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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,
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ed "Tiger". I've tested the heck out of it and it seems stable and faster...
I just want to make a phone
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- the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
How about also growing yerba mate lo
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y...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Verizon and Movielink announced a movie download service for broadband users: http://news.com.com/Verizon+
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s+action+on+movie+downloads/2100-1034_3-5679846.html?part=rss&tag=5679846&subj=new...
What does it matter, when U.S. teens are taking more legal drugs than illegal ones? They're
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ed "Generation Rx"...
Ecologi
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y responsible hostels can be efficient and beautiful (and a source of income and workers for organic farms)...
April 11 to 17, 2005
SVG will radi
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y change how the Web looks and feels. It will be making its debut in Web browsers very soon...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Camping in the snow? Build a big, warm igloo with this light, packable mathemati
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y-correct device...
Outsourcing is giving rise to overworked employees in
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centers in India. Rigid English linguistic training is making employees question their cultural identity...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Homeland Security is now
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ing its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll make it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
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...
Also, use your persistent vegetative state to be "cyni
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y manipulated for the cause of your choice"...
"The Basics on Geneti
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y Modified Foods...
March 14 to 20, 2005
James Dyson's new vacuum cleaner's
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ed "The Ball" - instead of pushing it back and forth, you roll it around...
For Web developers: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automati
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y (this example doesn't work in Safari though)...
How fast can mistakes travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test blast
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ed "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
"Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up
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for Action Against Global Warming" - in case you needed visual proof...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Irresponsible trapping over decades has psychologi
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y changed monkeys in India to the point that "simian aggression has reached alarming proportions"...
A salmon may be the "first geneti
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y enhanced animal sold for consumption in the United States"...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Flirt with iTunes - boy meets girl via music sharing and manages to swipe 700MB of her songs as well: http://www.al3x.net/archives/2005/02/22/they-stopped-
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ing-it-rendezvous...
February 21 to 27, 2005
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...
Tommy Chong is the star of "The Marijuana-Logues", a very funny and criti
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y acclaimed pot-centric parody of the "The Vagina Monologues", which started this month. Because of parole restriction...
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
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e...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Geneti
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y modified plants are proving to be an excellent way to clean up toxic soils...
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...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Tag graphing allows people to see relationships between topi
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y-sorted content on the Web...
Using Skype (voice over the Internet), John Perry Barlow was
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ed at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn how to speak English. Here's his reflections on "th...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinatown is cultivating an "art chic". This article notes that "the state is currently gathering data on what it
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s the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic impact"...
Monsanto paid a $1.3 million penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian government to help facilitate the cultivation of its geneti
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y modified crops...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typi
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y have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
It's still a little early to
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, but here are some pictures of the year, more worthy for their subjects than aesthetics...
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...
Arm wrestling over the Internet! Why can't we settle wars this way? It's basi
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y the same thing...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
BTW, this site ("MasaManiA") can be hilarious due to the punk attitude and broken English but is also sometimes highly politi
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y incorrect and not worksafe. You've been warned...
The FCC further deregulates Internet phone services: http://news.com.com/FCC+further+deregulates+Net+
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s/2100-7352_3-5444883.html?part=rss&tag=5444883&subj=news.7352.2...
Get your iBook painted - someone should do this lo
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y...
November 1 to 7, 2004
But that's not why this ex-Reserve Kauai resident is making world news by suing over his re
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to active duty after 13 years of being out of the service...
So who's to say that there won't be problems with geneti
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y modified corn...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Publish your Creative Commons-licensed audio or video with this app and have it hosted automati
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y by the Internet Archive, which has massive amounts of bandwidth...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest labels over CD prices. This is basi
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y a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels get squeezed, consumers get less choice...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Don't say "offshoring" anymore - the politi
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y correct term is "global sourcing"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Why are political polls "a sham"? First, they don't
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people with cell phones...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Levis closes its last American factories: http://www.m
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.com/business/local/all-levissep10,0,1729336.story?coll=all-businesslocal-he...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Last year's Labor Day vigil at the sacred hill Pu'u Ohau, at the edge of the unfinished elite Hokulia estate and golf course development on top of ancient Hawaiian burial grounds. Kupunas
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August 22 to 29, 2004
Famous tech writer John C. Dvorak
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s for the death of Microsoft Word...
Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are
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ing the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative an...
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...
Today's laws basi
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y make the folk music tradition illegal...
July 12 to 18, 2004
This criti
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y acclaimed limited edition CD is causing a buzz in the underground music scene - this melancholy, slightly psychedelic, acoustic music is a new musical category
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ed "neofolk" o...
July 5 to 11, 2004
"Movie piracy on Internet
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ed an epidemic"...
Made out of Maui bamboo, this flute-like instrument is
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ed "the Bamboo Sax"...
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...
Here's a 48-minute show
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ed "Exposed: The Carlyle Group", which aired on TV in the Netherlands...
June 14 to 20, 2004
"Geneti
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y-modified virus explodes cancer cells"...
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 typi
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y "counterculture" North Beach area too...
A legend in urban design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has written a new book analyzing North American culture
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ed "Dark Ages Ahead"...
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basi
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y, you have t...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-tech, and make a new act specifi
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y for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
April 5 to 11, 2004
You're more adaptable than you think. Check it out! This visual effect basi
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y reprograms your neurotransmitters. Don't worry, the effects shouldn't last longer than a day.....
"Scotts Testing Geneti
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y Modified Grass...
March 31, 2004
Magazines about homes -
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ed "shelter magazines" - are taking off despite an overall decrease in magazine sales, with 40 launched in 2002 alone...
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
March 8 to 14, 2004
And remember one of the core facts of human nature (now scientifi
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y proved) - when people are presented with more, they will take more, consciously or not...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
February 23 to 29, 2004
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the criti
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y acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
The image of Buddha, automati
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y generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the real and imaginary planes...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodi
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y passing on copies to the media"...
January 5 to 11, 2004
A great two-piece story on a man trapped in a dead-end job at a customer service
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center. "The Phones Don't Stop...
December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle,
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ed X(3872)...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Kev's news is now using a mailing list program, which means that people can subscribe and unsubscribe automati
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y, all from...
The first geneti
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y engineered pet goes on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (
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ed GloFish)...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Everything that Wired Magazine has
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ed "a thing of the past"...
October 14, 2003
The FCC is not really on your side, people, despite their "do not
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" list.....
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and light show using computer graphics
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ed SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 8, 2003
India's struggles with geneti
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y modified crops.....
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...
August 25, 2003
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automati
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y marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
July 28, 2003
It's scientifi
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y proven than Kansas is flatter than a pancake...
July 21, 2003
...I'm really tempted to write a program that automati
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y generates your own Nigerian Email Scam Letter, but I don't think my server could handle the bandwidth...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest tech wizardry makes voice
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ing over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...
July 8, 2003
Consumer citizens who are not feeling apathetic will be pleased to learn that the site provides names and contact information for the corporate executives who oversee the Center's efforts. Since th...