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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
A collection of tsunami videos: http://jl
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lson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.htm...
The
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ogle library project is named as one of the "ten most important emerging technologies". I agree...
The "gallery of computation" has
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tten both larger and more varied over the last year or so. Great stuff...
Amazing full-color turn-of-the-century Russian photos: http://www.loc.
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v/exhibits/empire...
Mash-ups, or combinations of songs, are
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ing mainstream and making big bucks for some...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
China's
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t growing pains though, thanks to unequal wealth distribution, corruption, and "environmental degradation"...
An update on Iraq's ravaged cultural artifacts - not
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od...
A simple, well-designed game - Guess the
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ogle...
April 18 to 24, 2005
High-Tech Junk http://www.collective
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od.com...
The miniMate adds extra storage and ports to your Mac mini. I wish the lo
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printed on it didn't suck though...
Another case of copyright law
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ing too far - in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian
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vernment has just certified that virtually everything our own
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vernment has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
Clothing made of bamboo is cheap and apparently feels pretty
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od too...
Rethinking The Everyday Things http://www.gizmag.com/
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/3967...
The scratchophone, the portable scratching bon
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drum...
April 11 to 17, 2005
In related news, thanks to
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ogle Maps, you can see how the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will make use of this new tool to help enforc...
Here's the Firefox lo
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in SVG...
The
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vernment 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...
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have
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ne missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
Here's the lightest, smallest portable sound system any world traveler could want...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A page on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian
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vernment Reorganization Act of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the
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ogle Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
The original article is
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ne, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of research via paper...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and
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es roughly every 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
A couple of weeks a
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I gave a three-hour deposition involving the Soverain Software vs. Amazon shopping cart patent case...
Wow, wow.
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to
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ogle Maps,
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anywhere and then select the "Satellite" link to the upper right...
For Web developers - this new simple PHP Bayesian filter allows one to develop spam filters, cate
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rization tools, and technology that learns by example...
What kind of dog are you? http://www.
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ne2thedogs.com...
In 2001 Poland hired a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
Need an industrial solution? Use new biological filters that mimic the natural decomposition of debris. In a successful test the sewage from 25 homes was used to irrigate a
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lf course...
A shortage of silicon is making solar cells scarce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has
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ne from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
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ry images of this year's Canadian seal hunt...
Here's a crab-cracking tool that's well-designed due to looking at the problem from a novel perspective: http://www.joshrubin.com/coolhunting/archives/2005/03/
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t_crabs.htm...
Remember, the
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al of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Here's a cool new food trend - food balls! They can be very healthy, can be dipped, they're easy to pack and store, make
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od snacks, and require no utensils to eat...
Macs are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web
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t started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
I was not aware of the secret of bananas before
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ing here...
Los Alamos National Lab scientists find a way to detect fingerprints via their chemical residue: http://www.lanl.
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v/news/index.php?fuseaction=home.story&story_id=234...
Environment Hawaii, an independent, nonprofit, award-winning publication that has been around for nearly 15 years may be
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ing out of business due to lack of financial support. It's the last 100...
Meanwhile, here's the best along those lines that humans can do so far. We have a long way to
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March 14 to 20, 2005
Hey America - India isn't
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ing to take the same kind of economic smackdown you gave Japan not so long a
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...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Is Hawaii turning into a consumption-addicted haven for the wealthy at the expense of long-time residents and native familes? The state's only international car
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shipping terminal is near capacity...
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
The totally customizable Er
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dex DX1 Input System. Finally, we can design our input devices to fit how we think, instead of the other way around...
Yet another
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ogle thing -
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ogle weather...
Too busy to
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to Kinko's? Try PrintFu...
"More schools are saying 'No' to lo
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s"...
For some reason the U.S. Army's $127 billion modernization program has been cate
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rized in the budget in a way that relieves them of the obligation to give "cost and purchasing data to militar...
101 Zen stories: http://www.these
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to11.com/zen...
The blo
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sphere's raving about 27 year-old Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with pop art and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
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...
