AC/DC’s new $200 box set packs musical rarities and memorabilia inside a functional 1-watt guitar amplifier. The AC/DC Backtracks packaging, pictured, is unique and fully operational. And what’s inside is impressive as well: The limited-...

I can remember watching the first episode of The Simpsons. I was 12 years old and awkward, with the ill-defined aspiration of “being funny.” In the 20 years since, as the show has defined and refined itself and undergone various changes — some...

About the Authors: Having been zombie survivalists since the age of 8, when their mother bought them Dawn of the Dead, twins Matt and John Yuan turned their passion for firearms and anti-ghoul geekery into a ticket to Hollywood. They played mall cop...

How do you top a movie that took a lesser-known character from the Marvel Comics universe and turned him into the most badass big-screen superhero to date? That’s the dilemma faced by Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau, whose 2008 mo...

Last week’s Wired Playlist podcast was awash in music worthy of beach parties, barbecues and tiki torches. This week, it’s pretty much the same. You weren’t ready to give up on summer just yet, were you? Your host, Wired magazine s...

Let me be the first, and possibly only, person to say it: I love Rupert Murdoch like a mother. I’m not sure whether I mean that I love him as if I were his mother, or I love him as if he were my mother, but in either case the love is as heartfelt as it...

Justin Halpern’s dad says the darndest things, and tons of folks are listening — including CBS, which plans to make a television show based on the 73-year-old’s goofball musings. Started in August, Halpern’s hilarious Shit My Dad Says Twitter feed...

Foes of President Barack Obama and his policies can vent their frustrations by engaging in fictional warfare, thanks to a new online strategy game with a heavy political component. The satirical game 2011: Obama’s Coup Fails, launched last month by a...

Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles Atom.com: Funny Videos | Atom Originals | Star Wars Fan Movies Right about the time a lot of Star Wars fans were getting the sound of Yoda rapping, “I’m a soldja — I thought I toldja” out of their heads, the Star Wars...

See also: First Look: Tim Burton Takes Alice to Weird, Wild Wonderland A new image featuring a sky full of Cheshire Cat gives us yet another peek at Tim Burton’s twisted take on Alice in Wonderland. The first in a series of three fresh images from...