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Rating: - Wired???
I found this magazine to be mostly ads, and the articles were not at all what I expected. Seems more like opinions then researched articles. I guess I missed the true point of this magazine, not at all what I expected. I'm 50 and not really a geek, just love techno stuff, but didn't find this very helpful to me. I have never cancelled a subscription to a magazine before this, but in this case I had to.

Rating: - One-stop read for all things tech
Great magazine for keeping up with all things tech but also exploring how technology helps people deal with their jobs and improve their home lives.

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Rating: - Casual Technology Reading R'us
I love this magazine for casual absorption of random technology and success stories.
-C.W.

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Rating: - Um, where is it??
I have not received a single issue of this magazine. So my review would be that it's full of fail.

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Rating: - Chair-side companion for the PC-aware
Wired magazine and its many sister south-of-Market Street (San Francisco, a hip area) publications have been leaders in aggregating what's important for people to read and to know in order to keep pace with changes in technology.

Sitting down with "Wired" is like sitting down with "Dwell", an architecture magazine - you want to do everything you read about. With "Wired", however, it's possible to achieve, or at least imagine achieving, the aspirations of the stories' subjects.

The front part of the book has letters and regular pieces. My favorite is "Tired/Wired/Expired", where a clever person takes five or six trendy concepts through their linguistic cycles and tosses them by the side of the road.

There is no way to predict any specific article in an upcoming issue, but in general you'll find articles on hard technology, human-computer interfaces, and intellectual freedom. The magazine's designers have given it at least one makeover, and it's much friendlier to 52-year-old eyes than it was when it and "Mondo 2000" were competing for readership.

"Wired", for all its hipness, is a Conde Nast publication (as is Vanity Fair and the New Yorker). As such, you have a right to expect a quality magazine. On the other hand, the subscription rate is widely discounted, so your right is lessened a little. Nevertheless, it's a pleasure to find it in the mailbox when I get home from work.

For what it's worth, my other subscriptions are the "New Yorker", "Dwell", "Booklist" (a professional publication), "Westways" (AAA magazine), and "The Week". Keep your eye on "The Week"...it's worth keeping alive.

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Cunard Line has announced that its new 85,000-ton cruise ship, which is scheduled to enter service in 2008, will be named Queen Victoria. Based in Southampton, England, the Cunard Queen Victoria will be the second largest Cunard Queen ever built. Together with the current flagship, Queen Elizabeth 2, and Queen Mary 2, the biggest passenger liner ever, the Cunard fleet will include three Queens for the first time – truly the most famous ocean liners in the world.   Travel Deluxe

Cruise Queen Victoria will enter service in the company’s 165th anniversary and will operate cruises to and from Southampton to the Mediterranean, the Canaries, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, and South America. The 1,968-passenger vessel will feature a covered wraparound promenade deck, a forward-facing observation lounge, a large Lido pool with a retractable magrodome, and 10 of the12 passenger decks will be served by exterior glass-walled lifts. Like QE2 and QM2, the liner will have a Queens Grill, offering single-seating gourmet dining. There will also be a unique Colonial Restaurant on Deck 11 with spectacular panoramic views.

Queen Victoria cruises will offer a wide range of accommodations, large standard outside cabins (170 square feet) and a high percentage of balcony cabins (67%), thereby bringing new levels of luxury and choice to passengers preferring to depart from a European port.  Cruise Queen Victoria!   Lowest Priced Domain Web Host


The on-board menus, entertainment and lecture program will be geared to British tastes and the currency will be sterling. Queen Victoria will fly the red ensign; she will have the name of her home port, Southampton, on her stern, and she will have a British Captain and Officers.   In design terms the cruise Cunard Queen Victoria will have an undeniably British feel with two British design teams being responsible for the interior of the Cunard Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria is being built at Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, near Venice, with her keel laid on July 12, 2003. One of the most technically advanced shipbuilders in the world, Fincantieri has built more than 7,000 vessels, including many for Cunard’s parent Carnival Corporation. Originally ordered as the fifth in a series of five 'Vista' class ships for sister company Holland America, the contact was signed over to Cunard before the keel was laid and Holland America then ordered a further ship for delivery  in 2006.   Enjoy a Cruise on Queen Victoria.  The lead ship in the series, Zuiderdam, entered service in December 2002.

No cruise schedules have yet been announced. Her float out is scheduled for May 2007, prior to her delivery in March 2008.She is scheduled to enter service in April 2008.