Kohler gets his Wii out! He's even threatening to take it to the zoo. Can his journalistic integrity win over his love for this console? Plus a review of Viking: Battle For Asgard.
Notorious hacker Chris Tarnovsky opens his underground laboratory to Wired.com, providing a peek into the world of satellite TV smart-card hacking. This complicated process involves nail polish, a pin head and various acids -- so don't try this at home (unless you're Chris Tarnovsky)!
Artist Aaron Koblin's phalanx of 10,000 sheep, all drawn by random strangers through Amazon's labor distribution mechanism, The Mechanical Turk. Koblin's goal was to raise questions about the emergence of new labor systems in the information age.
There are two things the Internet excels at: helping us connect with people, and helping us avoid people. Twitter fits right into the crawlspace between these functions, giving you an IV drip of tiny pseudo-interactions. Take a look at this exciting, not particularly new site with our guide to social networking.
Do you ever get in arguments on the Internet? If not, get a refund from your ISP, because you're not getting your money's worth. This handy guide to logical fallacies will aid you in any argument. It won't actually help you win, but it will allow you to keep changing the subject until your opponent gives up. And on the Web, that's just as good!
Check out the first video blog from Game|Life, Wired's videogame channel. We review No More Heroes (Wii) and Rez HD (XBox 360), two games with no shortage of amazing graphic style. Which one comes out on top?
In this animated promotional video, defense contractor BAE Systems shows off its vision for "Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology" -- tiny, swarming, bug-like robots. The Army just gave the company a $38
million contract to head up a consortium of researchers into the next-gen mini-drones.
Cute kittens, crazy stunts, weird science. Every bite-size morsel of web
writing can be boiled down into just a few key ingredients or a mutation on
a standard theme.