.

By: Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the kind words everybody!