1. How to Win a 'Fifth-Generation' War

    In recent years, military thinkers have been focused on "fourth-generation" warfare -- that is, conflicts over ideas, waged by what author John Robb calls "ad-hoc warriors." Compare that to industrialized "third-generation" war fought by traditional armies over land and resources....

    01.03.09 From Danger Room

  2. The First Star Trek Convention, or How I Got my Geek Cred

    As it turns out, I did not go to the first Star Trek Convention ever held. But I went to the second, in 1973. I know this because last week's New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a piece on Joan...

    01.03.09 From Geekdad

  3. Five years in freezing Martian dust without a tune-up

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7808917.stm Man, Detroit should be so lucky.

    01.03.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  4. Izzard Gives Private Performance to Terror Victim

    Some stories are too cool to let slide even if they don't make the radar of the day's top entertainment stories. Will Pike, a 28-year-old Englishman, was badly injured in the tragic Mumbai terror attacks -- shattering his body in...

    01.03.09 From The Underwire

  5. The Hornblower Hybrid Leads Nation's Move Toward Cleaner Boats

    Getting to Alcatraz just got greener. Alcatraz Cruises recently launched the Hornblower Hybrid boat which ferries people to and from the San Fransisco jail that once housed the likes of Al Capone, Gregory "Machine Gun" Kelly and the Choctaw Kid....

    01.03.09 From Autopia

  6. U.S. Government No Likey: HP Sells Printers in Iran

    HP recently announced a cool photo printing app for the iPhone, but if a recent report is correct, the company could be worrying over an international trade transgression over the next week instead of celebrating its innovations at CES.. According...

    01.02.09 From Gadget Lab

  7. Tech Pundits Put Their 2009 Predictions On the Line

    The beginning of any year seems to be the best time to make any predictions. At first glance, it seems like there's no harm in putting out a little list among the glut of year-ends and year-to-come lists. If you...

    01.02.09 From Gadget Lab

  8. Toyota's Solar Concept Might Not Be a Car At All

    It seemed fitting that the first viable solar car would come from the Land of the Rising Sun, but a chorus of online skeptics have begun dismissing reports that Toyota's "top secret" solar concept would ever see the light of...

    01.02.09 From Autopia

  9. BBC Set to Announce 11th Doctor Who

    After months of speculation in the tabloid press and countless bets placed on British books on a myriad of suspects, the BBC will announce the identity of the 11th actor to portray Doctor Who in a U.K broadcast Saturday. A...

    01.02.09 From The Underwire

  10. Fisker Teases Us With A Drop-Top Plug-In Hybrid

    Fisker Automotive is still developing the super-luxe Karma plug-in hybrid it promises to begin putting in driveways by the end of the year, but that isn't keeping the boutique automaker from rolling out a new concept car at the upcoming...

    01.02.09 From Autopia

  1. Wired.com's Top 10 Videos of 2008

    From lasers and penguins to credit card fraud and randy robots, the Wired.com Video Team documented some strange things in 2008. We went to the the National Ignition Facility laser lab at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's nuclear facilities (background check...

    01.02.09 From The Underwire

  2. Carla still slaying the public wholesale

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7808433.stm *Okay, imagine President Obama divorces the missus and marries, uh, Oprah. Oprah Obama. That's got a ring to it. And it would be less weird than this. *Okay, not only did Carla finish this rock album, with a film...

    01.02.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  3. The Transformation of Two Stellated Rhombic Dodecahedrons From a Cube

    What do you get when you go hunting for "a way to divide a cube equally in three-dimensional space? If you're Naoki Yoshimoto and the year is 1971, you get the Yoshimoto Cube, a peculiar "polyhedral toy" that allows the...

    01.02.09 From Geekdad

  4. RPG Superstar Deadline Today

    Just a quick note to get your entries in for Paizo Publishing's RPG Superstar game design talent search. The deadline is 2pm PST TODAY. The challenge? To create a Wondrous Item that will blow the socks off the contest's three...

