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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
The sorry state of wasteful corporate packaging - the most over-packed
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in history...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
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
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March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top
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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 14 to 20, 2005
Cropless circles, made on sand: http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=2005&option=com_gallery&
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February 21 to 27, 2005
This design concept shows a great way to recycle water bottles: http://www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=6&
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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...
"Bush Gets Positive Rating In Three Countries" http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=view
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Since 2003 airport security screeners have stolen $36 million in
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s from travelers. The Transportation Security Administration spokesman says, "We have a few bad apples. That is unfortunate. We'...
January 10 to 16, 2005
* Average number of clothing
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s an adult American acquired in 2002: 5...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Monsanto paid a $1.3 million penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian government to help facilitate the cultivation of its genetically modified crops...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music causes "visceral reactions" in people: http://www.devarticles.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=861&
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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
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is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
This is great! The combination rug/laundry bag: http://www.addject.com/products/laundry_
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November 8 to 14, 2004
Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&
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November 1 to 7, 2004
The above international news
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was originally discovered by blogger Jonas Luster...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this
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was so popular, everyone knows what they look like by now...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Use Windows and make a name for yourself! Regarding last week's
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"Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plan pile-up"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
One show he worked on - here you can learn about all the toxic
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s around your house that leech into your bloodstream...
September 5 to 12, 2004
New breakthrough methods for creating (self-assembling) 3D nanostructures: http://www.triangletechjournal.com/news/article.html?
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Regarding last week's
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about fake tree-like cell phone masts...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Melbourne scientists say they've developed a cure for malaria: http://www.abc.net.au/news/news
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July 26 to August 1, 2004
In the meantime, check it out. I've got searching, archives, topic filters, and an RSS feed for syndication. You can search for things like "nytimes 2003 tech", which searches for all technology
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July 19 to 25, 2004
The two-story Glidehouse 2, now in production: http://www.livemodern.com/Members/Marshall/news
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July 12 to 18, 2004
The Flatpak House - cheap, modular, and evolvable over time: http://rakemag.com/features/detail.asp?catID=46&
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June 28 to July 4, 2004
This device allows you to swap out your car CD changer for an iPod and use it like a huge CD changer, with your existing controls...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This is almost a non-news
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- I got a pristine bootleg online the other day...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Facing critical shortage of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the player holds it to his lips....
May 3 to 9, 2004
Laser spectroscopy is now being used to detect suicide bombers in Israel. Why don't the lidar folks at UH get into this? http://www.abc.net.au/news/news
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The Star Trek apartment: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View
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March 8 to 14, 2004
Preventable deaths from obesity are overtaking tobacco - this was a pretty big news
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last week...
But I always enjoy the European take on these news
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s - "Fat of the land is killing more Americans than cigarettes"...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Mac? Hallelujah! http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_
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December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news
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This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
* Late November:
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is picked up internationally (BBC, CNN)...
September 30, 2003
"A prototype digital video system producing images of such high quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from reality has been developed by Japanese engineers...
September 8, 2003
This is a previous news
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, but you can compare it to the world's first amphibious RV...
August 25, 2003
I think this
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ties in well with last week's
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about the coral reefs dying. Aside from preserving beauty and diversity in the environment, there is great economic incentive to explore the thing...
July 8, 2003
would provide such a compelling demonstration to the contrary," she added. Among the "confidential" documents available on the web site are slide shows discussing the need to "pacify" citizens wh...