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December 20 to 31, 2005
Unsurprisingly, Apple crippled the iPod to prevent high-quality r
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rding. Here's a hack to enable it, although it may only work on 3rd-gen iPods...
"Prescription Drug Use at R
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rd High for Americans"...
The winner of the s
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nd Dwell
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-prefab house contest...
In a pioneering survey, most artists and musicians think that file sharing is not a threat: http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/nls_
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mmercefile041208...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for r
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rding, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and r
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rds video...
Hawaii-grown tea could b
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me a world-famous if these growers have their way...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire r
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rding interface I've ever seen. Looks like it should be excellent for r
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rding on the road with a laptop...
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logically responsible hostels can be efficient and beautiful (and a source of income and workers for organic farms)...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This couple started an
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-porn site for rain forest protection and have already raised almost $100,000...
Could new photographic techniques shed light on ancient Greek texts and bring about the "s
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nd Renaissance"...
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location b
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mes mor...
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is b
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ming popular among college students, who use it to concentrate and stay awake for long periods at a time...
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...
I highly r
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mmend the Oyster Dock for laptop users...
See her solve the cube in 16 s
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nds...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A page on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
A better overview of perpendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
The market for dead celebrities has b
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me quite lucrative. Bill Gates bought a lot of them recently...
A more balanced, scenario-laden view of the U.N.-backed Millenium
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system Assessment, mentioned last week...
Hey developers! Use
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glo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency lighting systems...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
History, Patents, and You http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/
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mmerce/0,39020372,39147408,00.ht...
Perpendicular r
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rding likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage technologies...
Need an industrial solution? Use new biological filters that mimic the natural d
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mposition of debris. In a successful test the sewage from 25 homes was used to irrigate a golf course...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
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...
A new newspaper column only reviews cars that do better than 30 mpg. Let's see more columns like this: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/03/
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driver_1.ph...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Hey America - India isn't going to take the same kind of
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nomic smackdown you gave Japan not so long ago...
Use this magnetic paint to make any surface sensitive to magnetism. No idea if it's
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-friendly though...
Some artists are slicing up billboards, r
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mbining them into new images...
March 7 to 13, 2005
On a related
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-friendly note, there sure is a lot of unused roof real estate in downtown Honolulu...
Meanwhile, a group of tech CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global
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nomy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-point plan...
Nike launches "Considered", an
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-friendly line of shoes...
Let's see Starbucks use these new paper coffee cups that are d
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mposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's ordered 20 million of them...
Meanwhile, an unreleased Velvet Underground acetate found at a garage sale could be the most expensive r
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rd in the world...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer b
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mes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock declines and poor business decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive r
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very specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
Big art projects pay off - The Gates generated $254 million in
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nomy activity, with 4 million visitors...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
The Korg video mixing device for VJs: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/musical-instruments/
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nomy-of-scales-korg-kaptivator-034084.ph...
Forget ringtones. The smart money is in toothbrushing music! "Several r
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rding artists" are in talks...
D
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mposable pod-like
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-coffins...
The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years, everything you do will be r
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rded...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Intellifit system is a 360-degree body scanner that creates accurate measurements in 10 s
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nds. Ever seen the 1981 sci-fi movie "Looker"...
The arctic is b
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ming a "chemical waste sump" - there's DDT in higher concentrations there than in the countries that made it...
Chloroflourocarbon-free expanded polystyrene housing can withstand the worst earthquakes r
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rded and is energy-efficient too...
February 7 to 13, 2005
This may help explain why the
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nomist has more frontal nudity than all other international news magazines combined...
A quarter of the
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nomy's growth is taken up by healthcare spending...
R
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rding an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini...
Here's the mp3, despite the fact that Simmons denied NPR permission to make the r
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rding available...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and r
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rding capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in r
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rdin...
New modular, great looking,
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-friendly rug systems...
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...