    01.02.09 From Geekdad

  5. Bad Katyusha Poetry

    The U.K. Guardian has published some of the first poetry inspired by the current war between Israel and Hamas. It's entitled "Katyusha, Katyusha" -- after the Hamas rockets being launched at Israel. Here's an excerpt: Katyusha, Katyusha, / Arrow of...

    01.02.09 From Danger Room

  6. Bruce Sterling's State o' the World on the WELL, 2009

    *I do this every year. Yes, every year, despite the political implications, despite the terrible civilian toll! *Drop on by, we'll be taking on all comers. http://budurl.com/sterlingworld

    01.02.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  7. Israel Calls Gazans Before Bombing

    Nobody likes getting cell phone messages from strange callers. Especially not when the callers say they're about to level your house. But residents of Gaza say those are exactly the kind of messages they're getting from the Israel Defense Forces....

    01.02.09 From Danger Room

  8. Five for Fighting 1/2/09

    * The 'day after' in Iraq * Pakistan reopens the Khyber Pass * Tamil Tiger stronghold falls to Sri Lankan army * Israel preps for possible ground assault * Tracking the Middle East, tweet by tweet

    01.02.09 From Danger Room

  9. Quick Project: 12¢ Perpetual Calendar

    The quasi-evil geniuses over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have ginned up a cheap way to entertain yourself with, of all things, a calendar. At first glance, this is about as sensical as one of those crazy watches from Japan....

    01.02.09 From Geekdad

  10. Tell Us Your Top Holiday Travel Horror Story

    There's no two ways about it - holiday travel sucks. Anyone who's ever gone anywhere for the holidays has a hellish tale to tell about a Christmas spent snowed in at the airport, a New Year's Eve wasted by a...

    01.02.09 From Autopia

  1. Apple Says Farewell to Macworld, Hello to the Big Time

    It's clear today why Steve Jobs dropped the word "Computer" from Apple's company name in 2007. The CEO had greater ambitions for Apple. And with the phenomenal success of the iPhone, iPod, iTunes Store and App Store in 2008, Apple...

    01.02.09 From Gadget Lab

  2. CMU Using GPS and Accelerometer Systems To Improve Football Officiating

    A professor of computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon is combining her mutual love of football and wireless technologies in a project that could lead to a sucker-free future devoid of referrees and missed calls. Dr. Priya Narasimhan is embedding GPS...

    01.02.09 From Gadget Lab

  3. New Vuzix VR Glasses To Be Unveiled at CES

    The biggest feature of the new Vuzix virtual reality glasses has nothing to do with a new technology. Mostly, it comes from the fact that the company finally hired a designer aware of current aesthetic tastes. The older models of...

    01.01.09 From Gadget Lab

  4. How a Customized F-150 Portends Immigration Trends

    Caught up in the drama of Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, and Festivus, we'll forgive Americans for overlooking a tricked-out truckfest that happened earlier this week south of the Rio Grande. It might be worth your attention, though: its participation rate...

    01.01.09 From Autopia

  5. Rail Meets Road With the TriTrack EV

    The Progressive Automotive X-Prize and its promise of $10 million to whoever develops a 100 mpg car has drawn some pretty wild ideas, but the bullet-shaped TriTrack electric car designed by Roane Inventions takes the cake. TriTrack combines the versatility...

    01.01.09 From Autopia

  6. Green Mosquitoes Could Control Killer Disease

    By adding life-shortening bacteria to disease-carrying mosquitoes, Australian researchers might have found a clever way to control Dengue fever, a developing world scourge now becoming common in the southern United States. Thus infected, mosquitoes live long enough to reproduce, ensuring...

    01.01.09 From Wired Science

  7. UPDATED WITH A REVIEW: What's a Geek to do for New Years? How About Watch the New Bruce Campbell Flick!

    In the pantheon of geek heroes, there are few higher than Bruce Campbell. He of The Evil Dead series, Jack of All Trades, Xena, Bubb ho-Tep, Spiderman, and Burn Notice is a legendary figure in B-movies, and someone we all...

