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December 20 to 31, 2005
Mash-ups, or combinations of songs, are going mainstream and making
big
bucks for some...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
There was a lot of news this week, but the
big
news was the release of Apple's new system upgrade, called "Tiger". I've tested the heck out of it and it seems stable and faster...
Aluminum beer bottles have started 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...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Camping in the snow? Build a
big
, warm igloo with this light, packable mathematically-correct device...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
G.M.'s vice-chairman, on why he thinks people will still buy
big
SUVs: "Rich people don't care"...
March 21 to 27, 2005
At last, "rising gas prices threaten viability of
big
gest SUV sales". Note that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them farther to boot...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
HIV/AIDS' impact on life expectancy in Africa - the
big
picture...
big
art projects pay off - The Gates generated $254 million in economy activity, with 4 million visitors...
February 14 to 20, 2005
And here's a really
big
satellite photo showing the entire park. That's a lot of curtains...
February 7 to 13, 2005
USB flash drives are now as
big
as 8GB...
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...
Dubai is building the world's
big
gest waterfront development - it's 2.5 times the size of D.C....
A quarter of the economy's growth is taken up by healthcare spending: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/latimests/20050209/ts_latimes/healthcarecoststake
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bitefromeconom...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The
big
Red Button (of Doom)...
"Shot In Our Name" http://www.thestranger.com/2005-01-20/
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cover.htm...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The
big
news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
Are you a Mac-hating
big
ot...
The new 555-seat Airbus A380 is the world's
big
gest airliner ever built. And it's more fuel efficient than your car...
January 1 to 9, 2005
This series explores some nicely designed homes, including the famous tree house in Waipio Valley on the
big
Island...
An architecture firm is turning the considerable amount of waste from Boston's massive
big
Dig project into office buildings and groovy-looking modern housing...
Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art! http://www.danacountryman.com/CoverArt%20Photos/ThoroughlyModern
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1.jp...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The same author believes renewable energy could be Silicon Valley's Next
big
Thing...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
big
-time convergence - this new home entertainment PC looks like a Tivo on steroids...
Wal-Mart is China's 8th-
big
gest trading partner...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Farms make
big
bucks hosting concerts, selling t-shirts...
October 18 to 24, 2004
"Bush's
big
Joke"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based tech company made
big
news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a MacOSX emulator for PCs, and their Web site is getting slammed...
"
big
Media vs Blogs"...
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school... STEWART: You need to go to one. Jon Stewart blasts
big
media on "Crossfire"...
Wal-Mart is battling the
big
gest labels over CD prices. This is basically a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels get squeezed, consumers get less choice...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Got an underperforming theater in your town? Make
big
bucks by using it for video gaming...
August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the
big
ger, hidden economic net benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
"How government protects
big
media - and shuts out upstarts like me." By Ted Turner...
July 12 to 18, 2004
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
"I think he's a
big
jerk...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The (relatively new) RoadRunner business-class services are not only competitive with business-class DSL now, but are actually cheaper as the bandwidth gets
big
ger (Hawaii prices) - you get bette...
Real-time file sharing music popularity results reside at
big
Champagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue everybody...
Now here's a secondary
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Champagne report that indicates that "artists receiving little or no radio play are still gaining very significant activity on file sharing networks". Meaning...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Blogging goes mainstream with a
big
article in Time Magazine...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Less is more A 3D art contest, made with code no
big
ger than 256 characters...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Preventable deaths from obesity are overtaking tobacco - this was a pretty
big
news item last week...
March 1 to 7, 2004
How I Lost The
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On...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Let's start with some fun stuff this week! This French performer attaches dozens of horns to his jumpsuit and proceeds to play classical music...
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 start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
December 22 to 28, 2003
"Japan's Empire of Cool: Country's Culture Becomes Its
big
gest Export...
December 15 to 21, 2003
big
news, huh? Here's how it got around...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson popular) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next
big
Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, the Next
big
Thing in display technology (a nice overview if you're not familiar)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
"Terror Is A Triple Meat Pizza: Who needs war and evildoers and a
big
nuclear holocaust? We've got a national obesity epidemic...
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of
big
otry is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
The first supercomputer made of Macs, "
big
Mac", is the 3rd most powerful...
October 14, 2003
"When
big
media gets
big
ger...
September 8, 2003
A great story about Disney's
big
gest fans, and an interesting comparison to Talmudic scholarship. Is God really in the details, and are details necessary for organizational and religious longevity...
August 25, 2003
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.cd933.com/
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%20radio/images/cartoons/MegaFlick_1.jp...