It turns out that, like most everything else, barbed wire shows up at auctions. Not just shiny new stuff, you’ll find used stuff too. Expect it to be at least a little rusty, and look out for clumps of hair or other things stuck to it. Whether that adds value or not is unclear.
Where could [...]

Posted April 20, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: Antique Barbed Wire Society, barbed wire, Barbed Wire Collector Magazine, collections, magazines, wire. Be the first one.

Magazines fail all the time, but it’s hard not to look at them as signs of something larger. MacWEEK’s fizzle was claimed to represent the demise of the Mac, Computer Shopper has lost more weight than a Slim Fast spokesmodel (800 pages to 80 in ten years!). And now Business 2.0 Magazine is shutting down [...]

Posted October 2, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: business 2.0, failure, magazine, magazines. 2 Comments.

I get a kick out of these 1948 and 1950 Life magazine covers. Take a look and I think you’ll agree that no magazine puts photos like this on their covers today.

tags: 1948, 1950, culture, life, life magazine, magazine covers, magazines, retro

Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: 1948, 1950, culture, life, life magazine, magazine covers, magazines, retro. 3 Comments.