Comments on: Fox News/Men’s Journal: Essential Tools http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/27/fox-newsmens-journal-essential-tools/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:19:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Daniel Rutter http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/27/fox-newsmens-journal-essential-tools/#comment-16594 Daniel Rutter Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:04:19 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/27/fox-newsmens-journal-essential-tools/#comment-16594 Yep - Men's Journal would appear to be another of those quasi-advertorial magazines with great big beautiful pictures of cool-looking stuff, accompanied by one-paragraph blurbs that sound plausible unless you actually know Fact One about the stuff they're talking about, whereupon it becomes apparent that it's often bullshit. I just looked at mensjournal.com and checked out their list of "the most innovative gear of the year", which included a knife that's alleged to be rust proof because it's made from "nitrogen-based H-1 steel". You'd think it'd be a bit of a bugger to have a knife that evaporated at 64 Kelvin, but apparently not. (It took me about 30 seconds on Wikipedia to learn that H1 steel is actually a low carbon, um, iron-based, steel, precipitation hardened with nitrogen. This was 30 seconds that the Men's Journal writer apparently could not spare.) Yep - Men’s Journal would appear to be another of those quasi-advertorial magazines with great big beautiful pictures of cool-looking stuff, accompanied by one-paragraph blurbs that sound plausible unless you actually know Fact One about the stuff they’re talking about, whereupon it becomes apparent that it’s often bullshit.

I just looked at mensjournal.com and checked out their list of “the most innovative gear of the year”, which included a knife that’s alleged to be rust proof because it’s made from “nitrogen-based H-1 steel”.

You’d think it’d be a bit of a bugger to have a knife that evaporated at 64 Kelvin, but apparently not.

(It took me about 30 seconds on Wikipedia to learn that H1 steel is actually a low carbon, um, iron-based, steel, precipitation hardened with nitrogen. This was 30 seconds that the Men’s Journal writer apparently could not spare.)

]]> By: kythri http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/27/fox-newsmens-journal-essential-tools/#comment-16480 kythri Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:52:47 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/27/fox-newsmens-journal-essential-tools/#comment-16480 I'd rephrase "Here's the last six things I heard about this week." More appropriate would be "Here's six things my editor told me I better find time to work into an article, because the manufacturers paid us, and even though we really know nothing about tools, we need to write about them as if we did!" I’d rephrase “Here’s the last six things I heard about this week.”

More appropriate would be “Here’s six things my editor told me I better find time to work into an article, because the manufacturers paid us, and even though we really know nothing about tools, we need to write about them as if we did!”

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