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December 20 to 31, 2005
Have a very happy New Year's,
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yone. Thus ends the first full year of Kev's News...
N
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mind those old 50's survival bunkers. Get yourself a new U.S. Bunker and prepare for the terrorist invasion...
How
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, long-term toxicity questions remain unanswered...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated software that can track
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y financial transaction no matter how small...
I recently revisited AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released last year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-use, powerful panorama maker I've eve...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Hope
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yone had a happy Earth Day. Not surprisingly, much news was devoted to how much high-tech junk is being generated and what to do about it...
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire recording interface I've
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seen. Looks like it should be excellent for recording on the road with a laptop...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually
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ything our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
Rethinking The
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yday Things
April 11 to 17, 2005
Portraits of normal,
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yday people by Naomi Harris...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Low-power FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio networks, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
President Bush's approval rating is the lowest
ever
for a 2nd-term president. J-Walk provides a nice graph...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly
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y 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
History, Patents, and You http://news.com.com/Should+optical+discs+last+for
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/2100-1041_3-5645832.html?part=rss&tag=5645832&subj=new...
Homeland Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll make it easier than
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for terrorists to fin...
The site for the prefab Flatpak house has been revised and is better than
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, with lots of nice pictures...
March 21 to 27, 2005
The movie "Meet the Fockers" recently became the highest-grossing live-action comedy
ever
, making almost $500 million worldwide...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A tiny HDTV tuner on a USB stick: http://www.
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ythingusb.com/compro_videomate_dvb-t_stick.htm...
The 4GB hard-drive camcorder: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/jvc/first-impressions-jvc-
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io-hard-disk-camera-036324.ph...
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't
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y LCD monitor have these features...
March 7 to 13, 2005
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y U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think
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y American should, too...
"The most comprehensive video
ever
made on the design and construction of a green home"...
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...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes 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...
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...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've
ever
experienced...
A "brain pacemaker" turned previously untreatable "beyond suicidal" people into antique dealers and PTA members.
ever
seen "The Terminal Man"...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Forget ringtones. The smart money is in toothbrushing music! "S
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al recording artists" are in talks...
How
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, all this luxury island building is (temporarily?) destroying Dubai's natural environment...
The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years,
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ything you do will be recorded...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Intellifit system is a 360-degree body scanner that creates accurate measurements in 10 seconds.
ever
seen the 1981 sci-fi movie "Looker"...
The mating scent of the German cockroach has been found - here's the cl
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methods scientists used...
You can now order pizza directly from the online multiplayer game
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quest, which has over 400,000 global subscribers...
Jazz composer Maric Schneider is likely the first artist
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to win a Grammy for an album that was solely distributed on the Web...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Mark Morford asks, why isn't
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yone on a Mac...
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ybody learned that you no longer have the right to publish photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...
The largest climate prediction experiment
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harnessed 90,000 home computers around the globe. The result? Global warming will be worse than expected...
January 24 to 30, 2005
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been taken by one of these? Here's the 25 hottest urban legends, with "tsunami photos" at number one...
This Target ad is a cl
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look into how design shapes our culture and environment...
"A Scanner Darkly", which may be the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel
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made. The style is similar to but goes far beyond that of Linklater's previous film "Waking Life"...
January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress tests (Logic, Pages, iPhoto) and it n
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got too hot or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
N
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mind the U.S. - electronics companies are using less lead in products thanks to European Union regulations...
License to sit - this art piece reflects on our
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-growing "culture by permission"...
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...
The new 555-seat Airbus A380 is the world's biggest airliner
ever
built. And it's more fuel efficient than your car...
The Web and the Internet are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that
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before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the real costs of war...
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"...
"Meritocracy in America - What
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happened to the belief that any American could get to the top?...
The story of 21 year-old Matt Leto, possibly the greatest video-game player
ever
. He likely holds over 800 world records and is set to make six digits in competitions this year...
Interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to
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y sound that humans use to communicate...
The StroboPick, perhaps the most accurate (and smallest) guitar tuner
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...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating
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yone else. Implications for social systems...
Cl
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design by necessity - prisoners' inventions...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the fact that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring war over peace...
Whoops, another Hawaiian bird species nears extinction. "This species was a unique part of Earth's history... we'll n
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have another one like it if it disappears....
How
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, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy. Note that old computer monitors make better used TVs than TVs...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new blog is created
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y 5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
Here's an excerpt from "Checkpoint", a documentary on the West Bank/Gaza Strip checkpoints that was readapted by the Israeli military for training purposes. This clip highlights the
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yday tensio...
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on
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y printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
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ybody reported on the dolphins that protected four New Zealand swimmers from sharks...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Remember,
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y public Web page you make in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
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need to do a little research yourself on the latest trends? Just go to Google News and search for a few key phrases, sorted by date. Here are four: "international survey", "scientifi...
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children, how
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, do not. A detailed Web site describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
This Dutch film caused the murder of its director on November 2. The Netherlands is now experiencing attacks on Islamic mosques, churches, and schools. Can fundamentalism
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coexist with worl...
"sorry
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ybody.com" spawns "werenotsorry.com" and "apologiesaccepted.com"...
Controversial thoughts on energy alternatives. The point is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic -
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ything affects
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ything else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
November 1 to 7, 2004
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ybody's Got an Opinio...
Sorry,
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ybody...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! How
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, this item was so popular,
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yone knows what they look like by now...
"The world is on the verge of a water crisis as people fight over
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dwindling supplies"...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos
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produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums...
The great history of Sun Studio, the most influential recording studio
ever
...
October 18 to 24, 2004
San Francisco sets the goal of providing
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yone in the city free wireless access...
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needed a private room for adults? Yamaha's got one...
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault
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y time your PC crashes, too...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Printer forensics can now trace documents to specific (laser) printers: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4
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/2004/041011.Delp.forensics.htm...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
California mandates free cell phone recycling.
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y state should pass such a bill...
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wanted to live on a houseboat? Here's some from Sausalito, CA, one of the best and oldest houseboat communities...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Disney creates a revolution in fireworks by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fireworks are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched higher. How about using thi...
Revolutionary lens implants for the s
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ely nearsighted are expected to receive FDA approval soon...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time
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ywhere (1 second is lost
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y 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
The city of Philadelphia is considering providing free or cheap wireless Internet access to
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ybody...
August 15 to 22, 2004
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ything you wanted to know about the Natatorium fiasco...
Me and my friends recently switched from T-Mobile due to lousy service. Here's another sad customer: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/tmobile-sidekick-ii-review-best-phone-ill-n
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-buy-019948.ph...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A 11.7 foot high-resolution screen is displayed at a homeland security conference: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4
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/2004/040727.Bertoline.Thomson.htm...
The story behind the Internet Movie Database, one of the most popular, useful Web sites
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made...
The
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yman Photo Contest - great amateur photography...
See how a family changes, via similar photos taken
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y year for 28 years...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since
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yone seems to have a blog these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I see the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
Lawrence Lessig on the "This Land Is Your Land" lawsuit threat. This action goes against
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ything Woody Guthrie stood for...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
Some personal stories of the 1.5 million women vs. Walmart, the largest class action suit
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...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
A new hypersensitive sensor has been developed in Israel, allowing heart readings from "s
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al feet away" without physical contact...
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) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have n
ever
heard of...
Real-time file sharing music popularity results reside at BigChampagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue
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ybody...
June 14 to 20, 2004
N
ever
mind the latest tech fad of creating personal social networks - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies network and think smarter...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've
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seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
N
ever
mind the news you've read last week about the lack of sex in Japan. I'm curious about "hikikomori", a contributing condition affecting one million teen boys - they n
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leave their rooms...
"Childhood obesity in the United States looks significantly worse than previously believed, suggests the largest assessment
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of public school students....
A man took a photo of himself
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y day for a year and made this movie...
An innovative new music video by up-and-coming musician Sam Bisbee. I don't know about the music, but this effect has n
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been done with live video before (I believe it was pioneered in the Beatles...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Attract tenants with wireless: http://for
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geek.com/articles/apartment_complex_unwired.ph...
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod
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y week. Now online groceries are coming back...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More architecture! Architect Michelle Kaufmann is an American hero. She's the first person to finally begin to fulfill Frank Lloyd Wright's dream of cheap quality homes, a goa...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The portable Q barbecue is the best- designed small hibachi/grill I've
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seen...
