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December 20 to 31, 2005
This is a working graphic design of a computer, the first I've seen. Have there been other designs like this, either recently or in the ancient past? I envision a lot of inter
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ive modern art in thi...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Scientists make b
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eria behave like computers...
This man's making a mint from moving U.S. f
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ories overseas and is responsible for some of the Chinese-made goods you see at Wal-Mart. He's crying while driving his Hummer to the bank...
An update on Iraq's ravaged cultural artif
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s - not good...
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated software that can track every financial trans
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ion no matter how small...
Distr
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ing TV visuals make people forget, regardless of age...
Mathematicians turn an Escher drawing into a trippy inter
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ive experience. Check out the movies...
Photo Stitching http://www.newyorker.com/f
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/content/articles/050411fa_fac...
April 18 to 24, 2005
There was some to-do about Apple's environmental pr
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ices, and Steve Jobs pimp-slapped an environmental group for talking trash...
The Firebox is the most comp
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, fully-featured FireWire recording interface I've ever seen. Looks like it should be excellent for recording on the road with a laptop...
Verizon and Movielink announced a movie download service for broadband users: http://news.com.com/Verizon+calls+
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ion+on+movie+downloads/2100-1034_3-5679846.html?part=rss&tag=5679846&subj=new...
Thanks to the newly approved Family Entertainment and Copyright
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, you will get more jail time for videotaping a movie in a theater than for killing somebody...
How U.S. restrictions on family planning are affecting the rest of the world, with dire consequences: http://www.globalgagrule.org/imp
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s.ht...
And despite the arrival of efficient electric cars, large manuf
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urers have discontinued their production...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of
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ivists. Some use the latest technology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to make their voices heard, an...
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can see how the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully
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ivists will make use of this new tool to help enforc...
"Confessions of an EBay opium addict" http://www.newsreview.com/issues/S
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o/2005-03-31/cover.as...
And the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 reports your document-viewing
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ivities to third parties without your knowledge...
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the f
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that the virus i...
Inter
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ive textiles are changing the shape and texture of electronic gadgets...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A page on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization
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of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
A immediate flurry of inventive
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ivity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
Entire city blocks are being purchased as malls and made up to look ex
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ly like - city blocks. Corporate community centers, parks, and villages are the new development trend in America...
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball machine manuf
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urer on Earth...
How well is the U.S. doing regarding the 14 defining char
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eristics of fascism? You may not agree with all of the points, but a few sure hit the mark...
Did you know that in 2000, EPA-banned GMO corn was found in Taco Bell tacos, which could produce anaphyl
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ic shock? Here's more on how corporations are surreptitiously introducing GMO into th...
Hey developers! Use Ecoglo, non-radio
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ive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency lighting systems...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
What blows my mind is that many of the documents I examined and commented on came from the 1992 hypertext www-talk archives, which I helped archive in the first place, using software that I wrot...
This clip shows how you can steal anything from anybody if you distr
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them in just the right way...
Homeland Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "cont
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less chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll make it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
A new solar-powered street trash comp
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or is only four feet tall yet can hold ten times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
March 21 to 27, 2005
The movie "Meet the Fockers" recently became the highest-grossing live-
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ion comedy ever, making almost $500 million worldwide...
Cont
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lenses are being used for all sort of things these days. Here's some fashion glitter cont
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s that look pretty sexy...
Macs are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is ex
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ly how the Web got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
Los Alamos National Lab scientists find a way to detect fingerprints via their chemical residue: http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php?fuse
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ion=home.story&story_id=234...
U.S. music sales rise, despite massive amounts of file sharing
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ion on the net...
March 14 to 20, 2005
For Web developers: a new inter
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ive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Safari though)...
For the first time, people can visualize the char
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ers in most of the written languages of the world at once...
TV shows for modern kids - this children's show features music by a hip roster of post-punk
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s...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extr
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information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
"Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for
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ion Against Global Warming" - in case you needed visual proof...
The Flickr postcard browser: http://www.airtightinter
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ive.com/projects/flickr_postcard_browser/app...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More TV shows should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Gal
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ica" while listening to this podcast with show commentary at the same time...
Make inter
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ive Web apps with the SAJAX PHP toolkit...
HIV/AIDS' imp
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on life expectancy in Africa - the big picture...
Big art projects pay off - The Gates generated $254 million in economy
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ivity, with 4 million visitors...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manuf
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urers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
Here's a brilliant business and innovative social pr
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ice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this social role. The business is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
A comp
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kitchen/bathroom/storage unit for small spaces...
Nature is a lot tougher than you. Scientists revive 32,000 year-old frozen b
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eria...
