The Wirecutter is a new website designed to do one thing: to tell you what the best particular product in a category is at any given moment. It is a project of Brian Lam, late of Gizmodo. Do you want to buy a TV? Great: here are the three TVs we endorse right now. Here's what Brian has to say about the site; here's the best way to use it. READ MORE

"The number one video on MiamiHerald.com last year got about 26,000 views and was a feature on how to handle frozen iguanas." READ MORE

So Gawker publishes the pictures of the crazed contractors over at the US Embassy in Afghanistan. What do you do if you're a major TV network, and want to cover it? If you're MSNBC, you have on a staffer from former MSNBC honcho and current "contributor" Dan Abrams' new website to discuss it. It makes sense, if you think about it! One thing Gawker has never done is hire the sort of PR people that The Daily Beast and other websites have, people who basically handle TV bookings. Some websites just have that whole thing built right in though. Genius!

I went home to think about this new "People of Wal-Mart" blog overnight before I went off half-cocked. In the end: I'm not a fan, I think! And that's a hard and maybe slightly indefensible thing to say, coming from someone who, essentially, thinks Cintra Wilson is funny making fun of the fatness of J.C. Penney mannequins in the Times. So what this "People of Wal-Mart" is, is it is a website that pubishes stealth camera shots (allegedly?) of people in Wal-Marts (allegedly), taken by people apparently in Wal-Marts, who are horrified by the other people in Wal-Marts. Now I have been in many Wal-Marts myself and been horrified, except I stopped going there a while back because of the experience of a family member who (yes, gasp!) actually worked in a Wal-Mart and had an excruciatingly, even somewhat life-ruiningly bad experience there. So you know: fuck Wal-Mart and everyone in it, is sort of my position? Burn it to the ground! But this site does a couple of things I also don't like. READ MORE

Oh ho, a bit later than promised, now The Faster Times is live! I don't quite know what to do with it yet and I'm not sure why it's faster but I'm clicking on things. Oooh, I hit "surprise me" and it sent me to the wine section! That was a surprise. Ooh, I hit "surprise me" again and it took me to the Civil Liberties section! Ha ha, that's fun! Yay Internet. Though one thing I will say, I will take our advice columnist over all of theirs any day.

Oh, some iterations here today on the site itself. As we said early on, we are not going to get too attached to our digital face. It will change and we will experiment ceaselessly. Some things will please some; others will please The Others. (There are still two episodes of Lost sitting on my Tivo! When will I find the time?) This website itself, as you have probably gathered, is an experiment. So, fellow scientists, send all complaints, suggestions and beefs (along with your browser and OS info!) to notes at the awl. (Also, the office of David Cho would like to thank Rebecca Wiener for her invaluable assistance.)