    01.01.09 From Geekdad

  8. The Year 2008 in Social Media

    *Will anything described here make even the remotest kind of sense in seven years? http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/12/30/the-year-in-social-media-2008

    01.01.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  9. Old School New Year's: Flame On!

    The end of the year brings many traditions that center on casting off the bad to start with the good. Today's New York Times lists a bunch. But what better way to end the year than with fire? A very...

    01.01.09 From Geekdad

  10. European Future Launcher

    http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/downloads/launchers/wallpapers/03/W_P12_LAU_1024.jpg *Wait a minute... why even bother to *build* these expensive, semi-functional engineering objects, when you might simply use the sketches as semiotic symbols of a quote European Future unquote? *Then they'd be like a Situationist Space Shuttle. "But what...

    01.01.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  1. Twelve Good Gadgets for Hard Times

    http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/12-good-gadgets.html "USB Thumb Drive ($10 and up) "A tiny USB thumb drive is probably the most practical infotech gadget you can own. It can help you download your contacts on the afternoon you get laid off, store your resume in...

    01.01.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  2. GeekDad Weighs In On Watchmen Wrangling

    Now that it's been a week since U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess announced that 20th Century Fox had some rights to the upcoming Warner Brothers' film adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen graphic novel, I've had some time to reflect...

    01.01.09 From Geekdad

  3. 'Sovereignty Day': Iraq Reclaims Green Zone, Airspace

    The U.S.-Iraq security pact took effect today, turning an important page for both countries. Ernesto Londoño of the Washington Post was there at midnight for the symbolic transfer of power at Saddam Hussein's former palace on the west bank of...

    01.01.09 From Danger Room

  4. Five for Fighting 1/1/09

    * Aspen bomb scare * 2008 deadliest year yet for U.S. in Afghanistan * Sons of Iraq under government control in key provinces * Top Hamas official killed in Israeli strike * Southern Thailand: WTF

    01.01.09 From Danger Room

  5. "All Streets" by Ben Fry

    *Infoviz -- a USA made entirely from pavement. http://benfry.com/allstreets/

    01.01.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  6. Gas Wars Part Two in Eastern Europe

    Cold War Redux is off to an early start this year. Gazprom, Russia's state within a state natural gas monopoly, shut the taps to Ukraine this morning after talks broke down over 2009 delivery prices. Z novym rokom, Ukraine! When...

    01.01.09 From Danger Room

  7. The Sky in Motion

    Check out The Sky in Motion, an awesome time-lapse movie showing our beautiful sky. It's 4 minutes long and has a lovely soundtrack, so make sure to turn your sound up. Via the always excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day.

    01.01.09 From Geekdad

  8. Robert Plant, Commander of the British Empire

    *Stairway to empire. A whole lotta empire. Way down inside, empire, it needs him. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7803806.stm "When Zeppelin finished I had to rely on myself," he recently told The Daily Express. "My mind was pretty icy cold and blasted clean. I...

    01.01.09 From Beyond the Beyond

  9. New Year Brings New Cuts To New York Subways

    New York City Transit had a relatively good year in 2008. Despite starting the year with a small fare hike, the system saw some positive changes that included extending the hours on part-time trains and adding additional trains on severely...

    12.31.08 From Autopia

  10. Zune Freeze Result of Leap Year: Microsoft

    It was the Z2k problem after all, a glitch related to the inability of the device clock to handle the extra day in a leap year that froze thousands of Zune media players Wednesday morning. "A bug in the internal...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. New OLED Printing Process Copies Old Model, Creates Rolled-up Displays

    A research project funded by the European Union has developed a cheaper and faster system to manufacture flexible OLED displays. According to researchers of project ROLLED, ramping up the production of the energy-efficient displays will accelerate the availability of associated...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  2. Blizzard Rep Reports Suicide Threat, Teen Arrested

    A 17-year-old World of Warcraft fan from Ohio found himself in police custody recently after threatening to commit suicide while speaking to a representative for the game, reports the Middletown Journal. During an online conversation with a representative from Blizzard...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  3. Tomb Raider Underworld Soundtrack Now Free for Download

    Tomb Raider Underworld is the best thing Lara Croft has done in years, and the soundtrack is suitably sweeping, dramatic and well-suited to accompanying any spelunking you might have to do in the new year. Instead of charging fans who...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  4. Stranded By the Viacom/Time Warner Face-off? Tune In to the Web

    [UPDATE: Viacom and Time Warner reached an agreement shortly after midnight on January 1, so nobody lost any channels. We're leaving these instructions on the wiki, however, so those of you without cable television (quite a few of you, according...

