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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
last
s", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
The "gallery of computation" has gotten both larger and more varied over the
last
year or so. Great stuff...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
I recently revisited AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released
last
year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-use, powerful panorama maker I've eve...
Why is the FBI p
last
ering notices all over CDs, to the dismay of artists and consumers alike...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The EU
last
year fined Microsoft $700 million for abusing its near-monopoly in the software industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
The sandal-combination-bottle opener! Perfect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned
last
week...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Low-power FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio networks, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature
last
week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
An interview with the CEO of the
last
pinball machine manufacturer on Earth...
A more balanced, scenario-laden view of the U.N.-backed Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, mentioned
last
week...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Also, industry groups are trying to figure out just how long CDs and DVDs should
last
...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Don't waste paper or p
last
ic when shopping - carry around a key chain tote bag...
Environment Hawaii, an independent, nonprofit, award-winning publication that has been around for nearly 15 years may be going out of business due to lack of financial support. It's the
last
100...
At
last
, "rising gas prices threaten viability of biggest SUV sales". Note that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them farther to boot...
A compliment to
last
week's interview with Robert Crumb, an interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his wife...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A nice quote from the Molokai land flap mentioned
last
week: "The controversy is hard to explain from the Western perspective that land is something to be bought, owned and sold to make profit.....
How fast can mistakes travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test b
last
called "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Extreme bomb b
last
s are causing an "alarming increase" in the amount of Iraqi vets with brain damage...
A friend wrote this article about the Kolea, a five ounce bird that has been flying from Alaska to Hawaii annually for the
last
120,000 years...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Vapo-B
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er is the new high-tech bubble-making weapon of choice...
There will be no encryption on new U.S. e-passports, even though they could be read stealthily from 30 feet away...
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...
I went to the
last
meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's group organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at CommerceNet. If you'd like to get your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
A review of the latest homemade flight simulators from the
last
few years...
It's true, the International Monetary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as noted by a former banker in this article mentioned
last
year...
This is not new, but I must have forgotten to mention it here
last
year - the elegantly designed Toro(tm) tissue ring...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A transcript of Gene Simmon's very funny interview with Terry Gross on NPR, which was replayed
last
week...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the
last
iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
Sales of $1 million-plus homes in San Francisco grew an amazing 73%
last
year...
California's explosion of autism cases worsened
last
year...
Art must survive to nourish the spirit. Here's b
last
wall art in Baghdad...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It's time for Hawaii to promote innovate mixed-use businesses that foster community development. Mentioned
last
week was the concept of "bike stations", which could be placed next to mas...
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...
Introducing the spray-on p
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ic solar cell...
Fujitsu announced the development of plant-based p
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ic in PCs...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
Why don't local supermarkets sell reusable shopping bags at time of checkout? Here's how some towns in Australia managed to ban disposable p
last
ic bags at supermarkets, saving 350,000 bags in th...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Cornell researchers figure out how to make p
last
ic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to use petroleum to make p
last
ics...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Remember
last
year when an onboard Windows system crashed, trapping the Finance Minister of Thailand in his BMW...
Paper or p
last
ic? Neither. Here's a great answer to this question...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Nothing
last
s - Buddhist monks who have meditated on corpses find themselves well-suited to help with cremating thousands of tsunami victims. "We just sort of live in denial of the fact that we hav...
More on Michelin's air-less tire, which
last
s two to three times longer than conventional tires...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Tokyo U. invents a flexible p
last
ic scanner, perfect for digitizing old and fragile material...
Create your own mini office cubicle hell with the Cubes p
last
ic figure set...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Enter your ZIP code and get a b
last
map that shows the effects of a 10-kiloton nuclear b
last
in your area...
Build your own gramophone with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on CDs and p
last
ic cups and play them back...
November 8 to 14, 2004
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
Yes, those same Hart voting machines used in Hawaii caused a few problems in Texas. But here's what gets me... the article's
last
sentence reads "Election officials say eSlate machines are reliabl...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New gold CD-Rs are said to
last
300 years...
last
week's related post...
October 11 to 17, 2004
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school... STEWART: You need to go to one. Jon Stewart b
last
s big media on "Crossfire"...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Electricity-conducting p
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ic means lighter, smaller gadgets...
Use Windows and make a name for yourself! Regarding
last
week's item "Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plan pile-up"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Does anyone know of space for a gymnastics program that "put 11 kids on the national team
last
year"...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Regarding
last
week's item about fake tree-like cell phone masts...
