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December 20 to 31, 2005
Unsurprisingly, Apple cripp
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the iPod to prevent high-quality recording. Here's a hack to enable it, although it may only work on 3rd-gen iPods...
Detai
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, richly colored scientific photography...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
There was a lot of news this week, but the big news was the release of Apple's new system upgrade, cal
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"Tiger". I've tested the heck out of it and it seems stable and faster...
Some privacy measures are at least being considered for the new RFID-enab
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U.S. passport...
Bamboo bikes could be a great industry for bamboo-fil
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regions...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you're switching to a Mac, it's now cheaper to get your HP or Dell PC recyc
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What does it matter, when U.S. teens are taking more legal drugs than illegal ones? They're cal
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"Generation Rx"...
Loss of habitat and food has
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to a steep decline in the Monarch butterfly population...
April 11 to 17, 2005
And the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 reports your document-viewing activities to third parties without your know
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ge...
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...
Efficient hydroponic growing - did you know that clorophyll runs on red light? Lettuce matures three times faster when growing under red
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s, which also cut electric bills by 60%...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A small fake survey
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94% of respondents to give enough information to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
Meanwhile, Burger King rol
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out a sandwich with 730 calories and 47 grams of fat...
March 14 to 20, 2005
James Dyson's new vacuum cleaner's cal
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"The Ball" - instead of pushing it back and forth, you roll it around...
How fast can mistakes travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test blast cal
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"Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite international attention, the effort fai
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. "It's just a bunch o...
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...
A muralist is jai
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for painting breasts in a Michelangelo reproduction on a wall outside his studio...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfettered" access to the White House and CIA documents was revea
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as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
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...
Using Skype (voice over the Internet), John Perry Barlow was cal
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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...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bund
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with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
January 10 to 16, 2005
"Babylon Wrecked by War: US-
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Forces Leave a Trail of Destruction and Contamination in Architectural Site of World Importance"...
The detai
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and pretty scientific art of Ernst Haeckel, 1899-1904...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The State of Virginia allows hybrid cars to drive in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and this has
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to so many hybrid vehicles being bought that now Virginia's HOV lanes are clogged with the...
Want to know where your package goes? This student mai
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a disposable camera, encouraging all who hand
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it to take a photo. An insightful look into the U.S. Postal Service...
A Marine is jai
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for refusing to pick up a gun, citing religious reasons...
By the way, that $350 million the U.S. p
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ged for the tsunami effort equals 42.27 hours of the war in Iraq...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A detai
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technical analysis of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, which consumes 35% of ALL internet traffic...
Self-service USPS stamp machines have been taking people's photos without their know
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ge, courtesy of the FAA...
Precast concrete walls that use recyc
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material and are up to 50% more energy efficient than regular walls...
December 6 to 12, 2004
A paper vase made of recyc
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design magazines...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The most inclusive church ad I've seen is refused by TV stations due to controversy - the ad depicts the church allowing blacks, the disab
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, and gays...
The
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artwork of James Clar...
November 22 to 28, 2004
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
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light to se...
Unfortunately, these same dolphins may have already been kil
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by poachers...
November 8 to 14, 2004
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detai
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Web site describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
"Living Outside Inside" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
November 1 to 7, 2004
An image of Bush label
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"asshole" on CNN thanks to an intern...
October 4 to 10, 2004
With this application and a GPS-enab
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phone, you can walk around town and see which places are contributing money to which political parties. Get a rough idea of the political leanings and wealth o...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skil
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people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new travel survey "found Hawaii consistently fell below most competitor destinations in offering good value for the money and unspoi
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beauty. Also, Japanese visitors did not view the islands a...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"From the time that Hawai'i first became a strategic American outpost in the Pacific, the military has condemned thousands of acres of state and private land for training and military bases...
The CyberLite
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is one of the products made with the above methods...
U.S. broadband triples in three years. 75% use cable, only 15% use DSL: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=FCC--Broadband-Usage-Has-Trip
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&story_id=2687...
The story of an architect who batt
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breast cancer to remake a minimalist home for $50,000...
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...
"Despite a strong state economy, the homeless rate in Hawaii has nearly doub
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over the past four years, and the majority of the new homeless are native Hawaiians and those with some Hawaiia...
The world's first detai
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view (and reconstruction) of an Egyptian mummy's face, without disturbing the wrappings, thanks to multidetector computed tomography...
This was popular: 3 kil
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, 17 injured in Saudi Arabia at a stampede for discounts at an IKEA store...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabe
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hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
A conversation with a friend
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to a discussion of Irwin Park, the park by Aloha Tower that was originally mandated to be a park but is now a parking lot...
