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December 20 to 31, 2005
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr! See on a U.S. map where recent photos were taken: http://mappr.com/p
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/recent/index.htm...
Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You wasted quarters in this?...
The iPod photo is helping radiologists man
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their medical im
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s. And with iSight, stock Apple technology is enabling teleradiology on the cheap and may one day enable telemedicine from home...
The weight of American tourists is causing chairs on the Queen Mary 2 to break: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_p
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/0,5478,11609204%255E663,00.htm...
The New York Times' 2004 year in pictures: http://www.nytimes.com/pack
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s/html/photo/20041227_YIP_FEATURE/blocker.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for recording, composing, and playing im
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s, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
Very flat, flexible speaker technology: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/audio/1279551.html?p
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=1&c=...
An update on Iraq's rav
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d cultural artifacts - not good...
Distracting TV visuals make people forget, regardless of
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...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advant
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s over glass bottles - they can keep contents colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
Why is the FBI plastering notices all over CDs, to the dismay of artists and consumers alike? http://im
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s.ucomics.com/comics/db/2005/db050501.gi...
The Manual Input Sessions explore the connections between im
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analysis, shadow puppets, and music generation...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Holographic stor
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technology is slowly making progress...
The miniMate adds extra stor
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and ports to your Mac mini. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck though...
Did you know that half of all schoolchildren in France are bloggers (bloguers)? Score one for "vocal civic discourse": http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67273-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_p
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_next...
Rethinking The Everyday Things http://www.m
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llans.com/store/Accessories___Gifts___GamesGG253?Partner_ID=CJLNK&AID=10273661&PID=124293...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Christopher Swain swims through miles of polluted sew
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to bring attention to clean water issues...
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 fact that the virus i...
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's Gar
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Band format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song online. Let's se...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A p
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on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite im
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ry feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
A better overview of perpendicular stor
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technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
Entire city blocks are being purchased as malls and made up to look exactly like - city blocks. Corporate community centers, parks, and vill
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s are the new development trend in America...
China spends three times the world aver
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on energy to produce $1 of gross domestic product - and 70% of its energy comes from coal. Because the U.S. isn't in the Kyoto accord, imported Chines...
The found foot
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festival consists of movies retrieved from trash bins all over the U.S. Check out the preview trailer...
The work of graphic spin-doctor Glenn Feron. In case you thought those media im
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s reflected reality...
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...
Perpendicular recording likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D stor
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technologies...
All the great hackers are switching to Macs, again mirroring the early growth of the Web (which was developed on an ancestor of today's Mac, the NeXT). We'll just see what happens...
Need an industrial solution? Use new biological filters that mimic the natural decomposition of debris. In a successful test the sew
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from 25 homes was used to irrigate a golf course...
A short
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of silicon is making solar cells scarce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has gone from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
A new solar-powered street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can hold ten times more trash than an aver
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garb
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bin. It also signals when garb
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pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
Gory im
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s of this year's Canadian seal hunt...
Here's a pack
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for turning empty roofs into green ones...
More wacky, unusual album covers: http://www.showandtellmusic.com/p
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s/galleries_main.htm...
Sin City is the first true movie/graphic novel hybrid. Here's a comic-to-screen comparison: http://www.filmrot.com/im
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s/sincity-comparisons/sincity.htm...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace mess
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s in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's information-cynical world...
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly known for his quality graffiti work, snuck into New York's most famous museums and affixed his anti-war work to th...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living coll
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s patterne...
Don't waste paper or plastic when shopping - carry around a key chain tote bag: http://www.m
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llans.com/store/Wallets__Purses___Totes___TotesLB129?Args...
Here's what sumo wrestlers eat to grow weight, and the recipe for making it. Looks delicious! http://www.gastronomica.org/p
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s/sample4.1.htm...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Did you know that Hawaiian is the sole growing indigenous langu
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in the U.S.? Still, there are only about 8,000 Hawaiian-langu
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speakers right now...
For the first time, people can visualize the characters in most of the written langu
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s of the world at once...
Here's the story of Simlish, the fictional langu
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of the very popular video game "The Sims", and the people behind it...
