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December 20 to 31, 2005
Here you can see
how
close the biomedical facilities are to the ocean...
how
ever, long-term toxicity questions remain unanswered...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
And they're closer to making a quantum-based computer by figuring out
how
to make atom lattices...
how
smart mobs are fueling revolution around the world...
"U.S. Figures S
how
Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism - State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report"...
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated software that can track every financial transaction no matter
how
small...
how
about also growing yerba mate locally...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to s
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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 18 to 24, 2005
Hope everyone had a happy Earth Day. Not surprisingly, much news was devoted to
how
much high-tech junk is being generated and what to do about it...
Just because you're a penguin doesn't mean that you're not a terrorist: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slides
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/4402056/detail.html?qs=;s=1;w=32...
Meanwhile, San Francisco is trying to figure out
how
to "rein in" its 43 medical marijuana dispensaries while remaining friendly with the feds...
how
U.S. restrictions on family planning are affecting the rest of the world, with dire consequences...
Another example of
how
people see only what they want (or are directed) to see - motion-induced blindness (and many other nifty optical illusions)...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Here's more details on
how
the bus was retrofit with energy-efficient, sustainable materials and technology...
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can see
how
the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will make use of this new tool to help enforc...
SVG will radically change
how
the Web looks and feels. It will be making its debut in Web browsers very soon...
how
and why Asian countries are keeping the U.S. dollar from collapsing...
Stats on
how
many forms of mainstream media are doing in terms of popularity...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This was very popular this week - I think there's a pent-up need to avoid Starbucks! The delocator will s
how
you local alternatives to Starbucks...
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 hit the mark...
Did you know that in 2000, EPA-banned GMO corn was found in Taco Bell tacos, which could produce anaphylactic shock? Here's more on
how
corporations are surreptitiously introducing GMO into th...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Also, industry groups are trying to figure out just
how
long CDs and DVDs should last...
This brilliant clip s
how
s
how
the modern shopping environment puts people in a cow-like suggestible state...
In 1993 Laurie Anderson shared some U.S. embassy tips about
how
to not make yourself seem like an American...
A military recruiter tells a young pothead prospect
how
to get around the mandatory drug test...
More wacky, unusual album covers: http://www.s
how
andtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.htm...
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...
how
about making a bumper sticker with "IWASTEGAS.COM" on it - the site could hold current information on gas guzzlers, fuel-efficient cars, and simple ways to save energy. The name's available...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Towards fundamentalism - "IMAX theaters Reject Science S
how
s under Religious Pressure"...
TV s
how
s for modern kids - this children's s
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features music by a hip roster of post-punk acts...
Here's a nice summary of
how
your hard drive works...
how
fast can mistakes travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test blast called "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
"Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming" - in case you needed visual proof...
Breast-enhancing bubble gum is popular in Japan these days: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articles
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/1056493.cm...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
The totally customizable Ergodex DX1 Input System. Finally, we can design our input devices to fit
how
we think, instead of the other way around...
Andrew Sullivan observes
how
the iPod is isolating society. Well,
how
about allowing others to listen to your iPod wirelessly, Apple? Unite the world with music...
Meanwhile, a demonstration of
how
a hacker could easily disable a U.S. energy utility makes the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wish he'd "had a diaper on"...
Here's
how
to turn your webcam into an infrared camera...
Listen to Dr. Demento s
how
s online...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
how
ard 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...
More TV s
how
s should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while listening to this podcast with s
how
commentary at the same time...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
Here's a clip from "The Bill Maher S
how
"...
how
ever, all this luxury island building is (temporarily?) destroying Dubai's natural environment...
"Declaration of Revocation" http://stephaniemillers
how
.blogspot.com/2005/02/declaration-of-revocation.htm...
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 they are to hack...
This quality photoshop contest s
how
s real life, cubed...
