Tired.
I remember reading long ago, in the footnotes of Wired magazine, a lament for the departing editor, then the magazine changed. It used to be this amazingly vibrant and offbeat thing. Like somebody had taken lightning and bottled it. I used to buy it in a drab art supplies shop in Lincoln. It was amazing.

“We decided to put the Internet-founding subculture behind us, and be more mainstream with technology. We banned Burning Man and drug culture and the letters TCP/IP,” he said.

Which would account in no small measure for the car & clothes adverts and for why it sucked so hard, the more awards it won. There are high crimes and misdemeanors, the destruction of the old Wired is one of the former, the "relaunch" of Wired UK in the current economic environment is one of the later.

If Wired in it's current form is killed by that which spawned it, it's not a tragedy, just the natural order re-asserting itself. I figure I better stop here lest I say harsh things.