Uh-oh - 6,200 Wells Far
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ATMs are now running Windows...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
Big art projects pay off - The Gates generated $254 million in economy activity, with 4 million visitors: http://abcnews.
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.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=54930...
Hm, I like this free font browser. Fast, WYSIWYG, and to the point, unlike many free font sites: http://www.
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odfonts.org...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web
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t popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could power 200,000 homes, has found a building site in Australia. This
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t a lot of press this week...
Here's where your cell phones
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...
The way things are
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ing, the world's population will be 9.1 billion by 2050...
Stuff For Web Developers http://www.panic.com/
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ods...
Turns out
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ogle Maps isn't that new. Here's its predecessor, an amazing zooming map of Switzerland...
The first Grammy winner in the Best Hawaiian Music Album cate
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ry, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2", hit number one on Billboard's World Music chart and number two on the New Age chart. If you buy it, kee...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The transparent TV, projected on holographic film: http://www.gizmag.com/
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/3271...
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Daddy is offering free one-year SSL certificates to open source projects...
Intricate snow sculptures from the International Snow Championships 2005: http://www.
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breckevents.com/isscsnowsculpture.ht...
This is not new, but I must have for
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tten to mention it here last year - the elegantly designed Toro(tm) tissue ring...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched
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ogle 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 Safari quite yet...
There's a
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od idea here, which is why it's secretly primarily funded by Amazon...
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is actually a pretty
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od open-source cross-platform WYSIWYG Web designing tool...
Today's Web designers should learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to build highly dynamic interfaces like
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ogle Maps,
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ogle Suggest, and Gmail...
More on the copyrighting of public space. Note that the city of Chica
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is enforcing this...
Podcasting is getting more media attention, along with front page space in USA Today. Here's a
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od overview of the state of podcasting right now...
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfettered" access to the White House and CIA documents was revealed as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
A pretty
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od study of the contents of the Red Bull energy drink, recently approved for sale in Canada...
This man has converted 15 diesel Mercedes to run on biodiesel, with 15 to
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...
A new digital animation technique - making people dance in a robotic pop-lock style. Here's an amazing remix of Gene Kelly in "Singing In The Rain"...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies
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bad, written by an industry insider - too many writers...
Designing product packaging? Here are professional competitive analyses in a number of cate
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ries...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and
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t one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
The music industry sued an 83-year-old dead woman for file sharing: http://abcnews.
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.com/US/wireStory?id=47238...
One in three high school students think the First Amendment "
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es too far" in the rights it guarantees...
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...
Or how about emulating the business model of San Francisco's Brainwash, a successful cafe-and-laundromat that also sells t-shirts and hosts local musicians as well as comedy nights? They've
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t a We...
McDonald's is outsourcing drive-through ordering, which means that people ordering food in Ore
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n actually are talking to people in Michigan...
Here's a
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od summary of related links...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's
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vernor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
The
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vernment is accusing DuPont of hiding materials that suggest that a chemical in Teflon leads to cancer and birth defects. Not only that, the chemical's been found in people's bloodstreams. Afte...
Incredible before-and-after comparisons of the faces of meth users: http://www.ore
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nlive.com/news/ore
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nian/photos/gallery.ssf?cgi-bin/view_gallery.cgi/olive/view_gallery.ata?g_id=292...
"A Scanner Darkly", which may be the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel ever made. The style is similar to but
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es 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 never
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t too hot or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
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...
Are you a Mac-hating bi
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t...
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ogle link network visualizations...
Here's a great collection of census trend charts, maps, and rankings, viewable by cate
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ry and location...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a
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od thing for our pill-popping society...
The "Han
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ut", a very cool spherical treehouse for 21st-century living...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The State of Virginia allows hybrid cars to drive in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and this has led to so many hybrid vehicles being bought that now Virginia's HOV lanes are clogged with the...
Fluid flow simulation software is now open source. Implications for cheaper environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
Want to know where your package
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es? This student mailed a disposable camera, encouraging all who handled it to take a photo. An insightful look into the U.S. Postal Service...
Here's a humon
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us chart showing exactly where your tax dollar
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es...
Monsanto paid a $1.3 million penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian
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vernment to help facilitate the cultivation of its genetically modified crops...
"Liquid
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ld: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants"...
Including such hits as "Broad Minded", "Gee, Dad!!!", and "Gershwin With Bon
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s"...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a record high. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of
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ing after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
"When dot-com patents
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bad...
There are so many brands now, they're ignored. Although I design lo
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s, I'm allergic to brands myself...
Why the Portland REI store is one of the greenest retail stores in the U.S.: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004/12/rei_portland_
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.ph...
An oldie but
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odie - Pat Metheny on the "out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out" wonder that is Kenny G...
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to listen to all nominated songs in the "Record of the Year" cate
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ry via iTunes...
December 6 to 12, 2004
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ogle suggest - check it out...
"Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have asked Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to answer for a host of voting irregularities they say occurred in Ohio Nov. 2."...
Here's a
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od resource for the enviro-conscious - treehugger.com...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of experimental features to the blog which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how
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ogle works - two PCs are expected to fail daily...
The anti-consumer revolution, in pictures: http://centennialsociety.com/mallp
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ne.ht...
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...
Today a new blog is created every 5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blo
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sphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the information flow in the blo
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sphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
New al
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rithms purport to tell real artwork from fakes...
Only 1/3 of Americans believe that evolution is well supported by evidence. 45% say
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d created humans, and 1/3 say the Bible should be taken literally word for word...
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ld teeth, freaking, and baggy pants - teenagers these days are driving school principals nuts...
Did a plane or a missile crash into the Penta
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n on 9/11...
How the
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vernment 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...
"Pro-Bush Think-Tank Claims Climate Change May Be
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od"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Why doesn't someone in Hawaii
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into the LIDAR 3D mapping business? Hollywood pays millions for LIDAR 3D models for use in movies, and to date there are no models of the islands...
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
Bob Dylan-singin' liberals are
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ing to have to wear mirrored hats to peace rallies now that the Army's
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t a new airborne pain ray in the works...
The
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P seeks a ban on RU-486, the "abortion pill"...
The Man Behind the FedEx Log...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"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...
Ever need to do a little research yourself on the latest trends? Just
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to
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ogle News and search for a few key phrases, sorted by date. Here are four: "international survey", "scientifi...
It's said that
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od fences make
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od neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detailed Web site describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
A
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od counterproposal to Creationists that want warning stickers on biology textbooks: put warning stickers on the Bible...
Yes, you can filter cheap vodka to make it taste better than expensive vodka, all with a Brita water filter pitcher and one hour: http://www.ohmy
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ditburns.com...
"Submission" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/
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gh-n10.shtm...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Election Han
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ve...
Everybody's
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t an Opinio...
The Younger Generation Speaks Out http://www.jluster.org/entry/ok-this-is-so-
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ing-to-blow-u...
A time-lapse image of a lunar eclipse: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.
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v/apod/ap041103.htm...
Interactive wallpaper is
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ing commercial...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"
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P Pressures Rock the Vote to Stop Talking About the Draft"...
New
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ld CD-Rs are said to last 300 years...
Wow! The Honolulu Wal-Mart issue actually
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t some air time on "The Daily Show" (video clip)...
This was all over the blo
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sphere, but pretty funny...
New autostitching al
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rithms make seamless panoramas a snap. Now will someone please make a Photoshop plug-in or simple OSX GUI for this...
The RIAA issues its first
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ld, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digitally downloaded music...
October 18 to 24, 2004
After decades of continuous military bombing since World War II, the freed island of Kahoolawe is re-established as a native navigational center and crossroads "connecting Hawaiians to the ancestra...
San Francisco sets the
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al of providing everyone in the city free wireless access...
Ever needed a private room for adults? Yamaha's
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t one...
Indymedia is still no closer to figuring out who seized their servers via subpoena two weeks a
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...
October 11 to 17, 2004
I think I
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t a spyware popup on this page...
Nice stats on the "state of the blo
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sphere", Oct 2004...
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school... STEWART: You need to
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to one. Jon Stewart blasts big media on "Crossfire"...
19-year-old Derek's "King George" sticker on his Grand Am
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t him a date with the Secret Service...
The average mpg of a 40-foot Gillig Phantom bus, used in Honolulu: about 4. The average mpg of a hybrid-diesel bus used in Seattle: 7.5...
Airplane contrails scar the atmosphere: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.
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v/apod/ap041013.htm...
A design analysis of Kerry and Bush's campaign lo
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s. I agree, the Kerry design looks wimpy and old school...
A
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od idea - lease satellite radio feeds and bring the public back into radio...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i Business Express", which allows one to start a business easily online via all the relevant departments. Unfortunately, ending a business is still ...
Electricity-conducting plastic means lighter, smaller gadgets: http://dataweek.co.za/article.asp?pklArticleID=3077&pklIssueID=422&pklCate
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ryID=3...
"George W. Bush - Keeping America Scared": http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/
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pconstrm.mo...
JibJab's new "
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od to be in DC!" short...
A rapid body temperature cooling device may help improve athletic performance. My friend at IDEO helped design this a few years a
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...
A nifty magic trick: http://www.
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u
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ule.com/vrl/magic-trick.ph...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
RNC mass mailings suggest that Democrats would ban the Bible: http://www.steveclemons.com/
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PMailer.ht...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new travel survey "found Hawaii consistently fell below most competitor destinations in offering
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od value for the money and unspoiled beauty. Also, Japanese visitors did not view the islands a...
This is what
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ogle ran on in 1999...
"While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura Bush was known 'as a
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-to girl for dime bags of marijuana.'...
Hurricane Ivan from above: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.
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v/apod/ap040915.htm...
Over 1,000 great (jazz) album covers: http://www.pixa
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.com/718056520...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Gex-X workers will be badly in demand in the Hawaii of tomorrow as the baby boomer generation ages. What will attract them? Mixed-use "stroll districts". Live music. Bike paths. Greenery. Sounds
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o...
It's
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od to know that some people keep things secret (and sacred). Here's the popular article and its followup...
It's
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od to see that MAD Magazine is edgy again...
Bring out your Uzis! The assault weapon ban has expired with much debate on both sides: http://abcnews.
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.com/sections/WNT/US/assault_weapons_ban_040908-1.htm...
"The city of Chica
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is about to unveil a city-wide surveillance system."...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Last year's Labor Day vigil at the sacred hill Pu'u Ohau, at the edge of the unfinished elite Hokulia estate and
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lf course development on top of ancient Hawaiian burial grounds. Kupunas calle...
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 everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
The basis for a new breed of software: "Exploring Social Networks with Pattern Discovery Al
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rithms"...
Do you like Jim Woodring's surreal comic Frank? Here's the first animated short based on same: http://plaza.bunka.
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.jp/english/festival/sakuhin_backnumber/15/frank.htm...
Put your DNA signature on a T-shirt: http://www.catgee.com/catgee/control/home/~cate
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ry_id=CP_1015/~pcate
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ry=CP_PRODUC...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Famous tech writer John C. Dvorak calls for the death of Microsoft Word: http://abcnews.
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.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/MS_word_commentary_pcmag_040824.htm...
"We're Not in Lake Wobe
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n Anymore...
AI al
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rithms can take a trail of where you've been and determine regular and irregular activities...
It costs the U.S.
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vernment $6.5 billion a year just to keep things secret. 90% of those things shouldn't be...
The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to get
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ld certification from the U.S. Green Building Council...
The hauntingly beautiful songwriting and sounds of Jolie Holland, ex-Be
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od Tanyas member. Her demo album was lauded as among the best of 2003...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
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t an underperforming theater in your town? Make big bucks by using it for video gaming...
