Wired Top Stories Top Stories<img src="http://www.wired.com/rss_views/index.gif">  July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqlL46ZcqaN4AriZz98lGpyHZBU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqlL46ZcqaN4AriZz98lGpyHZBU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqlL46ZcqaN4AriZz98lGpyHZBU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqlL46ZcqaN4AriZz98lGpyHZBU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/i2yvMG-qZm8" height="1" width="1"/>  Amazon Strikes Back at the iPad With New, $140 Kindle Amazon will ship the third generation of its Kindle e-book reader on Aug. 27, offering a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version for just $140. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also offers some optimistic predictions about the future growth of e-book sales. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nYrWRJYLJXjsFe52Idcf85TPX0M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nYrWRJYLJXjsFe52Idcf85TPX0M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nYrWRJYLJXjsFe52Idcf85TPX0M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nYrWRJYLJXjsFe52Idcf85TPX0M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/KUhaSCB1kuM" height="1" width="1"/>  Photoshop of Horrors: Readers Show BP How It's Done We asked for your help to show BP how to improve upon their terribly Photoshopped oil-cleanup images, and you delivered some awesome images. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HD_4o3g375Vb4z4ekb-ZfxL3-yU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HD_4o3g375Vb4z4ekb-ZfxL3-yU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HD_4o3g375Vb4z4ekb-ZfxL3-yU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HD_4o3g375Vb4z4ekb-ZfxL3-yU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/aRtA6axlRNg" height="1" width="1"/>  U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons The most deadly weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't AK-47s or grenades -- they're roadside bombs made out of gas cans, garage door openers and fertilizer. 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Look It Up Here Rankings of the best and fastest ISPs in U.S. cities are now available, thanks to stats from Speedtest.net. And while the country is far from leading the world, the nation's tubes aren't nearly as bad as many suspect. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y0TVcE-IQYRkhUGPb36eiBP7oI4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y0TVcE-IQYRkhUGPb36eiBP7oI4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y0TVcE-IQYRkhUGPb36eiBP7oI4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Y0TVcE-IQYRkhUGPb36eiBP7oI4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/ntzTjlMG8ec" height="1" width="1"/>  W3C's Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UXvmbRP_hTLR_94Xw4KWpZ-RWPw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UXvmbRP_hTLR_94Xw4KWpZ-RWPw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UXvmbRP_hTLR_94Xw4KWpZ-RWPw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UXvmbRP_hTLR_94Xw4KWpZ-RWPw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/zOkpmPFQ62U" height="1" width="1"/>  Court Says Privacy Advocate May Publish Social Security Numbers A federal appeals court orders Virginia's attorney general to back away from threats of suing a woman for posting elected officials' Social Security numbers. The reason: The government published the private data first. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vRqBmCKxvI_LKa6f6UGR-RS-fa0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vRqBmCKxvI_LKa6f6UGR-RS-fa0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vRqBmCKxvI_LKa6f6UGR-RS-fa0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vRqBmCKxvI_LKa6f6UGR-RS-fa0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/uL1mlSU8LRY" height="1" width="1"/>  Making of a Meme: The Story Behind Wookieeleaks, a Hash Tag With Legs A storm of <cite>Star Wars</cite>-themed jokes hit Twitter, mimicking WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of U.S. military memos. Only this stuff is funny. Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo shares techniques he used to get the #wookieeleaks hashtag to take off. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hP_jNr0lTb7iVnwvnMkZg89Tv24/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hP_jNr0lTb7iVnwvnMkZg89Tv24/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hP_jNr0lTb7iVnwvnMkZg89Tv24/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hP_jNr0lTb7iVnwvnMkZg89Tv24/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/D4inaW43xTI" height="1" width="1"/>