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April 18 to 24, 2005
Another case of copyright law going too
far
- in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both...
Ecologically responsible hostels can be efficient and beautiful (and a source of income and workers for organic
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ms)...
April 4 to 10, 2005
622 music videos: http://gran
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o.blogspot.com/2005/04/622-music-videos-various-from-perfect.htm...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, high gas prices are affecting small businesses,
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March 21 to 27, 2005
At last, "rising gas prices threaten viability of biggest SUV sales". Note that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them
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ther to boot...
Meanwhile, here's the best along those lines that humans can do so
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. We have a long way to go...
March 14 to 20, 2005
For Web developers: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Sa
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i though)...
So
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over 10 million creations are under the Creative Commons license, the sensible alternative to traditional copyright restrictions...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Hawaii's developing a strong, growing network of organic
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ms. How about introducing mobile organic produce stores, like this successful one in West Oakland...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Uh-oh - 6,200 Wells
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go ATMs are now running Windows...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In related news, a man connects a Mac mini to a 60-inch TV and creates a spectacular-looking media center. It ends up being
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more capable and much, much smaller than any of the other boxes attache...
Visa will be using the same technology for its credit cards, but with multiple layers of encryption and fraud detection. Because in the U.S., money is
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more important than your identity...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Sa
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i quite yet...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
One in three high school students think the First Amendment "goes too
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" in the rights it guarantees...
January 24 to 30, 2005
"A Scanner Darkly", which may be the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel ever made. The style is similar to but goes
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beyond that of Linklater's previous film "Waking Life"...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Three new wind
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ms in Hawaii should provide power for almost 20,000 homes before 2006...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking down on movie pirates, Monsanto is cracking down on
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mers that save their patented GM seeds from year to year...
December 6 to 12, 2004
An inspiring account of an organic
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mer in Marin County, CA. - this is the future of
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ming...
November 22 to 28, 2004
The story of Mr. Wu, a
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mer in Tongzhou, China, who invents robots made with metal, duct tape, and second-hand batteries...
November 1 to 7, 2004
"10 things the Chinese do
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better than we do...
Asian
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mers Sucking The Continent Dr...
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same bacteria that was once considered so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-war
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e experiments...
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ms make big bucks hosting concerts, selling t-shirts...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The rock band Marillion asked online fans to contribute money towards new albums - and has raised almost $1 million so
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September 27 to October 3, 2004
Suburbia is a health hazard - a new study has found that not only are people less healthy due to overdependence on cars, but from a community design perspective, it's a very inefficient way to live...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The plight of the minimum-wage dairy worker: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/dairy_
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ms...
August 15 to 22, 2004
FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't test it too much, but it seems to work with Sa
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The certification program they promote, SFI, "falls
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short". "Virtually any timber company could meet SFI's weak standards"...
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...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so
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, its first recorded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Photoshop challenge: depict "Americanization": http://www.o2sk8.com/
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May 17 to 23, 2004
5) Things are tough enough. $45,000 is poverty level in Los Angeles: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=7&u=/latimests/20040518/ts_latimes/though
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frompoorafamilystrugglesdail...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Some of the best entries in a Photoshop contest. Theme: merge two animals! http://www.totaltapeservices.com/images/
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k/elephant-butterfly-sm.jp...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Photoshop of the week: http://www.myimgs.com/data/walkingcarpet/
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February 23 to 29, 2004
Face recognition 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 second. Of course, this has
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-reachin...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Hoo boy, lots of news this week. You heard it here first, folks! Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war "LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon warns tha...
Some of the funniest, most creative uses of Photoshop I've seen in a long time... http://forums.
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January 26 to February 1, 2004
One of the best articles so
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on the rise of India re: high-tech "outsourcing"...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Nature always wins. So
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September 8, 2003
The best article so
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on the Aquada, the first amphibious sports car that actually looks sporty...
September 2, 2003
"
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ewell America...
July 21, 2003
Status report: there have been almost 7 million hits on the Star Wars Kid page, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...