Public domain image from The Work of Wall Street by Sereno S. Pratt (1909)

Most technology reporters are not experts in finance and the stock market. Some people are, and a handful are fantastic at it, including some finance reporters who also cover tech. My background is in teaching and research, so I tend to focus on how our experience of technology and media changes over time. I like big pictures and weird connections more than horserace stories.

Still, it’s impossible to ignore that a huge part of our business is directly or indirectly about money and its movements. When the money moves, or ...

Director Gregg Bishop's The Birds of Anger offers a Hitchcockian take on the videogame Angry Birds.
Screengrab: Wired.com

Just in time for Halloween, the fine nerds over at G4TV.com have released a series of short films that transform classic videogames Mario Kart, Angry Birds and Duck Hunt into delightfully gory horror flicks.

The Birds of Anger — the third and final film in the series — was posted Wednesday. A horrific take on the uncannily popular game Angry Birds, the short is a nerdy reinterpretation of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, directed by Dance of the Dead mastermind Gregg Bishop.

The...