Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The do-it-yourself magazine for techie dreamers. (29 Mar 2005) All of you housebound types should be warned that Make isn't available online. You'll have to read it in print. Yes, on paper—just like you did in 1993. Why a magazine and not a Web site? In print, you can lead readers down a single path as they flip the pages rather than hope they'll click from start to finish without getting lost or giving up. It's also easier to pour something as dense as the kite article, with its detailed photos and lengthy instructions, into a magazine. And you can carry the book into the hardware store or prop it up on your workbench, where it's less at risk than your laptop would be. More important, a Web page or a PDF printout can't become a lust object. I've found copies of Make on the living room couches and coffee tables of my smartest, most design-conscious friends. Just like Lucky or Cosmo sell a certain kind of lifestyle, Make is the lifestyle magazine for kids who built model airplanes and grew up to be network architects who read about Lego-powered supercomputers on Slashdot. Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2115922/ Read 39 more articles from Slate sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: On Mobile Handset Usability and Design     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy