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April 25 to May 1, 2005
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB
hard
drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
Canada once took in 50,000 Vietnam-era draft dodgers. But today it's denying political asylum to those who refuse to participate in the Iraq war...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A better overview of perpendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in
hard
drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A nice quote from the Molokai land flap mentioned last week: "The controversy is
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to explain from the Western perspective that land is something to be bought, owned and sold to make profit.....
The 4GB
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-drive camcorder...
Here's a nice summary of how your
hard
drive works...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major
hard
drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times car stereo manufacturers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
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...
Finally, an MP3 player with a swappable 2.5-inch
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drive...
About the production of Ric
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Linklater's new movi...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Life is pretty
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y. Already there are signs of it around the tsunami-devastated areas...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Organic printable electronics give rise to printable RFID tags that cost less than five cents each: http://www.techweb.com/wire/
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ware/5530160...
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 ...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how Google works - two PCs are expected to fail daily: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/insight/
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ware/0,39020433,39175560,00.ht...
October 25 to 31, 2004
A new prototype medical robot that's supposed to crawl through your intestines? Seems a little
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to swallow...
August 8 to 14, 2004
An analysis of files taken from a
hard
drive used in Al-Qaeda's operations. Insightful...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The state will be left with no other mid-sized downtown venue for locals with a stage layout that can pull in 300 to 500 (restaurants don't count), meaning that small local acts and events won't b...
Although over 80% of the public feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security experts feel that current e-voting systems are much less secure than traditional paper-base...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This is a picture of a
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drive from circa 1975. It only held "a few megabytes"...
July 19 to 25, 2004
New technologies in the running for the next replacement for
hard
drives, including molecular storage and cow protein...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a
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ened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An article on those trying to get China to eat more vegetarian and less things like sparrow chicks, snake heads, and badgers. Old cultures are
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to change though. "Asked why she eats domestic cats...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer: http://www.hot
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ware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=541&cid=...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.yamano-music.com/docs/
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/handroll_piano.htm...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Don't forget about the new 400GB
hard
drives...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
"Green tea provides a more effective and environmentally-friendly method of preparing computer
hard
disks, say US scientists." In certain applications it's better than diamond for polishing...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Here's info on the motor and anecdotes from 1997. Mr. Minato got 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...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Did you know that Jerry Garcia, Django Rein
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t, and Tony Iommi all had missing or damaged fingers...
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...
"Game Development:
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er Than You Think...
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's
hard
drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Ibogaine (illegal in the U.S.) and its miraculous effect on long-term
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-core drug addicts... "Our first round in St. Kitts, we treated six individuals, and I will go to my grave with the memory o...
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 Good Tanyas. Of course...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military
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ware turned into spamming machine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official operating system for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
December 1 to 7, 2003
A great five-part essay on the homeless problem in San Francisco, which has the nation's worst problem with "
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-core homelessness". What to know what life is really like on the street...
October 6, 2003
* It's a $600k project, with $1 million in
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ware donated by Sun Microsystems...