Comments on: Magazines + Google = Neato

Magazines + Google = Neato

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:15:53 -0800

New York Magazine? Popular Science? The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists? Ebony? Every issue, every page, back into the mists of history.

No kidding. I'm not usually one to go all Pepsi Blue with the latest bit of Goo from the Googleplex, but this is pretty cool. Extra whizbang points for the way they integrate Google maps, with pins where locations are mentioned in the magazine (at least for some of them). Too much information, not enough time. [via]

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:28:34 -0800

Oooh, let's all read about House of the future: YOUR PLEASURE DOME.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:32:48 -0800

Heh.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:39:28 -0800

I love the progression of covers for the Bulletin. Some graphic designer was sick of that damn clock.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:41:54 -0800

Official Google announcement and more info.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:43:39 -0800

Wow, Tina Brown was one of the 100 smartest new yorkers in 1995. Along with Henry Kissenger and Maddona, "multimedia empresario" Judith Regan, Neo-con progenator Norman Podhoretz _{with a two page spread.} They seem to be using a strange definition of "smart" here.

By: LastOfHisKind

LastOfHisKind — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:59:15 -0800

Oh MAN, the '63 models from Detroit are going to be AWESOME. Thanks, Popular Science!

By: troy

troy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:59:32 -0800

The Popular Science archive is going to blow my mind. The Time magazine archive has been very useful to me. A while back the thought occurred to me that if the past was made freely available -- eg. past TV shows on youtube, past newspapers online, past movies via netflix, etc etc, today's content creators are going to find themselves increasingly fucked WRT competing for my entertainment input bandwidth. Around the 5th grade my grandmother gave us a big-ass box of National Geographics, ca. 1932 to 1975. Not having TV at the time, I devoured them. This effort, plus a better book reader device -- Apple, are you there? -- is going to eventually change the world as we know it.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:01:19 -0800

Yikes I love the ads too. Apparently Toshiba's new VHS is going to be just as good as their Beta!

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:19:41 -0800

This is fantastic! I have the DVD set that Rolling Stone put out of every page of every issue as well and I cant recommend it enough.

By: Taargus Taargus

Taargus Taargus — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:04:09 -0800

I'm going to be flipping through those 60's NY Mag's for a while.

By: Tube

Tube — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:31:16 -0800

Yes! Popular Science magazine had a huge impact on me as a child. It fostered in me a legitimate interest in basic science with a hopeful notion that future technology would improve our lives. I remember reading this article when I was 10. Without sarcasm, I tell you it had a MAJOR impact on me. No doubt it has led, 36 years later, to this kind of behavior. I remember finally getting my hands on some soy-based hot dogs. I think they were Loma Linda brand, but I'm not positive. They came in a steel can, seven hot dogs packed in brine, in a six-around-one vertical conformation. You can still get soy dogs, but now I only see them in the refrigerated section packaged in thin, vacuum-packed plastic. I don't know if it was my anticipation from reading the Popular Science article, or that the brine was concentrated with synthetic flavorings to compensate for the intrinsic blandness of soy, but I tell you that those were the best hot dogs I've ever had in my life! It was at a point in my life where Space Food Sticks were off the market, and they were for kids, anyway. But this new soy stuff, this was grown-up food, high tech and synthetic. I want that moment back!

By: jpburns

jpburns — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:56:12 -0800

"Every issue, every page, back into the mists of history."

Except the April 1968 issue of Ebony that I was actually interested in. Wah!

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:59:22 -0800

There are a number of missing issues of several of the magazines.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:04:48 -0800

Goddamn those Google bastards.

By: spacely_sprocket

spacely_sprocket — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:28:51 -0800

I am unable to find a list of all available titles. In addition to the ones mentioned in the FPP, I also see Jet, Cincinnati, Runners World, Men's—and Women's—Health, Cruising World, CIO, Ebony Jr., Negro Digest, Best Life, Organic Gardening, Vegetarian Times, Baseball Digest, Black World, Maximum PC, Bicycling, Cincinnati Wedding, Cruise Travel, Prevention, and American Cowboy. I found these titles by refreshing the main books page. Is there an index somewhere that I'm missing?

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:46:05 -0800

Whoa!

By: jpburns

jpburns — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:47:53 -0800

You can search for titles. My wife's magazine, Atlanta Magazine, has the last 5 years or so there (while she was the editor).

By: trueluk

trueluk — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:49:17 -0800

Argh, too much information. Quick, someone start a blog and post all of the magazine articles that I would find interesting. Okay, thanks.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:00:06 -0800

I've been messing around in these archives for the past day or so. The most fun part for me has been seeing what these magazines were looking like the month I was born and being like "omg, I really am old!" So many liquor ads! I've been trolling through them for old Donald Barthelme mentions and found this cool review of an Edward Gorey book, such fun. Thanks for this post.

