Director J.J. Abrams gives us his vision in this prequel to the original. Kirk is there, and so are Spock, Bones and Scotty. But is this really Star Trek we're watching? The preview clips are a little vague.

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Conveying the excitement people feel about music in a still image can be like describing sight to the blind. The 10 reader-elected finalists of our music photo contest may not make you hear music, but they expertly capture a musical moment. Blair takes home the gold with his photo "The Horn Player" at left. Click through the gallery to see the contestants who were nipping at his heels.

Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, and because we love to anger readers with our selections, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Music Photo Gallery.

Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It's cold outside this winter and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for more information.

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The Horn Player
Submitted by Blair

Photographer's comment:

"Covent Garden, London.”

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DreadHead
Submitted by Amaiia

Photographer's comment:

"Guitarist of the famous French ska band Fizcus live @ Seasplash Festival, Croatia."

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Jeff Locke
Submitted by Christie Hemm

Photographer's comment:

”He's good.”

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Fizcus
Submitted by Podi

Photographer's comment:

"French ska band Fizcus on concert

"13/1 sec, f/3.5, flash on, second curtain"

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The Underbelly
Submitted by Elizabeth Kovach

Photographer's comment:

"Messing around with the organ."

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On the Outside
Submitted by Ross Gilmore

Photographer's comment:

"Old busker plays his banjo, against a 14-foot-high security fence, at an outdoor rock concert."

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Tickling Ivory
Submitted by Bob

Photographer's comment:

"Hands playing piano."

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My Stepfather's Piano
Submitted by Tin Man

Photographer's comment:

"I'm no photographer, I'm a musician, and this is my art. My stepfather left me this piano when he died in 1998, and I use it to compose. Its sound is not great by traditional standards, but to me it is wonderful.”

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Tandoori Tunes
Submitted by Joakim Lloyd Raboff

Photographer's comment:

”A musician sat down and played a tune while I tried to listen to a podcast on the beach in Goa, India."

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Yaya
Submitted by amaiia

Photographer's comment:

"Jadranka Bastajic Yaya, lead singer of Croatian band Jinx.

"Canon EOS 350d, f/4.0, 1/200, 50mm"

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Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our music photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention.

Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It's cold outside this winter, and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for more information.

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Arcade Fire Encore
Submitted by Ryan Muir

Photographer's comment:

"The Arcade Fire set up their in-crowd encore right in front of my face. Spotlights shining on them from a distance — thousands of people scattered around thinking the show was over. Took me by surprise as much as anybody else.... This was pretty much the most memorable concert-going experience of my life. So glad to have had my camera.”

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Gospel Groove
Submitted by Anonymous

Photographer's comment:

"A group of young South Africans perform a special gospel set for me and a group of visitors to their school in the Cape Flats."

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1898 Piano
Submitted by Dan Snyder

Photographer's comment:

"In my backyard."

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Stephen Malkmus of Pavement — Houston, 1999
Submitted by Scot Ferguson

Photographer's comment:

"Stephen Malkmus of Pavement — Houston, 1999, their last tour."

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Adding to the Noise
Submitted by throughHislens

Photographer's comment:

"Music means a lot to me, so that's why it was saddening to see this on the ground. But, you can see this transition in music, in that the different mediums that make it up are slowly transitioning into something that was not available at the start. Bittersweet.”

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Barefoot Rock
Submitted by Casey Moore

Photographer's comment:

"Land of Talk — SXSW 2008."

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Bunny Surf
Submitted by M. Young

Photographer's comment:

"Taken at the Vans Warped Tour, Mansfield, Massachusetts, August 2008."

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Achtung Accordion!
Submitted by Fritz Speilemann

Photographer's comment:

"Although far from my favorite instrument, this young dude played his instrument like a god!”

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Drum
Submitted by Casey Cramer

Photographer's comment:

"Drum in empty prayer room in Hunder Gompa, Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India"

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One-Man Band
Submitted by Elias

Photographer's comment:

"Took this photo in Bath, England. This man was playing on the sidewalk, with both a violin and a guitar simultaneously. He had hooked up the guitar to a foot pedal that played certain notes as he turned the crank."

