Field Notes

“Asshat,” which perfectly combines aspects of stupidity or clownishness and assholism. I say this knowing that Gadget Lab blogger Rob […]

Someone has made a documentary about Helvetica. Yes, the font. In its honor they’re holding a haiku contest. Two of

Check it out: The new Wired.com homepage just went live 2 minutes ago. Woo hoo!

OK, forgive the cheesy 80’s TV show reference, but I couldn’t resist using it to announce that not one, but

Michael Arrington stopped by the office yesterday and took some photos of our upcoming redesign.

Finally, a politician has the stones to declare, publicly, that he doesn’t believe in God: Stark’s atheist views break political

One way to make science more interesting is to make it more relevant. Rocket scientists and astrophysicists have gotten pretty

Door to door magazine subscription sellers–debt slaves, strung out on meth, beaten if they don’t sell enough: For Youths, a

The ultimate Web 2.0 service: You give them a bunch of personal details when you sign up, and in return

Ignore their advice. Lie to them, saying that you took the advice. Kiss their asses. And then, years later, brag