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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"...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't every LCD monitor have these features? http://english.chosun.com/w21
data
/html/news/200503/200503160032.htm...
March 7 to 13, 2005
One of my pet topics - what happens to your
data
and online personality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
For some reason the U.S. Army's $127 billion modernization program has been categorized in the budget in a way that relieves them of the obligation to give "cost and purchasing
data
to militar...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their systems allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer information, including people's
data
from their Sidekicks...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A startup creates molecular storage technology that could store 1 terabit per square inch, or 25 DVDs of
data
in a postage stamp-sized area...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The public domain USGS digital
data
image archives. Nice, quick stock imagery for all kinds of uses...
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 calls the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic impact"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Tutorial D" looks like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL
data
base language. I hope it takes off...
October 4 to 10, 2004
New nanoswitches could revolutionize
data
storage...
Electricity-conducting plastic means lighter, smaller gadgets: http://
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week.co.za/article.asp?pklArticleID=3077&pklIssueID=422&pklCategoryID=3...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Bush's approval poll
data
, mapped against terror alerts...
The story behind the Internet Movie
data
base, one of the most popular, useful Web sites ever made...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Samsung's new 3 million pixel camera phone: http://english.chosun.com/w21
data
/html/news/200407/200407110024.htm...
May 17 to 23, 2004
This is one of the best Web-based
data
visualization apps I've seen! You could mine this public
data
base for all manner of interesting purposes. Fundrace - see which of your neighbors contributed t...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Lots of statistics about lots of cities: http://www.city-
data
.com...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million installed systems, the open-source
data
base MySQL is the most popular
data
base in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
Some of the best entries in a Photoshop contest. Theme: merge two animals! http://www.myimgs.com/
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/baxterslate/bulldog_ape.jp...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Photoshop of the week: http://www.myimgs.com/
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/walkingcarpet/Fark/0405041046.jp...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a look at the
data
...
A nice summary of four up-and-coming wireless technologies - WiMax, 802.16e, 802.11n, and Ultrawideband: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/
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/2004-03-28-coming-tech_x.ht...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical records and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that
data
gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
February 23 to 29, 2004
The cat's out of the bag: the first decent mainstream article on the brilliant BitTorrent, the file sharing network that "makes trading movies a breeze". As well as gigabytes of other stuff as well...
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
"Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace...
October 6, 2003
* It's powered by a Linux-running 78-processor supercomputer that can manage nine terabytes of
data
, 13 times the size of the
data
in a two-hour digital feature film...
July 21, 2003
Animals can be pretty intelligent (watch the crow movie): http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/
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/crow/index.htm...
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...