IN THE MAGAZINES . . . Only morons still read weblogs. They're so dull-witted and passé. The real beauty of the Internet is all those magazine articles you can read for free. Try starting with these--

Sign A Release, End Up with Two Naked Guys in an Elevator Sacha Baron Cohen talks frankly about Borat. [Rolling Stone]

What's a Billion When You've Got a Plan? Why Google bought YouTube. [Wired]

A Near-Perfect Grasp of Tone Why The Office works. [The New Yorker]

Crossing Web 2.0 with Spy Agencies You get open-source spying. [The New York Times Magazine]

The Central Conundrum of the Iraq War Three books about the Iraq war, reviewed. [The New York Review of Books]

You Don't Know What You Want for Christmas? An all-purpose gift guide. [Popular Science]

A Blatantly Sadistic Spectacle Is there anything to like about Mel Gibson's Apocalypto? [The Village Voice]

Doling Out Vertigo in an Uncharacteristically Earnest Voice Why Pynchon junkies are reading Against the Day. [The New York Times Book Review]