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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
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 »
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
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 »
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