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April 25 to May 1, 2005
"U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism - State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep
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s colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
Photo Stitching http://www.newyorker.com/fact/
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April 18 to 24, 2005
ClearChannel will be tagging its music with color codes that reflect "indecent"
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. Blue songs are OK, while orange songs can only be played after 10pm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
How and why Asian countries are keeping the U.S. dollar from collapsing: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/
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A reader poll reveals the ugliest cars of 2005. I definitely agree with the top four: http://cartalk.com/
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April 4 to 10, 2005
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball machine manufacturer on Earth...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough information to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
March 14 to 20, 2005
The first RFID reader/writer in SD card format: http://www.mobilemag.com/
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March 7 to 13, 2005
Philips says we're getting paper-like displays in 2007: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/
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For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live
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online - 2.6GB worth...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A pretty good study of the
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s of the Red Bull energy drink, recently approved for sale in Canada...
Consumer Reports offers a report on condom effectiveness: http://www.consumerreports.org/main/
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January 24 to 30, 2005
Tag graphing allows people to see relationships between topically-sorted
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on the Web...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Grisly images of caring for the wounded in Iraq: http://
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The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music causes "visceral reactions" in people: http://www.devarticles.com/index.php?option=
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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 typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for
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on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The debut of Wikinews, a free
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news source that people around the world can contribute to...
Mexican labor is getting too expensive for the U.S. - jobs are now moving to China. You can now buy Mexican trinkets in the U.S. that were made in China...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Only 1/3 of Americans believe that evolution is well supported by evidence. 45% say God created humans, and 1/3 say the Bible should be taken literally word for word...
The story of Mr. Wu, a farmer in Tongzhou, China, who invents robots made with metal, duct tape, and second-hand batteries: http://www.china-pictorial.com/chpic/htdocs/English/
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November 15 to 21, 2004
An overview of current work on Natural Language Programming: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=
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"Meditation May Bolster Brain Activity": http://my.webmd.com/
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November 8 to 14, 2004
Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/
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November 1 to 7, 2004
Election Hangover http://www.news8austin.com/
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"10 things the Chinese do far better than we do" http://aolnetscape.workopolis.com/servlet/
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October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums: http://www.gnn.tv/
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October 18 to 24, 2004
New printable RFID labels meet Wal-Mart requirements: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/
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"The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates" http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/
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ASCAP seals a huge deal to "let stations legally stream their on-air
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over the "Internet"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Center 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...
"Alarming trend in spyware could undermine IT industry" http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?
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October 4 to 10, 2004
Podcasting puts audio
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you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast Howard Stern from XM Radio...
Even if you don't like the
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, the quote at the end is the best...
JibJab's new "Good to be in DC!" short: http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/
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September 27 to October 3, 2004
"What a Top Reporter in Baghdad Really Thinks About the War": http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_
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September 20 to 26, 2004
Surprise of the week - the rich get richer: http://moneycentral.msn.com/
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August 22 to 29, 2004
New efforts in developing flying cars: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/
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Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered...
August 8 to 14, 2004
"Modern-Day Slavery" http://www.palmbeachpost.com/hp/
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Are businesses starting to get the clue about global warming? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/
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Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.
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August 2 to 8, 2004
Some amazing bluetooth hacking - address book
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s can be stolen from up to a mile away! Or run a sneaky bluetooth
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-grabbing program from your PDA and walk around unnoticed...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Recent progress in 3D visualization technology allows "virtual excavation", in this case, the ability to completely examine the
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s of a 3,000 year-old mummy without touching it...
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
BusinessWeek reports that privacy battles are being won over RFID: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/
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May 24 to 30, 2004
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_page
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May 10 to 16, 2004
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a cellular phone, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
Here's how to ask questions that actually produce information: http://www.poynter.org/
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May 3 to 9, 2004
The rise of suburban loft architecture: http://www.metropolismag.com/html/
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April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
April 19 to 25, 2004
And Intel plans to cut the lead
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of computer chips by 95%...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"The share of the economic pie going to wages and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and perhaps longer....
March 31, 2004
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 29 to April 5, 2004
A material widely used in nanotechnology research has been found to trigger organ damage in fish: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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March 8 to 14, 2004
Those who do not learn from history... The amazing Lawrence Lessig wrote a nice piece on how Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and the music industries were all born from
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piracy...
George Michael will offer his songs freely online from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a
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provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
"Game Development: Harder Than You Think" http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=
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February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Mac? Hallelujah! http://businessweek.com/magazine/
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February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
November 3 to 9, 2003
A few medical breakthroughs last week you may have read about... "Liquid drano for arteries": http://my.webmd.com/
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October 20, 2003
This week was Marriage Protection Week! In honor, here's an article about how only 50.7% of America is actually married: "Unmarried America...
October 14, 2003
Here's a good article on the engineering and development of the Powerski: http://www.memagazine.org/
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September 8, 2003
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wired) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
July 21, 2003
"Dis
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ed Americans Consider Canada...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest tech wizardry makes voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...