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2. What is the most popular item on Wired.com at the moment?
A slideshow titled, “Air Hostesses of Yesteryear.”
3. Does Wired know its target audience?
Yes.
ummmm…What?
I’ve been wired for as long as I can remember, but I never knew there was a magazine about me.
Coffee, tea or Wii?
This post is very interesting. I am bookmarking your site.
It’s sad but people don’t really realize if things happen ever to that improbably airborned husk of steel you’re sitting in it’s these ladies that can a lot help you not get dead or burned up and stuff. In the meantime they’ll bring you stuff to drink. But really they deserve a lot of respect I think. Their trainings they do every year involve keeping you alive way more than how to fluff your fucking pillows I think.
Oh. That last was a little on the humorless side, huh?
Shut up, Busu-i.
I finally gave up my subscription to the magazine when I had seen enough liberal guilt-ridden stories juxtaposed with ads (and better yet, their product reviews that act as ads) for speakers and watches costing thousands of dollars.
michaelt,
I’m generally in agreement, though the reason I visited the site was to see if they had put any of the latest issue online yet, because it has some remarkably politically incorrect stuff on the environment. As it turned out, the latest ish is not online yet, but the irony and obviousness of the most popular post cracked me up.
I browsed the latest Wired in Ontario (CA) airport while waiting for my plane back to Dallas last Thursday. (Feets, I did think of you, but it’s a fair piece from Ontario to Burbank without a car.) The piece is only superficially non-PC — they’ve still bought the “warming is happening and it’s all America’s fault” notion hook, line, and sinker. It’s really a sort of cleaned-up Jeff Foxworthy joke. Glowing in the dark keeps you warm, you know, and saves power too!
Regards,
Ric
Ric is right, per usual — except that most of what they are recommending is far less stupid and destructive to the economy, so that we’re all better off when the end of the world doesn’t come.
I always have to sit between a
fat lady and a soldier on the plane;
Next time I go to San Francisco
Gonna ride a train.
Seat back’s busted and the overhead lamp
Ain’t workin’ no more
Fat lady’s got nuthin’ to say
And the soldier wants to talk about the war
Lord, lord, lord, y’know I ain’t got nothin’ to do
But just fly, fly, fly…
I always get the hostess with the ratted hair
Never get the sweet tenderloin,
Beef stroganoff lyin’ on the plate
They’ve been savin’ ever since Des Moines…
Oh hey. When I get a new car that would be doable but this one right now scares me to get too far out of my zone. There’s something not right about it but I’m not putting any more money into it to find out.
Ric Locke
Geez, you were within shouting distance of me.
Some of their arms look fake, but I don’t think it’s time travel accidents or other weird shit. Women were the original ‘Iron Men’ or ‘Terminators.’ They called them ‘rubber maids’ cause they weren’t clones, but humans assumed by bots(wired) cause they go after bodies, specifically male organs that females don’t have.
I guess I could read that one more time. Oh. Nope. Still nothing.
many of these wired people maybe fly for a living, doing face time with the various agents and vendors …and just thinking of how it used to be flying with real nice Stewardii with smiles and all and time to sit on your lap and meet you after the flight is just Amazing. Just Amazing that flying was once a pleasure. ‘course with this summer’s fiascos we’ll all be avoiding the airports as much as possible unless one has private jets. Girly Nostalgia eh?
otherwise all slickness and coolness and early Mac users. But in that last category they were ahead of the curve. Everybody wants a Mac now. Even me. Even if I hate Steve Jobs. (linux just seems too hard…)
Well, if it wasn’t time travel accidents, that would be some weird shit.
Um, no. Though you are welcome to stay home.
Tell you what; the better half and I flew to LA last week for a niece’s wedding (which was actually in Oxnard; had a nice twisty drive up the PCH once we got clear of Malibu), and I saw no indication that people are avoiding the airports. Quite the contrary. But as that one article mentioned, the airline’s price increases may not have quite caught up with the non-business traveler just yet.
Methinks dataless dave is talking out his dataless ass again. Those picture on the Wired site were all at least 25-30 years old or older. None of those weenies at Wired were likely even born yet when “stewardesses” like those passed into the mists of history, so they are clueless as to how it “used to be”.
i already have the tickets paid for…but man I’m on Delta….last time was pretty bad and it could worse this time…. (but they were the lowest fare..but with that Atlanta hub)…..and my ‘boss’ just got off a Delta flight that hit birds and it stopped on the runway and turned around….and he was a day late. Just last week.
bring food and water as last year we spent hours on the runway in heated cabin in the summer w/o water and food.
cave bear crawl back. Anyway, nostalgia for the hippy age is big time with the 15 thru 30 crowd. With their dreds, hardwired faces, macbooks and all.
Hardwired faces and macbooks? Hippy? WTF?
I’ve got absolutely nothing here.
Delta. <snork>
If I liked you, ddave, I might tell you which airline my wife and I are using this summer.
Enjoy your trip. Delta. <snork>
I love Wired for the technology information it brings, but I hate it for its overt leftist politics. From the issue with Al Gore on the cover as the messiah, on to the constant pushing of the lie that is MMGW without ANY debate, at least this month its cover says Environmentalists should accept Nuclear Power if they are serious. At least there is that….
I miss their “Japanese Schoolgirl Watch” from when I used to subscribe.
Finally some hard-hitting journalism I could relate to.
yeah, Delta sucks….depends what airport you’re at. Southwest is cool but not here…usually I go Continental or United if I can afford it Jet Blue? weird times to fly usually in the wee hours.