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December 20 to 31, 2005
An official collection of satellite p
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os of the tsunami sites...
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr! See on a U.S. map where recent p
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os were taken...
The iPod p
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o is helping radiologists manage their medical images. And with iSight, stock Apple technology is enabling teleradiology on the cheap and may one day enable telemedicine from home...
Amazing full-color turn-of-the-century Russian p
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os...
Detailed, richly colored scientific p
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ography...
Beautiful p
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os of Alaska by Norio Matsumoto...
The New York Times' 2004 year in pictures: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/p
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o/20041227_YIP_FEATURE/blocker.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
P
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o Stitching
Beautifully p
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ographed abandoned structures in Japan...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Here's what your recycled, shredded HP PC could look like. If these p
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os give you a cathartic release, then it's time to make the trade...
An impressive p
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ographic archive of mistakes. Check out "lost my job" and "women live longer"...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Could new p
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ographic techniques shed light on ancient Greek texts and bring about the "second Renaissance"...
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and p
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o can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
Give your p
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os the comic treatment with P
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oshop...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A profile on one of the first real 21st century superstars, journalist, blogger, polyglot, and
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babe Xeni Jardin...
A new military combat simulator stuns people via electric shock if s
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. But the real news is that people really like games that hurt you...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Need to sleep? Listen to the sleepbot environmental broadcast. They should license this service to
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els...
Some Iraqi soldiers are wearing this: http://www.flickr.com/p
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os/doctorow/8094952...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Macs are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
Transparent screens - I want something that changes with the amount of ambient light: http://www.flickr.com/p
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os/w00kie/sets/180637...
March 14 to 20, 2005
The first modern robotic shoe changes shape to match the terrain you're running on: http://news.com.com/P
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os+Watch+them+run/2009-1041_3-5625815.html?part=rss&tag=5625815&subj=new...
"Mount Kilimanjaro P
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o Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming" - in case you needed visual proof...
And here's p
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os of all those wildflowers that have been blooming in Death Valley lately...
Latte art: http://www.flickr.com/p
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os/tonx/sets/48921...
Merge 50 p
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os of any given topic, and you get artful atmospheric pictures of concepts...
This p
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ographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel p
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os - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Trashing Hawaii http://www.hawaiianwebmaster.com/aerialp
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View the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be seen in infrared: http://www.flickr.com/p
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os/mariusm/6333589...
A stylish (if slow) way to browse p
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os...
Colorful p
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os of beetles and moths...
The Flickr guide to the planet - beautiful p
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os from around the world, via Gridskipper...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The court belongs to the Burj Al Arab, purported to be the world's best and most luxurious
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el. Here's an opulent virtual tour...
P
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ographer Chris Jordan's "Portraits of American Mass Consumption"...
This quality p
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oshop contest shows real life, cubed...
February 14 to 20, 2005
MD Robotics showed off its instant scene modeler, which creates 3D scenes from digital p
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os...
And here's a really big satellite p
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o showing the entire park. That's a lot of curtains...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Taking a p
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o in a public area? Carry a list of your rights as a p
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ographer...
Careful, identity thieves can masquerade as legitimate wireless
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spots...
This surreal 1980's Estonian TV commercial for minced chicken meat has been making the rounds: http://www.
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January 31 to February 6, 2005
Everybody learned that you no longer have the right to publish p
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os of the Eiffel Tower at night...
January 24 to 30, 2005
This was the week of world-wide coincidences that could only happen thanks to the wonder of the Internet. Now that so many are sharing p
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os online, people are beginning to find interestin...
Ever been taken by one of these? Here's the 25
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test urban legends, with "tsunami p
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os" at number one...
Incredible before-and-after comparisons of the faces of meth users: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/p
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P
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ography by Misty Keasler: Japanese love
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els, deep East Texas, Russian orphanages, holy places, and Guatemala city dump...
Here's how to make your own Life Poster with iP
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The 2005 Lunar Wheel calendar: http://www.flickr.com/p
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January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress tests (Logic, Pages, iP
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o) and it never got too
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or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
Inspiring p
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os of the presidential inauguration...
"S
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In Our Name...
A new solar
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water heater is 30 to 40% more efficient than flat plate solar systems...
Images of dense Hong Kong living - reminds me of the Matrix: http://www.p
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omichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/index.htm...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Want to know where your package goes? This student mailed a disposable camera, encouraging all who handled it to take a p
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o. An insightful look into the U.S. Postal Service...
Before and after tsunami p
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os, matched up with each other...
Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art! http://www.danacountryman.com/CoverArt%20P
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December 13 to 19, 2004
A neat p
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o of Hitachi's prototype color epaper, due in 2006...
A nice series of p
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os on current life in China...
Self-service USPS stamp machines have been taking people's p
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os without their knowledge, courtesy of the FAA...
A slice of life - 48 favorite (digital) p
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December 6 to 12, 2004
"Film use fading like an old p
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Beautiful p
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os of all the national parks in the U.S....
It's still a little early to call, but here are some pictures of the year, more worthy for their subjects than aesthetics...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Connect your iPod p
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o to a projector and show PowerPoint presentations with it, thanks to this new software...
New technology helps people from having their pictures taken by unwanted p
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ographers...
Cool underground pictures of the massive G-Cans project in Tokyo: http://www.g-cans.jp/p
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o/index.htm...
November 15 to 21, 2004
SoHo's Apple Store is New York's
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test singles spot. Add a few barstools and I'd be there all day...
An inspirational account of a three-year backpacking trip around the world. With lots of p
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os...
The can octopus: http://www.flickr.com/p
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November 8 to 14, 2004
Scientists have created the "p
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ocapacitor", a more efficient solar cell/battery combination...
The life of Chinese toy factory workers, in pictures: http://www.p
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omichaelwolf.com/intro/index.htm...
Live p
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os and commentary from the Falluja raid...
November 1 to 7, 2004
A p
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oessay on how "The Incredibles" was created...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Best Buy opens online p
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o processing labs...
New no-frills
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els are coming - only $10 a night...
New autostitching algorithms make seamless panoramas a snap. Now will someone please make a P
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oshop plug-in or simple OSX GUI for this...
A smiling stingray: http://www.flickr.com/p
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os/neb/725198...
October 18 to 24, 2004
R.I.P. shirts are popular in high-homicide areas, where rappers wear shirts with the names and p
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os of victims they don't even know...
The p
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ojournal of a modern geisha in Kyoto...
A little animation of a drawing in progress: http://images2.jokaroo.net/images/p
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October 11 to 17, 2004
The first
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el with iris identification. One day you'll just walk into your room, no check-in needed...
Absolutely beautiful p
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ography at File Magazine...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A UK p
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o exhibit shows real people next to their online virtual 3D character...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Telcos' latest s
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in the broadband war - TV over phone lines...
Incredible p
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orealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos...
Computer-assisted streak p
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ography...
The latest, greatest singer/songwriters play the
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el Cafe. Check out the CD...
September 13 to 19, 2004
PCs are getting
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ter and
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ter as their complexity and power consumption increases...
China's a new "
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bed of research" too...
P
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ographer Lisa Law's journey through the 60's...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Regarding last week's item about fake tree-like cell phone masts: http://www.utilitycamo.com/p
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Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Scientists are learning how to harness p
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osynthetic bacteria in solar cells...
August 22 to 29, 2004
RSS is becoming a
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technology these days...
The world's smallest optical zoom digital camera, using the new ceramic lens technology: http://www.livingroom.org.au/p
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olog/reviews/casio/casio_exilim_card_exs100.ph...
Five p
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ons have been linked in an milestone experiment that will lead to full-scale quantum computing...
The groovy Web sites and p
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ography of Sacha Dean Bryan...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Cool monkey p
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os and great Web site design...
Forget Doom 3: Here's the state-of-the-art of video game graphics: http://www.planethalflife.com/screens
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August 8 to 14, 2004
This was popular last week - beautiful aerial p
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ography...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Casio develops the world's first transparent ceramic lens, enabling smaller, thinner cameras: http://www.p
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ographyblog.com/comments.php?id=3305_0_1_0_...
The Everyman P
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o Contest - great amateur p
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ography...
See how a family changes, via similar p
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os taken every year for 28 years...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
A $230 million acquisition of an RFID reader company. This technology is
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,
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,
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, people...
Kona Brewing Co. in Hawaii Kai is now a free wireless network
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spot! I'm spending more time there...
July 19 to 25, 2004
New algorithms detect digitally faked p
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os...
A p
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o tour of the N521DB, the luxury liner used to transport the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after 9/11. It was also used by Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones...
P
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o/video folks! Build your own bottlecap tripod...
Interesting comparisons between the latest digital SLRs and film scans: http://www.sp
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o.com/techinfo/dslrvsfilm.ht...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Tired of
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mail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Unusual Japanese ice cream flavors - horse flesh ice cream is only the beginning! http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/p
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ospecials/0406/ice-cream04/00.htm...