How fast can mistakes travel in this digital
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? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test blast called "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
Take a break to read the underrated poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, "the German langu
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's greatest poet of the 20th century". His unique style of writing translates exceptionally well...
Some artists are slicing up billboards, recombining them into new im
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s...
March 7 to 13, 2005
New input devices are challenging the status quo! Here's the rollermouse for stressless mousing: http://www.ergodex.com/mainp
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.ht...
Power to the people? For the first time a blogger is given access to a White House press briefing: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_report
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/inside_the_gaggle_19209.as...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and online personality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
Some of the U.K.'s worst shop names: http://www.shophorror.co.uk/p
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s/gallery.htm...
Every U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think every American should, too: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/im
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s/2005/03/05/weekinreview/nwr_IRAQIS_050306.gi...
View the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be seen in infrared: http://homep
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.ntlworld.com/geoff.johnson2/IR...
Half of the world's 6,000 langu
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s will disappear in less than a century, leading to "grave consequences for biodiversity" says the U.N.. Most people use one of only 8 langu
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s...
Here's a nifty voy
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into the nanoworld...
Book Art http://www.ibooknet.co.uk/news_im
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s/Jan2005/movie_win.ht...
Meanwhile, an unreleased Velvet Underground acetate found at a gar
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sale could be the most expensive record in the world...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Flirt with iTunes - boy meets girl via music sharing and man
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s to swipe 700MB of her songs as well...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
Extreme bomb blasts are causing an "alarming increase" in the amount of Iraqi vets with brain dam
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...
"The Drugs I Need!" http://cu.convio.net/site/P
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Server?p
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name=Rx_song_download&JServSessionIdr001=slppxu14l1.app14...
Fliker, an interesting im
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browsing interface...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://shuffle.servepics.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=12&p
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=...
A startup creates molecular stor
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technology that could store 1 terabit per square inch, or 25 DVDs of data in a post
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stamp-sized area...
The 1GB Secure Digital USB card: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/stor
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/sandisk-sd-card-with-flip-up-usb-update-033743.ph...
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encour
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software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
Photographer Chris Jordan's "Portraits of American Mass Consumption": http://www.chrisjordanphoto.com/im
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_detail.php?id=...
A compact kitchen/bathroom/stor
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unit for small spaces...
How to build a beautiful 136 foot-high ice wall. A picture: http://www.alaskaalpineclub.org/Im
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s/Ice%20Wall%2004-05/ice25Feb05-2.jp...
The first Grammy winner in the Best Hawaiian Music Album category, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2", hit number one on Billboard's World Music chart and number two on the New
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chart. If you buy it, kee...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Iraq vets at the Walter Reed Hospital are discour
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d from making the connection between military duty and post-traumatic stress disorder...
The Grafik Dynamo assembles random words and im
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s from the Web into strangely compelling and surreal comic strips...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Also, Google's im
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index now offers over 1 billion pictures...
Big news for software developers - an open source enterprise-class mess
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queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading networks, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging technologies...
More on the copyrighting of public space. Note that the city of Chicago is enforcing this: http://www.kr
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s.com/phoright.ht...
Podcasting is getting more media attention, along with front p
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space in USA Today. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting right now...
Allan Schiffman offers a few quick numbers on federal debt, spending, etc.: http://webp
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s.charter.net/allanms/2005/02/lets-play-whats-real-problem.htm...
Meanwhile, the aver
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American remains clueless regarding GMOs - only half are aware they are sold, only a third realize they are eating them, and 70% don't think they're possible at all...
A new digital animation technique - making people dance in a robotic pop-lock style. Here's an amazing remix of Gene Kelly in "Singing In The Rain"...
The super-cool baby name wizard. How popular has a name been over time? http://babynamewizard.com/namevoy
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r...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A new industry group has been formed for holographic discs, which may store up to 1TB - that's one terabyte, or about 1,000GB...
Intellectual property lawyers are destroying the military model industry. Aren't defense contractors making enough money these days? http://www.strategyp
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.com/dls/articles/2005230.as...
Modern artists remix thrift store art: http://thewurstgallery.com/vint
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_vandals.htm...
The McNipple, from artist Casey Weldon: http://www.caseyweldon.com/home/p
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10.ht...