By: Chrishartley

Chrishartley — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:00:32 -0800

Wow, just wow. Most of these magazines are probably available at a larger library on micro-film but having them full text searchable, in color and instantly accessible is amazing. But why are we delegating so much of the responsibility for our society's information to one for-profit company?

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:10:28 -0800

"It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway."

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:19:52 -0800

But why are we delegating so much of the responsibility for our society's information to one for-profit company? No one stopped anyone else from doing this.

By: The Man from Lardfork

The Man from Lardfork — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:20:47 -0800

I'm terribly disappointed that The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists is a magazine. A name like that should be given to something significantly more awesome.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:21:02 -0800

Well, actually that might not be true. Clearly the magazines have copyright claims, and probably the only way they can be put up like this is to get a cut of the advertising revenue.

By: whuppy

whuppy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:27:26 -0800

Wow! New York Magazine Competition! And those Kyle Baker "Bad Publicity" comics! Heck, I'm gonna read my way backwards through childhood and get the jokes this time!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:11:12 -0800

I especially like how they fake the shadowing of the middle crease in 2-up view. Sweet! Transparent PNG FTW

By: tommasz

tommasz — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:38:07 -0800

Oh MAN, the '63 models from Detroit are going to be AWESOME. Thanks, Popular Science! Summing up the new '63s: Longer, Lower, Wider. That'll show those pesky Commies who rules the world!

By: fings

fings — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:43:15 -0800

You are missing Popular Mechanics. Does anyone have a full list of all magazines google is hosting? I don't see one in their announcement.

By: hortense

hortense — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:46:46 -0800

RadioShack catalogs from the sixties

By: cashman

cashman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:09:32 -0800

Say what you want, but the glasses, the yellow blouse, the eating-your-head-fro...you just can't mess with the 70's for pure glam. My mom had those exact glasses.

By: cashman

cashman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:20:08 -0800

The Puff Daddy Nobody Knows.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:25:34 -0800

The Puff Daddy Nobody Knows. I don't know which to OMG about first, that hilarious photo or the sidebar ad telling me Dirty Guy Parts? Clean Him Up With the Axe Detailer Shower Tool.

By: fings

fings — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:27:43 -0800

Answering my own question, this German blogpost has a list of the magazines currently indexed by Google.

By: smartyboots

smartyboots — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:35:57 -0800

I am looking forward to the exhaustive zine archive. Cometbus and Frighten The Horses, online at last!

By: fings

fings — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:39:54 -0800

Some more I found by hitting "refresh" at books.google.com: Best Life Bicycling Building Systems Ebony, Jr Liberty Log Home Living Mac Life Maximum PC Organic Gardening Timber Homes Living/Timber Frame Homes

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:43:34 -0800

Interesting that some of these even have the December 2008 issue available, like Dwell.

By: carbide

carbide — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:14:55 -0800

the superlative things magazine blog (MeFi's own, but my username recall is on strike right now) links to 10 Easy Ways to Get 'That Extra Room' in Popular Science, April 1948. I don't know if I have room left in my heart for anything else after that.

By: svenni

svenni — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:18:43 -0800

It seems like every other issue of New York Magazine is missing. That's a strange pattern.

By: Maias

Maias — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:23:30 -0800

How about paying the writers who wrote for those magazines and only gave them North American rights, not digital ones?

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:27:30 -0800

Cool! Toward the end of the Seventies you will no longer have to go through grueling years of astronaut training if you want to go into orbit. A reusable space shuttle will take you there in the comfort of an airliner. Just as in a commercial jet, professional flying will be required only in the cockpit. In the rear, it will be "coffee, tea, or milk," but you may have to share the accomodations with some high-priority cargo or laboratory equipment. ~ Dr. Wernher von Braun

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:34:27 -0800

Two years worth of Bicycling? Ride your first century 3x, Get lean and fast! 4x, Newest Wonderbikes! 4x, repeat....

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:56:34 -0800

I really hope they do Mondo 2000.

By: defenestration

defenestration — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:36:42 -0800

This rules. Now people can make digital collages from images digitally cut out of digital copies of magazines! I can't wait for the future.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:02:23 -0800

Except the April 1968 issue of Ebony that I was actually interested in. Wah! I've been looking for a 1958 Ebony for two years. The whole 50s didn't make this archive.....yet, I hope.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:26:41 -0800

This is SO fabulous. The internets just got a whole lot better. It works! Thanks for the heads up, stav.

By: interweber

interweber — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:10:12 -0800

New York Magazine crossworddzzzzzzz please!!