Notes

I’ve started a little tiny meme. Look, isn’t it cute? fluffy piece of Digg bait

NASA wants to pump you up: You Will Get Excited About Spending $100 Billion on a Lunar Program (yeah, I wrote that)

My coworker Kristen Philipkoski outed me as a Vogue subscriber. I only read it for the Jeffrey Steingarten columns, I swear.

Canadian anti-global warming marketing campaign: Flicking brilliant. FLICK OFF

Why J.K. Rowling is the first author to make a billion dollars from her writing: Leverage.

Penelope Trunk explains why you think reporters are always misquoting you: Why journalists misquote everyone — or do they?

Headline of the week: We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns out of Your Cold Dead Hands

“Asshat,” which perfectly combines aspects of stupidity or clownishness and assholism. I say this knowing that Gadget Lab blogger Rob Beschizza has outed me as someone who says “Oh my goodness” with no apparent trace of irony. Guilty as charged. Hey, I’ve got a young child. You want to hear a kinder

Someone has made a documentary about Helvetica. Yes, the font. In its honor they’re holding a haiku contest. Two of my favorite things — haiku and fonts — wrapped up in a third favorite thing — a contest. Ooh! I can hardly contain myself. Helvetica documentary world premier haiku contest

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 two of the online events I produced while at PC Magazine have won FAME awards from Folio Magazine. As the announcement states, “10 gold winners were chosen from more than 150 entries from cons

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