    12.31.08 From Epicenter

  5. Psychonauts Lives On in Double Fine's 'Psycho-pedia'

    Psychonauts may never get the sequel you Tim Schafer devotees have been praying for, but developer Double Fine refuses to let the clever, bizarre universe die. To that end, the firm has just launched Psycho-pedia, a Wikipedia-style collaborative information hub...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  6. Has Israel Learned From the Hezbollah War?

    Everyone is comparing the fight in Gaza with Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah. But I just chatted with an informed observer, who sees some key differences. One lesson [Prime Minister Ehud Olmert] clearly has learned is expectation management. At the...

    12.31.08 From Danger Room

  7. Ubiquity Add-on for Firefox Gets an Update, New Interface

    Mozilla's Ubiquity add-on for Firefox, the so-called "command line interface for the web" has been updated. The new release features substantial interface and speed improvements, and it's an essential update for anyone who considers themselves a web power user. Ubiquity,...

    12.31.08 From Epicenter

  8. Remote Control Keeps Going and Going on Single Watch Battery

    At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, a Dutch chip designer plans to demonstrate a remote control that could have battery makers quaking in their boots. GreenPeak claims its design offers two-way communication with multiple devices through...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Defense Contractors See $$$ in Cyber Security

    The profits of (conventional) war must not be as good as they used to be. Lockheed Martin and Boeing have decided the next cash cow is cyber defense. According to Bloomberg, both companies, "eager to capture a share of a market that may reach $11...

    12.31.08 From Threat Level

  10. Blaupunkt and miRoamer Unveil Internet Radio for the Car

    Blaupunkt and miRoamer will announce a partnership at CES that will put internet radio into car dashboards for the first time. Blaupunkt prototypes pictured here show the technology in action. "miRoamer's development with Blaupunkt is the first seamless Internet radio...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. Hamas Fires Long-Range Chinese Rockets at Israel (Updated)

    Hamas fired 60 rockets at Israel today -- another bombardment in an aerial assault that's totaled 6,300 rockets and mortars since Israeli forces left the Gaza Strip in August, 2005. But today's weapons were different. These weren't short-range, home-made Qassam...

    12.31.08 From Danger Room

  2. Sexiest Geeks of 2008, as Voted by Wired.com Readers

    Hey, geek -- want to be sexy? Better start a video blog. That's the takeaway from the hot and heavy voting in Wired.com's 2008 Sexiest Geeks competition. Vloggers Philip DeFranco (pictured above, center) and Marina Orlova (above left) harnessed their...

    12.31.08 From The Underwire

  3. Garriott 'Probably' Returning to 'Medieval Fantasy' Genre

    After his recent departure from Tabula Rasa publisher NCsoft, we wondered what Ultima creator Richard Garriott would do next. Now we have something of an answer. "After 25 years at Origin, the last thing I wanted to make was yet...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  4. Video: Paul Robertson Shills for Energy Drink

    Paul Robertson, creator of the insanely awesome Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006, has released his latest work: A faux ad for a faux energy drink called "Syke." Unlike Robertson's prior works which were simple, 16-bit-style symphonies of destruction,...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  5. Shin Megami Tensei MMO Now Open to Public

    Clarification: Aeria Games is the publisher bringing SMT Imagine to North America. Cave is the MMO's developer. We apologize for any confusion inadvertently caused by the previous wording. Shin Megami Tensei Imagine, an online virtual world set in the universe...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  6. 12 Elegant Examples of Evolution

    In preparation for Charles Darwin's upcoming 200th birthday, the editors of Nature compiled a selection of especially elegant and enlightening examples of evolution. They describe it as a resource "for those wishing to spread awareness of evidence for evolution by...