$8.8 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars
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ne missing in Iraq - *poof* just like that...
Art from 1920's Japanese children's books. Nice Web design here, too, despite tiny text: http://www.kodomo.
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.jp/gallery/digi/KODOMO_WEB/gallery/g_list_e.htm...
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t a Mac, guitar, and a microphone? Here's the cables...
RIAA lawsuits causing a
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ny, "unexpected twists"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A
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od first step: lofts are allowed back in Chinatown! My grandmother was born in a Chinatown loft (which is now Soullenz Gallery) in 1917, above the old family store. Without mixed-use development...
New al
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rithms allow projectors to project clearly on any surface, such as wallpaper and curtains...
Facing competition from Wal-Mart, the #1 toy seller, Toys 'R' Us may
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out of business...
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse". Examines the growing trend of the
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vernment to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the bigger, hidden economic net benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
Here's a few suggestions: http://www.lt
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v.state.ri.us/SBAC/providencetaxincentives.ht...
"Quest for lo
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a fruitless pursuit...
Portable tooth wipes: http://www.oralb.com/products/product.asp?tid=products&sub=onthe
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&cid=onthe
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&pid=brushup...
A few of the really stupid things Jack Valenti (out
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ing head of the MPAA) has said about new media technologies and intellectual property...
Amsterdam needs cheap temporary housing for 7,000 college students quickly! A developer is building a temporary, modular, and easily moveable student city made of 1,000 40-foot car
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containers...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
See how a family changes, via similar photos taken every year for 28 years: http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/die
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time/time.htm...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News
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es online! Since everyone seems to have a blog these days, I decided to
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ahead and just do it. I see the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
"Support scarce for latest UH lo
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ideas...
What the U.S. can learn from South Korea, where broadband is cheap, over 10 times faster, and is transforming
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vernment and society with telemedicine to the house, video on demand, and a lucrativ...
"How
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vernment protects big media - and shuts out upstarts like me." By Ted Turner...
Where do whales
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when they die? A newly discovered worm lacks a mouth, stomach, legs, and eyes and lives on deep-sea whale bones...
Lawrence Lessig on the "This Land Is Your Land" lawsuit threat. This action
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es against everything Woody Guthrie stood for...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory Web site registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and they can lead to identify theft. But how are sites to make money? Just
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to BugMeNot to get around sit...
New al
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rithms detect digitally faked photos...
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ogle, circa 1960...
July 12 to 18, 2004
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lden Apples of the Su...
Devendra Barnhart is a
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od example of this musical cate
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ry...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Genetic al
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rithms can help evolve a faster, more efficient Internet...
Spider-Man 2, done with le
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s...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"US
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vernment warns against Internet Explorer...
June 21 to 27, 2004
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 never heard of...
...while the Verizon deal will likely
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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 14 to 20, 2004
Blogging
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es mainstream with a big article in Time Magazine...
This is almost a non-news item - I
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t a pristine bootleg online the other day...
Independent music labels in Europe break ne
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tiations with Apple over disagreements due to the length of their contract...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Are you tired of answering stupid questions? http://www.fucking
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ogleit.com...
Here's some of the best conference
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odies (schwag) given out these days...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Facing critical shortage of musicians for military funerals, the Penta
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n has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the player holds it to his lips....
"L.A. To Ore
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n at Mach 9...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Remember the photo diary of that Russian motorcyclist touring around Chernobyl? It turns out that it was a fake...
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless perimeter sensors on public land and get busted by the FBI and Air Force agents...
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the abuse of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months a
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and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
This site was down for a week or two due to popularity - it's better than the last "infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so a
go
...
A new company helps traditional radio stations migrate to digital radio. A great idea, but receivers need to get cheaper: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/31/BU
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76TLFU1.DT...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually
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t popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of
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od Mp3", seven years a
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. I used to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Need a
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od, free antivirus app for Windows? Here's the 46 best freeware utilities for PCs...