Music band fonts: http://www.rockr
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.com/media/fonts/musicfonts.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It's time for Hawaii to promote innovate mixed-use businesses that foster community development. Mentioned last week was the concept of "bike stations", which could be placed next to mas...
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
Amazon adds 20 million pictures of storefronts to its Yellow P
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s search...
Two tourists took the same shot of an obscure bridge from a difficult vant
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point, 20 years apart...
Why don't local supermarkets sell reusable shopping bags at time of checkout? Here's how some towns in Australia man
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d to ban disposable plastic bags at supermarkets, saving 350,000 bags in th...
Photography by Misty Keasler: Japanese love hotels, deep East Texas, Russian orphan
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s, holy places, and Guatemala city dump...
Here are the best im
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s from recent sunspot activity, from January 15 to 21...
January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress tests (Logic, P
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s, iPhoto) and it never got too hot or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
"Vill
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rs furious with Christian Missionaries...
Im
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s of dense Hong Kong living - reminds me of the Matrix...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the PC world the aver
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consumer seems to think that bigger is better. On the contrary, smaller computers by their nature require higher technology and more elegant design and engineering. Henc...
Of course, note that you can create installations of hundreds of Mac minis (for computer labs and offices), all remotely (and centrally) upgradable and man
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d via Apple Remote Desktop...
Are you a Mac-hating bigot? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/im
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s/AppleHaters.gi...
The makers of the popular Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG im
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files by up to 30%...
A new book, "Collapse", explores the reasons behind the fall of once-great civilizations. It outlines five causes: environmental dam
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, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, an...
* Aver
age
number of clothing items an adult American acquired in 2002: 5...
"Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve dam
age
". Apparently this includes Head and Shoulders, Suave, Clairol and Pantene Hair Conditioner...
The public domain USGS digital data im
age
archives. Nice, quick stock im
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ry for all kinds of uses...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The genome of a pollution-eating bacterium has been decoded, leading to more efficient garb
age
-eating biotools...
The Mantis, a portable electric bike with an 18-mile range: http://www.ebikecentral.co.uk/im
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s/mantis/product.ht...
Want to know where your pack
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goes? This student mailed a disposable camera, encouraging all who handled it to take a photo. An insightful look into the U.S. Postal Service...
Before and after tsunami photos, matched up with each other: http://homep
age
.mac.com/demark/tsunami...
Vint
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turn-of-the-century postcard im
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s of Tokyo...
December 13 to 19, 2004
New airship satellites can provide cheaper wireless cover
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...
Grisly im
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s of caring for the wounded in Iraq...
A New York art exhibition is stopped after showing a Bush portrait made of im
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s of monkeys...
An article on Web "design usability" that takes up only 20% of the p
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, surrounded by grievous clutter...
A slice of life - 48 favorite (digital) photos: http://sensitivelight.com/favourites/?im
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=...
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to listen to all nominated songs in the "Record of the Year" category via iTunes: http://keola.editthisp
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.com/2004/12/15#a178...
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 ...
"One billion children affected by poverty": http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p
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=story_11-12-2004_pg7_3...
In 2006 more im
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s will be printed from digital film than from traditional camera film...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of experimental features to the blog which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
The debut of Wikinews, a free content news source that people around the world can contribute to: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Pag...
The philosophy of "The Incredibles" via Ayn Rand. Should we live in a society in which mediocrity is encour
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d...
"RFID skills short
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predicted"...
"Israel shocked by im
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of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock...
A new consumer surveillance tool allows people to view satellite im
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s of the ground at a resolution of two feet...
November 22 to 28, 2004
A ten-year-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear the im
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of Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay...
The chief economist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "arm
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ddon", citing a number of "alarming facts"...
Gold teeth, freaking, and baggy pants - teen
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rs these days are driving school principals nuts...
More than 27% of U.S. babies were delivered by Caesarean section, the highest percent
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since 1996...
"A true love story that originated on a mess
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board of a popular Web site has been released in book form"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An overview of current work on Natural Langu
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Programming...
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million p
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s of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
Remember, every public Web p
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you make in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
The coolest fractal art I've seen online: http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractalp
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s/northwest.ht...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV foot
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is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the im
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makers in the 1992 presidential election...