The new XML-centric method of Web development now has a de-f
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o name - Ajax...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Will an environmental imp
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statement requirement kill Hawaii's inter-island Superferry? This article explains the issues involved, and why an EIS may not really be needed. In any case, could it no...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is
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ually a pretty good open-source cross-platform WYSIWYG Web designing tool...
Here's a great optical illusion. I checked it myself; square A is the ex
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same color as square B...
Here's the mp3, despite the f
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that Simmons denied NPR permission to make the recording available...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times car stereo manuf
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urers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
Intellectual property lawyers are destroying the military model industry. Aren't defense contr
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ors making enough money these days...
Personally, I think mercury in fish over long periods could be a f
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or...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Currently under development, the PALV flying car is the best flying car design I've seen yet: http://www.sparkdesign.nl/en/
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ueel/20041013palv/20041013press.htm...
McDonald's is outsourcing drive-through ordering, which means that people ordering food in Oregon
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ually are talking to people in Michigan...
The 101 dumbest moments in business. Number three: the chairman of gun manuf
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urer Smith & Wesson was forced to resign after it was discovered that he spent 15 years in prison for a string of arme...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
Here are the best images from recent sunspot
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ivity, from January 15 to 21...
January 17 to 23, 2005
"Bush Gets Positive Rating In Three Countries" http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuse
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ion=viewItem&itemID=565...
Were Robert Johnson's recordings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match
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ual guitar pitch and you get a whole new perspective on his amazing talents...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The makers of the popular Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG image files by up to 30%! http://compression.ca/
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/
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-jpeg.htm...
Here's a PowerPoint presentation on the manuf
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uring process - why they don't offer it as a PDF file is beyond me...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinatown is cultivating an "art chic". This article notes that "the state is currently gathering data on what it calls the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic imp
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"...
The genome of a pollution-eating b
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erium has been decoded, leading to more efficient garbage-eating biotools...
Nothing lasts - Buddhist monks who have meditated on corpses find themselves well-suited to help with cremating thousands of tsunami victims. "We just sort of live in denial of the f
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that we hav...
Inter
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ive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to every sound that humans use to communicate...
Here's a humongous chart showing ex
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ly where your tax dollar goes...
Of all things, Olestra may
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ually remove toxins, including dioxins, from your body...
December 13 to 19, 2004
"20 Amazing F
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s About Voting in the USA...
The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music causes "visceral re
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ions" in people...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of information in a comp
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, useful way...
An interesting essay on how anti-consumerism can
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ually increase consumerism...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the f
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that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring war over peace...
Did you know that the 'No Child Left Behind"
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forces schools to provide private student information to military recruiters...
It's come full circle - This is ex
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ly what the Nazis did to Jews in concentration camps...
An inter
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ive surface with virtual squiggly worms you can "pick up". I've always wanted to open a bar where the entire floor is a virtual inter
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ive koi pond myself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Lost your key in the car? Knock a code on your window to open it: http://aggeggi.com/?
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ion=view&id=67197...
The chief economist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming f
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s"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
KAHEA points out the environmental imp
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of cruise ships in Hawaii...
A new device makes shop windows and other flat surfaces inter
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ive...
Uh-oh - Diebold has been contr
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ed to secure the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
"Meditation May Bolster Brain
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ivity"...
The coolest fr
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al art I've seen online...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detailed Web site describing a painful, protr
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ed war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
The life of Chinese toy f
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ory workers, in pictures...
"Biodiesel fuel attr
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s loyal following in Islands"...
November 1 to 7, 2004
But that's not why this ex-Reserve Kauai resident is making world news by suing over his recall to
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ive duty after 13 years of being out of the service...
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same b
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eria that was once considered so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-warfare experiments...
Inter
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ive 360-degree panoramas from around the world...
Inter
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ive wallpaper is going commercial...
The sound shaker (movie): http://www.inter
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ion.rca.ac.uk/alumni/03-05/tom/1styr/audio_shaker/video(short).htm...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"Administration's own
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ions fuel rumors of draft"...
New gold CD-Rs are said to last 300 years: http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/index.php?
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ion=expand,677...
Wow! The Honolulu Wal-Mart issue
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ually got some air time on "The Daily Show" (video clip)...
LCD sales are expected to rise by a f
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or of 10 before 2010...
What We
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ually Have In Common Dept...
October 18 to 24, 2004
The first 100% solar-powered winery: http://www.re
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ual.com/metaefficient/archives/food-and-drink/shafer-a-sustainable-vineyard.htm...
A living neural network taken from a rat's brain inter
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s with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Transparent ventilator bricks keep 85% of noise out: http://www.re
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ual.com/metaefficient/archives/materials/silenceair-noise-blocking-bricks.htm...
