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December 20 to 31, 2005
Have a very happy New Year's, everyone. Thus ends the first full year of Kev's News. http://www.state.hi.us/h
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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Gateway's new $200 L
cd
monitors.....
Why is the FBI plastering notices all over
cd
s, to the dismay of artists and consumers alike...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Also, industry groups are trying to figure out just how long
cd
s and DVDs should last...
All the great hackers are switching to Macs, again mirroring the early growth of the Web (which was developed on an ancestor of today's Mac, the NeXT). We'll just see what happens...
Did you know that M
cd
onald's is on its way to being the largest corporate land owner in Russia? Perhaps I should get passports issued by M
cd
onald's...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't every L
cd
monitor have these features...
March 7 to 13, 2005
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...
The blogosphere's raving about 27 year-old Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with pop art and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Telcos are using legislation to prevent large-scale free public wireless networks: http://www.chron.com/cs/
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A/ssistory.mpl/front/306599...
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
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...
M
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onald's is outsourcing drive-through ordering, which means that people ordering food in Oregon actually are talking to people in Michigan...
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...
January 1 to 9, 2005
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...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Build your own gramophone with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on
cd
s and plastic cups and play them back...
November 1 to 7, 2004
A new super-tough coating that resists wire-wool scrubbing has been developed, leading to anti-scratch
cd
s, DVDs, L
cd
s, PDAs, and other devices...
M
cd
onald's bans "fat" people from their new TV ads...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New gold
cd
-Rs are said to last 300 years...
L
cd
sales are expected to rise by a factor of 10 before 2010...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"M
cd
onald's Losing Revenue in World-Wide Market...
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest 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...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
The latest, greatest singer/songwriters play the Hotel Cafe. Check out the
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...
"Sony ditches copy-control
cd
s"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
A new business model for artists! Green Day sells blank recordable
cd
-Rs with album designs...
September 13 to 19, 2004
The Olsen twins, one of which was recently treated for an eating disorder, are now promoting M
cd
onald's happy meals in France...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A core problem: religions take themselves too seriously! They end up emphasizing symbols over ideas: http://www.csaceliacs.org/
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intheNews/NJCoastStar080304.ph...
August 2 to 8, 2004
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/
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a/story.php?artid=49...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/publi
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omain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 12 to 18, 2004
The popularity of the iPod is forcing makers of
cd
copyright-protection technology to switch formats...
This critically acclaimed limited edition
cd
is causing a buzz in the underground music scene - this melancholy, slightly psychedelic, acoustic music is a new musical category called "neofolk" o...
July 5 to 11, 2004
"Movie piracy on Internet called an epidemic": http://www.chron.com/cs/
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A/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/267468...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
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 14 to 20, 2004
cd
Origam...
"Copy-blocked
cd
tops U.S. charts...
June 7 to 13, 2004
"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 M
cd
onald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
The newest way in which labels pay to get songs played on radio - paid ads: http://www.chron.com/cs/
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A/ssistory.mpl/front/262156...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter makes use of latent semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail: http://www.ma
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evcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/spam_pt2.htm...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Another journalist tries an all- M
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onald's diet, with surprising results...
April 19 to 25, 2004
If you listen to a
cd
I give you, will you be busted? As part of a nationwide crackdown, the FBI raided Deer Valley High School...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Here's info on the motor and ane
cd
otes from 1997. Mr. Minato got his inspiration for the motor while playing piano. It's not hard to see why, the magnets are arranged like black keys on a keyboard...
January 19 to 25, 2004
A filmmaker decides to make a documentary - he'll eat nothing but M
cd
onald's food 3 times a day for 30 days. The result? 25 more pounds, liver toxicity, high cholesterol, headaches, depression, an...
January 12 to 18, 2004
RipDigital, a company that will digitize your entire
cd
collection for you, for a fee...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Favorite antipop
cd
s 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...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Thanks to
cd
baby.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...
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on
cd
baby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
I've mentioned
cd
baby before, but it's becoming a force in the music industry to be reckoned with, thanks to the power of the Internet...
November 3 to 9, 2003
"Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the internet as they are on
cd
s from stores, according to a report"...
October 27, 2003
Sanyo is making corn-derived biodegradable
cd
s - they'll hit stores in December. Much better for landfills. They degrade after 50-100 years...
October 20, 2003
* Wal-Mart accounts for 15 to 20% of ALL sales of
cd
s, videos, and DVDs...
October 14, 2003
Like used
cd
s? "The Top 50 Most Common Used
cd
s" Also, if you like to stay on the cutting edge of music, Pitchfork Media is a good place to check out from time to time...
September 15, 2003
"12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading (by RIAA)" http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030910/U
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cd
N/TPTechnology...
August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.
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933.com/big%20radio/images/cartoons/MegaFlick_1.jp...