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.
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hardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=541&cid=...
June 14 to 20, 2004
P
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oshop challenge: depict "Americanization"...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Although this is not new, SubEthaEdit is likely the best application for collaborative text editing. Imagine multiple people collaborating on meeting notes, screenplays, and class lectures! Sorry, Ma...
A really nice page of digital p
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ography composition tips...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
Personal p
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os by the master Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky...
A man took a p
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o of himself every day for a year and made this movie...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Remember the p
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o diary of that Russian motorcyclist touring around Chernobyl? It turns out that it was a fake...
Beautiful p
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os from the Harbin Snow and Ice Festival, where it's below freezing over half the year...
May 10 to 16, 2004
A nice aerial p
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o of a New York cab in winter. Also see Vincent LaForet's other aerial p
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os...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Star Trek apartment: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2397756436&indexURL=2#ebayp
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ohostin...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Pictures of wacky Japanese vending machines: http://www.p
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omann.com/japan/machines...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Some of the best entries in a P
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oshop contest. Theme: merge two animals...
April 12 to 18, 2004
There's a lot of participatory art going on around the net these days. Here's the surreal result at the midpoint of one p
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oshop-fest...
April 5 to 11, 2004
P
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oshop of the week...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
P
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oshop of the week...
"Nude women have been on the menu at The Sutler for years, but the Nashville pub covered up the 19th-century Victorian p
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os after being warned they might be too racy for state law....
March 22 to 28, 2004
Lawrence Lessig released his latest book, and you can download and read it for free. If living in an open, free culture is important to you, or if you take p
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os, draw, write, make music, or i...
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
Check out the videos, using
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dogs as replacement fingers...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Attached to your iPod, it will take any of six different digital film media types and store the p
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os on your iPod so you can reuse the card. Now you can use your iPod as a bootable backup drive, ...
Here's a p
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o of the eco-roof of Chicago's City Hall...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first music video ever to be entirely s
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using a cell phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years ago - in another ten directors may be viewing dailies on their phones...
Remember that p
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ojournal on shipbreaking, one of the most toxic and dangerous jobs on earth? Here's a short summary of some new technologies (including a wash that neutralizes PCBs) being used i...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted p
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os, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
February 16 to 22, 2004
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 p
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ography, doing so can actually damage you...
Some of the funniest, most creative uses of P
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oshop I've seen in a long time.....
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy
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el - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the
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/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
January 19 to 25, 2004
The Dutchtub, a plastic outdoor
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tub that requires no electricity, plumbing, or
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water. Faster and easier setup than a wood-fire tub...
Beautiful p
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ographs of polluted industrial sites...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's
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topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
The FBI gathered
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el guest list information on 270,000 in Las Vegas...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Cool p
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os of Osaka, Japan. Seems a little crowded to me...
December 8 to 14, 2003
The Second Coming of Nick Drake http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/01/hln.
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Details behind the first National Geographic cover story ever to be completely s
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digitally...
December 1 to 7, 2003
A great gallery of digital p
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ography from Max Lyons...
CNN Art Sucks http://hello.typepad.com/p
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os/cnn...
November 24 to 30, 2003
I didn't think Michael Jackson could look worse... (picture) http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/LAW/11/24/jackson.accuser/vert.mugs
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Abercromie & Fitch got in
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, 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
This comes from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world's
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beds of cutting-edge science. Folks from the Pentagon visited them just earlier this month...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Will noisy,
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computers be a thing of the past? Electricity leakage is why current microchips (and therefore your computer) runs
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, requires fans, and contributes to the entropy of the universe...
October 20, 2003
A summary of the launch of iTunes for Windows this week: http://www.apple.com/
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news/articles/2003/10/musicevent...
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract p
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os taken from the sides of boxcars...
September 15, 2003
Also, reinforcing the "Apple = cool" theme from last week, the iPod is now featured in a
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new hip-hop music video by 50 Cent...
September 8, 2003
"Not Just Warmer: It's the
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test for 2,000 Years...
August 12, 2003
Slow news week. Most of the new good stuff popped up today. This week's theme: trends on the edge of culture. http://sss
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aru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.htm...
As people begin their life as a captured stream of digital documents, we'll be seeing more of this. A great idea would be to create software that allows people to create lifelong free-form digita...
July 21, 2003
But still "up to five Americans per day" are waiting in London
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el rooms to meet people about "liberating funds" (12/2002)...