Looking for ideas for your blog? Zen Habits offers five “inspiration hacks” for creative people. It might be obvious to say, but your output can only be as good as your input. While looking through magazines at Barnes & Noble last summer, I noticed myself with floods of ideas about all sorts of creative, artistic things. And I wasn’t looking through Communication Arts or other design-heavy publications.

Movies are long, books are attention demanding and often expensive, but magazines require so little of you: open, look, think, close and creatively express.