Working the Lede

By the time this post goes live, we'll hopefully be halfway through the lede on our next Wired opus. Though given our lackluster writing speed these past few days, we're starting to wonder if we'll ever get through this beast. Seriously, few things are more discouraging than closing your laptop at day's end and realizing that hours worth of your finest mental efforts resulted in the product of a mere 200 words—and mediocre words, at that.

On the other hand, yes, we realize there are far, far...