Wallow in covers with searchable site

A friend has pointed us to a fun and fascinating resource -- a site called Cover Browser, that was created in 2006 and has more than 450,000 searchable covers of comic books, pulp magazines and magazine covers for mavens to explore.It's fun regardless of whether you see them as historical artifacts or reference for magazine design or just general interest. Even more amazing, the searchability is

American Heritage suspends publication

A venerable U.S. history magazine that was one of the few magazines that appeared originally in hardcovers (the other was Horizon), American Heritage -- owned by Forbes Inc., publishers of Forbes magazine -- has been suspended. According to a story in the New York Times, the magazine has been for sale since January and the June-July issue is "on hold" pending some resolution. American Heritage's