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April 25 to May 1, 2005
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...
The beautiful long-lost music of Red Hash, circa 1973: http://blog.wfmu.org/free
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/2005/04/red_hash_revisi.htm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
I get some traffic to this site from people looking for in
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ation on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with in
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ation on artists, albums, influences, and musi...
Stats on how many
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s of mainstream media are doing in terms of popularity...
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...
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand
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at. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song online. Let's se...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
What blows my mind is that many of the documents I examined and commented on came from the 1992 hypertext www-talk archives, which I helped archive in the first place, using software that I wrot...
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough in
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ation to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
Derren Brown uses basic psychological principles to per
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amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's in
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ation-cynical world...
How about making a bumper sticker with "IWASTEGAS.COM" on it - the site could hold current in
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ation on gas guzzlers, fuel-efficient cars, and simple ways to save energy. The name's available...
March 14 to 20, 2005
The first RFID reader/writer in SD card
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at...
For Web developers: a new interactive way of making
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s that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Safari though)...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract in
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ation from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate in
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ation. Why can't there be ...
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 in
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ation, including people's data from their Sidekicks...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to
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a union. Despite international attention, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
It isn't perfect, but I like the clean, no-frills in
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ation design of Metacritic...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring per
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ances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
It's true, the International Monetary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as noted by a
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er banker in this article mentioned last year...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is actually a pretty good open-source cross-plat
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WYSIWYG Web designing tool...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A new industry group has been
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ed for holographic discs, which may store up to 1TB - that's one terabyte, or about 1,000GB...
In
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ation on the effort to free the seminal civil rights documentary "Eyes On The Prize" from intellectual property limbo...
Brian Dear wrote a funny review of a Laurie Anderson concert he went to recently, in the
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of a Laurie Anderson monologue...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
January 10 to 16, 2005
If you're an average PC user, you'd be insane to keep a Windows machine at this point. I've spent more time removing viruses and fixing problems on one friend's Windows XP box than the combined tim...
The detailed and pretty scientific art of Ernst Haeckel, 1899-1904: http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunst
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en/natur.htm...
A few months since its launch, allofmp3.com seems to be gaining credibility and customers. Tracks are one-tenth the cost of those in the iTunes music store and are offered in a variety of qualitie...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Professor Francis Boyle, an expert on international law from the U. of Illinois, recently gave an in
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ative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under international law...
December 13 to 19, 2004
"When dot-com patents go bad" http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/13/patent_re
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December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of in
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ation in a compact, useful way...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
A new MP3-based music
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at supports surround sound (5.1 channels)...
Did you know that the 'No Child Left Behind" Act forces schools to provide private student in
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ation to military recruiters...
"Researchers compost old mobile phones & trans
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them into flowers"...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the in
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ation flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
"A true love story that originated on a message board of a popular Web site has been released in book
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"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The
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er Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his thoughts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based online encyclopedia that passed 401,000 articles recently...
"Scientists Debate Blending Of Human, Animal
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s"...
The latest design proposals for the latest high-tech Antarctica research station: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_In
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ation/Press_Releases/press_pix/14_2004/gallery...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - a
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er respected international banker admits to helping the U.S. cheat poor countries out of trillions, allowing for economic takeover...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Proper evoting system usability means much more than just looking at the voting process alone. Here's the in
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al usability report I prepared on the eSlate system in September 2004...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Is this a new art
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? A beautiful music video created with digital still camera movies...
October 4 to 10, 2004
"A senior U.S. military intelligence officer says that in
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ation obtained from prisoners at Guantanamo has proved useless in the war on terror"...
A rapid body temperature cooling device may help improve athletic per
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ance. My friend at IDEO helped design this a few years ago...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter written by a
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er Hart technician wh...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Option, a new mini enviro-friendly prefab house: http://www.spacebox.info/Eng/General%20in
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ation.ht...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture trans
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a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it trans
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ed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new p2p network allows hospitals to share patient in
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ation...
The world's first movie recording on a pre
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atted holographic disc...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing Apps http://in
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ationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2911657...
Got an underper
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ing theater in your town? Make big bucks by using it for video gaming...
This house was trans
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ed from a 3rd-gen gang house to a "tropical paradise". Why not do it in Hawaii...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Here's the Hawaii voter registration
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August 2 to 8, 2004
"...the in
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ation superhighway... will collapse...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone 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...