This design concept s
how
s a great way to recycle water bottles...
how
to build a beautiful 136 foot-high ice wall. A picture...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
MD Robotics s
how
ed off its instant scene modeler, which creates 3D scenes from digital photos...
And here's a really big satellite photo s
how
ing the entire park. That's a lot of curtains...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Today's Web designers should learn
how
to use the XMLHttpRequest object to build highly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
A new study s
how
s that melatonin may have broader effects in the brain than previously thought...
Another new study s
how
s that peanuts are the nutritional equivalent of the "perfect fruit"...
The super-cool baby name wizard.
how
popular has a name been over time...
Recording an album? Here's
how
to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini...
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...
A nanoscale "crossbar latch" from HP's Quantum Science Research labs may one day replace the transistor: http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/s
how
story.jsp?storyid=5744...
The first artificial neon sky s
how
. Unfortunately, implications for advertising...
Wal-Mart gets slammed again on "The Daily S
how
". Hawaii's Wal-Mart is mentioned as well...
how
the Atkins diet is affecting fast-food menus...
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...
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? They've got a We...
Using Skype (voice over the Internet), John Perry Barlow was called at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn
how
to speak English. Here's his reflections on "th...
The first feature film to be delivered via wireless internet technology was s
how
n at the Sundance Film Festival...
Why don't local supermarkets sell reusable shopping bags at time of checkout? Here's
how
some towns in Australia managed to ban disposable plastic bags at supermarkets, saving 350,000 bags in th...
Here's
how
to make your own Life Poster with iPhoto...
This Target ad is a clever look into
how
design shapes our culture and environment...
The top 100 soundtracks of all time: http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5399&s
how
=50&start=...
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...
Cornell researchers figure out
how
to make plastic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to use petroleum to make plastics...
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-home theater...
The American Heart Association says that over 10% of U.S. children between 2 and 5 are obese: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s
how
/1063.htm...
January 10 to 16, 2005
how
about introducing "bike stations" into areas, for commuting and socializing...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The top ten war profiteers of 2004: http://metronewsnet.homelinux.com:81/boards/s
how
thread.php?pc...
Here's a humongous chart s
how
ing exactly where your tax dollar goes...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's BusLink system is the first use of smart card technology in a bus-only mass transit system in America.
how
about making a smart-card based SuperFerry pass...
Yahoo! Maps now overlays live traffic conditions on its maps.
how
about antialiasing those map lines first before doing any new, folks...
Play twenty questions against this program. You may be surprised at
how
often it wins...
A New York art exhibition is stopped after s
how
ing a Bush portrait made of images of monkeys...
Famous sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin on
how
the Sci-Fi Channel turned her Earthsea trilogy into racist dreck...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change
how
you experience, purchase, an...
A pioneering global study s
how
s that U.S. kids don't rank so well in math skills...
See
how
popular your name is...
Homeless Iraq vets are s
how
ing up at shelters...
how
to get your house off the grid...
An interesting essay on
how
anti-consumerism can actually increase consumerism...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on
how
Google works - two PCs are expected to fail daily...
The price of a gallon -
how
expensive is that liquid...
how
ever, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy. Note that old computer monitors make better used TVs than TVs...
Scientists figure out
how
to make hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to power my car from my cell phone compost pile...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I just finished watching "The End of Suburbia", a great and disturbing DVD I mentioned here previously. You can watch one of the included bonus movies "In the Suburbs" for free at the Prelinge...
Connect your iPod photo to a projector and s
how
PowerPoint presentations with it, thanks to this new software...
how
the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
Enter your ZIP code and get a blast map that s
how
s the effects of a 10-kiloton nuclear blast in your area...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An overview of current work on Natural Language Programming: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=s
how
page&pid=22...
Tyranny of the few: A $1.2 million indecency fine levied against Fox by the FCC was brought on by only three people, of the millions that watched one s
how
...
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...