Crate & Barrel switches to "Geami", a new tissue-based biodegradable, recyclable, efficient packing material...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A UK photo exhibit shows real people next to their online virtual 3D char
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er...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"Daily Show" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly F
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or" viewers...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The popular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's nothing wrong with more bus lines, but now there's less char
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er, no open-air transportation with wide views, and less fun for tourist...
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Spreading political
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ivism in Colombia via dynamic low-power radio networks on bikes...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Gex-X workers will be badly in demand in the Hawaii of tomorrow as the baby boomer generation ages. What will attr
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them? Mixed-use "stroll districts". Live music. Bike paths. Greenery. Sounds goo...
U.S. broadband triples in three years. 75% use cable, only 15% use DSL: http://www.newsf
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or.com/story.xhtml?story_title=FCC--Broadband-Usage-Has-Tripled&story_id=2687...
Levis closes its last American f
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ories...
This piece was originally a satire in The Onion in January 2001. It's been annotated with links to
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ual happenings since then...
"B
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eria Turn Toxins Into Plastic"...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Some f
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s on The Carlyle Group from the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11"...
Scientists are learning how to harness photosynthetic b
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eria in solar cells...
August 22 to 29, 2004
"RSS Attr
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s Really Serious Money...
AI algorithms can take a trail of where you've been and determine regular and irregular
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ivities...
Yay! "This Land Is Your Land" is
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ually in the public domain...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each trans
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ion just retrieving paper-base...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Why dynamic languages (still) represent the future of computing (warning: tech-heavy): http://www.
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ivestate.com/Company/NewsRoom/whitepapers_ADL.ple...
The corporate ownership of computer technology is a large f
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or. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science research...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online Web-based shopping trans
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ion was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees
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ively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse". Examines the growing trend of the government to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuse
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ion/home.content/page/pres...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The state will be left with no other mid-sized downtown venue for locals with a stage layout that can pull in 300 to 500 (restaurants don't count), meaning that small local
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s and events won't b...
New foot pontoons
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ually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water testing, workouts, and tourism...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone seems to have a blog these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I see the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
Lawrence Lessig on the "This Land Is Your Land" lawsuit threat. This
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ion goes against everything Woody Guthrie stood for...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Some personal stories of the 1.5 million women vs. Walmart, the largest class
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ion suit ever...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
A new hypersensitive sensor has been developed in Israel, allowing heart readings from "several feet away" without physical cont
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...
"Facetop", a method of videoconferencing that's
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ually about 35 years old but may one day be popular...
All about the latest Rainbow Gathering, which attr
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ed 10,000 and caused the Forest Service to allocate nearly $1 million for management...
Grow your own (nearly) all-grass armchair: http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&
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ion=product&pid=85...
The evolution of fr
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al art. This is the next generation of fr
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al and mathematics- based design, folks...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The (relatively new) RoadRunner business-class services are not only competitive with business-class DSL now, but are
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ually cheaper as the bandwidth gets bigger (Hawaii prices) - you get bette...
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contr
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or in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
Will your iPod be illegal? An article on the "Induce
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"...
Now here's a secondary BigChampagne report that indicates that "artists receiving little or no radio play are still gaining very significant
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ivity on file sharing networks". Meaning...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Theme of the week: Humanity I just finished watching "The Corporation", an amazing film that traces the roots, rights, and wrongs of the corporate entity. It ties together politics, global issues...
Independent music labels in Europe break negotiations with Apple over disagreements due to the length of their contr
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...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Crystalens is a new laser-based technique for treating catar
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s. The implanted lens moves using the power of existing eye muscles...
A national inter
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ive map of power plant pollution imp
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s. Hey, where's Hawaii...
May 24 to 30, 2004
"How to make friends by Telephone" http://cont
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sheet.org/junk/telephone1.htm...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format
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ually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Attr
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tenants with wireless...
$20 biodegradable cardboard speakers pack flat and
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ually sound decent...
One of my favorite movies, THX-1138 (George Lucas' first film) is being rereleased on DVD. Hope he doesn't screw it up like he did Star Wars...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Here's how to ask questions that
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ually produce information...
More about the RIAA fudging numbers to claim sales lost to file sharing: http://www.kensei-news.com/bizdev/publish/f
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oids_us/article_23374.shtm...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* Westpac Bank in Australia (forcing trans
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ions to paper...
Current chip design is overkill, often applying more precision to tasks when needed. By making chips that guess results when needed, one may be able to reduce power usage by a f
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or of 1,000...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The portable Q barbecue is the best- designed small hibachi/grill I've ever seen: http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&
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ion=product&pid=79...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep
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221 to high-tech, and make a new
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specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
2) Support blending ethanol with gasoline, and support the growth of local ethanol manuf
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urers. Which raw (waste) materials are cost-effective to import to Hawaii to produce ethanol? Does importin...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Some guy hooked up a music-generating apparatus controlled by six live hampsters. It's
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ually pleasant music...
