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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...
iPod Stuff http://on
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.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB110373871528907298,00.html?mod=todays_free_featur...
The greatest opening song
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April 25 to May 1, 2005
The HD wildlife reel is stunning and played beautifully on my PowerBook G4 and should run fine on iMac G5s. The H.264 codec crushes the best codecs being used in movies distributed over file sharin...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Suspended animation gets one step closer to reality: http://www.timeson
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.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1579497,00.htm...
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...
Loss of habitat and food has led to a steep dec
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in the Monarch butterfly population...
April 11 to 17, 2005
"Half of U.S. taxpayers filing on
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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song on
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. Let's se...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long
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March 21 to 27, 2005
Anti-War Sentiment in Popular Culture http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/nyc-fockers0324,0,4148572.story?coll=ny-moviereview-head
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Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
BTW there are plenty of on
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resources today for anti-SUV bumper stickers...
Meanwhile, here's the best along those
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s that humans can do so far. We have a long way to go...
A compliment to last week's interview with Robert Crumb, an interview with A
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Kominsky-Crumb, his wife...
March 14 to 20, 2005
"Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming" - in case you needed visual proof: http://www.commondreams.org/head
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"Mercury Pollution, Autism Link Found - U.S. Study": http://www.commondreams.org/head
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March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of on
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recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
Here's twenty ways to say "no". Sadly, there are probably fewer ways to say "yes": http://www.on
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organizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=1...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and on
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personality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an on
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presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
Andrew Sullivan observes how the iPod is isolating society. Well, how about allowing others to listen to your iPod wirelessly, Apple? Unite the world with music...
A study found that most Americans would cut defense spending and spend more on education and job training: http://www.pipa.org/On
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Reports/budget/030705/html/more_03_07_05.html#...
Nike launches "Considered", an eco-friendly
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of shoes...
Listen to Dr. Demento shows on
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For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live content on
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- 2.6GB worth...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock dec
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s and poor business decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
Meanwhile, a man convicted of copying Oscar films on
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died in prison...
The on
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rerelease of the acclaimed animated short "Balance"...
One of the better on
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color scheme generators I've seen...
Smithsonian Global Sound, their new on
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music store offering the Smithsonian's world music collection...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny on
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vide...
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
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...
On
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creative guy zefrank made a nice movie of his Valentine's Day thoughts...
You can now order pizza directly from the on
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multiplayer game Everquest, which has over 400,000 global subscribers...
The Weekly Gloom and Doom http://www.timeson
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.co.uk/article/0,,3-1489955,00.htm...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Alongside the Super Bowl, the Discovery Channel ran the "Puppy Bowl", twelve hours of puppies playing on a football mat. It was a huge hit with viewers, who found it strangely addicting. You can bu...
The same developer made this chess program where one can see the
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s of strategy that the computer is considering...
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
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-in recordin...
This Week's Gloom and Doom http://www.commondreams.org/head
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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 on
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, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
This was the week of world-wide coincidences that could only happen thanks to the wonder of the Internet. Now that so many are sharing photos on
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, people are beginning to find interestin...
Newsweek on the dec
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of the American Dream...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Frequent traveler and ace writer Cory Doctorow was questioned at the airport by American Air
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s personnel and asked for a written list of his friends' addresses. Here's his story...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living cells - the
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between life and not-life is starting to get pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
The new 555-seat Airbus A380 is the world's biggest air
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r ever built. And it's more fuel efficient than your car...
A new book, "Collapse", explores the reasons behind the fall of once-great civilizations. It out
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s five causes: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, an...
"Babylon Wrecked by War: US-Led Forces Leave a Trail of Destruction and Contamination in Architectural Site of World Importance": http://www.commondreams.org/head
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January 1 to 9, 2005
Professor Francis Boyle, an expert on international law from the U. of Illinois, recently gave an informative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under international law...
The State of Virginia allows hybrid cars to drive in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and this has led to so many hybrid vehicles being bought that now Virginia's HOV lanes are clogged with the...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Hawaiian Air
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s and Island Air now support etickets...
Yahoo! Maps now overlays live traffic conditions on its maps. How about antialiasing those map
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s first before doing any new, folks...
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in on
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multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for social systems...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The spark
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PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of information in a compact, useful way...
