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Bigfoot Hunters Fail to Produce Creature's Corpse
Bullshit press conference, but I had fun with the writeup. (Wired.com, 2008-08-15)

Book Review: What Would MacGyver Do?
Review of a book by Brendan Vaughan (Wired.com, 2008-02-15)

CES Party Report: Mary J. Blige Performs for Monster Cable
Mary J. Blige rocked the house at a Monster Cable party at CES 2008. (Wired.com, 2008-01-09)

Developers at WWDC Looking Forward to iPhone 3G Platform
News story from the floor of Apple's WWDC. (Wired.com, 2008-06-09)

First Look: iPhone 3G Fires on (Almost) Every Cylinder
My first-day review of the iPhone 3G. (Wired.com, 2008-07-11)

How Google Can Save Android From Certain Failure
The debut of the Android-based T-Mobile G1 phone is the first public appearance of an almost fully-baked consumer "Googlephone." There's just one problem: There is no Googlephone -- and that's something Google must fix, and fast, if it wants its mobile operating system to succeed. (Wired.com, 2008-09-23)

MacBook Air's Real Design Innovation Is Under the Hood
Most critiques of the MacBook Air are missing the point, because it's a luxury item -- and it's also merely Apple's first foray into the ultralight device category. (Wired.com, 2008-01-18)

Nanotubes Hold Promise for Next-Generation Computing
Two separate groups of researchers have recently published papers demonstrating advances in creating, sorting and organizing carbon nanotubes so they can be used in electronics. (Wired.com, 2008-07-09)

New Chips Poised to Revolutionize Photography, Film
For the first time, professional-grade single-lens reflex cameras are gaining the ability to record high-definition video. That capability, photographers say, has the potential to transform both still photography and moviemaking -- and it's largely thanks to advances in the semiconductor technology used to make the image sensors inside these cameras. (Wired.com, 2008-10-09)

Nokia to Tackle Google, First in Mapping, Then Everywhere
Nokia doesn't want you to think of its forthcoming mapping software for PCs as a Google Maps competitor. But press them, and Nokia executives will admit Google is the enemy. And with that particular enemy, there can be no compromise. (Wired.com, 2008-05-13)

Organized Chaos Reigns at Bil, the Alterna-TED
Bil, an un-conference designed as a complement to TED, brought an interesting mix of scientific and technological ideas into an impromptu and self-organized agenda of presentations and discussion. (Wired.com, 2008-03-03)

Review: Olympus E-420 is One Smokin' SLR
Review of a compact digital SLR camera by Olympus. (Wired.com, 2008-05-09)

Review: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 is part of that rare subset of business books that actually aim to tell interesting stories about people in business. (Wired.com, 2008-05-15)

So Long, Bill Gates, and Thanks for the Monopoly
He's a merciless competitor, a shameless "fan" of other people's ideas and an unapologetic monopolist. And because of all that, Bill Gates has done more to create the thriving computer industry than anybody else. (Wired.com, 2008-06-27)

WWDC Keynote: Steve Jobs Announces a $200, 3G iPhone
My liveblogged coverage of the keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference. (Wired.com, 2008-06-09)

Your Shoes Are Killing Your Feet
Wearing shoes is messing up the perfectly-balanced, coordinated bipedal gait that our species evolved over millions of years. (Wired.com, 2008-04-23)