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
HP's prototype biodegradable printer: http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091465/www.wired.com/news/im
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s/full/cornprinter_f.jp...
It would be nice to see evoting receipts that looked like this: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/im
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s/1211Found800w.jp...
"Living Outside Inside" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at
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14, where she had lived in ...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Here's what the map would have looked like if the election were up to voters
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18 to 29...
An im
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of Bush labelled "asshole" on CNN thanks to an intern...
A time-lapse im
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of a lunar eclipse...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The first spring water to be pack
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d in a compostable bottle. We need more biodegradable packaging...
Homeland Security
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nts bust a toy store this time...
Guess we'll all be eating squid in the future. There are more squids than humans by biomass now, thanks to overfishing and climate change...
About Clearview, the new clearer, usable typeface that will be used on all Federal road sign
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. Ask your state to adopt it...
October 18 to 24, 2004
USB flash drives with a thumbprint reader: http://www.starbursthomep
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.com/xflashpointx.ht...
Like Woody Guthrie, here's the ugly story of the exploitation of Rosa Park's im
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and legacy...
Researchers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that works "with a 95% accuracy rate": http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65422-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_p
age
_next...
A little animation of a drawing in progress: http://im
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s2.jokaroo.net/im
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s/photoshop_drawing.gi...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Tutorial D" looks like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL database langu
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. I hope it takes off...
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use" - TV down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
I think I got a spyware popup on this p
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...
The aver
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mpg of a 40-foot Gillig Phantom bus, used in Honolulu: about 4. The aver
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mpg of a hybrid-diesel bus used in Seattle: 7.5...
An astute reader points out that hyaluronic acid, which has been touted as an "anti-aging remedy", is found in taro (used for poi, the Hawaiian food staple). Here's the connection to a long-live...
Cultural (read: advertising) mess
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s affect sensory perception...
A design analysis of Kerry and Bush's campaign logos. I agree, the Kerry design looks wimpy and old school: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/im
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s/2004/10/08/opinion/20041010_oped2_lg.gi...
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest labels over CD prices. This is basically a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels get squeezed, consumers get less choice...
October 4 to 10, 2004
New nanoswitches could revolutionize data stor
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...
More news on efforts to restore coral reefs via low volt
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currents, and sad statistics on worldwide coral deaths...
What were the candidates scribbling on during the Presidential debates? Here's Bush's notepad: http://cakonos.im
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.pbase.com/im
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/34506227.jp...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
By the way, a Diebold representative now is an elections man
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r in California...
Incredible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos: http://homep
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3.nifty.com/highside/gallery.ht...
Pioneering electronic art from Sweden, 1960 to 1980: http://www.kopenh
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n.dk/netkunst/articles/digipion0504.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
It takes a lot of energy and money to send Oahu's garb
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to the mainland. Rather than spreading our trash around the planet, are there better alternatives...
IBM scientists figure out how to make single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense stor
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media...
Vint
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war posters modernized for today...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Chinese net surfers are creating a new langu
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, a mix of Chinese and English...
Life in a Cambodian garb
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dump...
Get the original interview foot
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for the movie "Outfoxed" here...
Spreading political activism 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
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s. What will attract them? Mixed-use "stroll districts". Live music. Bike paths. Greenery. Sounds goo...
The CyberLite LED is one of the products made with the above methods: http://www.electronicproducts.com/ShowP
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.asp?SECTION=3130&PRIMID=&FileName=marHL1.mar200...
U.S. broadband triples in three years. 75% use cable, only 15% use DSL: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=FCC--Broadband-Us
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-Has-Tripled&story_id=2687...
"Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'" http://chak.org/p
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s/onion/bush_nightmare.htm...
Topical picture of the week: http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/im
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s/1905781702491981.GIF?0.707218251789258...
Hip Japanese robot t-shirts: http://www.terratag.com/p
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2p.php?er=0&clientid=&basketid...
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Pictures at the bottom of this p
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The aver
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Briton is scrutinized by 300 security cameras a day...
Cool watermelon carvings: http://takashi64.hp.infoseek.co.jp/p
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009.htm...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Yet another "revolutionary spam firewall": http://news.com.au/common/story_p
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/0,4057,10558883%255E3102,00.htm...
Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered...
The plight of the minimum-w
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dairy worker...
An experiment reviving coral reefs with low-volt
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electrical current receives "remarkable results"...
August 15 to 22, 2004
The first invisible barcode system, using spray-on DNA-encapsulated inorganic nanomaterial (whew): http://times.hankooki.com/lp
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/tech/200408/kt2004081219261211810.ht...
Bruce Sterling gives another great, funny speech about the future of products - Blobjects! Are you a Gizmo user, or a Spime Wrangler? http://www.boingboing.net/im
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s/blobjects.ht...
One thousands words on our era's war crime im
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. Insightful...
From a Southern California architectural tour: http://www.caboomfest.com/im
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s/site/exh/im
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s/Jos-Studio.jp...
Cool monkey photos and great Web site design: http://www.manipulator.com/website/monkey/im
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s/haughty3_gal.jp...
Got a Mac, guitar, and a microphone? Here's the cables: http://griffintechnology.com/products/gar
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band_cables...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
Revitalize the Waterfront and Downtown http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/May/08/im
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2/localnews6_b.jp...
The LED balloon lamp: http://www.kyouei-ltd.co.jp/p
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/balloon.htm...
Why dynamic langu
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s (still) represent the future of computing (warning: tech-heavy)...
Our wonderful Presidential candidates: http://j-walkblog.com/blog/im
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s2/bushcorn2.jp...
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.content/p
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/pres...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encour
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s the distribution of online album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they starting to get a clue...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The state will be left with no other mid-sized downtown venue for locals with a st
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layout that can pull in 300 to 500 (restaurants don't count), meaning that small local acts and events won't b...
2) Encour
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smaller mixed-use artist loft/working exhibition spaces...
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
Although over 80% of the public feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security experts feel that current e-voting systems are much less secure than traditional paper-base...
Check out the incredible satellite im
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s you can view on this baby...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drain
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systems can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This is a picture of a hard drive from circa 1975. It only held "a few megabytes": http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/im
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s/new_hard_drive.jp...
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://homep
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s.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/publicdomain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Quantum computing breakthrough - a single electron's spin is controlled using ordinary transistors: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/p
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.asp?RelNum=535...
New technologies in the running for the next replacement for hard drives, including molecular stor
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and cow protein...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
Google, circa 1960: http://fury.com/im
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s/weblog/google_circa_1960.jp...
"Nations Lite" http://www.trendwatching.com/resources/im
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s/NATIONS-LITE.htm...
An inside look at the birth of the iPod. Its man
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r quit because he had no confidence it would be popular. He works for Microsoft now...
The demand for larger luxury gar
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s in homes is increasing...
July 12 to 18, 2004
New surfboards with shark-repelling devices will hit the market this year: http://news.com.au/common/story_p
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/0,4057,10131332%255E2682,00.htm...
Are you glad your husband's an engineer? This 1956 ad made me laugh: http://www.thoughtviper.com/inexob/im
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s/1956/engineer.jp...
Don't forget to hear Molvania's entry into the Eurovision song contest - "Elektronik Supersonik": http://www.molvania.com/im
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s/Elektronik_Supersonik.mp...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Not a product yet, but a concept: this Bluetooth wireless device attaches to your lugg
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and blinks when you are near it at the bagg
age
carousel. Other neat ideas here...
"I think he's a big jerk" http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurep
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s/0,4120,1256962,00.htm...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
All about the latest Rainbow Gathering, which attracted 10,000 and caused the Forest Service to allocate nearly $1 million for man
age
ment...
An Antarctic scientific research vessel gets equipped with two heavy-caliber machine guns to fight fish poaching off of Australia...
The heartwarming story of independent, gar
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-based SomaFM, which broadcasts worldwide to 8,000 listeners a day...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The (relatively new) RoadRunner business-class services are not only competitive with business-class DSL now, but are actually cheaper as the bandwidth gets bigger (Hawaii prices) - you get bette...
Texas is putting wireless net access into rest stops to encour
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breaks - a great idea...
1) radio is becoming less of a factor in music popularity, and 2) artists should encour
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the live recording community...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This has been popular, but I love the quote: "[Defense] firms are about to pitch "a frightening new breed of stun gun" to police in America and Europe that has left human rights groups appalled abou...