Whole-grain foods are b
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ming an industry trend. Wonder Bread now makes a whole-grain alternative, following "unprecedented consumer interest in healthier foods"...
Unusual events "unheard of in the history of seismology" have been r
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rded in the Andaman and Nicobar islands since the tsunami...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A new cheap DVD r
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rder (sold at Wal-Mart for $140) may make the VCR obsolete...
Need thermal or acoustic insulation? Use
eco
-friendly itch-free insulation products...
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logical pole houses. And the company is Hawaii-based...
Were Robert Johnson's r
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rdings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match actual guitar pitch and you get a whole new perspective on his amazing talents...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Use
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-friendly Dr. Bronner's products instead. They're cheap, organic, effective, and smell great...
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
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nomy in Hawai'i to assess its
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nomic impact"...
Professor Francis Boyle, an expert on international law from the U. of Illinois, recently gave an informative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under international law...
The genome of a pollution-eating bacterium has been d
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ded, leading to more efficient garbage-eating biotools...
The
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nomist suggests the American dream is in trouble...
The story of 21 year-old Matt Leto, possibly the greatest video-game player ever. He likely holds over 800 world r
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rds and is set to make six digits in competitions this year...
New
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-friendly cork tiles resist mildew naturally...
The results of the s
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nd holiday champagne chair contest, in which designers made chairs using only the material from one champagne bottle...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a r
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rd high. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of going after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
New airship satellites can provide cheaper wireless coverage: http://www.
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nomist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=342302...
"The disappearing dollar", by the
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nomist...
R
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rding Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to listen to all nominated songs in the "R
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rd of the Year" category via iTunes...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Handy Mac-based tools for those r
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rding audio interviews that need transcription...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Artwork that comes with its own URL - the URL has b
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me a work of art in itself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new blog is created every 5.8 s
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nds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
The Roman Catholic Church probably won't r
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gnize it though...
The chief
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nomist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an
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nomic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming facts"...
The story of Mr. Wu, a farmer in Tongzhou, China, who invents robots made with metal, duct tape, and s
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nd-hand batteries...
Experts say the health of the ocean is linked to Hawaii's
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nomic health, warn of problems...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Timekeeping has just b
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me more accurate, and the s
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nd is redefined for the first time in 37 years...
The World Wildlife Fund is building a 6,000 structure "
eco
-city"...
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, they've done it with their s
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nd. Here's an enlightening interview...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Confessions of an
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nomic Hit Man" - a former respected international banker admits to helping the U.S. cheat poor countries out of trillions, allowing for
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nomic takeover...
November 1 to 7, 2004
"Ag-tourism b
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mes $35 million business for Hawaii...
October 25 to 31, 2004
A cool way to visualize ZIP code regions: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipd
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de...
Dead things are a core part of the
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system. But many forests are in trouble due to excessive dead wood removal...
Some cable companies now broadcast signals that prevent you from making copies of r
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rdings...
The great history of Sun Studio, the most influential r
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rding studio ever...
The RIAA issues its first gold, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digitally downloaded music...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Re-establishing the Ancient Internet http://www.blu
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ast.org/nonprofit/kanaloa/k19.htm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
More money can be made by unpopular media than by popular media. Here's how the net is changing the nature of what "popular" means. Highly r
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mmended reading...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Eat healthy leftovers - b
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me a freegan...
September 20 to 26, 2004
"3 Myths About the R
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rding Industry Debunked...
A new business model for artists! Green Day sells blank r
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rdable CD-Rs with album designs...
September 13 to 19, 2004
S
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nd, they make unfounded assumptions...
More links to
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logical burial resources...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
Drool... new DVD r
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rders with 400GB drives. Burn a one-hour DVD-R in 56 s
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nds...
Lee Bont
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u is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
"Despite a strong state
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nomy, the homeless rate in Hawaii has nearly doubled over the past four years, and the majority of the new homeless are native Hawaiians and those with some Hawaiia...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 s
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nd is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
The world's first detailed view (and r
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nstruction) of an Egyptian mummy's face, without disturbing the wrappings, thanks to multidetector computed tomography...
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tourism needs more experienced guides...
"BMI posts r
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rd year, despite music industry doom and gloom"...
August 22 to 29, 2004
RSS is b
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ming a hot technology these days...
The world's first movie r
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rding on a preformatted holographic disc...
Microsoft's Spanish version of Windows XP translated "woman" as "bitch". Users unamused: http://
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nomictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-823975,curpg-1.cm...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 s
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nds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby H
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power plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
The first(?) chip to use ultrawideband technology: http://
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nomist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=308447...
3D hologram technology b
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mes a "powerful tool" to detect forgeries...
August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the bigger, hidden
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nomic net benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
5) Foster programs that exploit the independent local arts to tourism/Waikiki
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nomic connection...
The Kensington computer cable lock can be opened in 30 s
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nds with $1 worth of material...
The FCC, by the way, would like to prohibit you from r
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rding anything from the Internet...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
Clubbo Music, a fabulously detailed and funny site about a nonexistant r
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rd label...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The latest thinking in dualmode transports - a truck that runs on wheels and rails. Why not use one to transport people from Honolulu to Kapolei instead of building a s
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nd level...
July 12 to 18, 2004
One of my favorite sci-fi authors, Bruce Sterling, gives a hilarious, philosophical, and insightful talk about the "singularity", the point at which the pace of technology b
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mes too fast t...
Golden Apples of the Sun http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/r
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rd-reviews/b/banhart_devendra/golden-apples-of-the-sun.shtm...
Devendra Barnhart is a good example of this musical category: http://www.younggodr
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rds.com/Artists/DevendraBanhart...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first r
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rded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in r
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rd sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing networks...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) R
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very Fee, which only applies to DS...
S
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nd, the Carlyle Group is looking to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just part of their recent massive purchases of tel
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ms in the Pacific region. The deal is "complex", as it involves a number o...
Now here's a s
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ndary BigChampagne report that indicates that "artists receiving little or no radio play are still gaining very significant activity on file sharing networks". Meaning...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Photoshop challenge: depict "Americanization": http://home.grand
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m.net/~bargirl24/velveetafranzia.jp...
Alien species have caused the
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logical collapse of the Great Lakes...
June 7 to 13, 2004
"Bringing [wolves] back to Yellowstone has triggered a cascade of unanticipated changes in the park's
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system...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Unconscious passwords" http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/060204/R
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gnition_keys_access_060204.htm...
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary r
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rd and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
"For the s
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nd straight year, an Internet unknown won the famed World Series of Poker on Friday, ravaging a field of professional players on his way to glory and riches....
May 24 to 30, 2004
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag
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ntent?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.yamano-music.com/docs/hard/handroll_piano.htm...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Rampant pollution and dead bodies in India's holy Ganga (Ganges) river: http://www.
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friends.org/gallery/pollinganga.ht...
More pictures of the
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-prefab Glidehouse...
May 3 to 9, 2004
This new high-speed industrial hand dryer dries your hands in 5 to 6 s
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nds...
Will all communities b
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me Wal-Marted, SUVed, McMansioned deserts? McMansions are invading this suburb in Washington, D.C.. Warning: graphic architectural carnage...
The "eBay
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nomy" is growing. This is a great business idea - sell things on eBay for others. Mailbox places should take this up as an additional service...
The Volkswagen ball, from the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Sculpture by Lars-Erik Fisk: http://www.d
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rdova.org/images/imagess_p/fiskstreetball_lrg.jp...
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 s
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nds, and gets 40 mpg...
"
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-friendly" diapers may not be so
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-friendly after all...
A company r
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rds shows live and sells USB devices holding the r
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rding after the concert...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more
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-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-tech, and make a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
Technology has been developed that takes images of old, damaged vinyl r
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rds and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of r
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rdings...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Noisy cell phones are b
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ming a problem in national parks...
April 5 to 11, 2004
This sucker recharges fully in 30 s
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nds...
"The share of the
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nomic 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....
"Americans are increasingly resorting to stomach-shrinking surgery so much so that health experts and insurance companies are b
eco
ming alarmed"...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Energy bill would improve
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nomic stability - A bill that maps an energy strategy for Hawaii appears stalled in the Legislature....
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical r
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rds and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
A new system for powered saws detects skin contact in 5 millis
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nds and stops the blade...
A portable, cordless soldering tool that runs on 4 AA batteries, heats in one s
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nd, and cools in two...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Encyclopedias, whether printed or digital, are b
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ming less popular...
A new DVD r
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rder from HP burns silkscreen-like labels on the entire side of the disc...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-
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logies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy b
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mes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
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 s
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nds...
An influential Washington policy group released a report stating that the entertainment industry's pursuit of anti-piracy laws is bad for business and for the
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nomy...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Face r
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gnition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one s
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nd. Of course, this has far-reachin...
10 million Pacific giant crabs are invading Norway's coast and destroying the local
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logy. "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
For Valentine's Day, another fascinating "science and love" article - "Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people"...
"Illegal logging is destroying the equatorial rain forests of Indonesian Borneo, bringing the island, once known as the lungs of Asia, to the brink of an
eco
logical disaster....
A Swedish company has developed an environmentally friendly way to dispose of (and recycle) bodies. This is as opposed to the current methods, whose byproducts are polluting incinerators, toxi...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Finally, Verizon announces that it will convert its entire nationwide tel
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mmunications network to packet switching, "the protocol on which the Internet runs". This, over 40 years after AT&...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
Should we move high-tech jobs overseas? "
eco
nomists back tech industry's overseas hiring"...
"I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World
eco
nomy...
The FBI can now obtain financial r
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rds without requiring a judge's permission...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Favorite antipop CDs of 2003 Tired of mainstream music? How about great jazz/world/folk/acoustic fusion? Highly r
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mmended are David Tanenbaum, Tord Gustavsen, and the Be Good Tanyas. Of course...
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's b
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me or 4th or 5th largest industry there! This article has interesting details on how it's done these days, involving dozens of actors, props...
"Japan's Empire of Cool: Country's Culture B
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mes Its Biggest Export...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer r
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rds.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
4) Thanks to large-scale gerrymandering, voters are no longer choosing members to the House of "Representatives" and politics are b
eco
ming even more polarized...
The S
eco
nd Coming of Nick Drak...
Alexi has b
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me popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
I've mentioned cdbaby before, but it's b
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ming a force in the music industry to be reckoned with, thanks to the power of the Internet...
Cerritos, CA b
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mes the first entire city to go completely wireless...
A Pattern Language for Sustainability http://www.conservation
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nomy.net/INDEX.CF...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The Worst Album Covers Ever http://www.io.com/~dork/r
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rds/sleeve.htm...
October 6, 2003
"Working on the go has b
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me standard operating procedure in the music industry...
September 30, 2003
Sales of phonecams have surpassed that of digital cameras: http://www.mobil
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mmerceworld.com/Tmpl/Article.aspx?E&ID=1675...
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
August 25, 2003
I think this item ties in well with last week's item about the coral reefs dying. Aside from preserving beauty and diversity in the environment, there is great
eco
nomic incentive to explore the thing...
2003 Ozone Hole May Be R
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rd Size, Australia Say...
* British Tel
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...
August 4, 2003
It is official U.S. policy to encourage people to buy larger, less efficient cars: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel
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nomy Tuesday after concerns wer...
July 21, 2003
Just released last month, S
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nd Life is perhaps the closest thing to wide-scale cyberspace today. A journalist is covering its own culture as it evolves...
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 tel
eco
m giant...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...