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December 20 to 31, 2005
Have a very happy New Year's,
every
one. Thus ends the first full year of Kev's News...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated software that can track
every
financial transaction no matter how small...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Hope
every
one 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...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually
every
thing our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
Rethinking The
every
day Things
April 11 to 17, 2005
Portraits of normal,
every
day people by Naomi Harris...
April 4 to 10, 2005
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly
every
62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A tiny HDTV tuner on a USB stick: http://www.
every
thingusb.com/compro_videomate_dvb-t_stick.htm...
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't
every
LCD monitor have these features...
March 7 to 13, 2005
every
U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think
every
American should, too...
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...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years,
every
thing you do will be recorded...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Mark Morford asks, why isn't
every
one on a Mac...
every
body learned that you no longer have the right to publish photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to
every
sound that humans use to communicate...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating
every
one else. Implications for social systems...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new blog is created
every
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
every
day tensio...
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on
every
printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
every
body reported on the dolphins that protected four New Zealand swimmers from sharks...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Remember,
every
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...
"sorry
every
body.com" spawns "werenotsorry.com" and "apologiesaccepted.com"...
Controversial thoughts on energy alternatives. The point is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic -
every
thing affects
every
thing else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
November 1 to 7, 2004
every
body's Got an Opinio...
Sorry,
every
body...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so popular,
every
one knows what they look like by now...
October 18 to 24, 2004
San Francisco sets the goal of providing
every
one in the city free wireless access...
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault
every
time your PC crashes, too...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
California mandates free cell phone recycling.
every
state should pass such a bill...
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...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time
every
where (1 second is lost
every
300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
The city of Philadelphia is considering providing free or cheap wireless Internet access to
every
body...
August 15 to 22, 2004
every
thing you wanted to know about the Natatorium fiasco...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The
every
man Photo Contest - great amateur photography...
See how a family changes, via similar photos taken
every
year for 28 years...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since
every
one 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
every
thing 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...
June 21 to 27, 2004
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
every
body...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
A man took a photo of himself
every
day for a year and made this movie...
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
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod
every
week. Now online groceries are coming back...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
As an experiment,
every
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
every
car and driver that passes through....
March 15 to 21, 2004
A Diebold (Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives
every
one free access...
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase
every
thing 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
every
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 19 to 25, 2004
"Free Wireless
every
where...
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...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope
every
one 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...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Craigslist Honolulu is up and running! Tell
every
body to use it...
November 3 to 9, 2003
every
thing that Wired Magazine has called "a thing of the past"...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
In honor, here is
every
Playboy centerfold averaged out over four decades...
Open Source
every
wher...
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
every
seat...
September 15, 2003
Ever eaten General Tso's chicken? Well, here's
every
thing you wanted to know about General Tso and his dish...
August 25, 2003
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-business view of one CEO who removed
every
bit of Microsoft software from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
August 12, 2003
Things like this are good to see
every
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
every
one has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd never would have put together. Read the Salon article...
July 28, 2003
There are now over 2 million people in U.S. prisons, one for
every
143 citizens...
Another case for biodiversity in
every
day life: "Tree-Eating Beetle Poses Threat In U.S....
July 21, 2003
However, note that
every
year since 1977 there have been more Canadians moving to the US than vice-versa...
July 10, 2003
"The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking
every
thing 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...