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December 20 to 31, 2005
The Black Keys make some great lo-fi blues rock. Some say t
hey
're better than the White Stripes...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
hey
, Silicon Valley people! Blue Lava Wireless, which makes Tetris for cell phones, was acquired for $137 million...
And t
hey
're closer to making a quantum-based computer by figuring out how to make atom lattices...
hey
ladies! Here's why geeks and nerds are worth it...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - t
hey
can keep contents colder an hour longer, t
hey
're less breakable, and t
hey
have more desig...
April 18 to 24, 2005
What does it matter, when U.S. teens are taking more legal drugs than illegal ones? T
hey
're called "Generation Rx"...
Another example of how people see only what t
hey
want (or are directed) to see - motion-induced blindness (and many other nifty optical illusions)...
April 11 to 17, 2005
hey
, developers - check out the Green Building Products directory...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The book "Shadow Cities" describes squatter cities - t
hey
end up being cleaner and safer than low-income housing developments...
hey
developers! Use Ecoglo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency lighting systems...
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...
Need to sleep? Listen to the sleepbot environmental broadcast. T
hey
should license this service to hotels...
Here's a slightly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fis
hey
e views...
Homeland Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption t
hey
'll make it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. T
hey
are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
Here's a cool new food trend - food balls! T
hey
can be very healthy, can be dipped, t
hey
're easy to pack and store, make good snacks, and require no utensils to eat...
Another great historical overview from Mobile PC magazine. This time, t
hey
examine the evolution of the notebook computer...
March 14 to 20, 2005
hey
America - India isn't going to take the same kind of economic smackdown you gave Japan not so long ago...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - t
hey
're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but t
hey
all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
20% of kids 8 to 18 can surf the Web from their bedrooms. 26% say t
hey
can "multitask" different media streams at once...
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...
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives t
hey
thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
Flirt with iTunes - boy meets girl via music sharing and manages to swipe 700MB of her songs as well: http://www.al3x.net/archives/2005/02/22/t
hey
-stopped-calling-it-rendezvous...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
Here's a brilliant business and innovative social practice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this social role. The business is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
There will be no encryption on new U.S. e-passports, even though t
hey
could be read stealthily from 30 feet away...
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 t
hey
are to hack...
February 7 to 13, 2005
T
hey
should also understand all the various ways in which Microsoft technology remains inoperable with the rest of the World-Wide Web...
Monkeys are willing to "pay" more to see pictures of alpha males and females, and to ignore subordinates: http://ridingsun.blogspot.com/2005/02/did-t
hey
-include-swimsuit-issue.htm...
Meanwhile, the average American remains clueless regarding GMOs - only half are aware t
hey
are sold, only a third realize t
hey
are eating them, and 70% don't think t
hey
're possible at all...
January 24 to 30, 2005
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? T
hey
've got a We...
January 10 to 16, 2005
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
Or are you a slavish Apple devotee that will buy anything t
hey
make...
Here's a PowerPoint presentation on the manufacturing process - why t
hey
don't offer it as a PDF file is beyond me...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs t
hey
thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a good thing for our pill-popping society...
Use eco-friendly Dr. Bronner's products instead. T
hey
're cheap, organic, effective, and smell great...
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...
December 13 to 19, 2004
There are so many brands now, t
hey
're ignored. Although I design logos, I'm allergic to brands myself...
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 ...
"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 t
hey
say occurred in Ohio Nov. 2."...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, t
hey
've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening interview...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". T
hey
're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
So maybe that "who voted by IQ" article last week was a little bogus. But here's a verifiable list of the most charitable states versus how t
hey
voted...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Where Are T
hey
Now...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so popular, everyone knows what t
hey
look like by now...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Spyware is on 80% of PCs, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think t
hey
're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
October 18 to 24, 2004
R.I.P. shirts are popular in high-homicide areas, where rappers wear shirts with the names and photos of victims t
hey
don't even know...
October 11 to 17, 2004
More on Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids - workers told to hide archaeological relics t
hey
found...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Life in a Cambodian garbage dump: http://www.pbase.com/maciekda/stungmeanche...
Why are political polls "a sham"? First, t
hey
don't call people with cell phones...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Melbourne scientists say t
hey
've developed a cure for malaria...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Where did t
hey
come up with these names...
August 15 to 22, 2004
The certification program t
hey
promote, SFI, "falls far short". "Virtually any timber company could meet SFI's weak standards"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Fans at the Olympics will be escorted off the premises if t
hey
eat or drink non-sponsored food...
A core problem: religions take themselves too seriously! T
hey
end up emphasizing symbols over ideas...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of online album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are t
hey
starting to get a clue...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Semi-transparent solar panels can be used as a new building material and video projection surface, and t
hey
generate 3.8 watts per square foot...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
T
hey
're not inspiring. The difficulty in developing a pat symbol for higher learning in Hawaii is a symptom of the loss of core, uniquely Hawaiian values and culture. Logo makers should look into th...
