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December 20 to 31, 2005
A nice list of
free
Windows software that doesn't come with spyware, adware, virii, or other nasty things...
iPod Stuff http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB110373871528907298,00.html?mod=todays_
free
_featur...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
The beautiful long-lost music of Red Hash, circa 1973: http://blog.wfmu.org/
free
form/2005/04/red_hash_revisi.htm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
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...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Telcos are using legislation to prevent large-scale
free
public wireless networks...
The inspiring story of Pakistani woman Mukhtaran Bibi. Gang-raped by her neighbors, she started two successful schools in the midst of her now-
free
attackers...
Hm, I like this
free
font browser. Fast, WYSIWYG, and to the point, unlike many
free
font sites...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-
free
. Their lessons can be applied t...
February 14 to 20, 2005
GoDaddy is offering
free
one-year SSL certificates to open source projects...
A muralist is jailed for painting breasts in a Michelangelo reproduction on a wall outside his studio: http://www.
free
p.com/news/locmac/mural18e_20050218.ht...
Chloroflourocarbon-
free
expanded polystyrene housing can withstand the worst earthquakes recorded and is energy-efficient too...
Lots of retro album cover designs here at the Mod Pop Punk archives: http://punkmodpop.
free
.fr...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The battery-
free
wind-up remote control...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Information on the effort to
free
the seminal civil rights documentary "Eyes On The Prize" from intellectual property limbo...
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...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Need thermal or acoustic insulation? Use eco-friendly itch-
free
insulation products...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A detailed technical analysis of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, which consumes 35% of ALL internet traffic: http://www.
free
dom-to-tinker.com/tinyp2p.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The debut of Wikinews, a
free
content news source that people around the world can contribute to...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I just finished watching "The End of Suburbia", a great and disturbing DVD I mentioned here previously. You can watch one of the included bonus movies "In the Suburbs" for
free
at the Prelinge...
Did a plane or a missile crash into the Pentagon on 9/11? http://www.
free
domunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.ph...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-
free
newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
The former 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...
November 1 to 7, 2004
The smoke-
free
cigarette...
October 18 to 24, 2004
After decades of continuous military bombing since World War II, the
free
d island of Kahoolawe is re-established as a native navigational center and crossroads "connecting Hawaiians to the ancestra...
San Francisco sets the goal of providing everyone in the city
free
wireless access...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
California mandates
free
cell phone recycling. Every state should pass such a bill...
Eat healthy leftovers - become a
free
gan...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Skype, the most popular Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for Mac OSX! Talk to friends around the world for
free
using your Internet connection...
The city of Philadelphia is considering providing
free
or cheap wireless Internet access to everybody...
free
, unedited, translated daily TV news programs from the Middle East...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Yay! Now developers are more
free
to make truly revolutionary, innovation-promoting technology...
August 8 to 14, 2004
The first(?) chip to use ultrawideband technology: http://news.com.com/FCC+certifies+
free
scale+ultrawideband+technology/2110-1039_3-5305961.html?part=rss&tag=5305961&subj=news.1039.2...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Cheap projection technology is giving rise to "guerilla drive-ins". This is a symptom of this generation's need for commerce-
free
, authentic culture and socializing...
Kona Brewing Co. in Hawaii Kai is now a
free
wireless network hotspot! I'm spending more time there...
July 19 to 25, 2004
"Nations Lite" http://www.forbes.com/
free
_forbes/2004/0315/092.htm...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Tired of Hotmail and other
free
mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
During the summer, Office Depot is allowing people to drop off and recycle one electronics product per day, for
free
...
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...
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to putting a
free
track on file sharing networks...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An article on a "
free
cycling" program in Hawaii...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for
free
and watch 'em on your computer...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and puts them online for
free
...
June 7 to 13, 2004
"Declining respect for American cultural values exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq is having a potentially disastrous effect on the image of US brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Beautiful photos from the Harbin Snow and Ice Festival, where it's below
free
zing over half the year...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Need a good,
free
antivirus app for Windows? Here's the 46 best
free
ware utilities for PCs...
May 10 to 16, 2004
One of the coolest painting programs I've seen in years: Cosmic Painter! It's
free
and better than a Spirograph. (Sorry, for Mac OSX only)...
April 19 to 25, 2004
4) Endorse the use of lead-
free
computer systems, at least by government: The world's first lead-
free
motherboard (the main component in personal computers) has been developed...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Ben & Jerry's is installing new
free
zers in their stores that use sound waves instead of chemicals refrigerants for cooling. Commercial (domestic) use of such technology is still 5 to 10 years away...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"
free
Culture...
Thanks to a new bill just drafted. Read the book "
free
Culture" first and then see if this makes sense to you...
March 15 to 21, 2004
A Diebold (Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives everyone
free
access...
Beautiful,
free
, colored 19th-century artwork of biological forms...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new sonic "construction set" has been released
free
ly online which contains clips art and samples and breaks from the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. This allows people to create their own albums based o...
George Michael will offer his songs
free
ly online from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that
free
wireless access is a factor in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
February 2 to 8, 2004
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-page book on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for
free
...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"
free
Wireless Everywhere...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Does anyone in Oahu need a
free
business-class RICOH FT7870 copy machine? I'm not sure if it's been sold yet...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Keiko, the killer whale that starred in "
free
Willy", has died of sudden pneumonia, exacerbated by moves to Canada and Mexico...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The rise of cyber-bullies at school: http://www.
free
p.com/money/tech/mwend17_20031117.ht...
October 27, 2003
Next year public,
free
globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
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
-form digita...
July 21, 2003
When 70% of a population of 11 million have high-speed net access, how does that affect the culture? Here's how it's affecting Korea... http://www.forbes.com/technology/
free
_forbes/2003/0721/092.htm...
July 10, 2003
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we manage it." Also, if yo...
July 8, 2003
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box. The Center encourages such sit...