June 7 to 13, 2004
The ten best Internet fads: http://www.thewavemag.com/p
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gen.php?p
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name=article&articleid=2485...
For the Euro 2004 soccer championships, English fans are encour
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d to smoke dope instead of drink alcohol in order to minimize potential riots...
"Declining respect for American cultural values exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq is having a potentially disastrous effect on the im
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of US brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
A really nice p
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of digital photography composition tips...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
A former Microsoft technology man
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r bashes the company for its mediocre products and addiction to cash cows...
"Facing critical short
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of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the player holds it to his lips....
May 24 to 30, 2004
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless perimeter sensors on public land and get busted by the FBI and Air Force
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nts...
A legend in urban design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has written a new book analyzing North American culture called "Dark
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s Ahead"...
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teen
age
r playing it. Basically, you have t...
Drink beer to reduce liver dam
age
! (see last week's "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Dam
age
")...
Also on the same p
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- condoms can leak carcinogens! I guess from now on I'm chugging coffee and beer, playing video games, and avoiding condoms for my health's sake! "Investment in environmenta...
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_p
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content?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.yamano-music.com/docs/hard/handroll_piano.htm...
The latest advances in animation as developed by the makers of Shrek 2: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=p
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one&article_no=209...
"300 im
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s from 1800 sites...
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/p
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s/frontline/shows/music...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's P
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of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
1) We have no right to complain. "Americans entitled to cheap gas -- right?" http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/20/B
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J6O54F1.DT...
The story of a really, really bad neighbor: http://www.mostemailed.com/im
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s/misc/badNeighbour...
A "talking toilet" gadget that scolds men if they put the toilet seat up sells over 1.6 million units: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPack
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Article.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=513208§ion=new...
$20 biodegradable cardboard speakers pack flat and actually sound decent: http://www.t3.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?p
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typeid=2&articleid=14704&subsectionid=756&subsubsectionid=65...
Drink coffee before hitting the bar! "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Dam
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"...
May 10 to 16, 2004
One of the coolest painting programs I've seen in years: Cosmic Painter! It's free and better than a Spirograph. (Sorry, for Mac OSX only): http://www.gar
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cube.com/opensource/cosmicpainter...
A nice aerial photo of a New York cab in winter. Also see Vincent LaForet's other aerial photos: http://www.vincentlaforet.com/exhibit/aerials/im
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/brooklyn_cab.jp...
A wrought-iron covered VW bug: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/im
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s/teh_herb.jp...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
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 us
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by a factor of 1,000...
Will all communities become Wal-Marted, SUVed, McMansioned deserts? McMansions are invading this suburb in Washington, D.C.. Warning: graphic architectural carn
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...
The Volksw
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n ball, from the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Sculpture by Lars-Erik Fisk...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
Related to the recent uncovering of the secrets of gecko adhesion, here's how spiders man
age
to stay sticky...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A new technology using nanowires promises stor
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capacities of 40GB per square centimeter...
Some of the best entries in a Photoshop contest. Theme: merge two animals! http://www.totaltapeservices.com/im
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s/fark/elephant-butterfly-sm.jp...
Technology has been developed that takes im
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s of old, dam
age
d vinyl records and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study finds that the aver
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(Windows) PC has 28 spyware programs on it, each of which may send your private information to other parties without your knowledge...
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"The share of the economic pie going to w
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s and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and perhaps longer....
March 31, 2004
In the Bay Area, multiple offers over 10 are not uncommon. Houses have gone for $300,000 over the asking price. Median home prices in San Francisco are $200,000 over that of Oahu and $100,000 ove...
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A brawl involving 750 students that resulted in two arrests and eleven suspensions broke out during an anger man
age
ment assembly at a suburban high school...
The first key ring gadget that's also a camcorder, USB stor
age
device, and 2-megapixel digital camera...
"Falsifying workers' hours held to be common man
age
ment trick to pare down expenses...
A material widely used in nanotechnology research has been found to trigger organ dam
age
in fish...
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encour
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d faulty decision-making, scandalous business practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
March 22 to 28, 2004
All about the Minato Motor, which lever
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s magnetic effects to produce more electricity than it consumes. Sound wacky? They've just sold 40,000 motors to a major convenience store chain...
"Citizen Kubrick" http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurep
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s/0,4120,1177734,00.htm...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Attached to your iPod, it will take any of six different digital film media types and store the photos on your iPod so you can reuse the card. Now you can use your iPod as a bootable backup drive, ...
Topps' "Wacky Pack
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s" (satirical stickers from the 1970s) are making a comeback, and will be updated for the 21st century...
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first car designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto Show, with emphasis on comfort, stor
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, and low maintenance...
1.8 tons of raw material are used to make your aver
age
desktop computer and monitor. Upgrading rather than replacing your computer saves more energy than recycling it...
"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could make sew
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treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
Did you know that Jerry Garcia, Django Reinhardt, and Tony Iommi all had missing or dam
age
d fingers...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web p
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s, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
Face recognition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of reality simulation: where 20 years ago a shoot-'em-up game took one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized knowledge o...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Exposure To Low-level Magnetic Fields Causes DNA Damag...
Got a Windows PC? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to the recent Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
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 actually dam
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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 activity in response to a subject being show...
Mathematical formula 'predicts marri
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breakdown' "The mathematics we came up with is trivial, but the model is astonishingly accurate"...
February 9 to 15, 2004
A Swedish company has developed an environmentally friendly way to dispose of (and recycle) bodies. This is as opposed to the current methods, whose byproducts are polluting incinerators, toxi...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate im
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affinity to brain activity: "Big government and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
Make an efficient, cheap camping stove out of aluminum cans: http://www.pcthiker.com/p
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s/gear/pepsiGstoveinstruct.shtm...
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-p
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book on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for free...
The im
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of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the real and imaginary planes...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"The New Face of the Silicon
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- How India became the capital of the computing revolution...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"The aver
age
age
of people who buy fitness equipment is 31," Mr Martinez told BBC News Online, "and the aver
age
age
of gamers is 29....
January 5 to 11, 2004
"I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World Economy...
"Please just tell the Americans to send the garb
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closer to my home," pleaded Dishar Jaber, 56, squinting through the one eye he was left with after the Iran-Iraq war. "Then I will be happy....
December 29 to January 4, 2004
"Army Stops Many Soldiers From Quitting": http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36979-2003Dec28?langu
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=printe...
Did you know that 20 billion tampons/sanitary pads went into landfills in 1998? Encour
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females to try the Diva Cup...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope everyone had a happy 2003! Kev's News is now six months old. (Obligatory holiday picture link below): http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/im
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s/snowglobemouse.jp...
"10 Ads America Won't See" http://www.ad
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.com/news.cms?newsId=3942...
The National Park Service is altering foot
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of demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial, removing anti-war protests and replacing them with pro-war and religious rallies that didn't even occur there...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured man
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ment positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
Whoo boy, lots of new stuff in the world lately. Guess I'll just jump in: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61543-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_p
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_next...
This Chinese video has been wildly popular this week: A great "new" way to fold your shirts (it's true, I learned too) the way professionals do in retail stores. You may be able to download it her...
A good interview showing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to man
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my career......
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
Details behind the first National Geographic cover story ever to be completely shot digitally: http://65.110.81.28/bins/multi_p
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.asp?cid=7-6450-656...
Keiko, the killer whale that starred in "Free Willy", has died of sudden pneumonia, exacerbated by moves to Canada and Mexico...
A Pattern Langu
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for Sustainabilit...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Have you ever seen a gigpixel im
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...
Low-w
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life is getting much worse for Americans: "Myths and Realities About Low-W
age
Jobs"...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Abercromie & Fitch got in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clothing catalog. Their first sweater doesn't show up until p
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122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Some popular news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces): http://www.the
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.com.au/articles/2003/11/14/1068674372852.htm...
November 3 to 9, 2003
These come from Nick DiFonzo's outr
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ous collection...
Will noisy, hot computers be a thing of the past? Electricity leak
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is why current microchips (and therefore your computer) runs hot, requires fans, and contributes to the entropy of the universe...
