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April 11 to 17, 2005
I get some traffic to this site from people looking for
information
on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with
information
on artists, albums, influences, and musi...
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough
information
to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's
information
-cynical world...
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
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract
information
from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
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 ...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their systems allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer
information
, including people's data from their Sidekicks...
February 21 to 27, 2005
It isn't perfect, but I like the clean, no-frills
information
design of Metacritic...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
information
on the effort to free the seminal civil rights documentary "Eyes On The Prize" from intellectual property limbo...
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...
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 ...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of
information
in a compact, useful way...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Did you know that the 'No Child Left Behind" Act forces schools to provide private student
information
to military recruiters...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the
information
flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest design proposals for the latest high-tech Antarctica research station: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_
information
/Press_Releases/press_pix/14_2004/gallery...
October 4 to 10, 2004
"A senior U.S. military intelligence officer says that
information
obtained from prisoners at Guantanamo has proved useless in the war on terror"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Option, a new mini enviro-friendly prefab house: http://www.spacebox.info/Eng/General%20
information
.ht...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new p2p network allows hospitals to share patient
information
...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing Apps http://
information
week.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2911657...
August 2 to 8, 2004
"...the
information
superhighway... will collapse...
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...
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...
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...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out" A nice summary of the Society for
information
Display's internationa...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Here's how to ask questions that actually produce
information
...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study finds that the average (Windows) PC has 28 spyware programs on it, each of which may send your private
information
to other parties without your knowledge...
March 1 to 7, 2004
A network map of political books based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It shows a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
Sparklines - a great way of compressing
information
, from Edward Tufte's upcoming book Beautiful Evidence...
Nifty animations of typography set to music...
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...
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the fact that the correc...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I can't wait to upgrade my memory! Cells-on-silicon breakthrough "Researchers... have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize
information
which can be communicated to th...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Pictures and
information
about Destino, the lost 50 year-old animated collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali. It's been nominated for an Oscar...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The FBI gathered hotel guest list
information
on 270,000 in Las Vegas...
December 8 to 14, 2003
It's legal (and has been for years) in over half the states to sell your voter registration
information
- including name, race, email, street address, phone number, birth date, political affiliation...
November 3 to 9, 2003
But some of these healers are refusing to divulge
information
, saying they are not fairly compensated for their
information
- which could make some biotech firms millions of dollars...
August 4, 2003
Why
information
design is important...
3) That good design takes into account the inherent limitations of one's ability to process
information
Also, please forward this to people you know who increase the amount of mediocrity in th...
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 can't provide a link to this
information
since the sites in question are undergoing heavy traffic. So the text is below...