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December 20 to 31, 2005
The winner of the second Dwell eco-prefab
house
contest...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The Mother Jones graphic expose on the modern
house
...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The new Breeze
house
, a modern prefab home designed for "casual indoor-outdoor living"...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
The site for the prefab Flatpak
house
has been revised and is better than ever, with lots of nice pictures...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Power to the people? For the first time a blogger is given access to a White
house
press briefing...
An interview with cartoonist Robert Crumb, from his
house
in France...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
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...
February 21 to 27, 2005
New super-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into
house
tops. Let's see these around town...
A Londoner's
house
is full of wall-to-wall collections...
February 7 to 13, 2005
GPS technology is killing light
house
s. What will happen if GPS fails...
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...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995 used to be Swain's
house
of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumored that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
Ecological pole
house
s. And the company is Hawaii-based...
January 10 to 16, 2005
* Estimated average amount of textiles thrown out by each U.S.
house
hold in 2001, in pounds: 6...
The "HangOut", a very cool spherical tree
house
for 21st-century living...
January 1 to 9, 2005
This series explores some nicely designed homes, including the famous tree
house
in Waipio Valley on the Big Island...
December 6 to 12, 2004
"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."...
How to get your
house
off the grid...
The shrinking turtle
house
...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The ten most persistent design bugs, from UI expert Bruce Tognazzini: http://www.asktog.com/Bug
house
/10MostPersistentBugs.htm...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"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
The median net worth of white
house
holds: $88,651. That of African-Americans: $5,988...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Ever wanted to live on a
house
boat? Here's some from Sausalito, CA, one of the best and oldest
house
boat communities...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Option, a new mini enviro-friendly prefab
house
...
September 13 to 19, 2004
One show he worked on - here you can learn about all the toxic items around your
house
that leech into your bloodstream...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to remake a minimalist home for $50,000: http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2004/09/09/a_
house
_built_with_steel?pg=ful...
August 15 to 22, 2004
This
house
was transformed from a 3rd-gen gang
house
to a "tropical paradise". Why not do it in Hawaii...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The Hooch: the bamboo tree
house
...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
What the U.S. can learn from South Korea, where broadband is cheap, over 10 times faster, and is transforming government and society with telemedicine to the
house
, video on demand, and a lucrativ...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A fuel cell breakthrough leads to cooler, smaller cells - one the size of two soda cans could power your entire
house
hold...
A modern, self-sustaining off-the-grid
house
in Toronto...
The two-story Glide
house
2, now in production...
July 12 to 18, 2004
The Flatpak
house
- cheap, modular, and evolvable over time...
June 21 to 27, 2004
...while the Verizon deal will likely go 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 7 to 13, 2004
The box
house
- off-the-grid modern architecture for $70,000...
May 17 to 23, 2004
The new Deck
house
(I want a Porch
house
)...
More pictures of the eco-prefab Glide
house
...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glide
house
", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
"Thousands tour first Glide
house
at Sunset - Interest in affordable, 'green,' modern prefab runs high:...
April 19 to 25, 2004
5) Support sustainable architecture and treat architecture as part of the environment: "The McMansion Next Door - Why the American
house
needs a makeover" (10/2003)...
The first fully-sustainable
house
has been developed - it's powered by solar and runs entirely on hydrogen...
March 31, 2004
In the Bay Area, multiple offers over 10 are not uncommon.
house
s have gone for $300,000 over the asking price. Median home prices in San Francisco are $200,000 over that of Oahu and $100,000 ove...
The Dwell
house
- Modern Modula...
The Porch Hous...
The Glide Hous...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
February 16 to 22, 2004
"Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common
house
hold devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according t...
February 9 to 15, 2004
(from Jan 3) Now that Oahu only has two art-
house
movie venues (with one whose fate is uncertain), will people be able to see movies like the ones below in the future? Or will we have to downloa...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The latest in modernist prefabricated housing, where you can purchase a beautiful, open wooden contemporary
house
kit for $100,000...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Here on Oahu, Wallace Theatres (at Restaurant Row) is abandoning its art
house
movies (sigh)...
December 15 to 21, 2003
A Texas
house
wife is busted for selling a vibrator... she faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine...
December 8 to 14, 2003
4) Thanks to large-scale gerrymandering, voters are no longer choosing members to the
house
of "Representatives" and politics are becoming even more polarized...
And now, in complete contrast to the above... the Mushroom
house
, a beautiful handcrafted wooden
house
in Canada that took 22 years to make...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Are you a "pack rat"? "Facing jail because his
house
is filled to the brim, a hoarder finds hope in a woman with a talent for organizing...
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 20, 2003
* 82% of American
house
holds made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart...
September 8, 2003
Visionary architect 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 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...