As an experiment,
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y 5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is getting a laptop with digital versions of textbooks and 2,000 works of literature...
"One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on
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y car and driver that passes through....
April 12 to 18, 2004
The youngest writer
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to win an Agatha Award for a mystery novel collaborated with his uncle using Apple's new videoconferencing technology - this may be the first award-winning book
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mad...
I've seen a lot of Web sites. This could be the worst-designed site
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made...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
ever
wonder why so many business majors think Microsoft invented computing? A study of eight textbooks reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in business...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
The first device
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with an electronic paper display, a reading device, hits the shelves next month, with a 170dpi screen...
All about the Minato Motor, which l
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ages magnetic effects to produce more electricity than it consumes. Sound wacky? They've just sold 40,000 motors to a major convenience store chain...
A bicycle tire that n
ever
needs inflating...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Although silly bills are introduced all the time, this one's a whopper: "To allow Congress to r
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se the judgments of the United States Supreme Court...
A Diebold (Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives
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yone free access...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first music video
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to be entirely shot using a cell phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years ago - in another ten directors may be viewing dailies on their phones...
February 23 to 29, 2004
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase
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ything on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 9 to 15, 2004
There was a little buzz around the net last week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the point at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently predicted to happen in 2015. Jo...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The market for luxury cars (which cost up to $1 million) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people
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y day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is gettin...
Nanotech thinkers fear the "gray goo" syndrome, where a nanotech product may go haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into goo, the nanotech equivalent of a nuclear meltdown. One smart gu...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are r
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sed, the vending machine doesn'...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"Free Wireless
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ywhere...
This Star Wars fan turned his Honda into an "H-Wing" fighter. It's the best car-to-starship conversion I've
ever
seen...
An aspiring filmmaker made a splash at Sundance with the first feature-length film
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made with nothing but iMovie. Total cost of the production: $218...
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations Center 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
Well, better late than n
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... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Will a new high-tech fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a starter foundation for business before VCs can step in. Local VCs have neve...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope
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yone had a happy 2003! Kev's News is now six months old. (Obligatory holiday picture link below)...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Alexi has become 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...
Details behind the first National Geographic cover story
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to be completely shot digitally...
When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest line
ever
seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
The worst holiday religious gifts
ever
...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Have you
ever
seen a gigpixel image...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Have you
ever
wanted your own Death Ray? Check out the commercial at Brotron Labs...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Craigslist Honolulu is up and running! Tell
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ybody to use it...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The Worst Album Covers Eve...
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ything that Wired Magazine has called "a thing of the past"...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
In honor, here is
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y Playboy centerfold averaged out over four decades...
Open Source
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ywher...
October 27, 2003
Morgan has provided this link to R
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end Billy and his hilarious nonviolent protest against Wal-Mart (and a good idea too)...
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
At $100 million, it could be the most expensive attraction
ever
...
October 6, 2003
* It uses seven ultra-high-resolution video projectors and hundreds of speakers, two 24-channel digital audio players, and bass shakers under
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y seat...
September 22, 2003
All about the best slot machine cheater
ever
...
Invisible always-on cameras in glasses, brought to you by HP: (it does have an off switch, how
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...
September 15, 2003
ever
eaten General Tso's chicken? Well, here's
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ything you wanted to know about General Tso and his dish...
September 8, 2003
ever
see that movie "Blast From The Past", about a man who spent 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter built by his dad...
August 25, 2003
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-business view of one CEO who removed
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y bit of Microsoft software from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
Affected by the recent computer viruses? The solution: 1) Don't use Outlook. 2) Don't use Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows machine this week. In over 1...
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
August 12, 2003
Things like this are good to see
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y once in a while so you don't get so proud about being a human, having two arms and two legs and all...
Now that
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yone has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd n
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would have put together. Read the Salon article...
July 28, 2003
There are now over 2 million people in U.S. prisons, one for
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y 143 citizens...
Thanks to 10,000 years of selective breeding by humans, bananas will vanish for
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in a decade...
Another case for biodiversity in
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yday life: "Tree-Eating Beetle Poses Threat In U.S....
July 21, 2003
How
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, note that
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y year since 1977 there have been more Canadians moving to the US than vice-versa...
July 10, 2003
"The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking
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ything That Moves...
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...