Levis closes its
last
American factories...
"Bacteria Turn Toxins Into P
last
ic"...
More nifty pictures of the printed organic furniture mentioned
last
week...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
last
year's Labor Day vigil at the sacred hill Pu'u Ohau, at the edge of the unfinished elite Hokulia estate and golf course development on top of ancient Hawaiian burial grounds. Kupunas calle...
The first room temperature p
last
ic magnets are created...
Over the
last
20 years 4,000 corrupt Chinese officials have fled with over $600 million...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the
last
few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
This was popular
last
week - beautiful aerial photography...
August 2 to 8, 2004
last
year's "Most Discussed" award winner...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A reflection on the Walkman, which turned 25
last
month...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Did military sonar testing drive 200 whales to the beach off Kaua'i
last
week...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Replace your old flashlight bulbs with brighter, longer-
last
ing LEDs...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Drowning in an Ocean of P
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ic...
Never mind the news you've read
last
week about the lack of sex in Japan. I'm curious about "hikikomori", a contributing condition affecting one million teen boys - they never leave their rooms...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Drink beer to reduce liver damage! (see
last
week's "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Damage")...
This site was down for a week or two due to popularity - it's better than the
last
"infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so ago...
May 17 to 23, 2004
The beautiful story of the
last
pure Hawaiian land, and William Kaihe'ekai Mai'oho, whose family has guarded King Kamehameha's bones for 185 years...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glidehouse", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers
last
week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
I forgot to add this
last
week - killer whales are getting louder in response to the din of whale-watching boats...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Bad singing - it's in fashion again! William Hung is a plucky 21-year-old U.C. Berkeley engineering student who tried out for American Idol and was kicked off halfway through his audition. His firs...
You're more adaptable than you think. Check it out! This visual effect basically reprograms your neurotransmitters. Don't worry, the effects shouldn't
last
longer than a day.....
last
month saw the first arrest made possible by routine U.S. monitoring of email traffic...
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...
The
last
two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Microsoft reports that 16 million PCs were affected by the recent MSB
last
virus, ten times more than previously thought...
This was widely circulated
last
week. Lots of ammo building up on both side of the issue...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Musician Kevin Shields created one of the most expensive, influential and highly praised albums of the
last
two decades - "Loveless". Here's his first interview in 12 years...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Preventable deaths from obesity are overtaking tobacco - this was a pretty big news item
last
week...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Lawrence Lessig's article on why he thinks he lost
last
year's Supreme Court battle over copyright terms...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Apple had the largest earnings increase of tech companies
last
year, with a 552% jump in annual profits...
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
February 9 to 15, 2004
There was a little buzz around the net
last
week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the point at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently predicted to happen in 2015. Jo...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the
last
week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
January 19 to 25, 2004
The Dutchtub, a p
last
ic outdoor hot tub that requires no electricity, plumbing, or hot water. Faster and easier setup than a wood-fire tub...
December 22 to 28, 2003
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...
There were 40% more faxes
last
year than in 2001! ?Que pasa...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson popular) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
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 shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
This enables desktop-sized supercomputers and cell phones
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ing 60 hours...
December 1 to 7, 2003
How Michael Jackson would have looked without the p
last
ic 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 show up until page 122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The epidemic is so bad that the U.S. government
last
week developed a 10-year plan to battle it. Now it is thought to effect 6 of 1,000 kids: "Autism no longer considered a rare condition...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Kev's News: No matter what happens, there it is! Did you know that this is the Year of the Hawaiian Forest? In honor, here's a picture from
last
week of what they're replacing the forests with.....
A few medical breakthroughs
last
week you may have read about... "Liquid drano for arteries"...
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"...
20% less males aged 18 to 34 are watching TV compared to
last
year...
September 15, 2003
Also, reinforcing the "Apple = cool" theme from
last
week, the iPod is now featured in a hot new hip-hop music video by 50 Cent...
September 8, 2003
Ever see that movie "B
last
From The Past", about a man who spent 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter built by his dad...
August 25, 2003
I think this item ties in well with
last
week's item about the coral reefs dying. Aside from preserving beauty and diversity in the environment, there is great economic incentive to explore the thing...
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
July 21, 2003
Just released
last
month, Second Life is perhaps the closest thing to wide-scale cyberspace today. A journalist is covering its own culture as it evolves...
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...