Blog Profile / The Underwire
| URL : | http://blog.wired.com/underwire/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment | |
| Posts on Regator: | 6505 | |
| Posts / Week: | 24.4 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Alt Text: Airborne Flirting Hits Passengers With a Mile-High Club
Virgin America recently announced an in-flight flirting tool. Here are a few other social networks that could come to the overly-friendly skies.
What We Learned About Technology From 1995?s The Net
We’ve decided to analyze the valuable lessons about technology contained within the most educational material that we as a society have ever produced: Hollywood films. Today’s lesson: The Net, the most harrowing mid-'90s Sandra Bullock thriller that did not involve...
Watch a Pacific Rim Kaiju Use a Cargo Ship Like a Baseball Bat
The latest trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim reveals a lot more about the drama of film's alien invasion and robot retaliation. Also, there's a Jaeger hitting a kaiju with a cargo ship. So there's that.
Multisensory Version of Iron Man 3 in Japan Is a Gimmicky Waste of $28
The so-called 4DX experience, which debuted in Nagoya, Japan last weekend at a showing of Iron Man 3, adds vibrations, moving seats and sprays of water to the movie experience -- but detracts from the film.
Why People Get Annoyed at Celebrities on Kickstarter (And Why They Probably Shouldn’t)
Last week actor/director Zach Braff launched a Kickstarter for a new film and raised more than $2 million in just a few days. Naturally, some questioned why a celeb needed cash from average folk. But his presence is likely a...
Martin Luther King Jr. and Molotov Cocktails: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads
This week's Mad Men revealed the one thing Bobby Draper, Abe Drexler, and Henry Francis have in common: They all understand the appeal of the apocalypse.
Recap: Everybody Screws Up In This Week’s Game of Thrones
The third season of Game of Thrones is finally here, and we’re back to chronicle the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s world of Westeros -- and how it differs from the books -- in a series of letters...
Kickstarter Can’t Usurp the Hollywood Entertainment-Industrial Complex
Some creative pursuits are big, game-changing, and expensive. But the indie ecosystem is better equipped to support quirky one-offs rather than the big-vision faire that the industrial-entertainment complex puts out. Add to this the paradox of risk-taking: on one hand...
Exoskeletons, Lasers, and Jet Packs: How to Be a Real-Life Iron Man
Sure, so you'll never be able to fight alongside Thor or Captain America. That doesn't mean you couldn't try to be a real-life Iron Man anyway. Here's how.
Pussy Riot Member Denied Parole, Will Remain in Prison Colony
A Russian court has denied Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's plea for early release.
Who’s Who in Iron Man 3: The Arc Reactor Infographic
Keeping track of the characters in the Marvel cinematic universe can be daunting for all but the biggest fan. This awesome interactive infographic breaks it all down for the n00bs.
YouTube’s Comedy Week: A Magic Mix of Big Names and Web Celebs
YouTube's Comedy Week will bring together web celebs and established TV stars for a new kind of programming.
U.S. Ambassador Calls for End to Game of Thrones Torrenting: ‘Tyrion Will Thank You’
The popular HBO drama Game of Thrones set a new record this season for the illegal downloading of a television show, and the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey F. Bleich, is very unhappy about it. He's also pretty sure that...
Why TV Shows Are Self-Censoring After the Boston Bombing (And Why It Won’t Last)
Broadcast TV has pulled shows, but this summer's biggest movies are still filled with terrorists. Can we change the way we view fictional acts of terror?
Peasants and Pirates: The Hidden Danger of Copying Digital Music
It is one thing to sing for your supper occasionally, but to have to do so for every meal forces you into a peasant’s dilemma. Real life cannot avoid spates of bad luck, so eventually almost everyone living a real-time...
Aaron Swartz Film Kickstarted by Director of Anonymous Documentary
Today, Brian Knappenberger, the director of the Anonymous documentary We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists launched a Kickstarter to fund his new feature documentary about Aaron Swartz.
Alt Text: Six Robot Movies — Without the Robots
Here's what six robot movies would look like -- if they didn't have robots.
Wired Video Series | Bloodline: Antiviral and How to Die Like a Celebrity
In this episode of Bloodline, Jay Dayrit and Jordan Crucchiola break down the infectious nature of disease horror.
Mad Men in Space? Writers Pitch Show about NASA in the ’60s
Florida Today reported Monday that writers from the hit TV series Mad Men are pitching a new show: a look at the early days of the U.S. space program through the eyes of the journalists who covered it.
First Thor: The Dark World Teaser Brings the Thunder
First teaser for Thor: The Dark World arrives full of Jane Foster, Loki, and -- well -- darkness.