Make Magazine!

It is a magazine which seeks to reorient America's idea of technology and enshrine the rights to and empower us to adapt and change the technology we buy. I comes in the form of a DYI guide. Technology must remain open to experimentation and open to amateurs and fair use must be defended. Some call this idea of adapting technology "hacking", so do I, Orielly (the publisher) uses the term "making," whatever you call it, it is being threatened by large companies who don't want to innovate, but want to litigate. For example, 2600 Magazine was successfully sued for linking to code on a website which could be used to decript a DVD. Decrypting a DVD is a fair use right, how else can a person backup a DVD? Or play a DVD on Linux? So that's reason one why Make is a great magazine. Reason two is that it focuses on hardware hacking, because "personal computing has not gone far enough; it lets us shape our digital environment but not our physical environment." That's pretty exciting. For instance, it teaches you how to make a magnetic strip reader so you can find out what information is stored on your credit card, or even your college id card.

And this one is for David Anderson: