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Design

How Wired Covers Are Made: Creative Director Scott Dadich

4:39AM Brian Lam | My buddy Chris Hardwick posted this video of my buddy Scott Dadich speaking about how he makes covers for Wired Magazine. [Fora via nerdist] More »
Gadgets

How To Replicate Wired’s Pimped-Out Kegerator

8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Wired’s iPhone-themed DIY kegerator is the stuff of legend: An unwanted fridge became a moving, gadget-filled beer dispenser of the highest calibre. This video shows that it’s also a pretty easy (if expensive) undertaking. More »
Online

Wired Explains Proper Etiquette In The World Of Social Technology

3:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Wired’s new issue, featuring guest writer Brad Pitt promoting the newest Brad Pitt movie starring Brad Pitt, goes deep into social technology etiquette. Can you answer your phone while peeing? Is it okay to lie on Facebook? All is revealed. More »
Random Stuff

Swiped

9:00AM Jason Chen | For background info on what the image means, see this post on Valleywag about plagiarist Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor and his new book. Then this and this. For full sized image, hit up Boing Boing Gadgets. More »
Phones

IPhone 3GS Review Matrix: What Everybody’s Saying

4:00PM Wilson Rothman | It’s time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean “it”—do this time around? Have a look-see… More »
Entertainment

Lord Help Us All: Gizmondo the Movie?

8:03AM Brian Lam | Wired’s story on Gizmondo, the gadget company fronted by Swedish con artist Bo Stefan Eriksson, has been optioned to be made into a film. More »
Gadgets

The Future Is Not Coming Soon Enough

10:00PM Jesus Diaz | JJ Abrams may want mystery, but reading the last issue of Wired made me realise that I don’t want mysteries. I want to know. Which is why I used to love their future Found gadgets. More »
Press

The JJ Abrams Issue of Wired

11:26AM Brian Lam | In honour of the topic of Wired’s May issue—Mystery—I will try not to reveal too much about it. Maybe just enough to explain to you why you shouldn’t miss reading it. [Wired] More »
Music

From the Archives: Wired’s Bionic Quest for Boléro

7:40AM Brian Lam | This 2005 Wired feature by Mike Chorost, edited by Jeff O’Brien, is one of the best. It’s about a deaf man’s quest to be able to hear the song Boléro again through robot ears. Read: More »
Press

This is What a Ransacked Diamond Vault Looks Like After The Heist of the Century

12:36PM Brian Lam | My good friend Josh Davis has written another whopper of a story for Wired. This one is about the world’s biggest diamond heist and how the thieves circumvented 10 layers of tech security. More »