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
"US Army plagued by desertion and plunging morale": http://www.timeson
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.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1397131-3,00.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
New technology helps people from having their pictures taken by unwanted photographers: http://www.timeson
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.co.uk/article/0,,2-1353482,00.htm...
"Pro-Bush Think-Tank Claims Climate Change May Be Good": http://www.commondreams.org/head
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November 15 to 21, 2004
The Internet Security Key safeguards your kids from on
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porn...
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 on
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The former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his thoughts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based on
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encyclopedia that passed 401,000 articles recently...
"Towards Alternative Cities, the Green-Friendly Way" http://www.commondreams.org/head
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The coolest fractal art I've seen on
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The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album on
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, they've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening interview...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Front
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this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a large-scale test of Internet over power
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s in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
An interesting interview with a man that has collected over 900,000 mp3 files on
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, for posterity's sake...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Election Hangover http://www.news8austin.com/content/head
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s/?ArID=122743&SecID=...
Boeing's high-tech 7E7 jet
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r slated for a 2008 launch will finally allow cabin humidity to approach humane levels...
This was all over the news - Americans are getting heavier, leading to tons of extra weight and fuel for air
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s. And 3.8 million more tons of carbon dioxide in the air...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums...
Best Buy opens on
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photo processing labs...
"Technology used to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the workplace"...
The rock band Marillion asked on
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fans to contribute money towards new albums - and has raised almost $1 million so far...
October 18 to 24, 2004
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these
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s, it's your fault every time your PC crashes, too...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"McDonald's Losing Revenue in World-Wide Market" http://www.thehilltopon
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.com/news/2003/04/11/NationWorld/Mcdonalds.Losing.Revenue.In.WorldWide.Market-415308.shtm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i Business Express", which allows one to start a business easily on
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via all the relevant departments. Unfortunately, ending a business is still ...
Finally, a startup uses BitTorrent-like tech for on
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movies...
A UK photo exhibit shows real people next to their on
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virtual 3D character...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Telcos' latest shot in the broadband war - TV over phone
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s...
"Greenlanders Mystified by Incredible Shrinking Glacier": http://www.commondreams.org/head
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September 20 to 26, 2004
The popular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's nothing wrong with more bus
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s, but now there's less character, no open-air transportation with wide views, and less fun for tourist...
In response to on
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classifieds, newspapers are holding their own local auctions...
September 13 to 19, 2004
XM radio offers on
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streaming music...
September 5 to 12, 2004
You can read the whole thing on
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...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Outsourcing Greed http://www.commondreams.org/head
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This week's 12 and 16-year-olds marked as terrorists and apprehended by the Secret Service: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-likid0904,0,892344.story?coll=ny-topstories-head
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August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in
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at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
The search for the elusive blue rose: http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-sci-bluerose13aug13,1,5778837.story?coll=la-head
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s-technolog...
$8.8 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars gone missing in Iraq - *poof* just like that: http://www.commondreams.org/head
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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...
A great business model for on
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publishing - "fast turnaround e-books"...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure on
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Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
About the new on
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TV-show swapping culture...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of on
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album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they starting to get a clue...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect): http://www.post.ch/SiteOn
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/EN/Accueil/1,1727,18202,00.htm...
A 11.7 foot high-resolution screen is displayed at a homeland security conference: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2004/040727.Berto
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.Thomson.htm...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes on
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! 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...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get on
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anywhere in the U.S....
A photo tour of the N521DB, the luxury
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r used to transport the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after 9/11. It was also used by Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones...
The dark side of the obesity epidemic - parents struggle to keep their large kids from being locked up by authorities: http://www.spiked-on
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.com/Articles/0000000CA5E7.ht...
July 12 to 18, 2004
eMachineShop - design and machine custom mechanical parts on
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...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first recorded dec
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in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
Here's Doug Englebart's infamous 1968 demo, which originated the concept and also introduced the world to the mouse, word processing, hyperlinks, out
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editing, graphics editing, and more...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An article on those trying to get China to eat more vegetarian and less things like sparrow chicks, snake heads, and badgers. Old cultures are hard to change though. "Asked why she eats domestic cats...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and puts them on
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for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This is almost a non-news item - I got a pristine bootleg on
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the other day...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Front
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special, view it on
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...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Two teen poetry students give a public anti-Iraq/Bush reading. Their teacher is fired and the poetry club shut down...
