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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 "gallery of computation" has gotten both
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r and more varied over the last year or so. Great stuff...
April 18 to 24, 2005
And despite the arrival of efficient electric cars,
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manufacturers have discontinued their production...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Here's a slightly new way to visualize
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graphs - topological fisheye views...
Did you know that McDonald's is on its way to being the
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st corporate land owner in Russia? Perhaps I should get passports issued by McDonald's...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Telcos are using legislation to prevent
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-scale free public wireless networks...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the
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st in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
The
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st climate prediction experiment ever harnessed 90,000 home computers around the globe. The result? Global warming will be worse than expected...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey
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sets of information in a compact, useful way...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of experimental features to the blog which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The
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r the word, the more common it is. Also...
What do you want to do with your life? More popular answers are
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November 22 to 28, 2004
Brilliant! Blog Torrent, written in PHP, enables one to serve
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files from their servers using BitTorrent...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The story of one of the world's
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st spammers, who made $750,000 a month from jamming your emailbox...
November 8 to 14, 2004
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a
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-scale test of Internet over power lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The world's
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st wind power project starts near Beijing...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the
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st museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
August 8 to 14, 2004
The corporate ownership of computer technology is a
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factor. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science research...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local Arts and Designs Hawaii is one of the toughest states for those involved in the arts to make a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
3) Expand the ARTS at Marks to a
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r, multi-use downtown arts space...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
There's a "50% chance" of a major accident while cleaning up the U.S.'s dirtiest nuclear site. And there's not enough room for the waste at the
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Yucca Mountain site...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The dark side of the obesity epidemic - parents struggle to keep their
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kids from being locked up by authorities...
The demand for
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r luxury garages in homes is increasing...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Tired of Hotmail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send
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attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
Some personal stories of the 1.5 million women vs. Walmart, the
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st class action suit ever...
June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the
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st private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Childhood obesity in the United States looks significantly worse than previously believed, suggests the
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st assessment ever of public school students....
May 3 to 9, 2004
* One of Korea's
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st hospitals, causing patient processing delay...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
"Green is good for tech firms - 'Clean' technologies drawing
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r share of venture dollars"...
April 19 to 25, 2004
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
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companies are migrating t...
March 15 to 21, 2004
There is NO excuse not to buy a PC (non-laptop)
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r than a shoebox any more. Anything
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r is wasteful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based PC...
Dasani bottled water pulled from all shelves in the UK after
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amounts of a carcinogen is found in it...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on
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canvas a...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Apple had the
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st earnings increase of tech companies last year, with a 552% jump in annual profits...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's become or 4th or 5th
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st industry there! This article has interesting details on how it's done these days, involving dozens of actors, props...
December 8 to 14, 2003
4) Thanks to
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-scale gerrymandering, voters are no longer choosing members to the House of "Representatives" and politics are becoming even more polarized...
November 10 to 16, 2003
IBM created a (
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October 27, 2003
A trial just started that could pave the way for holding U.S. companies accountable for pollution overseas - it involves toxic oil dumps in total 50 percent
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r than the Exxon Valdez spill sprea...
October 20, 2003
* It's the world's
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st company, equaling 2.5% of the GNP...
October 14, 2003
A great, great explanation of how this nation's electrical grid works, why more
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-scale blackouts are predicted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
Finally, on a lighter note, a partial Latin translation of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back": "
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buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter....
September 22, 2003
"'Pristine' Amazon boasted
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cities...
September 8, 2003
Well, here's "The Subterranean Fortress", the
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st, most extensive hand-built private bunker ever made in the United States...
August 25, 2003
* CSX Corporation, the third
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st U.S. railway (halting passengers and freight...
August 4, 2003
It is official U.S. policy to encourage people to buy
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r, less efficient cars: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after concerns wer...
July 8, 2003
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box. The Center encourages such sit...