Spain club
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ers are implanted with RFID chips...
Eight years a
go
my old startup bought from Peapod every 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
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a...
Read the 2004 Hu
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nominees online. My favorites - Vernor Vinge, Michael Swanwick, and Catherine Asara...
May 3 to 9, 2004
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ldman Sach...
People see only what they what to see. "Scientists have gathered remarkable evidence which shows that it is possible to see something without observing it". Did you see the
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rilla...
I for
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t to add this last week - killer whales are getting louder in response to the din of whale-watching boats...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
More news about the amazing Toyota Volta (the first hybrid sports car) which looks great,
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es from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and gets 40 mpg...
"Green is
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od for tech firms - 'Clean' technologies drawing larger share of venture dollars"...
April 19 to 25, 2004
3) How about this for a cleanup-inducing pilot project? But use the voices of well-known locals: Berlin's pilot program of talking trash cans that congratulate you when used have proven to be a hug...
4) Endorse the use of lead-free computer systems, at least by
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vernment: The world's first lead-free motherboard (the main component in personal computers) has been developed...
And Intel plans to cut the lead content of computer chips by 95%: http://www.signonsandie
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.com/news/business/20040407-1355-ca-intel-lead.htm...
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ne are the days of the fix-it-yourselfer - new cars are getting too complicated to fix...
"Rate of Ocean Circulation Directly Linked to Abrupt Climate Change": http://earthobservatory.nasa.
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v/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2004/2004042216883.htm...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Remember, April 19 to 25 is "TV Turnoff Week"! A survey finds that people watch less TV after letting
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of the boob tube for a week...
It's the 10th anniversary of unsolicited commercial email, aka spam. Yay, not. On my servers I
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t about 1,500 spams daily until I installed a custom filtering system. Now it's down to about 20, bu...
A9, Amazon's search service, launched. Search
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ogle and books at the same time...
I've seen a lot of Web sites. This could be the worst-designed site ever made...
There's a lot of participatory art
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ing on around the net these days. Here's the surreal result at the midpoint of one photoshop-fest...
A study shows that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also,
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light on the techno...
This is the logical progression of hampsterdance.com, which took the net by storm five years a
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, gathering over 60 million visitors worldwide...
Here's a project that removes toxins from mining sites with crops and makes a profit from
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ld harvested with the process...
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet: http://abclocal.
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.com/wpvi/news/04132004_bb_sapphire.htm...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"The share of the economic pie
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ing to wages and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and perhaps longer....
A
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od review of a new book that refuses to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber industry in Northern California...
Bioengineered weed-killer resistant grass is being tested on
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lf courses. Unless trimmed regularly, it may flower and spread to public areas...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
In the Bay Area, multiple offers over 10 are not uncommon. Houses have
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ne for $300,000 over the asking price. Median home prices in San Francisco are $200,000 over that of Oahu and $100,000 ove...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Robert Cringely argues that in the end anti-trust laws are ineffective when in comes to Microsoft, since they actually end up saving money by being non-compliant with
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vernment regulations...
"Doctors Report Sharp Increase In Broken Bones" http://www.nbcsandie
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.com/health/2965609/detail.htm...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two a
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, but it was so popular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
A list of current scandals in the
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vernment...
Here's info on the motor and anecdotes from 1997. Mr. Minato
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t his inspiration for the motor while playing piano. It's not hard to see why, the magnets are arranged like black keys on a keyboard...
The pros and cons of Quorn, the "fungus-based meat substitute" that was introduced to the U.S. in 2002...
March 15 to 21, 2004
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ogle Local Searc...
Anti-vandal technology has been installed that detects spray can sounds. Of course, once the above device is marketed, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
Although silly bills are introduced all the time, this one's a whopper: "To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court...
This was pretty popular - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld caught red-handed on TV lying about one of his statements regarding Iraq...
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
A Diebold (Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives everyone free access...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
Here's a photo of the eco-roof of Chica
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's City Hall...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Also (to be) shown at the show, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and
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es from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
Wireless technology is helping native Americans in California
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online and learn computing skills...