Where do whales go when t
hey
die? A newly discovered worm lacks a mouth, stomach, legs, and eyes and lives on deep-sea whale bones...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory Web site registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and t
hey
can lead to identify theft. But how are sites to make money? Just go to BugMeNot to get around sit...
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...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
20% of U.S. residents admit that t
hey
buy products advertised in email spam...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
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...
June 14 to 20, 2004
What does the military have to say about humanity? Here's a booklet carried by Vietnam soldiers which t
hey
were told to keep at all times...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A national interactive map of power plant pollution impacts.
hey
, where's Hawaii...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
Hebrew U. researchers have devised a method that allows people to use a type of password that t
hey
don't have to consciously remember...
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
Never mind the news you've read last week about the lack of sex in Japan. I'm curious about "hikikomori", a contributing condition affecting one million teen boys - t
hey
never leave their rooms...
May 17 to 23, 2004
A "talking toilet" gadget that scolds men if t
hey
put the toilet seat up sells over 1.6 million units...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"T
hey
Rule" - a nifty way to visualize and find connections between the leaders of the world's most powerful companies...
May 3 to 9, 2004
People see only what t
hey
what to see. "Scientists have gathered remarkable evidence which shows that it is possible to see something without observing it". Did you see the gorilla...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A scientist has been studying the sound of cells - t
hey
make noises and sound different when healthy or diseased...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be hitting the market - t
hey
have a wider and smoother frequency response than conventional speaker technology. Here's the story of how this breakthrough was achieved afte...
Kids can now pretend t
hey
're hunting shoe bombers with the Playmobil Security Check-In set...
March 31, 2004
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - t
hey
are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." T
hey
're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Nude women have been on the menu at The Sutler for years, but the Nashville pub covered up the 19th-century Victorian photos after being warned t
hey
might be too racy for state law....
Robert Cringely argues that in the end anti-trust laws are ineffective when in comes to Microsoft, since t
hey
actually end up saving money by being non-compliant with government regulations...
March 22 to 28, 2004
All about the Minato Motor, which leverages magnetic effects to produce more electricity than it consumes. Sound wacky? T
hey
've just sold 40,000 motors to a major convenience store chain...
March 8 to 14, 2004
And remember one of the core facts of human nature (now scientifically proved) - when people are presented with more, t
hey
will take more, consciously or not...
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. T
hey
offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
February 23 to 29, 2004
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
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If t
hey
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 got ...
Heard the Grammy Award-winning Song of the Year "
hey
Ya", the one with the phrase "shake it like a Polaroid picture?" Thanks to advances in instant photography, doing so can actually damage you...
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have t
hey
not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
And get a flat panel display too! T
hey
're more environmentally friendly... Flat panels to outpace CRTs in 200...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say t
hey
have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. T
hey
interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - t
hey
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...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Did you know t
hey
also sold thongs for kids? (from May 2002): "Parents say kid's thong is just plain wrong...
November 10 to 16, 2003
An interview with Gore Vidal about his latest book on the Founding Fathers and what t
hey
would have done to Bush...
"Who are t
hey
and what do t
hey
want?...
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form 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 t
hey
're replacing the forests with.....
"Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the internet as t
hey
are on CDs from stores, according to a report"...
But some of these healers are refusing to divulge information, saying t
hey
are not fairly compensated for their information - which could make some biotech firms millions of dollars...
October 27, 2003
Sanyo is making corn-derived biodegradable CDs - t
hey
'll hit stores in December. Much better for landfills. T
hey
degrade after 50-100 years...
October 20, 2003
Today's modern kids comment on vintage video games - Pong, Donkey Kong, Handheld Football, Tetris, Space Invaders, and more... Niko:
hey
—Pong. My parents played this game. Brian: It takes this whol...
October 6, 2003
But the main reason I mention this is because t
hey
show some of Alex Gray's art in the show. This feels almost exactly like a mushroom trip I took...
September 30, 2003
This was popular a while ago, but t
hey
've upgraded the movie... check out the new version...
"How to Deal with the Lies and the Lying Liars When T
hey
Lie about 'Bowling for Columbine'...
September 15, 2003
Strange tiles have been sighted in over 100 different places around the world, created by an unknown artist. T
hey
reference Arnold Toynbee, who believed that "humanity's perception of its histor...
September 8, 2003
According to "youth marketing experts", Apple is one of the coolest, popular brands among teenagers (even though t
hey
're probably using Windows at school)...
July 21, 2003
At CNN, 75% of those polled said t
hey
'd move if t
hey
disagreed with their country's policies...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...