Everyone from sweet old grandma to your Charles Schwab rep is using your ancient Hotmail or AOL address to keep in touch, so you can't just abandon it. Here's a technique for swapping out that crappy old e-mail service for something from this century. Get with the times on Wired's How-To Wiki.

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The following manuals show some of the computers that paved the way for that ThinkPad or MacBook you're likely viewing this on now.

When Apple marketing chief Joanna Hoffman wrote the Macintosh Business plan — think of it as a manual for operating a company — in 1981 but she couldn’t create a document pretty enough for Steve Jobs. [NOTE: We have no idea what she was using to make the documents... we just know that Steve didn’t like anything she was making.] Hoffman, however, knew where to find desktop publishing muscle that could: Xerox PARC. Working nights at a friends' office on a Xerox Alto, Hoffman created this Macintosh Business Plan on the sly — constantly afraid someone at Xerox would discover her work in progress. They did not, allowing the Mac to go on to become the first wildly successful personal computer with a mouse and graphical user interface, while the Xerox Alto — which featured both but never was introduced to consumers — was destined to become a historical footnote. This manual comes from Bruce Damer's private collection.

Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and writer Mathew Honan discuss the Macintosh business plan.

Manual courtesy of Bruce Damer and photographed at Digital Space.

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Apple's first user manual was largely the creation of Ronald Wayne, Apple's third founder, recruited from Atari by Steve Jobs for a 10 percent stake in the new company. Wayne not only wrote the entire 10-page booklet, he also drew the intricate cover logo depicting Isaac Newton beneath an apple tree. Together, Wayne, Jobs, and Steve Wozniak built the first 50 Apple 1 computers in a Los Altos garage, selling them to a local retailer called the Byte Shop. Concerned over legal issues with Hewlett-Packard (Woz's employer), however, Wayne later relinquished his stake in the company for $800.

Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and writer Mathew Honan discuss the Apple-1 manual.

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This 1978 manual was largely adapted from the Woz Wonderbook — the first unofficial manual for the Apple II, written by Steve Wozniak himself. The Red Book described how to set up and operate the computer, some information on BASIC programming, and even a handful of games — Pong, Mastermind, and Dragon Maze — from the earliest days of computer gaming.

Manual courtesy of Bruce Damer and photographed at Digital Space.

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The 1401 was a 1959 decimal computer. It was often used to input and format data for larger IBM machines, working in conjunction with the 1402 punch card system and 1403 printer, described on these pages. However in recent years, the machine may be better known for inspiring Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's work, IBM 1401, A User’s Manual. Here's the real thing.

Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Computer History Museum.

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If you live in an apartment building, a crowded city block or some other high-density area, why not offer up access to your wireless broadband signal to the kind folks next door while you're away at the office? There's no better way to earn geek cred and cosmic karma all at once.

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America's love affair with the doomsday device is a turbulent one. First popularized in comic books and James Bond movies, then lampooned by Austin Powers, we love them because their ridiculousness makes us feel safe — like the exhilarating false danger of a roller coaster.

Now heightened audience cynicism has forced world-ending devices into the realm of camp, and except for a new breed of superhero movies, they've largely been replaced by natural disasters or apocalyptic sci-fi scenarios in Hollywood films.

The opening of Quantum of Solace on Friday is making us nostalgic for the junk science and catastrophic fear that make fictional doomsday devices fun. From earth-shattering fusion reactors to catastrophic earthquake machines to planet-destroying space stations, here's a list of some of our favorite extinction-bringing devices from film, television and videogames. Be sure to share your own favorites in the comments.

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The Doomsday Machine — Dr. Strangelove (film)

The aptly named "Doomsday Machine" was one of the uncredited stars of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Its purpose? Delivering a retaliatory nuclear strike on all mankind in the event of an attack on Soviet soil. All it took was a broken radio and one bomb-riding cowboy to set it off.

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In 1979's Moonraker, James Bond went into space. Seriously. In his defense, the goal was to destroy the Moonraker space station. This apocalyptic orbital platform was designed to poison mankind by releasing orbs full of lethal toxins into Earth's atmosphere. Agent 007 destroyed the orbs (with lasers, no less), and the planet was spared.