The first music video ever to be entirely shot using a cell phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years a
go
- in another ten directors may be viewing dailies on their phones...
Did you know that Jerry Garcia, Djan
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Reinhardt, and Tony Iommi all had missing or damaged fingers...
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 far-reachin...
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of reality simulation: where 20 years a
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a shoot-'em-up game took one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized knowledge o...
Summarize a novel in 25 words (or less)... "The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien: Little guys
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to a lot of trouble to get rid of stolen jewelry....
10 million Pacific giant crabs are invading Norway's coast and destroying the local ecology. "But Glenn, a 30-year-old car mechanic, replied: 'It's true the seabed now looks like the Sahara but the...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Hoo boy, lots of news this week. You heard it here first, folks! Leaked Penta
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n report warns climate change may bring famine, war "LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Penta
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n warns tha...
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t a Windows PC? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to the recent Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
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t a Mac? Hallelujah...
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of turning Kalihi into a high-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's
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t ...
I always knew that UH grads
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t a
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od computer science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
The Penta
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n 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...
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ing through the Frankfurt airport? You may have to look through their new retinal scanning system...
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...
Ibogaine (illegal in the U.S.) and its miraculous effect on long-term hard-core drug addicts... "Our first round in St. Kitts, we treated six individuals, and I will
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to my grave with the memory o...
February 9 to 15, 2004
The SPAMmobile hits Hawaii for the first time: "It's like
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d has landed on the earth," a local man said, shaking my hand, taking in the glory of the SPAMmobile. "I promised myself I wouldn't cry....
20% of this beer's profits
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to the non-profit World Turtle Trust, which is currently financing four international projects. I tried it recently and it's very
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od (and I am a beer snob)...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate image affinity to brain activity: "Big
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vernment and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
Nanotech thinkers fear the "gray
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o" syndrome, where a nanotech product may
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haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into
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o, the nanotech equivalent of a nuclear meltdown. One smart gu...
The image of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical al
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rithm that plots points on the real and imaginary planes...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
You may have read the articles I mentioned about the rise of "cyberbullies" in school - well, it's
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ne international...
January 19 to 25, 2004
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 12 to 18, 2004
The federal
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vernment plans to analyze employees' hair, sweat, and saliva as a part of new drug tests...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World Economy...
The New York Times refused to run this article - the journalist posted it himself online instead. Here's a
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od idea to help offset online "sharing" - a $60 per year charge for broadband users...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Favorite antipop CDs of 2003 Tired of mainstream music? How about great jazz/world/folk/acoustic fusion? Highly recommended are David Tanenbaum, Tord Gustavsen, and the Be
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od Tanyas. Of course...
Or just check out the "free" section at Craigslist Honolulu - pick up a free HP color inkjet (
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od model too) and fax machine...
While browsing the Be
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od Tanyas site, I noticed that their latest album was released with "Copy Control Technology" against their wishes...
December 15 to 21, 2003
"
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odbye Sunshine...
A
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od interview with the somewhat recently busted Tommy Chong, from Taft Correctional Institution...
The first federal law regulating spam was passed, but it may do more harm than
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od...
Nanoscale fibers smaller than the wavelengths of light have been developed - see the picture of one winding around a human hair! http://www.nsf.
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v/od/lpa/news/03/pr03147.ht...
Big news, huh? Here's how it
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t around...
December 8 to 14, 2003
A
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od interview showing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
Cerritos, CA becomes the first entire city to
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completely wireless...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Some Thanksgiving sale
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odness-this one made all the papers: "Woman knocked unconscious by trampling shoppers" ...and this happened at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.....
Abercromie & Fitch
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t in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clothing catalog. Their first sweater doesn't show up until page 122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason... Things
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t a little heated in London...
The epidemic is so bad that the U.S.
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vernment last week developed a 10-year plan to battle it. Now it is thought to effect 6 of 1,000 kids: "Autism no longer considered a rare condition...
