Unsurprising news of the day: Microsoft secretly paid for “independent” full page newspaper ads that contained an open letter from academics supporting them in their antitrust case.
Disgruntled readers are chattering about the fact that this month’s Wired is one of the fattest ever, mainly because it’s chock full of advertising, presumably raked in by their new owners, Conde Nast. As a service to Wired subscribers who read this page (an illustrious group of which I am no longer a member), I’ll provide you with a link to the seminal October 1995 Suck essay, How to Read Wired Magazine.