I’ve been wanting to make sure wordparts doesn’t get too negative.

I don’t think it tends toward the negative because I’m a negative person. [I like to think of myself as realistic but idealistic, which can be depressing.] But I think it’s just easy to be negative. You can always find something negative to rant about. People like complaining. People don’t notice the two hundred times their computer works perfectly — they notice the one time it fails. (Please substitute “five” for “two hundred” in the previous sentence if you use Windows. But I digress.)

Anyway, there’s a lot of negativity out there and I want to post useful, informative things. The Web doesn’t need any more bitching. It’s too easy.

So, without further ado, here’s an article about the depressing state of modern magazine covers. It juxtaposes recent newsstand covers with covers from those same magazines from years past. I’ve been trying not to post it for a week, under the “too much negativity sucks the life out of you and your readers” doctrine, but I just can’t help it, it’s too good.

How about this? We’ll try to use it as a lesson on how good the things we make can be if we try and if we care, not on how bad everything else is. Sounds good?