You can read about one of their books, "Superbia!", a manual on transforming suburban wastelands into more community-oriented, sustainable vill
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s... "I was amazed when my neighbor waved to me"...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
In honor, here is every Playboy centerfold aver
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d out over four decades...
"New switching rules may trash millions of cell phones" http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/31/sprj.ws.cellphone.garb
age
.ap/index.htm...
The first optical processor, which computes at the speed of light... http://lenslet.com/im
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s/i_products_enlight.jp...
20% less males
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d 18 to 34 are watching TV compared to last year...
Why Forest Man
age
ment Exacerbates Loss of Lives and Propert...
October 27, 2003
The rise of underground restaurants: http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-p
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.html?p
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wanted=all&res=9C00EFD9143EF931A25750C0A9659C8B6...
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
October 20, 2003
This week was Marri
age
Protection Week! In honor, here's an article about how only 50.7% of America is actually married: "Unmarried America...
* The aver
age
Wal-Mart worker lives under California's poverty line...
Today's modern kids comment on vint
age
video games - Pong, Donkey Kong, Handheld Football, Tetris, Space Invaders, and more... Niko: Hey—Pong. My parents played this game. Brian: It takes this whol...
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract photos taken from the sides of boxcars: http://www.timdavisartim
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s.com/p
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s/main.htm...
October 14, 2003
The main point of this is that now a single computer can replace an entire cellular tower's worth of expensive equipment. This means smaller installations and better cover
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to rural areas. Plus i...
October 6, 2003
"Girl, 5, makes bong in class" http://news.com.au/common/story_p
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/0,4057,7401630%255E13569,00.htm...
* The soundtrack was mixed by Moby and features the music of Radiohead, U2, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone
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, David Bowie, The Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Fischerspooner, and Boards of Canada...
"3G Mobile Signals Can Cause Nausea, Headache" http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=7&u=/nm/20030930/tc_nm/health_mobile_dam
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_d...
September 30, 2003
"A prototype digital video system producing im
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s of such high quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from reality has been developed by Japanese engineers...
A Jurassic-
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plant once thought extinct has been discovered, cultivated, and commercialized...
September 22, 2003
About Stefanie Nagorka, who makes spontaneous sculptures in Home Depot aisles wihout permission: http://www.npr.org/display_p
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s/features/feature_1266165.htm...
"The Revenge of the Copyright Cops" http://www.nytimes.com/im
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p
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s/2003/09/16/arts/20030916_POPLIFE_IM
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.html?8hpi...
September 15, 2003
Strange tiles have been sighted in over 100 different places around the world, created by an unknown artist. They reference Arnold Toynbee, who believed that "humanity's perception of its histor...
The optical illusions p
age
from Japan has been greatly expanded. WARNING: may cause headaches or discomfort...
September 8, 2003
"We have almost 30 percent of our prison population in Texas infected with hepatitis. That’s not so different from the numbers you see in the Dark
age
s with the plague....
According to "youth marketing experts", Apple is one of the coolest, popular brands among teen
age
rs (even though they're probably using Windows at school)...
California candidates are given the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, to see which ones are replicants. This is hilarious! http://www.thewavemag.com/p
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gen.php?p
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name=article&articleid$03...
September 2, 2003
The incredible story of an Estonian man who lived in the forest for eight years evading the Soviets: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/international/europe/23FPRO.html?8bl=&p
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wanted=all&position...
August 12, 2003
Octopus Camouflag...
August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.cd933.com/big%20radio/im
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s/cartoons/MegaFlick_1.jp...
It is official U.S. policy to encour
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people to buy larger, less efficient cars: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after concerns wer...
July 28, 2003
When nothing gets done in groups the way people want that's perhaps more often due to an inability to man
age
agreement than man
age
conflict - read about the Abilene Paradox...
July 21, 2003
Status report: there have been almost 7 million hits on the Star Wars Kid p
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, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...
Making the rounds of instant netpop fame are these two hapless Korean teen
age
rs singing in a video karaoke booth...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...
But perhaps the best commentary is from David Cross, who man
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s to skewer American "culture" at the same time.....
July 10, 2003
Here's one of the better articles on CTS that I've read... http://www.vill
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voice.com/issues/0328/shachtman.ph...
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we man
age
it." Also, if yo...
July 8, 2003
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...