August 22 to 29, 2004 < Prev PostPermalinkNext Post >![](cache/7c077e64872219edc014e3d19c20388e0537424e.gif) All about the Hawaii Superferry, which starts service in 2006 and will change island life as we know it:
Superferry CEO Tim Dick will be speaking at the Plaza Club on September 15th:
"RSS Attracts Really Serious Money" RSS is becoming a hot technology these days!
![](cache/50ebf9883073604eee466fb69c30335948be4ddc.jpg) A new p2p network allows hospitals to share patient information:
![](cache/362673664fb48e196ae6492d46d109f20f7bbcb0.gif) The world's first movie recording on a preformatted holographic disc:
![](cache/27bcc9ba074f4324be80f84f2bdea2612ca9c57b.jpg) The world's smallest optical zoom digital camera, using the new ceramic lens technology:
![](cache/963436e101607ec0f05c573ffdffb4b324a969b2.jpg) Finally, Coke vending machine offers cashless purchases via cell phones:
Five photons have been linked in an milestone experiment that will lead to full-scale quantum computing:
![](cache/1a10209d5c8d785bf48829d9e68ad644aad753de.gif) Yet another "revolutionary spam firewall":
![](cache/0f99a437a0de7777fd2cb1966cf3ebd1268b27e9.jpg) New efforts in developing flying cars:
A new Windows worm has the ability to spy on users with webcams and microphones:
Microsoft's Spanish version of Windows XP translated "woman" as "bitch". Users unamused:
Famous tech writer John C. Dvorak calls for the death of Microsoft Word:
![](cache/d461d5e6f6371bd5f1f335a2360baa953e33c4fd.jpg) Even Windows' recent Service Pack 2 is insecure:
"We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore" By Garrison Keillor
Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered:
The plight of the minimum-wage dairy worker:
A new poll shows growing support for voter-verified paper trails in elections:
AI algorithms can take a trail of where you've been and determine regular and irregular activities:
It costs the U.S. Government $6.5 billion a year just to keep things secret. 90% of those things shouldn't be:
An experiment reviving coral reefs with low-voltage electrical current receives "remarkable results":
Enterprise housing - creating affordable, sustainable housing in urban, mixed-use environments:
New ventures try to generate electricity from sea power with wave turbines:
A car engine that runs off air:
"Breakthrough reached in fight against fruit fly":
![](cache/bcf7efb15d6c0ff5add88915e7d3f6a89de5ab0b.jpg) The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to get gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council:
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Where did they come up with these names?
The groovy Web sites and photography of Sacha Dean Bryan:
Yay! "This Land Is Your Land" is actually in the public domain!
![](cache/8e5ceca1220e83cf8518e31a540668a867cec71a.jpg) A Rolling Stone report on Clear Channel, which owns 70% of live events in the U.S.:
![](cache/4425a040c2a28e1e2b726a96357cd18f6c601f66.jpg) Apple now offers songs in bulk via their volume discount program:
The hauntingly beautiful songwriting and sounds of Jolie Holland, ex-Be Good Tanyas member. Her demo album was lauded as among the best of 2003:
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative and punk:
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