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Nods to the Old Country in a Modern Space A gleaming, modern interior by architect Peter Marino emerges in the flagship store Ermenegildo Zegna, the men’s luxury clothing and accessories brand. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World : In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, the theorized but m Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World : In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, the theorized but m Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who painstakingly coordinated our interview, a typical salarym Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Space Invaders' Remake Takes Retro Gaming to the Limit This is slightly embarrassing to admit, but I'm addicted to ... Space Invaders. Not the 1978-issue game, mind you. No, I'm talking about Space Invaders Extreme -- a re-visioning of the original game, released this week for the Nintendo DS and PSP by Square Enix (which now owns Tai Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Space Invaders' Remake Takes Retro Gaming to the Limit This is slightly embarrassing to admit, but I'm addicted to ... Space Invaders. Not the 1978-issue game, mind you. No, I'm talking about Space Invaders Extreme -- a re-visioning of the original game, released this week for the Nintendo DS and PSP by Square Enix (which now owns Tai Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The 20th Century's Industrious Designer : Photo: Courtesy Library of CongressIndustrial designer Raymond Loewy was a giant in his field. He produced innovative designs in every area from fashion to locomotives. If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you've probably admired a Loewy design. You like logos? Then, you lik Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The 20th Century's Industrious Designer : Photo: Courtesy Library of CongressIndustrial designer Raymond Loewy was a giant in his field. He produced innovative designs in every area from fashion to locomotives. If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you've probably admired a Loewy design. You like logos? Then, you lik Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: The Brian Eno Evolution When Brian Eno landed on our May 1995 cover, he proclaimed: "Gossip is philosophy." Since then, his name has appeared in 16 issues, and today the "prototypical Renaissance 2.0 artist" is as busy as ever. He coproduced Coldplay's album Viva la Vida (out in June), composed the score for Wil Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands On a late fall afternoon on the western edge of the Netherlands, coastal engineer Marcel Stive stands atop a 40-foot dune. He stares out beyond the posse of wet-suit-clad surfers wading into the breakers of the North Sea. Where the surfers see inviting waves, Stive sees dry land—and a d Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands On a late fall afternoon on the western edge of the Netherlands, coastal engineer Marcel Stive stands atop a 40-foot dune. He stares out beyond the posse of wet-suit-clad surfers wading into the breakers of the North Sea. Where the surfers see inviting waves, Stive sees dry land—and a d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Is U.S. innovation on the skids? It would be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the U.S. in recent weeks as markets have continued to churn and assets have melted. But the headlines that have made us dread picking up the newspaper mask a long-term problem that may shape the nation's future Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Battlestar, South Park, Webisodes Scoop Emmy Nods A staggering windfall of nominations for geek television for the 2008 Emmy awards is helping bring mainstream legitimacy to the sci-fi genre. Space opera Battlestar Galactica racked up a total of six Emmy nominations. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Battlestar, South Park, Webisodes Scoop Emmy Nods A staggering windfall of nominations for geek television for the 2008 Emmy awards is helping bring mainstream legitimacy to the sci-fi genre. Space opera Battlestar Galactica racked up a total of six Emmy nominations. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Web's best free stuff Free: It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World Of all the copy shops in all of England, Trudy Coughlan had the rotten luck of walking into Document Image Processing. It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them ont Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |