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December 20 to 31, 2005
A "laptop battery breakthrough" enables more precise readings of battery life, implications for all gadget types: http://www.iht.com/
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Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You wasted qu
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ers in this?...
iPod Stuff http://online.wsj.com/public/
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"Prescription Drug Use at Record High for Americans": http://www.reuters.com/news
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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 interactive modern
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in thi...
The "gallery of computation" has gotten both larger and more varied over the last year or so. Great stuff...
Amazing full-color turn-of-the-century Russian photos...
Cutting-edge graffiti
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by Mr. Totem...
Detailed, richly colored scientific photography...
Beautiful photos of Alaska by Norio Matsumoto...
The New York Times' 2004 year in pictures...
The greatest opening song lines...
The Black Keys make some great lo-fi blues rock. Some say they're better than the White Stripes...
Mash-ups, or combinations of songs, are going mainstream and making big bucks for some...
In a pioneering survey, most
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ists and musicians think that file sharing is not a threat...
The RIAA and MPAA are intentionally putting adware into Windows Media files to thw
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file sharing...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hawaii's High-Tech Successes, Today http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Gateway's new $200 LCD monitors... http://news.com.com/Gateway+prepares+trio+of+LCD+monitors/2100-1041_3-5687511.html?p
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Scientists make bacteria behave like computers: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/eggc
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on.ht...
How sm
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mobs are fueling revolution around the world...
My Future China http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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icle.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/01/MNGE5CID7E1.DTL&feed=rss.new...
"The Wal-M
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'Foundation' is nothing more than a front group for Wal-M
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Stores Incorporated, and should not be confused for a real charitable non-profit"...
An update on Iraq's ravaged cultural
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ifacts - not good...
Did you know the keys on your GM van may open the doors on "a half-dozen other GM vans and pickups"? http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/
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icleNews/story/CTVNews/1114698835400_6?hub=topstorie...
An "alarming number" of young American girls are taking steroids to emulate the look of "models and movie stars": http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Hey ladies! Here's why geeks and nerds are worth it! http://h
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ford.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/66795671.htm...
Did you know that the military occupies over 22% of Oahu? http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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icle/2005/May/01/ln/ln07p.htm...
"U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism - State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//
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icle/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.htm...
Canada once took in 50,000 Vietnam-era draft dodgers. But today it's denying political asylum to those who refuse to p
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icipate in the Iraq war...
Growing Tea In Hawaii http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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icle/2005/Apr/25/bz/bz01p.htm...
Aluminum beer bottles have st
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ed to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep contents colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
46 benefits of building green: http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/
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Feeling creative? Bring in some new blood...
Click the face...
A simple, well-designed game - Guess the Google...
Mathematicians turn an Escher drawing into a trippy interactive experience. Check out the movies...
The all-wood musical door/doorchime based on the African tongue drum. What a great concept...
Training wheels, rethought...
Photo Stitching
Beautifully photographed abandoned structures in Japan...
Why is the FBI plastering notices all over CDs, to the dismay of
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ists and consumers alike...
The beautiful long-lost music of Red Hash, circa 1973...
21st Century Music Videos
April 18 to 24, 2005
Hope everyone had a happy E
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h Day. Not surprisingly, much news was devoted to how much high-tech junk is being generated and what to do about it...
Holographic storage technology is slowly making progress: http://www.extremetech.com/
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Suspended animation gets one step closer to reality: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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Verizon and Movielink announced a movie download service for broadband users: http://news.com.com/Verizon+calls+action+on+movie+downloads/2100-1034_3-5679846.html?p
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Wal-M
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Watch launched this week. Check it out...
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700 million for abusing its near-monopoly in the software industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
Another case of copyright law going too far - in Ghana, folk
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ists could be imprisoned, fined, or both...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually everything our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
ClearChannel will be tagging its music with color codes that reflect "indecent" content. Blue songs are OK, while orange songs can only be played after 10pm: http://www.fmqb.com/
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P
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ly thanks to its sale of hybrid cars, Toyota expects to see its best first qu
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er in 48 years. GM expects to lose $850 million that same qu
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er due to short term bets on "cheap" and "plentiful...
Rethinking The Everyday Things
The sandal-combination-bottle opener! Perfect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
The scratchophone, the portable scratching bongo drum...
3D street paintings...
An impressive photographic archive of mistakes. Check out "lost my job" and "women live longer"...
Another example of how people see only what they want (or are directed) to see - motion-induced blindness (and many other nifty optical illusions)...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This couple st
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ed an eco-porn site for rain forest protection and have already raised almost $100,000...
I get some traffic to this site from people looking for information on Devendra Banh
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. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with information on
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ists, albums, influences, and musi...
The "stratellite" can replace satellites at 1/10 the cost. Hopefully, it will make cellphone towers obsolete: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&
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SVG will radically change how the Web looks and feels. It will be making its debut in Web browsers very soon: http://www.publish.com/
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It now seems possible to st
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and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
How and why Asian countries are keeping the U.S. dollar from collapsing: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/
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"Half of U.S. taxpayers filing online": http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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If case you're wondering why I'm so concerned about this topic, that's because I work for an RFID st
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up and know full well the problems this can cause...
A reader poll reveals the ugliest cars of 2005. I definitely agree with the top four...
Portraits of normal, everyday people by Naomi Harris...
Give your photos the comic treatment with Photoshop...
Interactive textiles are changing the shape and texture of electronic gadgets...
Here's the lightest, smallest portable sound system any world traveler could want...
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand 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 page 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 imagery feature last week. People st
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ed making "memory maps" at Flickr...
More on the future of liquid lenses via Wired: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/st
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Instant reusable whiteboard sheets are so cool. Useful for traveling workers,
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ists, and people without magnetic refrigerators...
The market for dead celebrities has become quite lucrative. Bill Gates bought a lot of them recently: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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The original
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icle is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of research via paper...
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball machine manufacturer on E
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President Bush's approval rating is the lowest ever for a 2nd-term president. J-Walk provides a nice graph: http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/bush_approval_ch
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Best Buy arrests a man for using $2 bills. The police said "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world." I didn't know that terrorists paid for their nuclear weapons using $...
Scientists are figuring out ways to stimulate neurons remotely with laser beams and are already controlling fruit flies...
A new military combat simulator stuns people via electric shock if shot. But the real news is that people really like games that hurt you: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
Did you know that in 2000, EPA-banned GMO corn was found in Taco Bell tacos, which could produce anaphylactic shock? Here's more on how corporations are surreptitiously introducing GMO into th...
You may one day clean your teeth with a light wand: http://www.newscientist.com/
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The found footage festival consists of movies retrieved from trash bins all over the U.S. Check out the preview trailer...
The neo-psychedelic
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The work of graphic spin-doctor Glenn Feron. In case you thought those media images reflected reality...
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made via electromagnetic fields...
New
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istic ways to compose music...
Another elegantly-designed kitchen timer...
622 music videos...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A couple of weeks ago I gave a three-hour deposition involving the Soverain Software vs. Amazon shopping c
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patent case...
Perpendicular recording likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage technologies...
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long lines: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Most streets in the U.S. named after M
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in Luther King have turned out to be dead-end low-income crack alleys...
Derren Brown uses basic psychological principles to perform amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks: http://www.iht.com/
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"The Making of the Twenty-First-Century Soldier" http://www.esquire.com/features/
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1,360 scientists from 95 countries say that two-thirds of the world's resources are "used up" in a four-year $24 million U.N.-sponsored survey...
G.M.'s vice-chairman, on why he thinks people will still buy big SUVs: "Rich people don't care": http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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The world's ugliest car, made in 1957, was restored from a pile of junk to a polished, functional car...
More wacky, unusual album covers...
Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Computation continues to get more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time...
Sin City is the first true movie/graphic novel hybrid. Here's a comic-to-screen comparison...
Here's a crab-cracking tool that's well-designed due to looking at the problem from a novel perspective...
Kits turn Subaru vans into VW microbus imitations and more...
A small visual poem of a lonely Japanese street singer (may be down)...
An interview with the most influential woman in rock, Patti Smith...
March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an
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ist 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 collages patterne...
Contact lenses are being used for all sort of things these days. Here's some fashion glitter contacts that look pretty sexy: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Viral marketing is huge these days. In this
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icle are a few dos and don'ts of viral marketing...
Macs are st
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ing to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got st
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ed in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
A blogged picture of a procession in Spain demonstrates the rising use of cell phone cameras to capture major events: http://www.sm
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At last, "rising gas prices threaten viability of biggest SUV sales". Note that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them f
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her to boot...
A new newspaper column only reviews cars that do better than 30 mpg. Let's see more columns like this...
So few people know the basics about GMOs, the AP was prompted to write this
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Here's the best
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icle on the walking octopus I could find...
A compliment to last week's interview with Robert Crumb, an interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his wife...
The out-of-the-canvas
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work of Paul Critchley...
Transparent screens - I want something that changes with the amount of ambient light...
A lot of people commented this week on Tom Waits' top 20 albums of all time, a great list worth hearing. Why isn't there an iTunes Music Store playlist of this stuff...
U.S. music sales rise, despite massive amounts of file sharing action on the net...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Only in Hawaii - people made corned beef sushi with green rice for St. Patrick's day. I think it should be a symbol of world unity or something. Note that this type of sushi (musubi) is usually mad...
The first modern robotic shoe changes shape to match the terrain you're running on: http://news.com.com/Can+these+running+shoes+outsm
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For the first time, people can visualize the characters in most of the written languages of the world at once: http://www.ianalbert.com/misc/unich
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Here's a nice summary of how your hard drive works: http://www.extremetech.com/
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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...
A planned device allegedly "destroys" RFID tags: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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And here's photos of all those wildflowers that have been blooming in Death Valley lately: http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?
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Breast-enhancing bubble gum is popular in Japan these days: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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Take a break to read the underrated poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, "the German language's greatest poet of the 20th century". His unique style of writing translates exceptionally well...
Cropless circles, made on sand...
Beautiful aquatic creatures made from hubcaps...
Shiny handmade aluminum guitars...
Latte
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Use this magnetic paint to make any surface sensitive to magnetism. No idea if it's eco-friendly though...
Peep surgery - this one's a classic, still funny, and just in time for Easter...
The Flickr postcard browser...
Merge 50 photos of any given topic, and you get
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ful atmospheric pictures of concepts...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be used to inspect cracks...
Some
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ists are slicing up billboards, recombining them into new images...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Changing Hawaii http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and online personality after you die? This
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icle uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
An interview with c
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oonist Robert Crumb, from his house in France...
"Invocation of eminent domain by cities to seize property for private development is on the rise": http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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China is fighting the Tibetan exile administration with computer virii: http://www.phayul.com/news/
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Let's see Starbucks use these new paper coffee cups that are decomposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's ordered 20 million of them...
There's lots of great interface ideas and
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in the Flash Film Festival finalists...
Drawn! A new groovy blog about "illustration,
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, c
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ooning and drawing"...
The Colored Pencil Society of America's 2004 award winners...
Giant Steps - a great animated visualization of John Coltrane's classic jazz number...
An imaginative new Adidas commercial explores the world of dreamtime...
The video jigsaw puzzle. Let's see more of these...
Colorful photos of beetles and moths...
101 Zen stories...
"I don't see / the point of Haiku / in English" - the first(?) haiku poetry slam...
Book
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The Flickr guide to the planet - beautiful photos from around the world, via Gridskipper...
The world's thinnest building, with a very colorful history...
The bottomless coffee table...
Historic video clips from the 1960's...
Listen to Dr. Demento shows online...
For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live content online - 2.6GB worth...
It's likely that Axl Rose's next album, which has been in the works for 10 years at a cost of over $13 million, is the most expensive album ever made...
New Order's new music posters beam music,
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, and ringtones to nearby cell phones...
The blogosphere's raving about 27 year-old Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with pop
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and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
The inspiring story of Pakistani woman Mukhtaran Bibi. Gang-raped by her neighbors, she st
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ed two successful schools in the midst of her now-free attackers...
Extreme bomb blasts are causing an "alarming increase" in the amount of Iraqi vets with brain damage: http://www.halifaxlive.com/
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A friend wrote this
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icle about the Kolea, a five ounce bird that has been flying from Alaska to Hawaii annually for the last 120,000 years...
Big
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projects pay off - The Gates generated $254 million in economy activity, with 4 million visitors...
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery...
The online rerelease of the acclaimed animated short "Balance"...
Ancient computer ads. 32KB RAM, wow...
One of the better online color scheme generators I've seen...
Hm, I like this free font browser. Fast, WYSIWYG, and to the point, unlike many free font sites...
Fliker, an interesting image browsing interface...
More on the DJammer, the "next-generation electric guitar"...
Smithsonian Global Sound, their new online music store offering the Smithsonian's world music collection...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://www.pcworld.com/resource/
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A st
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up creates molecular storage technology that could store 1 terabit per square inch, or 25 DVDs of data in a postage stamp-sized area...
Forget ringtones. The sm
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money is in toothbrushing music! "Several recording
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ists" are in talks...
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
Here's a brilliant business and innovative social practice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this social role. The business is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
Tommy Chong is the star of "The Marijuana-Logues", a very funny and critically acclaimed pot-centric parody of the "The Vagina Monologues", which st
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ed this month. Because of parole restriction...
A great
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icle about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
There will be no encryption on new U.S. e-passports, even though they could be read stealthily from 30 feet away...
Wal-M
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flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite international attention, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
Nature is a lot tougher than you. Scientists revive 32,000 year-old frozen bacteria: http://www.newscientist.com/
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The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years, everything you do will be recorded...
Canada's Oscar-winning animated short film "Ryan"...
This quality photoshop contest shows real life, cubed...
A Londoner's house is full of wall-to-wall collections...
This design concept shows a great way to recycle water bottles...
The elegant Eva Solo magnetic (kitchen) timer...
How to build a beautiful 136 foot-high ice wall. A picture...
Bored? Try pixel
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, using Post-Its for pixels...
Stuff For Web Developer...
Turns out Google Maps isn't that new. Here's its predecessor, an amazing zooming map of Switzerland...
It isn't perfect, but I like the clean, no-frills information design of Metacritic...
The first Grammy winner in the Best Hawaiian Music Album category, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2", hit number one on Billboard's World Music ch
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February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
Honolulu was recently ranked as the fourth most expensive place to live in the U.S. lately, behind New York, San Francisco, and San Jose, CA...
Will an environmental impact statement requirement kill Hawaii's inter-island Superferry? This
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icle explains the issues involved, and why an EIS may not really be needed. In any case, could it no...
New groovy stuff from the DEMO 2005 conference! Here's Bubbler, an app that allows you to make your own multimedia blogs, from Five Across: http://www.extremetech.com/
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Scientists create the first deafness "cure" using gene therapy: http://www.newscientist.com/
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The mating scent of the German cockroach has been found - here's the clever methods scientists used: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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It's true, the International Monetary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as noted by a former banker in this
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icle mentioned last year...
The grisly story of Manadel al-Jamadi, which just became fully known - he died in Abu Ghraib while hung from his wrists: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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The Weekly Gloom and Doom http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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Chloroflourocarbon-free expanded polystyrene housing can withstand the worst e
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hquakes recorded and is energy-efficient too...
Central Park's Gates - here are QuickTime VR panoramas...
The Grafik Dynamo assembles random words and images from the Web into strangely compelling and surreal comic strips...
Intricate snow sculptures from the International Snow Championships 2005...
A trippy 3D kaleidoscope...
Funny finger
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istry. Select "GB" and then "videos"...
This is not new, but I must have forgotten to mention it here last year - the elegantly designed Toro(tm) tissue ring...
Lots of retro album cover designs here at the Mod Pop Punk archives...
Jazz composer Maric Schneider is likely the first
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February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
Big news for software developers - an open source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading networks, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging technologies...
An Ikea store opening in London turns into a riot, leaving 20 with heat exhaustion and five in the hospital: http://www.thisislondon.com/news/
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Dubai is building the world's biggest waterfront development - it's 2.5 times the size of D.C.: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
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in Mubanga's account of his 33-month stay at Guantanamo Bay...
Allan Schiffman offers a few quick numbers on federal debt, spending, etc.: http://webpages.ch
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er.net/allanms/2005/02/lets-play-whats-real-problem.htm...
A qu
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er of the economy's growth is taken up by healthcare spending...
44% of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists feel findings were suppressed that would require greater protection of endangered species...
This man has converted 15 diesel Mercedes to run on biodiesel, with 15 to go: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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View all of the 2005 Super Bowl ads here, including the rejected and/or censored ones...
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"...
Reality Is Subjectiv...
The super-cool baby name wizard. How popular has a name been over time...
The mushroom version of the Game of Life. Let's see more visualizations that take time into account...
This surreal 1980's Estonian TV commercial for minced chicken meat has been making the rounds...
Recording an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, written by an industry insider - too many writers...
Designing product packaging? Here are professional competitive analyses in a number of categories...
A transcript of Gene Simmon's very funny interview with Terry Gross on NPR, which was replayed last week...
Lawrence Lessig writes on why Wilco represents the future of music...
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...
The first
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This was popular - the sushi chef that prints his food from an inkjet: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Microsoft is mad about all the Apple iPods that employees are buying and using at work: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Wal-M
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Intellectual property lawyers are destroying the military model industry. Aren't defense contractors making enough money these days? http://www.strategypage.com/dls/
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The Rich Get Richer http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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"There Is No Tomorrow" http://www.st
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Here's one French
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This Week's Gloom and Doom http://scientificamerican.com/
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At least the U.S. Dep
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California's explosion of autism cases worsened last year: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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How the Atkins diet is affecting fast-food menus: http://www.thread.co.nz/
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must survive to nourish the spirit. Here's blast wall
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in Baghdad...
Brian Dear wrote a funny review of a Laurie Anderson concert he went to recently, in the form of a Laurie Anderson monologue...
Modern
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Yet even more bad album covers - here's a top ten list...
The McNipple, from
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Cool little animated movies from sheepfilms...
Fantasy coffins in Ghana...
Music band fonts...
A film about Nomi, the strange yet influential bleeding-edge 80's
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Turn your Mac into a streaming music station with Nicecast...
January 24 to 30, 2005
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...
The high cost of filming in Hawaii is leading productions to think twice about shooting in the islands. This
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Scientists have succeeded in turning stem cells into nerve cells. This may allow cures for those with nervous system injuries and diseases...
Bio-nanofibers and bio-luminescent transistors are allowing the development of transparent, flexible displays: http://www.techjapan.com/
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The Search Engine Relationship Ch
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Two tourists took the same shot of an obscure bridge from a difficult vantage point, 20 years ap
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This was understandably popular - people are worrying about hybrid human/animal experiments, including human/rabbit egg combinations and mice with human brain cells...
Whole-grain foods are becoming an industry trend. Wonder Bread now makes a whole-grain alternative, following "unprecedented consumer interest in healthier foods"...
It appears that the very healthy white tea is getting popular: http://www.boston.com/ae/food/
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The Pack 'n' Chair, a foldable chair/backpack/cooler...
Photography by Misty Keasler: Japanese love hotels, deep East Texas, Russian orphanages, holy places, and Guatemala city dump...
Here's how to make your own Life Poster with iPhoto...
Generate, print, and cut your own 12-sided calendar...
The 2005 Lunar Wheel calendar...
This Target ad is a clever look into how design shapes our culture and environment...
About the production of Richard Linklater's new movi...
Here are the best images from recent sunspot activity, from January 15 to 21...
Bembo's Zoo, which makes animals out of letters. The site is fun for kids and designers...
The top 100 soundtracks of all time...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
A new cheap DVD recorder (sold at Wal-M
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UCLA researchers have made microscopic robots powered by living he
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Since 2003 airport security screeners have stolen $36 million in items from travelers. The Transportation Security Administration spokesman says, "We have a few bad apples. That is unfortunate. We'...
Three new wind farms in Hawaii should provide power for almost 20,000 homes before 2006: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Never mind the U.S. - electronics companies are using less lead in products thanks to European Union regulations...
The American He
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License to sit - this
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The digested read - popular novels condensed to 100 words. It sure has saved me some time...
Learn Disco...
Images of dense Hong Kong living - reminds me of the Matrix...
Were Robert Johnson's recordings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match actual guitar pitch and you get a whole new perspective on his amazing talents...
January 10 to 16, 2005
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies st
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Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living cells - the line between life and not-life is st
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ing to get pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
Here's a great collection of census trend ch
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A new book, "Collapse", explores the reasons behind the fall of once-great civilizations. It outlines five causes: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade p
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Companies are now selling "exergames", or video games that incorporate physical exercise: http://apnews.excite.com/
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The Web and the Internet are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the real costs of war...
Unfortunately, it looks like the GM power train in Hawaii's new hybrid buses is not quite as fuel efficient as promised: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Another crack in the suburban facade: In the Bay Area, 50% of residents want new homes built closer to job centers...
For geeks only-the makers of Mr. Potato Head have come up with "D
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The public domain USGS digital data image archives. Nice, quick stock imagery for all kinds of uses...
The detailed and pretty scientific
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A few months since its launch, allofmp3.com seems to be gaining credibility and customers. Tracks are one-tenth the cost of those in the iTunes music store and are offered in a variety of qualitie...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinatown is cultivating an "
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Fluid flow simulation software is now open source. Implications for cheaper environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
Interactive ch
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s of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to every sound that humans use to communicate...
Here's a humongous ch
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Do SUVs make you stupid? http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Has Somender Singh, a mechanic from India, developed an invention that makes conventional engines 20% more fuel efficient? http://www.popsci.com/popsci/futurecar/
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Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover
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The Museum of Food Anomalies. Ick...
The results of the second holiday champagne chair contest, in which designers made chairs using only the material from one champagne bottle...
Vintage turn-of-the-century postcard images of Tokyo...
Biojewelry - grow a ring from your own bone tissue...
Pitchfork's top 50 albums of 2004...
The StroboPick, perhaps the most accurate (and smallest) guitar tuner ever...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a record high. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of going after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's BusLink system is the first use of sm
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card technology in a bus-only mass transit system in America. How about making a sm
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Here's the latest on the $150 million high-tech University of Hawai'i medical school being built in Kaka'ako: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Flexible Technology http://www.newscientist.com/
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Yahoo! Maps now overlays live traffic conditions on its maps. How about antialiasing those map lines first before doing any new, folks...
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for social systems...
Construction on the world's tallest tower begins in Dubai, United Arab Emirates: http://www.newscientist.com/
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A New York
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Real
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The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music causes "visceral reactions" in people...
Punk rock flyers from 1982 to 1984...
The ten most accurately rated
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A slice of life - 48 favorite (digital) photos...
Create your own mini office cubicle hell with the Cubes plastic figure set...
Clever design by necessity - prisoners' inventions...
Japanese death poems, from a classic Salon
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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...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Aligned nanotubes improve
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The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
In an area of SUV-dominated San Francisco, a car gets ticketed for being too small: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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"Film use fading like an old photo" http://news.com.com/Film+use+fading+like+an+old+photo/2100-1041_3-5483832.html?p
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A nice introduction to randomness and why it's so important to science: http://www.sciencenews.org/
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An inspiring account of an organic farmer in Marin County, CA. - this is the future of farming: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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The corporate fallout detector: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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The shrinking turtle house: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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Beautiful photos of all the national parks in the U.S....
I'm intrigued by the clean design of this design magazine - it seems to be getting raves...
It's still a little early to call, but here are some pictures of the year, more worthy for their subjects than aesthetics...
The Eiffel Tower has a skating rink for the first time in 115 years...
Mark Morford details the long history of rock and roll selling out to corporate interests...
An essay on dysfunction in popular music. What did you expect from kids who were products of the highest divorce rates in history...
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...
"Anti-evolution teachings gain foothold in U.S. schools": http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Rumors of Exeem, the true P2P evolution of BitTorrent. This will be the ultimate in file sharing: http://slashdot.org/
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Mexican labor is getting too expensive for the U.S. - jobs are now moving to China. You can now buy Mexican trinkets in the U.S. that were made in China...
The philosophy of "The Incredibles" via Ayn Rand. Should we live in a society in which mediocrity is encouraged? http://www.objectivistcenter.org/mediacenter/
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A more in-depth mind-boggling
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Here's an overview of the current tech jobs in demand: http://news.com.com/Some+tech+skills+getting+pay+boost/2100-1022_3-5475210.html?p
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A new consumer surveillance tool allows people to view satellite images of the ground at a resolution of two feet: http://www.reuters.com/news
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Whoops, another Hawaiian bird species nears extinction. "This species was a unique p
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Here's an inspirational program on Kaua'i that recycles used glass into works of
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The most influential piece of modern
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The zoom quilt - I've love to see this with lots more p
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The anti-consumer revolution, in pictures...
This is great! The combination rug/laundry bag...
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The LED
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Exotic guitars...
An interactive surface with virtual squiggly worms you can "pick up". I've always wanted to open a bar where the entire floor is a virtual interactive koi pond myself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone st
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Today a new blog is created every 5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
Meanwhile, here's an
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Introducing SolarLite, the $100 "environmentally-friendly" http://slashdot.org/
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New algorithms purport to tell real
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New technology helps people from having their pictures taken by unwanted photographers: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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The chief economist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming facts"...
The story of Mr. Wu, a farmer in Tongzhou, China, who invents robots made with metal, duct tape, and second-hand batteries: http://www.sky.com/skynews/
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Enter your ZIP code and get a blast map that shows the effects of a 10-kiloton nuclear blast in your area: http://www.nucle
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Combine color and astrology - colorstrology...
The best micrographs of 2002, only nanometers wide...
Cool underground pictures of the massive G-Cans project in Tokyo...
Bill Dan, rock balancer...
Build your own gramophone with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on CDs and plastic cups and play them back...
An account of the rough security screening at movie theaters these days...
Reality Literatur...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power Plant near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
Pros and cons regarding the upcoming Superferry - discuss them in public this week: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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New hybrid buses have st
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A new device makes shop windows and other flat surfaces interactive: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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New businesses are sprouting up to meet demand for the new Firefox browser, now used by 19% of users according to some...
The silent PC power supply. Stop PC noise pollution! http://www.legitreviews.com/
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New yarns made of carbon nanotubes leads to sm
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The former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his thoughts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based online encyclopedia that passed 401,000
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The story of one of the world's largest spammers, who made $750,000 a month from jamming your emailbox: http://apnews1.iwon.com//
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Make money with ad tattoos - are you brandable?: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Young tech workers can't afford to live in Silicon Valley anymore, a concern for years: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Uh-oh - Diebold has been contracted to secure the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights: http://www.diebold.com/ch
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"A New Vision for Nuclear Waste": http://www.technologyreview.com/
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The
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"Meditation May Bolster Brain Activity": http://my.webmd.com/content/
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Beautiful new holiday cards...
The coolest fractal
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The Man Behind the FedEx Log...
The latest design proposals for the latest high-tech Antarctica research station...
A bookstore arranged by book color...
The can octopus...
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, they've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening interview...
Elvis Costello interviews Joni Mitchell...
November 8 to 14, 2004
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will st
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Ultraviolet laser technology will lead to 500GB optical disks: http://www.theinquirer.net/?
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Scientists have created the "photocapacitor", a more efficient solar cell/battery combination: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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"White collar slavery" in the video game industry: http://news.com.com/Electronic+
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The FCC further deregulates Internet phone services: http://news.com.com/FCC+further+deregulates+Net+calls/2100-7352_3-5444883.html?p
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"Submission" http://kiwi.hlm.cyberhq.nl/mirror/submission/submissionp
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Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/content/show
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"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - a former respected international banker admits to helping the U.S. cheat poor countries out of trillions, allowing for economic takeover...
So maybe that "who voted by IQ"
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"sorryeverybody.com" spawns "werenotsorry.com" and "apologiesaccepted.com"...
The military's Gestapo/D
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This
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"Biodiesel fuel attracts loyal following in Islands": http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Eat less, breathe more - the physics of gluttony: http://www.technologyreview.com/
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Get your iBook painted - someone should do this locally...
A multimedia account of a trip to Tibet in April 2004...
An interesting interview with a man that has collected over 900,000 mp3 files online, for posterity's sake...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Election Hangover http://bellaciao.org/en/
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The Younger Generation Speaks Out http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
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Note that modern Macs are compatible with Verizon's wireless BroadbandAccess plan ($80 a month for unlimited access): http://www.macosxhints.com/
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The New Journalism http://www.reuters.com/news
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Students in Kolkata, India made a jacket that gives a shock to potential molesters. 99% of Kolkata women surveyed want one: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Nat'l Guard and reserve troops make up 40% of U.S. troops in Iraq and get the worst armor and equipment: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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McDonald's bans "fat" people from their new TV ads: http://www.thesun.co.uk/
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Things That Return To Bite Us http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Whole Foods is selling organic clothing. Could this be the st
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A photoessay on how "The Incredibles" was created...
Interactive 360-degree panoramas from around the world...
A cool new music video made with 1972 video synthesizer tech...
A time-lapse image of a lunar eclipse...
Interactive wallpaper is going commercial...
The sound shaker (movie)...
Brown Paper Tickets, a cheap alternative to Ticketmaster...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Ready for the election? "Tight race turns world spotlight on Hawaii": http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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"Administration's own actions fuel rumors of draft": http://www.democracynow.org/
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Yes, the same H
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An update on virtual retina displays: http://www.thefeature.com/
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Wow! The Honolulu Wal-M
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Spyware is on 80% of PCs, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
An
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Best Buy opens online photo processing labs: http://news.com.com/Best+Buy+opens+online+photo-processing+lab/2100-1032_3-5432615.html?p
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Yes, the U.S. knows where Osama is. And he's still getting "only" $1 million a year from his family: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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A great three-p
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Sustainable flooring made with cork and bamboo: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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A new prototype medical robot that's supposed to crawl through your intestines? Seems a little hard to swallow: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Dead things are a core p
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New autostitching algorithms make seamless panoramas a snap. Now will someone please make a Photoshop plug-in or simple OSX GUI for this...
Some cable companies now broadcast signals that prevent you from making copies of recordings...
A series of funny, thoughtful short films about people and technology...
A smiling stingray...
The great history of Sun Studio, the most influential recording studio ever...
A new singing contest in Korea has entrants auditioning using their cell phones. I hope entries are well-received...
The RIAA issues its first gold, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digitally downloaded music...
Billboard Magazine st
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The rock band Marillion asked online fans to contribute money towards new albums - and has raised almost $1 million so far...
Publish your Creative Commons-licensed audio or video with this app and have it hosted automatically by the Internet Archive, which has massive amounts of bandwidth...
October 18 to 24, 2004
New printable RFID labels meet Wal-M
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Ever needed a private room for adults? Yamaha's got one: http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=
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A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault every time your PC crashes, too: http://www.infoworld.com/
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R.I.P. shirts are popular in high-homicide areas, where rappers wear shirts with the names and photos of victims they don't even know...
"Microsoft's Worst Nightmare" http://www.business2.com/b2/web/
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The Air Force traces a distress signal to a faulty TV: http://www.gtconnect.com/
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"World Living Beyond Its Environmental Means": http://www.reuters.co.uk/news
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"Heavy traffic bad for your he
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Warm offices are linked to higher productivity: http://www.newswise.com/public/
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Five trips that can change your life, p
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Contemporary Tibetan painting...
The photojournal of a modern geisha in Kyoto...
Flexible drinking straw creations...
A little animation of a drawing in progress...
"If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers......
ASCAP seals a huge deal to "let stations legally stream their on-air content over the "Internet"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
The first waterless dishwater uses supercritical carbon dioxide: http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/adv/
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On Columbus Day, history professors relate Columbus' cruel history: http://www.journalstar.com/
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CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school... STEW
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The E
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The American health care system continues to flounder, with employer insurance increasing 11% in 2004: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Absolutely beautiful photography at File Magazine...
"The Sad Song...
"A Cunning Stunt...
For its 150th anniversary, Timex created a design competition for future timekeeping concepts. Here are the winners...
A design analysis of Kerry and Bush's campaign logos. I agree, the Kerry design looks wimpy and old school...
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A good idea - lease satellite radio feeds and bring the public back into radio...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-tech $13,000 Sm
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The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i Business Express", which allows one to st
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With this application and a GPS-enabled phone, you can walk around town and see which places are contributing money to which political p
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Finally, a st
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Electricity-conducting plastic means lighter, smaller gadgets: http://dataweek.co.za/
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"George W. Bush - Keeping America Scared": http://home.e
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A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck powered on nothing but sunlight and water: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/
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The world's largest wind power project st
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Cancel your phone and cable TV - st
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The "Hello Kitty" debit card, targeted to 10 to 14 year-olds: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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Health insurance rates are outpacing income: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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"Daily Show" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly Factor" viewers: http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/
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"What a Top Reporter in Baghdad Really Thinks About the War": http://www.reuters.com/news
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California mandates free cell phone recycling. Every state should pass such a bill...
Will solar-powered ISPs take off? http://news.com.com/Is+there+money+in+being+%27green%27%3F/2100-1012_3-5381028.html?p
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The "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade. Note: not for the timid - this is life at its messiest!
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The 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners - including "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide": http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Ever wanted to live on a houseboat? Here's some from Sausalito, CA, one of the best and oldest houseboat communities...
A beautiful contemporary mobile home...
Ooh, cool jellyfish lights.....
Incredible photorealistic
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Computer-assisted streak photography...
Pioneering electronic
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The latest, greatest singer/songwriters play the Hotel Cafe. Check out the CD...
Sarah McLachlan's video "World On Fire" breaks down the cost of making a music video vs. contributing to charities...
XM satellite radio seems to be taking off...
"Sony ditches copy-control CDs"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
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...
PC Magazine and Time give the new G5 iMac top ratings and reviews, named "Gadget of the Week": http://www.pcmag.com/
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Autopsies of the future may require less surgical probing, thanks to CT/MRI scanning: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/
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The first dental chair to use bone-conducting speakers, preventing patients from drill noises: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Don't say "offshoring" anymore - the politically correct term is "global sourcing"...
Due to high-priced dorms, Berkeley students are finding it cheaper to rent mansions: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Jimmy Swagg
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A p
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Researchers are finding ways to reduce buckyball toxicity: http://news.com.com/Rice+lab+makes+nano+p
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The state-of-the-
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Nifty two-story wind-powered walking sculptures...
Time-lapse road trip - LA to New York in five minutes...
"3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked...
A new business model for
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September 13 to 19, 2004
The Kona community pushes back against out-of-control, monolithic development: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Does anyone know of space for a gymnastics program that "put 11 kids on the national team last year"? http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Has this st
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A new radio modem is the size of a credit card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range: http://www.eeproductcenter.com/rf-micro/brief/show
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PCs are getting hotter and hotter as their complexity and power consumption increases: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Chinese net surfers are creating a new language, a mix of Chinese and English: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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China's a new "hotbed of research" too: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/technology/13china.html?ex=1252728000&en=c97bdebfc8ebba94&ei=5090&p
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The Oprah car giveaway made a lot of money for GM. It's a sign of new types of promotions to come! http://olympics.reuters.com/news
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About the horrible pollution and cancer-causing rivers in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/international/asia/12china.html?ex=1252641600&en=195e0c8a98b98708&ei=5090&p
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NEC announces biodegradable laptops: http://www.we-make-money-not-
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Hurricane Ivan from above...
"What the Bleep Do We Know?!...
Over 1,000 great (jazz) album covers...
Print-on-demand custom wallpaper...
Innovative recipe designs...
XM radio offers online streaming music...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"Luring Gen-Xers to Islands not easy" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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How can
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"Hokulia construction ban upheld by judge" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Hawaiian man fights to reclaim family's land http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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New breakthrough methods for creating (self-assembling) 3D nanostructures: http://www.triangletechjournal.com/news/
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Who's breeding in America? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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It's good to know that some people keep things secret (and sacred). Here's the popular
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"The city of Chicago is about to unveil a city-wide surveillance system.": http://www.sm
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Topical picture of the week...
More nifty pictures of the printed organic furniture mentioned last week...
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to remake a minimalist home for $50,000...
Design Web sites? These eyetracking test results can help you make a more effective site...
Hip Japanese robot t-shirts...
The cool TRON-like environments of Stephen Hendee...
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite
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August 30 to September 5, 2004
"Despite a strong state economy, the homeless rate in Hawaii has nearly doubled over the past four years, and the majority of the new homeless are native Hawaiians and those with some Hawaiia...
Isn't it funny that the Superferry sports an array of high-tech gadgets - and two human observers - to do nothing but ensure that whales are avoided at all costs.....
Dates of public hearings on the sale of Verizon Hawaii to The Carlyle Group: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Scientists are learning how to harness photosynthetic bacteria in solar cells: http://www.technologyreview.com/
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The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
Outsourcing Greed http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Are you an inefficient hypertasker? Workplace pressures, inadequate tools cause stress. I say this is a technology problem, not a brain problem...
This week's 12 and 16-year-olds marked as terrorists and apprehended by the Secret Service: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Protesters use texting, microradio, and other technologies now: http://www.sm
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Ecotourism needs more experienced guides: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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"What is the face of this place?...
Do you like Jim Woodring's surreal comic Frank? Here's the first animated short based on same...
Cool watermelon carvings...
Watch the fascinating evolution of 100 years of Olympic poster design...
New anime films from the masters are coming...
The popular bottle opener fridge magnet...
3D printed furniture that mimics biological structures. A sign of unique 21st century design...
Put your DNA signature on a T-shirt...
For Web developers-ten CSS tricks you may not know...
"BMI posts record year, despite music industry doom and gloom"...
August 22 to 29, 2004
All about the Hawaii Superferry, which st
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Microsoft's Spanish version of Windows XP translated "woman" as "bitch". Users unamused: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
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Even Windows' recent Service Pack 2 is insecure: http://www.pcmag.com/
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Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered...
Enterprise housing - creating affordable, sustainable housing in urban, mixed-use environments: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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"Breakthrough reached in fight against fruit fly": http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to get gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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A Handbook of Rhetorical Device...
The groovy Web sites and photography of Sacha Dean Bryan...
Yay! "This Land Is Your Land" is actually in the public domain...
A Rolling Stone report on Clear Channel, which owns 70% of live events in the U.S....
Apple now offers songs in bulk via their volume discount program...
The hauntingly beautiful songwriting and sounds of Jolie Holland, ex-Be Good Tanyas member. Her demo album was lauded as among the best of 2003...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative an...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Idea of the Week: Nature Cemeteries What a great concept: there's less cost and waste for the industry, there's a pent-up demand, land is conserved (and preserved), and it's cheaper for consumers...
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing Apps http://informationweek.com/story/show
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Nanotech funding grows to $8.6 billion. Hype, or not? http://news.com.com/Nanotech+funding+to+grow+to+%248.6+billion/2100-7337_3-5310762.html?p
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FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't test it too much, but it seems to work with Safari...
A new wave of digital disposable cameras: http://reuters.com/news
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Unpatched PCs are compromised in 20 minutes. Someone should make a tiny USB-powered firewall device for upgrading PCs...
St
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People are buying more plasma TVs: http://news.com.com/Report%3A+Consumers+tuning+in+to+plasma+TVs/2100-1041_3-5318404.html?p
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The Olympics is selling a lot less tickets than desired: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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It's a shame when the people that live in paradise end up polluting it. 45% of beach trash comes from Hawai'i: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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From a Southern California architectural tour: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Cool monkey photos and great Web site design...
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Make your own mathematical fidget-toy from paper...
Forget Doom 3: Here's the state-of-the-
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The smallest guitar amplifier...
Got a Mac, guitar, and a microphone? Here's the cables...
RIAA lawsuits causing agony, "unexpected twists"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Topic of the Week: Changing Hawaii http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and build ap
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A new material - "Metal Rubber": http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/
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The first(?) chip to use ultrawideband technology: http://news.com.com/FCC+certifies+Freescale+ultrawideband+technology/2110-1039_3-5305961.html?p
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Facing competition from Wal-M
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"Fewer college students choose computer majors" http://news.com.com/Students+saying+no+to+computer+science/2100-1022_3-5306096.html?p
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E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
Are businesses st
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A core problem: religions take themselves too seriously! They end up emphasizing symbols over ideas: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took p
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Lots of nifty rare retro watches...
The detailed pixel
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This was popular last week - beautiful aerial photography...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of online album tracks as p
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The daily adventures of Mixerman are back, the true diaries of a top audio producer in LA. Get the inside story of how the industry works...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local
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1) Tax incentives for local
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All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
Bush's approval poll data, mapped against terror alerts: http://img57.exs.cx/img57/7638/aproval_vs_alert_ch
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Semi-transparent solar panels can be used as a new building material and video projection surface, and they generate 3.8 watts per square foot: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?
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The Everyman Photo Contest - great amateur photography...
See how a family changes, via similar photos taken every year for 28 years...
Clubbo Music, a fabulously detailed and funny site about a nonexistant record label...
The African can guitar, made of old oil cans...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
In the meantime, check it out. I've got searching, archives, topic filters, and an RSS feed for syndication. You can search for things like "nytimes 2003 tech", which searches for all technology item...
"Crowded communities demand change" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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"Support scarce for latest UH logo ideas" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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The first debut of an entire TV show episode over the Internet: http://www.reuters.com/news
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IBM introduces "chip morphing" technology, which enables self-repairing, evolvable computer chips: http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/
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A $230 million acquisition of an RFID reader company. This technology is hot, hot, hot, people: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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How to fully remove Internet Explorer from your PC: http://crackbaby.com/
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"How government protects big media - and shuts out upst
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About the first truly effective shark repellent, A-2: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Where do whales go when they die? A newly discovered worm lacks a mouth, stomach, legs, and eyes and lives on deep-sea whale bones...
A pilot creates a folding electric guitar...
An in-demand violin maker in Berkeley creates quality violins with 200-year old wood from Lake Superior. Also an acupuncturist, he sees the vibrational connections between his vocations...
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Lan...
How the RIAA shut down a respected, thriving music store due to the sale of popular DJ-made mixtapes...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An LED research breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years: http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/show
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New algorithms detect digitally faked photos: http://www.d
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New technologies in the running for the next replacement for hard drives, including molecular storage and cow protein...
"Worship My Radiant iPod" http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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The dark side of the obesity epidemic - parents struggle to keep their large kids from being locked up by authorities: http://www.spiked-online.com/
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Photo/video folks! Build your own bottlecap tripod...
Interesting comparisons between the latest digital SLRs and film scans...
Universities are giving in and paying an RIAA "tax" to avoid prosecution...
Canada's music industry is trying to bill dentists who play music in waiting rooms...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Recent progress in 3D visualization technology allows "virtual excavation", in this case, the ability to completely examine the contents of a 3,000 year-old mummy without touching it...
eMachineShop - design and machine custom mechanical p
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Some personal stories of the 1.5 million women vs. Walm
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The lucrative careers of crime-scene cleanup companies: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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"Dwell magazine leads the rebirth of a modernist movement in housing": http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/
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The popularity of the iPod is forcing makers of CD copyright-protection technology to switch formats...
What globetrotting Laurie Anderson is up to these days, NASA's first
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Golden Apples of the Su...
Devendra Barnh
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The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestr...
According to European copyright law, Elvis' first big hit will enter the public domain in 2005, along with a lot of other still-selling music...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first recorded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
Here's Doug Engleb
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's infamous 1968 demo, which originated the concept and also introduced the world to the mouse, word processing, hyperlinks, outline editing, graphics editing, and more...
Did military sonar testing drive 200 whales to the beach off Kaua'i last week? http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Operation Castle, the single worst fallout exposure in the U.S. atmospheric testing program. With he
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The Maui Xaphoo...
Spider-Man 2, done with legos...
Abit...
Sumo - a huge bed-sized pillow...
The incredible All Music Guide is getting a complete overhaul, really, really soon...
With this Mac application you can view the current top ten most purchased tracks from the iTunes Music Store in your menubar...
A new club in the UK invites people to play their iPod playlist for 15 minutes...
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing networks...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"US Government warns against Internet Explorer" http://www.theinquirer.net/?
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Holographic technology is leading to pocket- sized video projectors: http://www.technologyreview.com/
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The first(?) application for turning your cellphone into a universal remote control: http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=
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A new hypersensitive sensor has been developed in Israel, allowing he
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The best-designed appliance plug I've seen: http://www.ap
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A teen's he
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20% of U.S. residents admit that they buy products advertised in email spam: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/
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All about the latest Rainbow Gathering, which attracted 10,000 and caused the Forest Service to allocate nearly $1 million for management...
"Thousands of truckers, bus drivers and rest-stop workers are being enlisted to spot terrorists": http://www.time.com/time/magazine/
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An
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An
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The evolution of fractal
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. This is the next generation of fractal and mathematics- based design, folks...
This device allows you to swap out your car CD changer for an iPod and use it like a huge CD changer, with your existing controls...
The he
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A celebration of the 20th anniversary of Husker Du's revolutionary album "Zen Arcade"...
Radio 1 in the UK will now be broadcasting a ch
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June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
Second, the Carlyle Group is looking to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just p
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...while the Verizon deal will likely go through, people in Hawaii should see the film and take the opportunity to reflect how the war will soon be affecting their lives in a very direct way...
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer: http://www.hothardware.com/view
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More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for networks, cell phones, radios, more...
Will your iPod be illegal? An
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"California sues food companies over mercury levels in canned tuna": http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Better than wallpaper - Blik...
Real-time file sharing music popularity results reside at BigChampagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue everybody...
Now here's a secondary BigChampagne report that indicates that "
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June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the latest tech fad of creating personal social networks - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies network and think sm
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Blogging goes mainstream with a big
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How to Argue Religion: http://www.suite101.com/
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Wal-M
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Japanese balloons and the importance of uncensored w
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Alien species have caused the ecological collapse of the Great Lakes: http://www.st
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Replace your old flashlight bulbs with brighter, longer-lasting LEDs: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/
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Independent music labels in Europe break negotiations with Apple over disagreements due to the length of their contract...
June 7 to 13, 2004
The ten best Internet fads: http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=
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Why the FCC should be abolished: http://news.com.com/Why+the+FCC+should+die/2010-1028_3-5226979.html?p
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"Declining respect for American cultural values exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq is having a potentially disastrous effect on the image of US brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
Lessons from the Wolf http://scientificamerican.com/
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Groovy pictures of the transit of Venus...
A really nice page of digital photography composition tips...
Have you seen the live music archives at archive.org...
Where are the guitar heros of today? "Still searching for the next guitar hero"...
#8 - "Rock Lobster! Down! Down!...
The newest way in which labels pay to get songs played on radio - paid ads...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out" A nice summary of the Society for Information Display's internationa...
Personal photos by the master Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky...
I recently saw Tarkovsky's 1983 movie "Nostalgia" - it is a masterpiece, but only for lovers of poetry, atmosphere, ideals, madness, and the sacred...
An
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"L.A. To Oregon at Mach 9...
"Bad Hair Year...
"Breaking...
May 24 to 30, 2004
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the abuse of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
Ryan Wieber was hired by Lucas
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A legend in urban design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has written a new book analyzing North American culture called "Dark Ages Ahead"...
Also on the same page - 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...
Now available - ultrathin lightweight flexible touch panels from Fujitsu: http://news.designtechnica.com/
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Beautiful photos from the Harbin Snow and Ice Festival, where it's below freezing over half the year...
I forget if I posted this before - the worst album covers, volume 2! My favorite is "HAPPINESS"...
The latest advances in animation as developed by the makers of Shrek 2...
"300 images from 1800 sites...
This site was down for a week or two due to popularity - it's better than the last "infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so ago...
A unique habitat for your cat - the "scratching swirl"...
A new company helps traditional radio stations migrate to digital radio. A great idea, but receivers need to get cheaper...
The way the music died "What will it take for an
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Computerless single mom gets busted by the RIAA, can't afford to settle...
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 Page 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/
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4) Obesity is now a global issue. The World Health Organization enters the picture: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Attract tenants with wireless: http://forevergeek.com/
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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/newsPackage
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Eight years ago my old st
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$20 biodegradable cardboard speakers pack flat and actually sound decent: http://www.t3.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&
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The "organic" food label is losing its fight to mainstream mediocrity: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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The new Deck House (I want a Porch House)...
More pictures of the eco-prefab Glidehouse...
Seattle's new public library looks quirky outside but is astounding inside. May make you rethink the role of (public) architecture. And check out the great VR movies...
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...
The beautiful abandoned island of Gukanjima...
Will the RIAA create
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The New World Symphony uses Internet2 videoconferencing for orchestra training...
How iTunes sharing is creating music- based social networks in colleges...
Bought music from the iTunes Music Store? Here's the easiest tutorial I've found on how to remove the copy protection...
The entire Grateful Dead live music vaults are now online at the Internet Archive...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More architecture! Architect Michelle Kaufmann is an American hero. She's the first person to finally begin to fulfill Frank Lloyd Wright's dream of cheap quality homes, a goa...
"E-filing nears 50 percent mark" http://www.fcw.com/fcw/
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A woman lives for almost four months without half her skull due to a "delay" in medical insurance processing: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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A high school prom committee falls under legal fire from the RIAA when it distributes a song played at the prom to students as a souvenir: http://www.chippewa.com/
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More about the RIAA fudging numbers to claim sales lost to file sharing: http://www.kensei-news.com/bizdev/publish/factoids_us/
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More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet c
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"Defects from smog passed on in mice" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/
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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)...
A nice aerial photo of a New York cab in winter. Also see Vincent LaForet's other aerial photos...
A wrought-iron covered VW bug...
Read the 2004 Hugo nominees online. My favorites - Vernor Vinge, Michael Swanwick, and Catherine Asara...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* The European Commission headqu
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A high-level report from the 2004 Flexible Displays & Electronics Conference: http://www.pcworld.com/news/
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Don't forget about the new 400GB hard drives! http://www.pcworld.com/news/
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Will all communities become Wal-M
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Will false teeth be a thing of the past? Successful experiments have regrown teeth from stem cells: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/
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I forgot to add this last week - killer whales are getting louder in response to the din of whale-watching boats: http://www.sciencenews.org/
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"Blood pressure rising in kids" - I'm st
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The Star Trek ap
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The Volkswagen ball, from the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Sculpture by Lars-Erik Fisk...
Psychedelic Buddhistic
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Funny lists from a publisher on sci-fi and horror plots that are submitted too often...
50 moments that helped shaped music history...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
More news about the amazing Toyota Volta (the first hybrid sports car) which looks great, goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and gets 40 mpg: http://www.auto123.com/en/info/news/news,view.spy?
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The Bose L1 is a revolutionary new PA system that points the way to new amplification technology - it eliminates poles, monitors, and bulky equipment, and is causing a stir in the music industry...
The first criminal charges under the nation's "can-spam" laws have been filed: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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In class a 15-year old
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Related to the recent uncovering of the secrets of gecko adhesion, here's how spiders manage to stay sticky...
Before you laugh, try a little thinking outside of the box: Hawaii needs low-cost housing solutions - how about using used shipping containers? Many well-designed structures have been made worldwide...
Pictures of wacky Japanese vending machines...
Here's a cool (Mac and Windows) screensaver - an airplane window, with a moving aerial background...
A company records shows live and sells USB devices holding the recording after the concert...
An analysis of John Lennon's private jukebox provides a fascinating glimpse into his influences and musical rip-offs...
April 19 to 25, 2004
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With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
The winners of the 2004 "Lyttle Lytton" contest, for the worst opening line...
Some of the best entries in a Photoshop contest. Theme: merge two animals...
Here's two of the grooviest Flash-based movies I've seen in a while...
A new take on an old
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Due to a budget crisis in California, the U.C. college system is turning away eligible students for the first time in over 40 years...
Dissatisfied with the mainland, a lot of people are moving to New Zealand these days, leading to a housing boom and sketchy developments...
Like the razor and the toothbrush, the yo-yo is getting more and more seriously high-tech: http://www.sciencenews.org/
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"Rate of Ocean Circulation Directly Linked to Abrupt Climate Change": http://e
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If you listen to a CD I give you, will you be busted? As p
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RIAA Radar has been around for a while now, but their tools are getting better - support non-RIAA labels and check out their top 100 lists - there's some great music here...
Technology has been developed that takes images of old, damaged vinyl records and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AAGH! Tax time! A study shows that taxes are getting more complex, thanks to the rising popularity of sophisticated tax preparation software...
An extensive 20-year study of a baboon troop found a permanent, unprecedented cultural shift occurred when the most violent, dominant males died out from a tuberculosis outbreak...
Noisy cell phones are becoming a problem in national parks: http://www.mtstandard.com/
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A study finds that the average (Windows) PC has 28 spyware programs on it, each of which may send your private information to other p
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I've seen a lot of Web sites. This could be the worst-designed site ever made...
There's a lot of p
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A study shows that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also, go light on the techno...
AT&T's new music identification service seems to work pretty well...
A scientist has been studying the sound of cells - they make noises and sound different when healthy or diseased...
The Pixies played together in public for the first time in about 12 years...
Some guy hooked up a music-generating apparatus controlled by six live hampsters. It's actually pleasant music...
Sony and TOPPAN Printing announced the development of a 25GB optical disc made of 51% paper: http://www.japancorp.net/
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April 5 to 11, 2004
Bad singing - it's in fashion again! William Hung is a plucky 21-year-old U.C. Berkeley engineering student who tried out for American Idol and was kicked off halfway through his audition. His firs...
William Hung: Racism, Or Magic? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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"Americans are increasingly resorting to stomach-shrinking surgery so much so that health experts and insurance companies are becoming alarmed": http://www.news-medical.net/view_
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A good review of a new book that refuses to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber industry in Northern California...
Studies show that Guinness is actually very healthy for you! http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/me/
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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...
Magazines about homes - called "shelter magazines" - are taking off despite an overall decrease in magazine sales, with 40 launched in 2002 alone...
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...
"Building modernism on a pre-fab budget" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/
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"Co-housing brings neighbors closer" http://www.collegian.com/vnews/display.v/
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Hawaii construction and typical ap
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March 29 to April 5, 2004
A combination of many of the evoting
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Scubadoo, the first underwater motorcycle! Will it revolutionize scuba diving? http://www.gizmo.com.au/public/News/news.asp?
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The first key ring gadget that's also a camcorder, USB storage device, and 2-megapixel digital camera: http://www.pcmag.com/
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A great
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"Study: File-Sharing No Threat to Music Sales...
Some bands find their fans are donating thousands to charities to make up for their file sharing...
March 22 to 28, 2004
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...
Trixie, the baby with the most comprehensive Web site in the world. With real-time sleep, bottle, and diaper telemetrics, a blog, gallery, forum, archives, and voting topic...
"Citizen Kubrick...
Musician Kevin Shields created one of the most expensive, influential and highly praised albums of the last two decades - "Loveless". Here's his first interview in 12 years...
Banksy, who puts the "grr" back into graffiti - here's how to mix revolution with
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"Music industry way off track with song and dance about falling sales...
Less is more A 3D
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What you've always wanted to know: What happens to a gummi bear when soaked in water overnight...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Books on how having more choices makes you unhealthy and unhappy: http://www.sw
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"Adult diabetes now destroying young lives" http://www.smh.com.au/
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One qu
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The swoosh of wind turbines makes locals report ghosts. Again, noise cancellation technology may alleviate that: http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/View
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Beautiful, free, colored 19th-century
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Incredible pencil carvings...
Apple sells 50 million songs over the Internet...
Some independent music stores are finding that "file sharing can help create a buzz online that can lead to more sales"...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Preventable deaths from obesity are overtaking tobacco - this was a pretty big news item last week: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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But I always enjoy the European take on these news items - "Fat of the land is killing more Americans than cigarettes": http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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And remember one of the core facts of human nature (now scientifically proved) - when people are presented with more, they will take more, consciously or not...
A new DVD recorder from HP burns silkscreen-like labels on the entire side of the disc: http://www.pcworld.com/news/
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Writing a screenplay? Here's a catalog of "narrative tropes and idioms". Learn about character archtypes such as the Anti Hero, the Evil Twin, and the Green Skinned Space Babe...
These fake tattoo sleeves look pretty cool - would be great for Halloween, p
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Topps' "Wacky Packages" (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...
Hit Song Science (HSS) analyses music for its "hit" potential, comparing a song's qualities to millions of others...
HSS claims to have already scored a hit on the ch
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Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it shows how musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5 million songs...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
A new sonic "construction set" has been released freely online which contains clips
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George Michael will offer his songs freely online from now on, a music industry first for an established
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There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Philips developed a "fluid lens" - a variable-focus lens system with no mechanical moving p
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Lawrence Lessig's
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1.8 tons of raw material are used to make your average desktop computer and monitor. Upgrading rather than replacing your computer saves more energy than recycling it...
Heating trend in North Pacific baffles researchers: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Remember that photojournal on shipbreaking, one of the most toxic and dangerous jobs on e
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February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
The cat's out of the bag: the first decent mainstream
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Mind Over Machine http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/
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Video game studies are making their way into college curricula - what is their form and impact on culture? What is a game? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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At a French c
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We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and st
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February 16 to 22, 2004
"Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common household devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according t...
Got a Mac? Hallelujah! http://www.dancefrontdoor.co.uk/
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I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the st
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"Hilo grads impress Amazon recruiters" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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Killing the Music: by Don Henle...
Polaroid Warns Film Users Not to 'Shake It...
Some of the funniest, most creative uses of Photoshop I've seen in a long time.....
And get a flat panel display too! They're more environmentally friendly... Flat panels to outpace CRTs in 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5161666.html?p
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February 9 to 15, 2004
For Valentine's Day, another fascinating "science and love"
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The SPAMmobile hits Hawaii for the first time: "It's like God has landed on the e
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(from Jan 3) Now that Oahu only has two
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Pictures and information about Destino, the lost 50 year-old animated collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali. It's been nominated for an Oscar...
Robot Storie...
"Drink Honu Beer - and save a turtle, too" http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/
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February 2 to 8, 2004
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A new
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Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate image affinity to brain activity: "Big government and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the st
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The market for luxury cars (which cost up to $1 million) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people every day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is gettin...