A new firefighting chemical looks and
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s just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Studies show that Guinness is
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ually very healthy for you...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manuf
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uring method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
United Airlines announced that more than 2 million customers used their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern airline can survive without them.
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ually, that could be a great business ...
Robert Cringely argues that in the end anti-trust laws are ineffective when in comes to Microsoft, since they
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ually end up saving money by being non-compliant with government regulations...
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous business pr
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ices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was
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ually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical records and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
A new system for powered saws detects skin cont
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in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade...
The pros and cons of Quorn, the "fungus-based meat substitute" that was introduced to the U.S. in 2002...
Less is more A 3D art contest, made with code no bigger than 256 char
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ers...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manuf
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urer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
March 8 to 14, 2004
And remember one of the core f
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s of human nature (now scientifically proved) - when people are presented with more, they will take more, consciously or not...
Writing a screenplay? Here's a catalog of "narrative tropes and idioms". Learn about char
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er archtypes such as the Anti Hero, the Evil Twin, and the Green Skinned Space Babe...
George Michael will offer his songs freely online from now on, a music industry first for an established artist.
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ually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Video game studies are making their way into college curricula - what is their form and imp
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on culture? What is a game...
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the f
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that the correc...
February 16 to 22, 2004
According to two new surveys, Apple leads the customer service satisf
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ion pack over Dell, HP, and Compaq...
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of turning Kalihi into a high-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's got ...
Heard the Grammy Award-winning Song of the Year "Hey Ya", the one with the phrase "shake it like a Polaroid picture?" Thanks to advances in instant photography, doing so can
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ually damage you...
It's been tested by the FBI and is so accurate its results are now admissible in court. "[it's] ... a method of reading the brain's involuntary electrical
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ivity in response to a subject being show...
Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that free wireless access is a f
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or in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype re
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or small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate image affinity to brain
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ivity: "Big government and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
The real story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (international) conference on next-generation Internet technology - it's the f
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that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
Yet another serious flaw in Microsoft software that may not even be fixable: http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuse
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ion=displaynews&NewsID=94...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Controversy over Wal-Mart's pr
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ice of locking in workers at night, despite medical emergencies and hurricanes. In some cases workers end their shifts early and must wait it out for hours before th...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's become or 4th or 5th largest industry there! This article has interesting details on how it's done these days, involving dozens of
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ors, props...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Lessons learned: UH and the Star-Bulletin need to get their science/high-tech reporting
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together. This item was featured in dozens of international publications before locals got wind of it.....
December 1 to 7, 2003
Low-wage life is getting much worse for Americans: "Myths and Realities About Low-Wage Jobs": http://www.thebetrayalofwork.org/f
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s.ht...
November 24 to 30, 2003
A DNA extr
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ion and analysis device for kids - only $80. Comes with a centrifuge and electrophoresis chamber...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Pebble Bed Modular Re
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ors may be the future of nuclear power, as their design eliminates the possibility of a meltdown...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Why? Massive, collaborative video games that
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ually require thinking.....
"Arsonist Burns Peace
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ivists' Home...
October 27, 2003
Like f
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s? The 2002 State of Hawaii F
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Book is now online...
October 20, 2003
This week was Marriage Protection Week! In honor, here's an article about how only 50.7% of America is
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ually married: "Unmarried America...
Some interesting f
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s about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "supercenters"...
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstr
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photos taken from the sides of boxcars...
October 14, 2003
At $100 million, it could be the most expensive attr
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ion ever...
Homeland Defense employee has his German fiance detained, handcuffed, jailed, and after 20 hours without food, shipped back to Germany, without being officially arrested, a la "The Patriot
act
".....
October 6, 2003
But the main reason I mention this is because they show some of Alex Gray's art in the show. This feels almost ex
act
ly like a mushroom trip I took...
September 30, 2003
Michael Moore finally responds to all the criticism, and well, with outtakes from "Bowling from Columbine" and damning evidence against his detr
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ors...
September 8, 2003
The best article so far on the Aquada, the first amphibious sports car that
act
ually looks sporty...
September 2, 2003
An award-winning British journalist leaves the US after six years but finds it again at a Patti Smith concert. Lots of nice little f
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s in this article.....
August 25, 2003
Here's ex
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ly why Windows systems are insecure (and why Apple's and other systems are secure) by default: "Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design...
August 12, 2003
Another 21st century cultural phenomenon - a great article about it from SF. Also another reason why the idea of global
act
ivism remains promising...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an inter
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ive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see ex
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ly what network wires t...
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...