"The Persuaders" - now: This s
how
aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
Advertisers are also wondering
how
to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children,
how
ever, do not. A detailed Web site describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
"I want to tell you
how
much Japanese business man is tired....
Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/content/s
how
article.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=659...
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
they voted...
November 1 to 7, 2004
First, the best analysis, as given by Stephen Colbert of "The Daily S
how
" (movie)...
We can explain a few things with visuals... here's a U.S. election map with county detail. Things aren't so red vs. blue now. Note
how
the rural areas tend to be the most red...
"
how
a CPU is Built...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door!
how
ever, this item was so popular, everyone knows what they look like by now...
One of the great mysteries of evolution - that of
how
the eye evolved - has been solved. This mystery has been one of the arguments for introducing creationism into schools...
A photoessay on
how
"The Incredibles" was created...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Wow! The Honolulu Wal-Mart issue actually got some air time on "The Daily S
how
" (video clip)...
Yes, the U.S. knows where Osama is. And he's still getting "only" $1 million a year from his family: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articles
how
/898084.cm...
October 11 to 17, 2004
how
Nobel-prize winner Wangari Maathai overcame beatings and jail to empower women to plant trees in Kenya. 30 million trees later, here is her story...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Podcasting puts audio content you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast
how
ard Stern from XM Radio...
More money can be made by unpopular media than by popular media. Here's
how
the net is changing the nature of what "popular" means. Highly recommended reading...
A UK photo exhibit s
how
s real people next to their online virtual 3D character...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"Daily S
how
" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly Factor" viewers...
"
how
Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power...
The "
how
Berkeley Can You Be?" parade. Note: not for the timid - this is life at its messiest! Art cars, nudists, communists, Trekkies, Tibetans, more...
Incredible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with
how
-tos...
September 20 to 26, 2004
IBM scientists figure out
how
to make single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense storage media...
how
the iPod's scrollwheel was made (not by Apple)...
Also, the Spacebox, completely self-contained stackable units with kitchen, s
how
er, and toilet...
The state-of-the-art in scientific visualization: http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2004/s
how
/slide1.shtm...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new radio modem is the size of a credit card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range: http://www.eeproductcenter.com/rf-micro/brief/s
how
Article.jhtml?articleID=3000030...
One s
how
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
how
can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and
how
it transformed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
The CyberLite LED is one of the products made with the above methods: http://www.electronicproducts.com/S
how
Page.asp?SECTION=3130&PRIMID=&FileName=marHL1.mar200...
Regarding last week's item about fake tree-like cell phone masts: http://www.dw-world.de/dwelle/allgemein/bilder_s
how
/0,3772,89907_6,00.jp...
"A new study s
how
s that kids who watch lots of TV ads are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, stomachaches and other problems....
how
high-tech "fab labs" are training kids in impoverished countries to make needed tools...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Disney creates a revolution in fireworks by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fireworks are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched higher.
how
about using thi...
Scientists are learning
how
to harness photosynthetic bacteria in solar cells...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Microsoft's Spanish version of Windows XP translated "woman" as "bitch". Users unamused: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articles
how
/msid-823975,curpg-1.cm...
A new poll s
how
s growing support for voter-verified paper trails in elections...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Idea of the Week: Nature Cemeteries What a great concept: there's less cost and waste for the industry, there's a pent-up demand, land is conserved (and preserved), and it's cheaper for consumers...
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing Apps http://informationweek.com/story/s
how
Article.jhtml?articleID=2911657...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
how
ultrawideband technology may change the world - it may be as disruptive as the Internet...
About the new online TV-s
how
swapping culture...
The daily adventures of Mixerman are back, the true diaries of a top audio producer in LA. Get the inside story of
how
the industry works...
August 2 to 8, 2004
See
how
a family changes, via similar photos taken every year for 28 years...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone seems to have a blog these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I see the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning
how
t...
The first debut of an entire TV s
how
episode over the Internet...
how
to turn your iPod into a universal remote...
how
to fully remove Internet Explorer from your PC...
