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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
April 11 to 17, 2005
A request for proposals to turn health fitness
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s and gyms into power plants...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Entire city blocks are being purchased as malls and made up to look exactly like - city blocks. Corporate community
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s, parks, and villages are the new development trend in America...
Outsourcing is giving rise to overworked employees in call
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s in India. Rigid English linguistic training is making employees question their cultural identity...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
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...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In related news, a man connects a Mac mini to a 60-inch TV and creates a spectacular-looking media
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. It ends up being far more capable and much, much smaller than any of the other boxes attache...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command
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", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-home theater...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Another crack in the suburban facade: In the Bay Area, 50% of residents want new homes built closer to job
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s...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The philosophy of "The Incredibles" via Ayn Rand. Should we live in a society in which mediocrity is encouraged? http://www.objectivist
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.org/media
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/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.as...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "
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for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software research lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-
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ed. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
October 18 to 24, 2004
After decades of continuous military bombing since World War II, the freed island of Kahoolawe is re-established as a native navigational
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and crossroads "connecting Hawaiians to the ancestra...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"
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for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use" - TV down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new radio modem is the size of a credit card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range: http://www.eeproduct
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.com/rf-micro/brief/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3000030...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Hawaii is getting crowded, a symptom of short-term thinking in development. Where's the mixed-use, decentralized, community-
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ed projects? "What I see happening is horrible," said Maui Realto...
About Singapore's new world-class bioscience empire, including "Biopolis", a $300 million
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for molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and nanotech...
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.macdev
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.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/spam_pt2.htm...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
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(delaying appointments and treatments...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations
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hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
January 5 to 11, 2004
A great two-piece story on a man trapped in a dead-end job at a customer service call
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. "The Phones Don't Stop...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Some Thanksgiving sale goodness-this one made all the papers: "Woman knocked unconscious by trampling shoppers" ...and this happened at a Wal-Mart Super
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.....
October 27 to November 2, 2003
In honor, here is every Playboy
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fold averaged out over four decades...
October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "super
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s"...
August 25, 2003
* Air Canada (the reservations, check-in, and call
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systems shut down, causing canceled flights...
July 10, 2003
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the
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for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we manage it." Also, if yo...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...