A California bill has been signed to invest $3.7 billion in the next four years in nanotech research: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Nanotech thinkers fear the "gray goo" syndrome, where a nanotech product may go haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into goo, the nanotech equivalent of a nuclear meltdown. One sm
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The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice
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A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
A new paint eats smog for five years - it's been shown to reduce pollution up to 60 percent at street level: http://www.smh.com.au/
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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 fact that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
One of the best
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You may have read the
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January 19 to 25, 2004
"Free Wireless Everywhere" http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Here's a look at one of the he
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"Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media"...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"The average age of people who buy fitness equipment is 31," Mr M
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"This experience encapsulated so many benefits about technology that I don’t really know where to begin" http://www.infoworld.com/
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"Experts slam Wal-M
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The federal government plans to analyze employees' hair, sweat, and saliva as a p
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January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
Should we move high-tech jobs overseas? "Economists back tech industry's overseas hiring": http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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"I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World Economy...
"Please just tell the Americans to send the garbage 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....
Here on Oahu, Wallace Theatres (at Restaurant Row) is abandoning its
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The New York Times refused to run this
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A behind-the-scenes
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"You say you want a revolution? Iran bands rock on...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Cool photos of Osaka, Japan. Seems a little crowded to me...
Is the American Dream over? Business Week said so, and so does this
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Will a new high-tech fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a st
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The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the E
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December 22 to 28, 2003
Lots of end-of-year lists popped up here and there. Here's a few: The 2003 year in pictures, from the San Francisco Chronicle...
Favorite antipop CDs of 2003 Tired of mainstream music? How about great jazz/world/folk/acoustic fusion? Highly recommended are David Tanenbaum, Tord Gustavsen, and the Be Good Tanyas. Of course...
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's become or 4th or 5th largest industry there! This
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"Satellite Radio Is On The Rise" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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"Japan's Empire of Cool: Country's Culture Becomes Its Biggest Export" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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An
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December 15 to 21, 2003
Multiple studies have confirmed that there is at least 10% less sunlight striking the E
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Like Sex? Don't Live In Texas: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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A good interview with the somewhat recently busted Tommy Chong, from Taft Correctional Institution: http://www.lacitybeat.com/
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The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic p
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December 8 to 14, 2003
It's legal (and has been for years) in over half the states to sell your voter registration information - including name, race, email, street address, phone number, birth date, political affiliation...
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...
The Second Coming of Nick Drak...
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 manage 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...
I've mentioned cdbaby before, but it's becoming a force in the music industry to be reckoned with, thanks to the power of the Internet...
The String Cheese Incident is taking on ticketmaster...
Details behind the first National Geographic cover story ever to be completely shot digitally...
Business Week on "The Rise of The Indian" There are more IT engineers in Bangalore than Silicon Valley now. St
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A new way to filter out toxins from the blood has been invented. It uses magnetized nanoap
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icles, and may revolutionize current dialysis techniques as well as eliminate certain classes of diseases...
Keiko, the killer whale that starred in "Free Willy", has died of sudden pneumonia, exacerbated by moves to Canada and Mexico...
The Justice Dep
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Advertising is now appearing on airplane tray tables: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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December 1 to 7, 2003
The woman who claimed to be trampled at Wal-M
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How Michael Jackson would have looked without the plastic surgery: http://www.for
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Have you ever seen a gigpixel image...
A great gallery of digital photography from Max Lyons...
The abuse of period typography in the movies...
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A nice 24-hour time-lapse movie of Toronto (5MB)...
This digital sundial requires no electricity or moving p
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A great five-p
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Money For The (Old) New World Order http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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In an effort to thw
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November 24 to 30, 2003
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving... In honor, here's an
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Some Thanksgiving sale goodness-this one made all the papers: "Woman knocked unconscious by trampling shoppers" ...and this happened at a Wal-M
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"My First DNA Sequencer" http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/2003/
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November 17 to 23, 2003
Those in Hawaii can now use the Forward Foundation's calendar to publicize events related to the
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Aging Baby Boomers are turning to human growth hormone: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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A new unexplainable sub-atomic p
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The amazing 3D street
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The first genetically engineered pet goes on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (called GloFish)...
In Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy wrote a nice
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November 10 to 16, 2003
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle has always been a great columnist, but this column in p
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On Kauai, the Navy wants 6,000 more acres of land... http://www.kauaiworld.com/
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Some popular news stories: Scientists have created the first
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November 3 to 9, 2003
A few medical breakthroughs last week you may have read about... "Liquid drano for
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Will noisy, hot computers be a thing of the past? Electricity leakage is why current microchips (and therefore your computer) runs hot, requires fans, and contributes to the entropy of the universe...
Forbes did a multi-p
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The home of New Society publishers, a great publisher of books on sustainable living: http://www.terrain.org/
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October 27 to November 2, 2003
On November 24 you can switch cell phone carriers while keeping your number. If you do this, please p
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October 27, 2003
Sanyo is making corn-derived biodegradable CDs - they'll hit stores in December. Much better for landfills. They degrade after 50-100 years: http://www.pcworld.com/news/
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Morgan has provided this link to Reverend Billy and his hilarious nonviolent protest against Wal-M
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The rise of underground restaurants: http://query.nytimes.com/search/
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A trial just st
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ed that could pave the way for holding U.S. companies accountable for pollution overseas - it involves toxic oil dumps in total 50 percent larger than the Exxon Valdez spill sprea...
The Military and Makua http://starbulletin.com/2003/10/26/news/
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October 20, 2003
This week was Marriage Protection Week! In honor, here's an
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icle about how only 50.7% of America is actually married: "Unmarried America...
Some interesting facts about Wal-M
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A summary of the launch of iTunes for Windows this week: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
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Today's modern kids comment on vintage 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
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October 14, 2003
Here's a good
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icle on the engineering and development of the Powerski...
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 coverage to rural areas. Plus i...
Spread of AIDS among Young ‘A Global Catastrophe’: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/
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"New Disney Space Ride So Real It's Sickening" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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An
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Finally, on a lighter note, a p
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ial Latin translation of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back": "Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter....
October 6, 2003
I was thinking about replacing my old Devo costume for Halloween and decided to see what was out there on the Web. A store with a very good selection is Halloween M
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The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History st
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ed a new sound and light show using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 30, 2003
Sales of phonecams have surpassed that of digital cameras: http://www.mobilecommerceworld.com/Tmpl/
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The student who ate only wild foods for 80 days in suburbia: http://egullet.com/?pg=
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You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/show
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The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by
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September 22, 2003
Spam! This is the best visual representation I've seen... http://www.pritchettc
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The worst jobs in science. Really. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/
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"The Revenge of the Copyright Cops" http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/09/16/
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September 15, 2003
The importance of dreaming for the future Why are people retreating to past fantasy instead of thinking forward? Humanity's perception of the future indeed shapes its present. Recent Hugo award winne...
Strange tiles have been sighted in over 100 different places around the world, created by an unknown
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The iTunes music store just sold its 10 millionth song! Yay! http://nytimes.com/2003/09/07/
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I knew it would come to this... the best
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Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a Mac and wrote two
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September 8, 2003
"Failing at Living" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
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Want to know what brands are mentioned the most in popular songs these days? Here's a ch
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Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wired) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
California candidates are given the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, to see which ones are replicants. This is hilarious! http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=
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The best
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Visionary architect Eugene Tsui Why generic "modernism" is a plague, and how to design a humane future: "Look at a box-shaped house - it wastes so much space and so much material, it is structurall...
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...
"Urban Sprawl Makes Americans Fat, Study Finds" http://reuters.com/news
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An award-winning British journalist leaves the US after six years but finds it again at a Patti Smith concert. Lots of nice little facts in this
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Japanese Ping-Pong meets the Matrix meets performance
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"Japan, China, Korea may develop Windows replacement" http://www.reuters.com/locales/news
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August 25, 2003
Promising biomass-based power generation technology "Fueled by sawdust pellets, corncobs or coconut shells, BioMax generates electricity for rural towns, businesses...
2003 Ozone Hole May Be Record Size, Australia Says http://reuters.com/news
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Here's exactly why Windows systems are insecure (and why Apple's and other systems are secure) by default: "Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design...
* Isetan (a dep
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August 12, 2003
Now that everyone has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd never would have put together. Read the Salon
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Another 21st century cultural phenomenon - a great
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Potential Date Alerts http://www.iht.com/
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August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.cd933.com/big%20radio/images/c
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This is a great
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It is official U.S. policy to encourage 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
Thanks to 10,000 years of selective breeding by humans, bananas will vanish forever in a decade: http://globeandmail.ca/servlet/
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July 21, 2003
This is the
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I'm sure you've seen this satire already: http://www.theinquirer.net/?
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July 10, 2003
Here's one of the better
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July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...
July 7, 2003
An
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