"
how
government protects big media - and shuts out upstarts like me." By Ted Turner...
Prodded by the MPAA, the FBI pursues criminal charges against a Stargate SG1 fan Web site, despite endorsement by the s
how
's executive producer...
how
the RIAA shut down a respected, thriving music store due to the sale of popular DJ-made mixtapes...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory Web site registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and they can lead to identify theft. But
how
are sites to make money? Just go to BugMeNot to get around sit...
An LED research breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years: http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/s
how
Article.jhtml?articleID=2560014...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
how
to give a supportive hug...
A UH breakthrough - vegetable colorants s
how
cancer-fighting properties...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Sharp's new prototype color eBook reader: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/sharps-s
how
s-prototype-color-ebook-017256.ph...
how
Fahrenheit 9/11 plays to Republican audiences in Washington and Texas...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Car VIN (vehicle identification) numbers are running out. This is a much thornier problem than the Y2K issue. With fascinating information about
how
VIN numbers are encoded...
The evolution of fractal art. This is the next generation of fractal and mathematics- based design, folks: http://www.ultrafractal.com/s
how
case.htm...
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...
...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 14 to 20, 2004
A section of the film explores the need for corporations to be more democratic.
how
about introducing software that enables companies to make better group decisions? This isn't polling and it isn'...
how
to Argue Religion...
Out of jewel cases? Here's
how
to make single and double CD holders out of a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on
how
to make your Windows PC look just like a modern Mac...
May 24 to 30, 2004
"
how
to make friends by Telephone...
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/s
how
s/music...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Here's
how
Apple's nifty spam filter makes use of latent semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail...
This is one of the best Web-based data visualization apps I've seen! You could mine this public database for all manner of interesting purposes. Fundrace - see which of your neighbors contributed t...
LANL researchers have figured out
how
to use nanotechnology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%...
how
iTunes sharing is creating music- based social networks in colleges...
Bought music from the iTunes Music Store? Here's the easiest tutorial I've found on
how
to remove the copy protection...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Here's
how
to ask questions that actually produce information...
how
about trying environmentally friendly anti-foul compounds used on ships? The six-year test is impressive...
May 3 to 9, 2004
People see only what they what to see. "Scientists have gathered remarkable evidence which s
how
s that it is possible to see something without observing it". Did you see the gorilla...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
Related to the recent uncovering of the secrets of gecko adhesion, here's
how
spiders manage to stay sticky...
Before you laugh, try a little thinking outside of the box: Hawaii needs low-cost housing solutions -
how
about using used shipping containers? Many well-designed structures have been made worldwide...
A company records s
how
s live and sells USB devices holding the recording after the concert...
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...
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
Here's two of the grooviest Flash-based movies I've seen in a while: http://www.mantasoft.co.uk/anim/s
how
.php?url=Recursive.swf;title=Recursiv...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AAGH! Tax time! A study s
how
s that taxes are getting more complex, thanks to the rising popularity of sophisticated tax preparation software...
A study s
how
s that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also, go light on the techno...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be hitting 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...
Studies s
how
that Guinness is actually very healthy for you...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manufacturing method is changing
how
clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
"
how
E-Voting Threatens Democracy...
A great article explains
how
25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous business practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
Newsmap, an interesting way to visually s
how
news. Not sure if it's useful, but it is kind of pretty...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of
how
American medical records and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
Banksy, who puts the "grr" back into graffiti - here's
how
to mix revolution with art...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Books on
how
having more choices makes you unhealthy and unhappy...
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings s
how
Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Those who do not learn from history... The amazing Lawrence Lessig wrote a nice piece on
how
Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and the music industries were all born from content piracy...
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It s
how
s nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it s
how
s
how
musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5 million songs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first car designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto S
how
, with emphasis on comfort, storage, and low maintenance...
Also (to be) s
how
n at the s
how
, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
how
I Lost The Big On...