What the U.S. can learn from South Korea, where broadband is cheap, over 10 times faster, and is trans
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ing government and society with telemedicine to the house, video on demand, and a lucrativ...
About Singapore's new world-class bioscience empire, including "Biopolis", a $300 million center for molecular biology, bioin
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atics, genomics, and nanotech...
July 12 to 18, 2004
The popularity of the iPod is forcing makers of CD copyright-protection technology to switch
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ats...
July 5 to 11, 2004
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...
Of all people, William F. Buckley writes about the need for marijuana law re
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...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Car VIN (vehicle identification) numbers are running out. This is a much thornier problem than the Y2K issue. With fascinating in
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ation about how VIN numbers are encoded...
June 21 to 27, 2004
...while the Verizon deal will likely go through, people in Hawaii should see the film and take the opportunity to reflect how the war will soon be affecting their lives in a very direct way...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Following in the footsteps of AT&T, telephone giant BT is trans
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ing its entire phone network to using IP (Internet) protocol...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out" A nice summary of the Society for In
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ation Display's internationa...
New methods and companies are
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ing to prevent camcorders from making pirated videotapes in movie theatres...
A
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er Microsoft technology manager bashes the company for its mediocre products and addiction to cash cows...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3
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at actually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Here's how to ask questions that actually produce in
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ation...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of per
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ance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
52
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er senior British diplomats write a nasty letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A new take on an old art
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? Nifty homemade "lava light" movies...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study finds that the average (Windows) PC has 28 spyware programs on it, each of which may send your private in
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ation to other parties without your knowledge...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Beautiful, free, colored 19th-century artwork of biological
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s...
March 1 to 7, 2004
A network map of political books based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It shows a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
Sparklines - a great way of compressing in
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ation, from Edward Tufte's upcoming book Beautiful Evidence...
Nifty animations of typography set to music...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (online journals), with visuals. For future research: How is the spreading of ideas like the transmission of virii? Can one reliably predict the mos...
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 [
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e...
Video game studies are making their way into college curricula - what is their
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and impact on culture? What is a game...
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the fact that the correc...
February 16 to 22, 2004
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
I can't wait to upgrade my memory! Cells-on-silicon breakthrough "Researchers... have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize in
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ation which can be communicated to th...
Mathematical
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ula 'predicts marriage breakdown' "The mathematics we came up with is trivial, but the model is astonishingly accurate"...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Pictures and in
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ation about Destino, the lost 50 year-old animated collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali. It's been nominated for an Oscar...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Let's start with some fun stuff this week! This French per
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er attaches dozens of horns to his jumpsuit and proceeds to play classical music...
A new art
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! Combine caroling with shouting - and you have this Finnish group of men that wears black suits with ties made of car tires...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"Scientist Create New
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of Matter"...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The FBI gathered hotel guest list in
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ation on 270,000 in Las Vegas...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Multiple studies have confirmed that there is at least 10% less sunlight striking the Earth than 30 years ago. A special session on "global dimming" is being
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ed for the next joint meeting of th...
December 8 to 14, 2003
It's legal (and has been for years) in over half the states to sell your voter registration in
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ation - including name, race, email, street address, phone number, birth date, political affiliation...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The rise of in
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al iPod sharing...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Bill Moyer gave a passionate speech on media re
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Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new
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of bigotry is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Kev's News: No matter what happens, there it is! Did you know that this is the Year of the Hawaiian Forest? In honor, here's a picture from last week of what they're replacing the forests with.....
"Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital
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over the internet as they are on CDs from stores, according to a report"...
You can read about one of their books, "Superbia!", a manual on trans
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ing suburban wastelands into more community-oriented, sustainable villages... "I was amazed when my neighbor waved to me"...
But some of these healers are refusing to divulge in
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ation, saying they are not fairly compensated for their in
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ation - which could make some biotech firms millions of dollars...
September 2, 2003
Japanese Ping-Pong meets the Matrix meets per
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ance art...
August 25, 2003
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
As people begin their life as a captured stream of digital documents, we'll be seeing more of this. A great idea would be to create software that allows people to create lifelong free-
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digita...
August 4, 2003
Why in
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ation design is important...
3) That good design takes into account the inherent limitations of one's ability to process in
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ation Also, please forward this to people you know who increase the amount of mediocrity in th...
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...
I can't provide a link to this in
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ation since the sites in question are undergoing heavy traffic. So the text is below...