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Wired Discoveries - Dec 31, 2007
It takes a little while to get the facts straight, but it turns out Giuseppe Piazzi has discovered the first asteroid.
Wired: Listening Post - Dec 31, 2007
At midnight Eastern Standard Time on this new year's eve, Radiohead will take the stage for an hour-long, commercial-free, taped performance of their latest album, In Rainbows. We posted the details earlier, but here …
Wired: GeekDad - Dec 31, 2007
This is the wallpaper on the kids' computer. Why? Not ever having been a pre-teen boy, I never realized what it's like to be THE target audience for the movie industry. Now I do. Sometime last summer, the 12-year-old …
Tagged: film
Wired: Threat Level - Dec 31, 2007
Billy Chasen, an artist and software engineer, says he hopped into a New York City cab one night and found an error message displayed on the Windows touchscreen machine in the backseat. Cabs have begun installing the …
Tagged: hacks and cracks, glitches and bugs
Wired: Threat Level - Dec 31, 2007
The FBI announced today that it's seeking help from the public in solving the 36-year-old cold case involving "D.B." Cooper -- the infamous hi-jacker with the G-man haircut and skinny tie who parachuted from a …
Tagged: crime
Wired: Gadget Lab - Dec 31, 2007
A story Threat Level reported almost a month ago has finally hit the mainstream press: an RIAA lawyer affirming in a federal lawsuit that it considers copying music from compact disk to computer to be stealing. In the …
Tagged: law
Wired: Listening Post - Dec 31, 2007
Researchers at Yale University have devised a way for ISPs to reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed by P2P traffic by 60 percent, if lab results translate to the real world. But rather than throttling back on …
Tagged: digital music news
Wired: Underwire - Dec 31, 2007
A last-minute change in British law means the show goes on for a New Year blockbuster of art from Russia at London's Royal Academy. The exhibition's 120 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks - featuring "The …
Tagged: art, current affairs, exhibit, behind the scenes
Wired: GeekDad - Dec 31, 2007
We were digging through the storage shed to find just the right box of Christmas decorations, when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I've had with me for... well, for a very …
Tagged: rpgs
Wired: Wired Science - Dec 31, 2007
Since the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Martin Evans, Mario Capecchi, and Oliver Smithies for developing knockout mice -- creatures that lack individual genes -- this year should be remembered as …
Tagged: animals, genetics, systems biology