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It's hard to say what made Beneath the Planet of the Apes creepier: the "Divine Bomb," a misplaced nuclear warhead capable of destroying Earth, or the radioactive mutants who worshiped it. Either way, the Divine Bomb gets its moment in the sun when a dying Charlton Heston flips the switch, thereby destroying ... er ... everything.

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Leave it to the military to need rescuing from its own doomsday device. In 2003's The Core, the "Deep Earth Seismic Trigger Initiative," or Destini, became the aforementioned device. Though designed as a weaponized earthquake machine, Destini threatens the planet by screwing up Earth's magnetic field. Ironically, nuke-wielding scientists provide the solution.

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Elaborate doomsday devices often rely on sketchy science. Take Dr. Octavius' highly volatile fusion reactor from Spider-Man 2. Not only was this "artificial sun" self-sustaining, but capable of indefinite growth by consuming everything around it (i.e., the world). Strangely enough, its Achilles' heel was a dunk in a nearby river.

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This iconic space station from the first Star Wars trilogy was no moon. In fact, it was a planet-shaped superweapon designed to destroy planets. After a whizz-bang demo on Alderaan, it was clear the Death Star spelled certain doom for any planet dweller. But then there was that exposed exhaust port …

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By the time Futurama's sci-fi satire hit the scene, creator Matt Groening had the doomsday-device shtick down. Case in point: the Spheroboom. This highly explosive space/time-bending device isn't just the prized jewel of the show's mad scientist, professor Farnsworth. It also destroys anyone/anything not wearing a "Doom-proof Platinum Vest."

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The titular ring-shaped world of the Halo videogame series is more than an architectural feat. When activated, the megastructure is capable of destroying all sentient life in the universe. In Halo 2, puzzled gamers discovered that stopping this harbinger of the apocalypse was as simple as turning it off.

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The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first supersonic bomber in the United States' air arsenal. Its first flight was November 11, 1956, during the peak of hostilities with the Soviet Union, and was designed as a high-altitude, faster-than-screaming bomber with nuclear capabilities. However, the B-58 is probably best known as the airplane that nuked Moscow (and then New York City) into oblivion in the 1964 Cold War classic film, Fail Safe. Pages shown here describe how to land the plane, ejection, the fuel supply system, and a very top-level look at the cockpit.

Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and writer Mathew Honan discuss the B-58A and F-14A.

Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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The two-tailed Grumann F-14A Tomcat flew to fame in Top Gun, but it took off long before. The F-14 went into service in 1970 and continued to dominate the skies all the way until 2006. This 1977 manual gave Navy flyboys information on the aircraft's flight operations and weapons systems. Want to make like Maverick and "hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by?" See Figure 1-47 in section 1 page 24. And if that didn't go so well, here’s everything you need to know to eject out of the canopy.

Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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Think of this 1966 manual as the space program's equivalent of a Quick Start Guide given to Apollo program astronauts to introduce them to the gear found onboard their spacecraft. Meant to give an overview of everything astronauts would encounter onboard, the manual goes over everything from the contents and location of the two onboard survival kits to human tolerance of G forces, to how to go to the bathroom. The illustrations shown here describe the crew’s garments that would have been worn at all times, and the restraint system that kept crew members safely strapped in the capsule.

Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and writer Mathew Honan discuss the Apollo Study Guide.

Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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Familiarization manuals were designed to teach mission pilots everything they needed to know about their craft before takeoff. Portions of the Gemini manual describes a unique feature of Gemini: the capsule's ejection seat. Of the three manned space programs of the 1960s, Gemini alone featured an aircraft-style ejection seat to blast astronauts out of the craft to parachute back down to Earth in case of a botched launch or reentry. Note the event times, showing the hundredths of seconds that would elapse between steps in the ejection process.

Listen: Photographer Dan Winters and Mathew Honan discuss the Gemini Familiarization Manual.

Manual courtesy of and photographed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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How do you run the A/C on a spy plane? Where's the Start button on a nuclear power plant? Don't try to wing it: Read the directions! A portfolio of classic instruction manuals.