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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Scientists make bacteria behave like computers: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/egg
car
ton.ht...
Glass bottles require less energy to produce and recycle. But could Hawaii save due to reduced shipping weight? It's a
car
eful trade- off...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Partly thanks to its sale of hybrid
car
s, Toyota expects to see its best first quarter in 48 years. GM expects to lose $850 million that same quarter due to short term bets on "cheap" and "plentiful...
April 11 to 17, 2005
A reader poll reveals the ugliest
car
s of 2005. I definitely agree with the top four...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A couple of weeks ago I gave a three-hour deposition involving the Soverain Software vs. Amazon shopping
car
t patent case...
In 2001 Poland hired a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and
car
-stealing...
* Don't yell, "Our plane is leaving." How about adding, "Don't
car
ry a U.S. passport?...
G.M.'s vice-chairman, on why he thinks people will still buy big SUVs: "Rich people don't
car
e"...
Things to use when clean water gets s
car
ce - the AquaPak costs a dollar to make, runs on solar, and can purify up to four gallons of water a day...
A shortage of silicon is making solar cells s
car
ce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has gone from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
The world's ugliest
car
, made in 1957, was restored from a pile of junk to a polished, functional
car
...
Kits turn Subaru vans into VW microbus imitations and more: http://www.jalopnik.com/
car
s/retro/replicas/more-on-japans-mini-vw-bus-replicas-037803.ph...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
Don't waste paper or plastic when shopping -
car
ry around a key chain tote bag...
But note that not all
car
s that waste gas are SUVs - here's the top ten gas-guzzling
car
s and trucks of 2005...
Renting a
car
on Maui or Oahu? Try the Bio-Beetle, the first all-biodiesel rental
car
s in the world...
A new newspaper column only reviews
car
s that do better than 30 mpg. Let's see more columns like this...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A nice quote from the Molokai land flap mentioned last week: "The controversy is hard to explain from the Western perspective that land is something to be bought, owned and sold to make profit.....
The first RFID reader/writer in SD
car
d format...
Shiny handmade aluminum guitars: http://www.metal
car
ver.com...
The Flickr post
car
d browser...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Is Hawaii turning into a consumption-addicted haven for the wealthy at the expense of long-time residents and native familes? The state's only international
car
go shipping terminal is near capacity...
An interview with
car
toonist 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/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/02/25/
car
ollloyd.DTL&feed=rss.surrealestat...
Drawn! A new groovy blog about "illustration, art,
car
tooning and drawing"...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
From Miami to Oakland, kids are putting 150-decibel train horns on their
car
s and stunning bystanders...
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
15 celebrities drove hybrid
car
s to the Os
car
s...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The 1GB Secure Digital USB
car
d...
Visa will be using the same technology for its credit
car
ds, but with multiple layers of encryption and fraud detection. Because in the U.S., money is far more important than your identity...
Canada's Os
car
-winning animated short film "Ryan"...
Or a drag-and-drop shopping
car
t like this...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Chloroflouro
car
bon-free expanded polystyrene housing can withstand the worst earthquakes recorded and is energy-efficient too...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Taking a photo in a public area?
car
ry a list of your rights as a photographer...
car
eful, identity thieves can masquerade as legitimate wireless hotspots...
A quarter of the economy's growth is taken up by health
car
e spending...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times
car
stereo manufacturers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Currently under development, the PALV flying
car
is the best flying
car
design I've seen yet...
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 prototype
car
by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-home theater...
January 10 to 16, 2005
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard
car
radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-
car
Macs to handle entertainment and
car
functions...
The new 555-seat Airbus A380 is the world's biggest airliner ever built. And it's more fuel efficient than your
car
...
Paper or plastic? Neither. Here's a great answer to this question: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/01/qa_retail_
car
ry.ph...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The State of Virginia allows hybrid
car
s to drive in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and this has led to so many hybrid vehicles being bought that now Virginia's HOV lanes are clogged with the...
Has Somender Singh, a mechanic from India, developed an invention that makes conventional engines 20% more fuel efficient? http://www.popsci.com/popsci/future
car
/article/0,20967,679464,00.htm...
Vintage turn-of-the-century post
car
d images of Tokyo...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's BusLink system is the first use of smart
car
d technology in a bus-only mass transit system in America. How about making a smart-
car
d based SuperFerry pass...
Grisly images of
car
ing for the wounded in Iraq...
December 6 to 12, 2004
In an area of SUV-dominated San Francisco, a
car
gets ticketed for being too small...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Are Detroit automakers missing the hybrid
car
revolution...
Scientists figure out how to make hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to power my
car
from my cell phone compost pile...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Lost your key in the
car
? Knock a code on your window to open it...
November 15 to 21, 2004
New hybrid buses have started in Honolulu and wow the public. New smart
car
d bus passes, too...
New yarns made of
car
bon nanotubes leads to smart clothing...
Beautiful new holiday
car
ds...
November 1 to 7, 2004
This was all over the news - Americans are getting heavier, leading to tons of extra weight and fuel for airlines. And 3.8 million more tons of
car
bon dioxide in the air...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New 4GB flash SD
car
ds...
October 18 to 24, 2004
An HDTV PCMCIA
car
d, with folding antenna...
October 11 to 17, 2004
The first waterless dishwater uses supercritical
car
bon dioxide...
car
LSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school... STEWART: You need to go to one. Jon Stewart blasts big media on "Crossfire"...
The American health
car
e system continues to flounder, with employer insurance increasing 11% in 2004...
Airplane contrails s
car
the atmosphere...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offered in Europe, would be a perfect
car
for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
"George W. Bush - Keeping America S
car
ed"...
A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck powered on nothing but sunlight and water: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1001hydro
car
01.htm...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Suburbia is a health hazard - a new study has found that not only are people less healthy due to overdependence on
car
s, but from a community design perspective, it's a very inefficient way to live...
The "Hello Kitty" debit
car
d, targeted to 10 to 14 year-olds...
The genuinely s
car
y "Wacko Jacko" mask...
"Baghdad
car
Bombs Kill 34 Children Receiving Sweets"...
The "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade. Note: not for the timid - this is life at its messiest! Art
car
s, nudists, communists, Trekkies, Tibetans, more...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Due to high-priced dorms, Berkeley students are finding it cheaper to rent mansions: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/09/21/
car
ollloyd.DTL&type=printabl...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new radio modem is the size of a credit
car
d and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range...
The Oprah
car
giveaway made a lot of money for GM. It's a sign of new types of promotions to come...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Dates of public hearings on the sale of Verizon Hawaii to The
car
lyle Group...
Protesters use texting, microradio, and other technologies now: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-
car
penter27aug27,1,7839459,print.story?coll=la-home-politic...
Cool watermelon
car
vings...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The world's smallest optical zoom digital camera, using the new ceramic lens technology: http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/reviews/casio/casio_exilim_
car
d_exs100.ph...
New efforts in developing flying
car
s...
Enterprise housing - creating affordable, sustainable housing in urban, mixed-use environments: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/08/24/
car
ollloyd.DTL&type=printabl...
A
car
engine that runs off air...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her
car
eer - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative an...
August 15 to 22, 2004
A new business model for health
car
e: "same-day" doctors...
August 8 to 14, 2004
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 apartments...
Spray-on microdots reduce
car
theft...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
Amsterdam needs cheap temporary housing for 7,000 college students quickly! A developer is building a temporary, modular, and easily moveable student city made of 1,000 40-foot
car
go containers...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
"Support s
car
ce for latest UH logo ideas...
July 12 to 18, 2004
The lucrative
car
eers of crime-scene cleanup companies...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Not a product yet, but a concept: this Bluetooth wireless device attaches to your luggage and blinks when you are near it at the baggage
car
ousel. Other neat ideas here...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
car
VIN (vehicle identification) numbers are running out. This is a much thornier problem than the Y2K issue. With fascinating information about how VIN numbers are encoded...
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...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Second, the
car
lyle Group is looking to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just part of their recent massive purchases of telecoms in the Pacific region. The deal is "complex", as it involves a number o...
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the
car
lyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
Here's a 48-minute show called "Exposed: The
car
lyle Group", which aired on TV in the Netherlands...
The first HDTV tuner PC
car
d is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer...
June 14 to 20, 2004
What does the military have to say about humanity? Here's a booklet
car
ried by Vietnam soldiers which they were told to keep at all times...
May 24 to 30, 2004
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
car
cinogens! 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...
May 17 to 23, 2004
$20 biodegradable
car
dboard speakers pack flat and actually sound decent...
Will the RIAA create artificial s
car
city in the $3 billion cellphone ringtone market...
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...
More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet
car
tridge recycler and an industrial composting company. This is a great model for cities to follow to get small businesses recycling compos...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Will all communities become Wal-Marted, SUVed, McMansioned deserts? McMansions are invading this suburb in Washington, D.C.. Warning: graphic architectural
car
nage...
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...
"One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every
car
and driver that passes through....
April 19 to 25, 2004
Dissatisfied with the mainland, a lot of people are moving to New Zealand these days, leading to a housing boom and sketchy developments...
Gone are the days of the fix-it-yourselfer - new
car
s are getting too complicated to fix...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Photoshop of the week: http://www.myimgs.com/data/walking
car
pet/Fark/0405041046.jp...
March 31, 2004
Magazines about homes - called "shelter magazines" - are taking off despite an overall decrease in magazine sales, with 40 launched in 2002 alone...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A list of current scandals in the government: http://www.the
car
petbaggerreport.com/archives/001421.htm...
This would be a great pilot project for Hawaii - 40% soya-based
car
bon-neutral jet fuel...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Dasani bottled water pulled from all shelves in the UK after large amounts of a
car
cinogen is found in it...
Incredible pencil
car
vings...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Attached to your iPod, it will take any of six different digital film media types and store the photos on your iPod so you can reuse the
car
d. Now you can use your iPod as a bootable backup drive, ...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first
car
designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto Show, with emphasis on comfort, storage, and low maintenance...
Also (to be) shown at the show, the first hybrid sports
car
from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
February 23 to 29, 2004
At a French
car
toon festival kids draw pictures of obese Americans and Bush next to Hitler...
10 million Pacific giant crabs are invading Norway's coast and destroying the local ecology. "But Glenn, a 30-year-old
car
mechanic, replied: 'It's true the seabed now looks like the Sahara but the...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Pictures and information about Destino, the lost 50 year-old animated collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali. It's been nominated for an Os
car
...
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A new art form! Combine
car
oling with shouting - and you have this Finnish group of men that wears black suits with ties made of
car
tires...
The market for luxury
car
s (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...
January 19 to 25, 2004
This Star Wars fan turned his Honda into an "H-Wing" fighter. It's the best
car
-to-starship conversion I've ever seen...
December 8 to 14, 2003
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
car
eer......
November 10 to 16, 2003
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...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
On November 24 you can switch cell phone
car
riers while keeping your number. If you do this, please participate in a cell phone recycling program.....
October 20, 2003
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract photos taken from the sides of box
car
s...
September 30, 2003
YEAH! Swedish band post
car
ds...
September 22, 2003
Spam! This is the best visual representation I've seen... http://www.pritchett
car
toons.com/
car
toons/spam.jp...
A great essay on MP3s and intellectual property by sci-fi writer Orson Scott
car
d...
September 8, 2003
The best article so far on the Aquada, the first amphibious sports
car
that actually looks sporty...
August 25, 2003
* North
car
olina State Colleg...
August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.cd933.com/big%20radio/images/
car
toons/MegaFlick_1.jp...
It is official U.S. policy to encourage people to buy larger, less efficient
car
s: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after concerns wer...