Wired’s Bryan Derballa recently published a photo essay on the growing moped communities around the country and their passionate fascination with the fuel-efficient, but ailing, and often discarded, motorized bikes.  Derballa’s three week immersion into the moped culture involved a run-in with the police and a group ride through Times Square.
The vibrant moped community in Brooklyn is centered on a little shop called the Orphanage in Greenpoint.  The group support the little collection of bikes rescued from obscurity and repairs them to sputtering, though working, order.  The mopeds often top out at 30 miles per hour and the little two-stroke [...]

Wired editor Chris Anderson recently told a German newspaper that he used Twitter to help him navigate the news rather than looking at sources. The point he made is an evolution of his media consumption habits that he discussed back in 2005.

Wired Magazine editor Mathew Honan took it upon himself to test out what it would be like to thoroughly take advantage of location aware software. Activating as many location based applications as he could, Honan tried to live an extremely open lifestyle where he constantly broadcast his every move, and actively used these applications to meet up with new people and find new things. His experience was mixed, and illustrates the complexities of dealing with this new kind of living. It seems there are many serendipitous benefits, potential mishaps and downright dangers to filtering your world with a 100% digital [...]

Here are a few pics we took of the Wired Store through the windows this morning on the way to the office.