This comes from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world's hotbeds of cutting-edge science. Folks from the Penta
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n visited them just earlier this month...
The first genetically engineered pet
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es on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (called GloFish)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
People will do anything to get into the U.S.... (From September 2001) http://www.customs.ustreas.
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v/xp/CustomsToday/2001/September/other/custoday_bent.xm...
"Terror Is A Triple Meat Pizza: Who needs war and evildoers and a big nuclear holocaust? We've
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t a national obesity epidemic...
An interview with
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re Vidal about his latest book on the Founding Fathers and what they would have done to Bush...
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bi
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try is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Quote of the week: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." -- Revolution Books, New York, NY Feel safe? Last week was "Protection From Pornography Week"...
"Why Those Young Men Aren’t Watching TV Anymore" http://www.abcnews.
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.com/sections/Business/SiliconInsider/SiliconInsider-1.htm...
Is forest thinning
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od? Bad...
Is the Akaka Bill
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od? Bad? I think this appeared in a Weekly a while a
go
.....
October 27, 2003
Morgan has provided this link to Reverend Billy and his hilarious nonviolent protest against Wal-Mart (and a
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od idea too)...
Like facts? The 2002 State of Hawaii Fact Book is now online: http://www.hawaii.
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v/dbedt/db02...
A school has begun tracking students with RFID devices, the first known school to identify and track its children.
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od? Bad...
ChevronTexaco and Ecuador http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/business/worldbusiness/23texa.html?ex=1067572800&en=cc9b358b298a8763&ei=5062&partner=
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OGL...
"Uh, what are we
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nna do with this pile of rocks?" (picture)...
October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "supercenters"...
October 14, 2003
Here's a
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od article on the engineering and development of the Powerski...
Like used CDs? "The Top 50 Most Common Used CDs" Also, if you like to stay on the cutting edge of music, Pitchfork Media is a
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od place to check out from time to time...
Finally, on a lighter note, a partial Latin translation of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby
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t Back": "Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter....
October 6, 2003
I was thinking about replacing my old Devo costume for Halloween and decided to see what was out there on the Web. A store with a very
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od selection is Halloween Mart, with decent prices as well...
Dating and mating for over-35s: love
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es corporat...
"Working on the
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has become standard operating procedure in the music industry...
This was pretty popular a while a
go
, but in case you missed it...
September 30, 2003
This was popular a while a
go
, but they've upgraded the movie... check out the new version...
September 22, 2003
About Stefanie Na
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rka, who makes spontaneous sculptures in Home Depot aisles wihout permission...
Some young teens attitudes towards file sharing.
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od take on the state of the next generation...
September 15, 2003
The importance of dreaming for the future Why are people retreating to past fantasy instead of thinking forward? Humanity's perception of the future indeed shapes its present. Recent Hu
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award winne...
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean
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vernment in the earl...
September 8, 2003
A great story about Disney's biggest fans, and an interesting comparison to Talmudic scholarship. Is
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d really in the details, and are details necessary for organizational and religious longevity...
September 2, 2003
"...it has awakened
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vernments to the need to reduce their dependence on Windows operating systems....
August 25, 2003
Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics http://abcnews.
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.com/wire/US/ap20030820_1203.htm...
* Several departments of the New Jersey state
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vernmen...
August 12, 2003
Slow news week. Most of the new
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od stuff popped up today. This week's theme: trends on the edge of culture...
Things like this are
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od 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...
There are at least three really
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od songs here...
August 4, 2003
3) That
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od design takes into account the inherent limitations of one's ability to process information Also, please forward this to people you know who increase the amount of mediocrity in th...
We'll be seeing more
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od and bad uses of cell phone cams in the future...
July 10, 2003
"The Penta
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n's Plan for Tracking Everything That Moves...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean
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rman 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...
...reminds me of the grad student many years a
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that built his own atom bomb.....
I can't provide a link to this information since the sites in question are under
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ing heavy traffic. So the text is below...