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod every week. Now on
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groceries are coming back...
The entire Grateful Dead live music vaults are now on
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at the Internet Archive...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Read the 2004 Hugo nominees on
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. My favorites - Vernor Vinge, Michael Swanwick, and Catherine Asara...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* Delta Air
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Over ten years since the first Web survey mentioned women, marketers still have misconceptions about what women want on
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...
Funny lists from a publisher on sci-fi and horror plots that are submitted too often: http://www.strangehorizons.com/guide
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s/fiction-common.shtm...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Here's what the U.S. Army does to looters in Iraq (video clip from Front
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)...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-tech, and make a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
2) Support blending ethanol with gaso
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, and support the growth of local ethanol manufacturers. Which raw (waste) materials are cost-effective to import to Hawaii to produce ethanol? Does importin...
A review of the first electronic paper- based reading device and its implications for libraries, books, and traditional reading habits: http://www.guardian.co.uk/on
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/story/0,3605,1197495,00.htm...
The winners of the 2004 "Lyttle Lytton" contest, for the worst opening
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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...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
United Air
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s announced that more than 2 million customers used their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern air
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can survive without them. Actually, that could be a great business ...
Drug company GlaxoSmithK
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used orphans as guinea pigs in potentially dangerous medical experiments...
Rapid Growth of "Dead Zones" in Oceans Threatens Planet: http://www.commondreams.org/head
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March 15 to 21, 2004
A steep dec
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in "birds, butterflies and native plants" in Britain is alarming scientists...
Some independent music stores are finding that "file sharing can help create a buzz on
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that can lead to more sales"...
March 8 to 14, 2004
But I always enjoy the European take on these news items - "Fat of the land is killing more Americans than cigarettes": http://www.timeson
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.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1034026,00.htm...
A new sonic "construction set" has been released freely on
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which contains clips art and samples and breaks from the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. This allows people to create their own albums based o...
George Michael will offer his songs freely on
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from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power
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s. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
Wireless technology is helping native Americans in California go on
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and learn computing skills...
Spark
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s - a great way of compressing information, from Edward Tufte's upcoming book Beautiful Evidence...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (on
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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 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-
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system is being pioneered in Canada.....
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-page book on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed on
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for free...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Along similar
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s, the Frito-Lay corporation would like to substitute one of the "food pyramid" groups with its products...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"The average age of people who buy fitness equipment is 31," Mr Martinez told BBC News On
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, "and the average age of gamers is 29....
January 5 to 11, 2004
The New York Times refused to run this article - the journalist posted it himself on
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instead. Here's a good idea to help offset on
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"sharing" - a $60 per year charge for broadband users...
A behind-the-scenes article on illegal on
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movie-swapping teams...
Burger King customers told: 'You are too fat to have a Whopper' http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853744.html?menu=news.latesthead
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The U.S. asks Australia's Qantas to ban bathroom
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s on flights...
December 22 to 28, 2003
63 percent of Americans are now on
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...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Why should you vote, if: http://www.commondreams.org/head
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When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest
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ever seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
"Motorist gets vehicle registered on
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during traffic stop...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Why frivolous software patents suck - here's all the patents you're violating now by setting up an on
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store...
The "on
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citizen movement" MoveOn is getting stronger.....
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 10 to 16, 2003
A study of the Web sites of the ten presidential candidates found that most violated speed and accessibility guide
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s. The worst offender with the most code-bloated, inefficient, inaccessible We...
October 27, 2003
Like facts? The 2002 State of Hawaii Fact Book is now on
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...
October 20, 2003
* The average Wal-Mart worker lives under California's poverty
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September 30, 2003
SkyHigh Air
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September 8, 2003
Whew, lots of interesting things this week popped up... http://www.commondreams.org/head
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August 25, 2003
The winners in nerve.com's pickup
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contest, successfully used
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s, and miserable failures...
August 12, 2003
This has been making the rounds... you know you want one: http://www.commondreams.org/head
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Potential Date Alerts http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=7&u=/nm/20030807/wr_nm/tech_ton
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July 28, 2003
There are now over 2 million people in U.S. prisons, one for every 143 citizens: http://www.commondreams.org/head
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