For what it's worth, Make Magazine - www.makezine.com and related sites - is a lot of what Popular Mechanics and Popular Science used to be and is less of a pile of ads acting like editorial.
+10 on Makezine, it's blog is a daily read. The skills that these people have makes me weep in envy.
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