Someone's collecting all the election-related wire service stories on Yahoo that use the phrase "The American People". See
how
politicians are using your name in vain...
A network map of political books based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It s
how
s a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
February 23 to 29, 2004
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (online journals), with visuals. For future research:
how
is the spreading of ideas like the transmission of virii? Can one reliably predict the mos...
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out
how
to make a helmet," says [forme...
Video game studies are making their way into college curricula - what is their form and impact on culture? What is a game? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articles
how
/522375.cm...
"Game Development: Harder Than You Think" http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=s
how
page&pid=11...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is,
how
to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
It's been tested by the FBI and is so accurate its results are now admissible in court. "[it's] ... a method of reading the brain's involuntary electrical activity in response to a subject being s
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...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A new paint eats smog for five years - it's been s
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n to reduce pollution up to 60 percent at street level...
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-page book on
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complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for free...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"The New Face of the Silicon Age -
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India became the capital of the computing revolution...
January 12 to 18, 2004
An uplifting story of
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a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before takeoff by a laptop connected with Bluetooth to a cell phone connected to the Internet connected to her email...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
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I Made a Hacker Out of a Slacker...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as
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plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Favorite antipop CDs of 2003 Tired of mainstream music?
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about great jazz/world/folk/acoustic fusion? Highly recommended are David Tanenbaum, Tord Gustavsen, and the Be Good Tanyas. Of course...
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's become or 4th or 5th largest industry there! This article has interesting details on
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it's done these days, involving dozens of actors, props...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Big news, huh? Here's
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it got around...
December 8 to 14, 2003
The Second Coming of Nick Drake http://www.cnn.com/2003/S
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BIZ/Music/12/01/hln.hot.hit.alexi.murdoch/index.htm...
A good interview s
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ing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV s
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s. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
A nice slide s
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on "Aging in America". For the first time in the U.S., there will soon be more people over 55 than 18 and under...
December 1 to 7, 2003
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Michael Jackson would have looked without the plastic surgery...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Abercromie & Fitch got in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clothing catalog. Their first sweater doesn't s
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up until page 122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle has always been a great columnist, but this column in particular s
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s him at his best...
October 27, 2003
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I Met My Wife" - a mind-blowing play on words...
October 20, 2003
This week was Marriage Protection Week! In honor, here's an article about
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only 50.7% of America is actually married: "Unmarried America...
October 14, 2003
Spread of AIDS among Young ‘A Global Catastrophe’: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articles
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?msid=22572...
A great, great explanation of
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this nation's electrical grid works, why more large-scale blackouts are predicted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser s
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: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and light s
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using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/s
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Article.jhtml?articleID=1520028...
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to Deal with the Lies and the Lying Liars When They Lie about 'Bowling for Columbine'...
September 22, 2003
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ard Levy, harmonica player extrordinaire...
Invisible always-on cameras in glasses, brought to you by HP: (it does have an off switch,
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ever...
September 8, 2003
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wired) and you'll see
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the entire industry could be completely automated i...
See
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many people are poorer than you in the world...
Thanks to the human genome project, researchers are pioneering the field of ionomics, the study of
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genes regulate ions. That can lead to plants that soak up heavy metals.....
Visionary architect Eugene Tsui Why generic "modernism" is a plague, and
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to design a humane future: "Look at a box-shaped house - it wastes so much space and so much material, it is structurall...
August 4, 2003
This week's theme: techniques for separating the wheat from the chaff and the signal from the noise. Much confusion arises from people not being able to see the difference between the theory o...
July 21, 2003
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ever, note that every year since 1977 there have been more Canadians moving to the US than vice-versa...
When 70% of a population of 11 million have high-speed net access,
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does that affect the culture? Here's
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it's affecting Korea.....
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 10, 2003
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not
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do we stop the tidal wave. It's
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do we manage it." Also, if yo...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and
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it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...