The
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balloon lamp...
The detai
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pixel art of eboy...
August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the bigger, hidden economic net benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
The new, groovy world of open-source business models: http://news.com.com/Breaking+the+rules+with+open+source/2100-7344_3-5290983.html?tag=nefd.
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Clubbo Music, a fabulously detai
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and funny site about a nonexistant record label...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Quantum computing breakthrough - a single electron's spin is control
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using ordinary transistors...
An
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research breakthrough may lead to
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s replacing lightbulbs in five years...
July 12 to 18, 2004
This critically acclaimed limited edition CD is causing a buzz in the underground music scene - this melancholy, slightly psychedelic, acoustic music is a new musical category cal
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"neofolk" o...
July 5 to 11, 2004
"Movie piracy on Internet cal
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an epidemic"...
Made out of Maui bamboo, this flute-like instrument is cal
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"the Bamboo Sax"...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Here's a 48-minute show cal
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"Exposed: The Carlyle Group", which aired on TV in the Netherlands...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This has been popular, but I love the quote: "[Defense] firms are about to pitch "a frightening new breed of stun gun" to police in America and Europe that has left human rights groups appal
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abou...
Replace your old flashlight bulbs with brighter, longer-lasting
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s...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gadgets Rol
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Out" A nice summary of the Society for Information Display's internationa...
"The Organic Foods Movement -
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by Heinz Corporation or We the People?...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Ryan Wieber was hired by LucasArts at 19 for his homemade lightsaber special effects that rival
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that of Hollywood's...
A legend in urban design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has written a new book analyzing North American culture cal
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"Dark Ages Ahead"...
May 17 to 23, 2004
1) We have no right to complain. "Americans entit
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to cheap gas -- right?...
The first 40-inch organic
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display...
The story of a really, really bad neighbor: http://www.mostemai
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.com/images/misc/badNeighbour...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The first criminal charges under the nation's "can-spam" laws have been fi
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...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million instal
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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...
April 12 to 18, 2004
It's the 10th anniversary of unsolicited commercial email, aka spam. Yay, not. On my servers I got about 1,500 spams daily until I instal
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a custom filtering system. Now it's down to about 20, bu...
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 know
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ge...
Some guy hooked up a music-generating apparatus control
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by six live hampsters. It's actually pleasant music...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compel
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, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
Magazines about homes - cal
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"shelter magazines" - are taking off despite an overall decrease in magazine sales, with 40 launched in 2002 alone...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Energy bill would improve economic stability - A bill that maps an energy strategy for Hawaii appears stal
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in the Legislature....
March 15 to 21, 2004
Anti-vandal technology has been instal
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that detects spray can sounds. Of course, once the above device is marketed, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
Dasani bott
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water pul
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from all shelves in the UK after large amounts of a carcinogen is found in it...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unvei
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. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfang
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ideas in their release, which translates int...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Heard of SCO, that company that's suing Linux users? According to an acknow
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ged memo, Microsoft may be funding them to the tune of $86 million... but it is clear that Microsoft wishes to fund SC...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of reality simulation: where 20 years ago a shoot-'em-up game took one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized know
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ge o...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jai
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for falsifying computer records.....
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, cal
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X(3872)...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Are you a "pack rat"? "Facing jail because his house is fil
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to the brim, a hoarder finds hope in a woman with a talent for organizing...
The woman who claimed to be tramp
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at Wal-Mart after Thanksgiving has been found to have fi
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16 previous claims from various businesses...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Some Thanksgiving sale goodness-this one made all the papers: "Woman knocked unconscious by trampling shoppers" ...and this happened at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.....
November 17 to 23, 2003
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, the Next Big Thing in display technology (a nice overview if you're not familiar): http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/11/19/hln.wired.o
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s/index.htm...
A working nano-transistor has been self-assemb
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using biology for the first time. A first step to building self-assembling molecular computers...
The first genetically engineered pet goes on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (cal
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GloFish)...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Everything that Wired Magazine has cal
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"a thing of the past"...
October 14, 2003
Homeland Defense employee has his German fiance detained, handcuffed, jai
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, and after 20 hours without food, shipped back to Germany, without being officially arrested, a la "The Patriot Act".....
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and light show using computer graphics cal
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SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 2, 2003
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s and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to
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s rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...
August 25, 2003
Promising biomass-based power generation technology "Fue
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by sawdust pellets, corncobs or coconut shells, BioMax generates electricity for rural towns, businesses...
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
At CNN, 75% of those pol
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said they'd move if they disagreed with their country's policies...
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...