    12.31.08 From Wired Science

  7. Wired's Top 10 Games (and Vaporware!) of 2008

    Here are Wired's top 10 videogames for 2008, in case you missed the list when it hit the home page during Christmas week. Since we already listed our top five games for each console, the final list shouldn't come as...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  8. A New Push to Turn Off the Lights in 2009

    Astronomers are fed up. One fifth of the world's population cannot see the Milky Way because street lamps and building lights are too bright. So scientists are mounting a new campaign, called Dark Skies Awareness, aiming to reduce light pollution...

    12.31.08 From Wired Science

  9. Mixin' It Up With a Food Gadget

    I know I'm not alone. There are Geeks and Dads who are foodies. I know of at least a couple other GeekDad contributors who like their food and who are trying new things away from their gadgets (mostly) and spend...

    12.31.08 From Geekdad

  10. Game|Life Video: Predicting 2009's Gaming Trends

    Here are our predictions of what the year 2009 will bring for gamers -- in video form! Wired magazine senior editor Chris Baker joins me for our final episode of Game|Life The Video for 2008, in which we discuss what...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  1. Rumor: New Mac Minis Dressed in Sexy Aluminum

    Insiders are leaking details about Apple's rumored Mac Mini, confirming Wired.com's earlier predictions about the device. The Unofficial Apple Weblog cites anonymous sources who say the new Mac Mini will sport an enclosure resembling the aluminum-and-black scheme seen in the...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  2. 10 New Year's Resolutions for Geeks

    Repeat after me: I hereby resolve that, in the new year, I... 1. Will not get into arguments with other geeks about the age-old PC vs. Mac or Windows vs. OS X vs. Linux questions, because nobody ever wins religious...

    12.31.08 From Geekdad

  3. Game|Life Video: The Making of LittleBigPlanet

    Earlier this month, Wired magazine senior editor Chris Baker joined Alex Evans, cofounder of LittleBigPlanet maker Media Molecule, at the Wired Store for a chat about the groundbreaking PlayStation 3 game. Here's what transpired. In this Game|Life exclusive video, Evans...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  4. Hands On: Peggle: Dual Shot Lights Up Nintendo DS

    Whether you find the Peggle series' pachinko-pinball madness mildly enjoyable, fiendishly addictive, or wholly uninteresting, the physics-centric puzzler has sold gangbusters on the myriad devices it has graced, ensnaring both casual and hardcore players. And in what I can only...

    12.31.08 From Game | Life

  5. Noah Hearts Nathan, Axe

    The only thing better than spending a week in Miami and the Virgin Islands is spending a week in Miami and the Virgin Islands, while Nathan Hodge and David Axe run your blog. Thanks, guys. You rock.

    12.31.08 From Danger Room

  6. Rumor: Mac Tablet Coming Fall 2009

    Rumors of a touchscreen tablet from Apple are gaining momentum -- again. Three independent sources close to Apple told TechCrunch that a large-screen iPod Touch is slated for a Fall of 2009 release. The device will feature a 7- or...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  7. Family Games of the Year

    Now that we're seeing various top ten lists of the year's video games, we thought it would be good to break out ou list - a list with a family gaming twist. Rather than rating games in different genres, our...

    12.31.08 From Geekdad

  8. 2009 Movie Guide: Where the Wild Films Are

    Will 2009 be the year that 3-D movies finally come of age and captivate audiences? Will old-school characters like Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes bury comic book characters at the cineplex, or will sci-fi and superheroes continue to slap the...

