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I’ve been waiting for this!

My Good Magazine arrived today!
YAYYYYY

And it’s good!! (haha, I’m gonna have fun saying that.)

I didn’t read through all the articles, but it’s definitely a really interesting magazine. Lots of info to read. And surprisingly, lots of content!
I totally anticipated that it would be a magazine full of ads, just b/c the total subscription price is going to non-profits… I mean, how do they make their money?

But there aren’t tons of ads!
…and the ads that are in the magazine are so good! (oh dear…)
For example, my fav page of the issue:

Is a bright and colourful and cute ad for globalgiving.org!

Some of the birds are ‘missing’ and there are words!

What a great ad! …I mean, it encourages the viewer to find and read the words… so then you learn about their service!
…though, I can’t remember what the text is. …but maybe that’s just my bad memory acting up again.

moving on….

I love magazines that have tons of things to read. Like, more than just articles.
For example,
see the dots at the top of the page?

That’s a ’subject/topic’ coding system!

So each page has these dots on the top that correspond to the subject matter!

LOVE IT!

next, a cd with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam America.
The music groups include: Thievery Coporation, The Shins, Spoon, The Cure, Death Cab, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes… I mean, how could you resist?!

The magazine also had some very interesting charts/graphs.
There was one showing worldwide abortion laws:

And another showing the various marches on Washington:

and a few others.
I definitely like the idea of having these visual displays of information, but the graphs weren’t really “legitimate”, if I can use that word.
For example, the March on Washington one, measured participants based on estimations from the various organizations, things like “approx 1 million attendees”, but who knows if that info is correct or not.

And then there was another chart there they were comparing two things that couldn’t really be compared. …kinda like two different units of measurement.

but anyways, to wrap this post up…
another ad that I thought was cool:

Cheap flights for people doing humanitarian work!
what a great idea!!