Editor's note: This article will appear in Wired magazine's April issue, on sale March 24, 2009. It is being published online now because the subject of the story, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was released from prison in Belgium this week. Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room traili...

Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

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newVideoPlayer("/Australian_tears_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); The City is still on the air! Can you believe it? New York City still swirls on, while its idiot denizens wear hats and talk about modeling and bands. And fashion! I just fell down. Many disastrous things happened to Bob and Carol and Whit...

My wife is putting together a video for her brother's wedding, so I purchased Adobe Premiere Elements 7, at the recommendation of Blake Caraway.  After some frustration that the serial number I was granted did not work, I tried to get it to work on my laptop just to be sure I wasn't screwing it...

Here is write up about one of my favorites cities I have recently visited and explored! Photo by libertinus You have to be careful not to step in dogshit in Buenos Aires. For some, that's what they'll remember most about it. In what terms do you 'see' a place? Riding home from Palermo on the creakin...

Now even Donald Luskin is sounding apocalyptic. Normally he’s a cheerful, optimistic sort of fellow when it comes to capitalism and the American economy. But after watching the new administration’s ineffectual and damaging responses to the economic crisis, Mr. Luskin offers the opinion that this...

The most significant story of the day asserts that the American financial system is effectively insolvent. I’ve been asserting similar things for a while now, but had become concerned that such views were turning me into a crank. I even had Dymphna put me on a 24-hour Crank Watch, to make sure tha...

To a disinterested observer such as myself, the Obama administration looks particularly inept, foolish, petty, vindictive, and unprofessional. Even the adoring MSM has a hard time papering over all The One’s recent missteps. After making some spectacularly bad cabinet appointments and snubbing the...

Come dressed to impress and win a FREE TATTOO from Visual Orgasm! (terms and conditions apply) * Come 13 March 2009, the Singapore Dark Alternative Movement (SDAM) will revolutionise local club culture once more with internationally-acclaimed talent DJ Mini (Montreal, Canada). As the only club event...