    12.31.08 From The Underwire

  9. Five for Fighting 12/31/08

    * Israel keeps the pressure on Hamas ... * ... while Iranians volunteer for martyrdom mission * U.S., NATO seek new Afghan supply routes * Indo-Pak war of words escalates * DARPA's new cyberwarfare range

    12.31.08 From Danger Room

  10. 30GB Zunes Killing Themselves In Droves

    The internet is awash with reports that the 30GB Zune is committing suicide across the planet. Not just one of them, either. It seems that some weird bug is simultaneously causing the music players to kill themselves, like lemmings leaping...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. Arise, Sir Terry! Discworld Author Terry Pratchett Knighted

    There are times when the phrase “Absolutely, totally, gobsmackingly, mindbogglingly amazed” just doesn’t cover it. The words of the newly-knighted Sir Terry Pratchett, creator and chronicler of the Discworld, and the mind behind the Wee Free Men. Summarizing the likely...

    12.31.08 From Geekdad

  2. The Apocalypse is Coming: What You Need to Pack

    Photo: Midnight-digital/Flickr Crisis schmisis. It’s nothing more than a crisis of consumer confidence, and Wired.com Editor Dylan Tweney’s list of 12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times is a great way to spend some money to survive it. But what happens...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  3. Nerf N-Strike (Wii) - The Cure for the Common FPS?

    This game poses an interesting question: if most people play FPS (first-person shooter) games to pretend to be using cool real-world (or better than real-world) guns, will anyone actually play one that uses a simulation of guns that are intended...

    12.31.08 From Geekdad

  4. The Greatest Transportation Moments of a Year We Want to Forget

    Rarely can a year-end review get as depressing as in 2008. In January we were anxiously awaiting the Tesla, Smart, and Volt. Now we really can't afford a Tesla, we can't even afford a Smart, and we're still awaiting the...

    12.31.08 From Autopia

  5. Ford Builds a Self-Parking Car. Sort Of.

    When this writer first started driving, he'd ensure that all his first dates involved parallel parking. "How did a nice boy from the suburbs learn to park like that?" the girls would wonder. "I guess it's just a natural talent,"...

    12.31.08 From Autopia

  6. Tourists Power Up Times Square New Year's Sign Through Spinning Bikes

    The human pedal power of six stationary bicycles has built up enough power in less than a month to light up the New Year's Eve '2009' sign tonight in New York's Times Square. According to Jenna Wortham over at the...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  7. More Kids Music That Doesn't Suck: Robbert Bobbert & the Bubble Machine

    When you think of indie rockers The Apples in Stereo, thoughts invariably turn to quality children's music. Wait, your thoughts don't turn to children's music? Well, they should! With notable contributions to music-heavy kid's fare like Nickelodeon's The Adventures of...

    12.31.08 From Geekdad

  8. Archinect Predicts 2009

    http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=84130_0_23_0_C *Way to go, Archinect. *Since nobody can build a damn thing in any global real-estate meltdown, the architects are blatantly fantasizing. I'm all for that activity. It's the way forward. Let's go.

    12.31.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  9. BLDGBLOG enters 2009

    http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/architects-of-near-future.html ((("Architects of the Near Future." This is getting close to an open, blatant manifesto for architecture-fiction. You want a warm, affirmative feeling about the creative prospects for 2009? Read this. Then think about it, and what you might do...

    12.31.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  10. The New Beijing Artistic Optimism

    *Hey, it's 2009, SOMEBODY's gotta act like they think that they know what they're doing. Never stop! vitamin creative space Battery City: A Post-Olympic Beijing Mini-Marathon Statement from Hans Ulrich Obrist Time: 31st December 2008 2:00pm - 1st January...

    12.31.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  1. Dead Media Beat: VHS Video Tape

    *Off to join its long-dead twin, Sony Betamax. DVD, you should start counting the hours. Geoff Duncan, VHS Rides Off Into The Sunset, 23 Dec 2008 http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-article/18730/vhs-rides-off-into-the-sunset The venerable VHS tape is finally vanishing in the rear-view mirror as the...

    12.31.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  2. Green, Maverick Make List of 'Banished Words' for 2009

    A small university way up on the Canadian border is holding up the American end in the constant war against words and phrases that really cheese us all off on a daily basis. Back in November, researchers at the University...

    12.31.08 From The Underwire

  3. Doctor Who's Moffat Prepping 21st-Century Sherlock

    While he waits to take over control of the Tardis as the new executive producer of Doctor Who in 2010, Steven Moffat is updating Sherlock Holmes for BBC1. Moffat (smiling above) is putting his three-time Hugo Award-winning pen to work...

