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December 20 to 31, 2005
The Black Keys make some great lo-fi blues rock. Some say they're better than the W
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e Stripes...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software arc
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ecture for recording, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep contents colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
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...
Instant reusable w
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eboard sheets are so cool. Useful for traveling workers, artists, and people without magnetic refrigerators...
How well is the U.S. doing regarding the 14 defining characteristics of fascism? You may not agree with all of the points, but a few sure
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the mark...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Perpendicular recording likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage technologies...
In 2001 Poland hired a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, w
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e, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly known for his quality graffiti work, snuck into New York's most famous museums and affixed his anti-war work to th...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Power to the people? For the first time a blogger is given access to a W
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e House press briefing...
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
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achi fo...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Boston resident Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His site got 4 million
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s, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in international newspaper...
The first Grammy winner in the Best Hawaiian Music Album category, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2",
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number one on Billboard's World Music chart and number two on the New Age chart. If you buy it, kee...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google 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...
Alongside the Super Bowl, the Discovery Channel ran the "Puppy Bowl", twelve hours of puppies playing on a football mat. It was a huge
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with viewers, who found it strangely addicting. You can bu...
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfettered" access to the W
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e House and CIA documents was revealed as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Oahu home prices
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$500,000...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It appears that the very healthy w
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e tea is getting popular...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
In tsunami-
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areas in India, Christian missionaries are denying aid if people don't convert...
Images of dense Hong Kong living - reminds me of the Matrix: http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarc
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ecture/index.htm...
January 10 to 16, 2005
"Babylon Wrecked by War: US-Led Forces Leave a Trail of Destruction and Contamination in Arc
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ectural Site of World Importance"...
January 1 to 9, 2005
An arc
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ecture firm is turning the considerable amount of waste from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office buildings and groovy-looking modern housing...
Including such
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s as "Broad Minded", "Gee, Dad!!!", and "Gershwin With Bongos"...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have
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a record high. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of going after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A neat photo of
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achi's prototype color epaper, due in 2006...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Arc
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ects Are Really Poor Web Designer...
An absolutely cool higher-tech redesign of the VW bus. I think this would be a huge
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Beijing's Watercube, which aims to be a sponge-like masterpiece of biological arc
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November 8 to 14, 2004
"W
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e collar slavery" in the video game industry...
"Confessions of an Economic
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Man" - a former respected international banker admits to helping the U.S. cheat poor countries out of trillions, allowing for economic takeover...
"Living Outside Inside" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
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...
The median net worth of w
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e households: $88,651. That of African-Americans: $5,988...
About Blake Ross, the 19-year-old lead arc
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ect of Firefox, the browser downloaded by almost 3 million...
"If Arc
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ects Had To Work Like Web Designers......
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"How Bush's grandfather helped
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ler's rise to power...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy
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ters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The story of an arc
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ect who battled breast cancer to remake a minimalist home for $50,000...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The W
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e Stripes' guitarist Jack W
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e teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative an...
August 15 to 22, 2004
From a Southern California arc
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ectural tour...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Why dynamic languages (still) represent the future of computing (warning: tech-heavy): http://www.activestate.com/Company/NewsRoom/w
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July 12 to 18, 2004
New chips designed in 3D stacks
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the market...
New surfboards with shark-repelling devices will
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the market this year...
According to European copyright law, Elvis' first big
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will enter the public domain in 2005, along with a lot of other still-selling music...
June 7 to 13, 2004
The box house - off-the-grid modern arc
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ecture for $70,000...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Drink coffee before
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ting the bar! "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Damage"...
Seattle's new public library looks quirky outside but is astounding inside. May make you rethink the role of (public) arc
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ecture. And check out the great VR movies...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More arc
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ecture! Arc
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ect 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 goa...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The new $284 million "Geek Palace" at MIT, designed by cutting-edge arc
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ect Frank Gehry...
Will all communities become Wal-Marted, SUVed, McMansioned deserts? McMansions are invading this suburb in Washington, D.C.. Warning: graphic arc
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ectural carnage...
The rise of suburban loft arc
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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...
5) Support sustainable arc
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ecture and treat arc
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ecture as part of the environment: "The McMansion Next Door - Why the American house needs a makeover" (10/2003)...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Just by using a w
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e-colored roof on your home, you can save up to 40% in air conditioning costs...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be
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ting the market - they have a wider and smoother frequency response than conventional speaker technology. Here's the story of how this breakthrough was achieved afte...
March 31, 2004
Let's face it folks - taken as a whole, Hawaii arc
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ecture sucks. And the urban planning leaves a lot to be desired...
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
The last two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated arc
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ecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
If local arc
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ects aren't willing to follow that cue, at least here's a translucent concrete material that can make buildings appear light and airy instead:...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive arc
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ectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 22 to 28, 2004
The first device ever with an electronic paper display, a reading device,
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s the shelves next month, with a 170dpi screen...
The pros and cons of Quorn, the "fungus-based meat substitute" that was introduced to the U.S. in 2002...
March 8 to 14, 2004
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Song Science (HSS) analyses music for its "
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" potential, comparing a song's qualities to millions of others...
HSS claims to have already scored a
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on the charts with the single "Left Outside Alone" by Anastacia. I admit it's catchy...
Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it shows how musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5 million songs: http://www.
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songscience.com/media/nbc.mo...
There's an interesting arc
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ectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
February 23 to 29, 2004
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' W
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e Album. EMI demands a hal...
At a French cartoon festival kids draw pictures of obese Americans and Bush next to
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ler...
A surreal report of Arayanfest 2004, the latest "international" gathering of w
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e supremacists...
February 9 to 15, 2004
The SPAMmobile
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s Hawaii for the first time: "It's like God 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....
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
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a target 90 million miles away...
December 8 to 14, 2003
The Second Coming of Nick Drake http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/01/hln.hot.
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November 3 to 9, 2003
The world's first disposable cellular phone just
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the market. It comes with 60 minutes of prepaid time, its own phone number, and you can add more minutes as needed...
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"...
October 27, 2003
Sanyo is making corn-derived biodegradable CDs - they'll
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stores in December. Much better for landfills. They degrade after 50-100 years...
September 8, 2003
Visionary arc
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ect Eugene Tsui Why generic "modernism" is a plague, and how to design a humane future: "Look at a box-shaped house - it wastes so much space and so much material, it is structurall...
July 21, 2003
Status report: there have been almost 7 million
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s on the Star Wars Kid page, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...