December 2008
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Gallery: Geeky Toys That Will Make You a Christmas... →
For Wired.com readers, sometimes the usual toys just won’t do — we need some technology and science to jumpstart our fun circuits. From sound labs to RFID kits, check out the gifts we think will make your nerdy family and friends’ eyes light up behind their taped-up, Coke-bottle glasses.
November 2008
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Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, introduces himself…
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Rahm Emanuel
Turkeys in the wild, running for their lives…
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Turkey Day
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Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Dateline
Dateline investigates Real Life Crimes and Bad Situations.
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Movie Of The Moment: Junebug
I really enjoyed this movie, and had apprehensions at first, but every bit of it was fantastic. I highly recommend this movie to anyone. The paintings the old timer does in the movies, along with his narrative stories that go with the paintings, are fucking hilarious. Here is a quick description of the movie via Wikipedia:
Junebug is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison. It was...
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Immersion - The New York Times - Video Library →
Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be.
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Some men watch porn, I watch men chopping pork.
– Anthony Bourdain (via soupsoup)
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Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being...
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and...
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Artifacts From the Future: Wall Street 2013 —...
Here’s our vision of the future of Wall Street in 2013. The logo of the New York Stock Exchange is written in English and Chinese. Ticker tapes, blaring cable news network updates, and new advertising overlays all bespeak a bummed out bear market that never bounced back.
We’ll continue to create a new Artifacts from the Future in upcoming issues of Wired magazine. But we’d like...
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Give the Ultimate Gift: A Posh Bag Packed With... →
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8. X-Files: I Want to Believe: I wanted to leave. This sluggish, self-important...
– No Thanks Required: 20 Worst Film and TV Turkeys of the Year | The Underwire from Wired.com
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edicisum on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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Iran: A nation of bloggers on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Yeah, Junebug was a pretty intelligent and hilarious movie. Go watch it.
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Watching Junebug. A friend mentioned to me that it is worth the watch.
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Last week, some Mac users were upset about a new anti-piracy feature built into...
– Apple Eases Up Unfriendly Anti-Piracy Feature On New MacBooks (AAPL)
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As we pointed out last week, YouTube is now offering HD quality video on select...
– YouTube Embraces Widescreen Paves the Way for Hollywood Features - Webmonkey
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Handbrake Still the Best DVD Converter Now... →
HandBrake, our favorite way to convert DVDs to iPod-ready video formats, hasreleased a major upgrade that adds support for just about any video source format, not just DVDs. The new features come courtesy of the libavcodec and libavformat libraries, which are borrowed from the ffmpeg project.
If all that sounds too geeky for you, here’s the short version: Handbrake can now convert just about...
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Give Thanks? Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner... →
Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn’t look or taste much at all like our modern variants do.
In fact, just about every crop and animal that humans eat has experienced some consequential...
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Teens Punished With Barry Manilow →
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[][][][] / “Sigur ros - Gong” / Eric Lerner on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Posting this only because of the Sigur Ros track they’re using.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-23) →
Portishead
Circa Survive
Murder by Death
Clayhill
Hot Snakes
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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