    12.31.08 From The Underwire

  4. Modular Car Computer To Debut at CES 2009

    A start-up company will debut a modular dashboard computer for cars at this year's CES that will read off email and have several individual control functions for every seat. It sounds like it's perfect for multi-tasking nutcase executives addicted to...

    12.31.08 From Gadget Lab

  5. Hand-sized VuNow Pod Jumps Into Heated Set-Top Box Battle

    It takes an awful lot of of confidence for an up-and-coming company to introduce a media player in a market chock-full of ravenous brand name companies. This is especially the case when the brand names are lowering the price of...

    12.30.08 From Gadget Lab

  6. Will Apple Launch a Quad-Core MacBook Pro at Macworld?

    Some are speculating that Apple's top-of-the-line notebook could receive a significant chip upgrade at January's Macworld Expo. When Apple refreshed its MacBook family in October, it mysteriously left out the 17-inch MacBook Pro -- Apple's high-end notebook designed for creative...

    12.30.08 From Gadget Lab

  7. Wired Science's 13 Most Popular Stories of 2008

    It was a good year for Wired Science, and we have our readers to thank for that. So, for the dual purposes of thanking you and patting ourselves on the back, here is a list of our most read stories...

    12.30.08 From Wired Science

  8. CES 2009 Will Be Smaller, But Still Full of News, Gadgets and Hype

    Get ready for an orgy of electronics industry news, speculation and hype. Despite the downturn in the economy and disappointing holiday sales figures, the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show is still going to be a massive gadget fest. Yes, attendance will...

    12.30.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Bill Nye Brainwashes Kids Into Recycling

    Bill Nye's paper recycling factory toy (right) looks like a promising way to teach kids environmental friendliness while they're ripe and impressionable. The kit includes an assortment of colorful, plastic tools to mash, dye, hydrate and mold old paper into...

    12.30.08 From Gadget Lab

  10. 11 Gadgets to Rock Your New Year's Eve

    What better way to welcome the new year than with a collection of bright and shiny party gadgets? You can handle the basics: Flare pants. Sequin dress for the ladies (and some of the gentlemen). Hair gel. Beer. Breath mints....

    12.30.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World

    Ask America's foremost molecular gastronomist about the Willy Wonka comparisons, and Homaro Cantu will insist that he's just an average guy who likes cheeseburgers. But it's not cheeseburgers that have earned the Chicago chef fame: it's dishes prepared with industrial...

    12.30.08 From Wired Science

  2. With Flickr Layoffs, Whither 'The Commons'?

    In mid-December, when Yahoo laid off George Oates, one of the original employees of the photo-sharing website Flickr, Oates immediately feared for The Commons, Flickr's project to have its millions of members turn their distributed intelligence to the world's photo...

    12.30.08 From Epicenter

  3. Pain Tops 2008 PSN Download List

    Would you believe that the most downloaded game on Sony's PlayStation Network this year was a title about flinging stereotypical characters at brick walls? The latest episode of Sony's "video magazine" Pulse offers a list of the top ten most...

    12.30.08 From Game | Life

  4. Ambient News Brings RSS to You, No Subscription Required

    Lazy people, listen up. Now there's an RSS news reader made just for you. Over the past two weeks or so, I've been playing around with some new, experimental Firefox add-ons that explore new ways of aggregating headlines of news...

    12.30.08 From Epicenter

  5. Legacy of Ys DS Gets Pre-Order Soundtrack

    Atlus knows the secret to ensuring pre-orders from fans: awesome, exclusive, and most importantly, free goodies. To wit: The company has just revealed that those who pre-order the upcoming Legacy of Ys I & II for the Nintendo DS will...

    12.30.08 From Game | Life

  6. Timesplitters 4, Star Wars Battlefront 3 Pictures Leaked

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  8. Times Square Goes Brightly Into That New Year

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    12.30.08 From Geekdad

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    12.30.08 From Game | Life
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