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April 25 to May 1, 2005
The HD wildlife reel is stunning and played beautifully on my Power
book
G4 and should run fine on iMac G5s. The H.264 codec crushes the best codecs being used in movies distributed over file sharin...
April 11 to 17, 2005
These stands are the best for Power
book
users...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The
book
"Shadow Cities" describes squatter cities - they end up being cleaner and safer than low-income housing developments...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
This new
book
provides a visual guide to sprawl...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
Another great historical overview from Mobile PC magazine. This time, they examine the evolution of the note
book
computer...
March 7 to 13, 2005
book
Art
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB note
book
drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Libraries are now lending iPods with audio
book
s on them...
The late Hunter S. Thompson often visited Hawaii and wrote many infamous things there. Here's the best take on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake: http://starr
book
s.netfirms.com/thompson.ht...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address
book
posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand
book
store? Now that so many
book
sales are online, how about putting the
book
store in the cafe instead of the cafe in the
book
store? A suitabl...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The digested read - popular novels condensed to 100 words. It sure has saved me some time! http://
book
s.guardian.co.uk/digestedread...
January 10 to 16, 2005
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 partners, an...
January 1 to 9, 2005
"The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a
book
claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood"...
For the ultra-sustainable lifestyle, refer to http://www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/
book
-reviews/using-urine-to-grow-plants.htm...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Czech
book
covers of the 1920's and 1930's...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Amazon.com is selling more electronics than
book
s...
November 22 to 28, 2004
"A true love story that originated on a message board of a popular Web site has been released in
book
form"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
A
book
store arranged by
book
color...
November 8 to 14, 2004
A good counterproposal to Creationists that want warning stickers on biology text
book
s: put warning stickers on the Bible...
"Living Outside Inside" - a
book
on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
Get your i
book
painted - someone should do this locally...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Digital print-on-demand
book
mobiles are helping out kids in Third World countries...
September 13 to 19, 2004
"While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura Bush was known 'as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana.'" http://www.salon.com/
book
s/int/2004/09/14/kelley...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A Hand
book
of Rhetorical Device...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Cell phone users are using their cameras in store to copy text
book
s...
Art from 1920's Japanese children's
book
s. Nice Web design here, too, despite tiny text...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A great business model for online publishing - "fast turnaround e-
book
s"...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Some amazing bluetooth hacking - address
book
contents can be stolen from up to a mile away! Or run a sneaky bluetooth content-grabbing program from your PDA and walk around unnoticed...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
Sharp's new prototype color e
book
reader...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Apple's preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Now with high-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with Power
book
s from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) text
book
s makes his own equivalent text
book
s and puts them online for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
What does the military have to say about humanity? Here's a
book
let carried by Vietnam soldiers which they were told to keep at all times...
A review of the coolest palmtop computer. Sorry, available in Japan only: http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/note
book
s/sony_vaio_U50.ht...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A how-to
book
let from the 1940's. Remember, "how-to"
book
s on today's technology will seem just as quaint in 2070...
A legend in urban design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has written a new
book
analyzing North American culture called "Dark Ages Ahead"...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
As an experiment, every 5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is getting a laptop with digital versions of text
book
s and 2,000 works of literature...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A review of the first electronic paper- based reading device and its implications for libraries,
book
s, and traditional reading habits...
April 12 to 18, 2004
The youngest writer ever to win an Agatha Award for a mystery novel collaborated with his uncle using Apple's new videoconferencing technology - this may be the first award-winning
book
ever mad...
A9, Amazon's search service, launched. Search Google and
book
s at the same time...
April 5 to 11, 2004
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...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Ever wonder why so many business majors think Microsoft invented computing? A study of eight text
book
s reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in business...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Free Culture...
Thanks to a new bill just drafted. Read the
book
"Free Culture" first and then see if this makes sense to you...
March 15 to 21, 2004
book
s on how having more choices makes you unhealthy and unhappy...
March 1 to 7, 2004
A network map of political
book
s based on purchase patterns from major Web-based
book
retailers. It shows a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
Sparklines - a great way of compressing information, from Edward Tufte's upcoming
book
Beautiful Evidence...
February 2 to 8, 2004
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-page
book
on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for free...
January 19 to 25, 2004
The Dutchtub, a plastic outdoor hot tub that requires no electricity, plumbing, or hot water. Faster and easier setup than a wood-fire tub: http://
book
ofjoe.typepad.com/
book
ofjoe/2004/01/dutchtub.htm...
December 22 to 28, 2003
An article about Apple's Jonathan Ives, who designed the iPod, iMac, Power
book
, and lots of other stuff. He just received one of the most prestigious awards for industrial design...
December 8 to 14, 2003
The String Cheese Incident is taking on ticketmaster: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/note
book
/2003/11/ma_579_01.htm...
December 1 to 7, 2003
"Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old
book
s, Help Budgets...
Old "lost" Hawaiian literature is getting resurrected via e-
book
s...
November 10 to 16, 2003
An interview with Gore Vidal about his latest
book
on the Founding Fathers and what they would have done to Bush...
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bigotry is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The home of New Society publishers, a great publisher of
book
s on sustainable living...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Quote of the week: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." -- Revolution
book
s, New York, NY Feel safe? Last week was "Protection From Pornography Week"...
October 27, 2003
Like facts? The 2002 State of Hawaii Fact
book
is now online...
July 21, 2003
Status report: there have been almost 7 million hits on the Star Wars Kid page, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an i
book
(up t...
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...