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December 20 to 31, 2005
A nice
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of free Windows software that doesn't come with spyware, adware, virii, or other nasty things...
A lot of people are eating Splenda, the latest sugar substitute: http://www.ho
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icmed.com/splenda...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hey ladies! Here's why geeks and nerds are worth it! http://hartford.craigs
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.org/about/best/sfo/66795671.htm...
April 18 to 24, 2005
High-Tech Junk http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1292&e=1&u=/mc/20050421/tc_mc/appleceoslamsenvironmenta
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satannualmeeting&sid=9557366...
The miniMate adds extra storage and ports to your Mac mini. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck though: http://www.micronet.com/General/prod
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.asp?CatID=99&Cat=Produc...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Someone crossed Google Maps with Craigs
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housing ads...
A profile on one of the first real 21st century superstars, journa
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, blogger, polyglot, and hot babe Xeni Jardin...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
History, Patents, and You http://
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s.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk...
Need to sleep?
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en to the sleepbot environmental broadcast. They should license this service to hotels...
Very cool drag-and-drop sortable
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s with CSS and JavaScript. Let's see a music play
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interface...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
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...
The beneficial powers of darkness and
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ening to one's body clock...
A lot of people commented this week on Tom Waits' top 20 albums of all time, a great
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worth hearing. Why isn't there an iTunes Music Store play
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of this stuff...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Andrew Sullivan observes how the iPod is isolating society. Well, how about allowing others to
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en to your iPod wirelessly, Apple? Unite the world with music...
Irresponsible trapping over decades has psychologically changed monkeys in India to the point that "simian aggression has reached alarming proportions"...
There's lots of great interface ideas and art in the Flash Film Festival fina
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s...
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en to Dr. Demento shows online...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specia
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which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
More TV shows should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while
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ening to this podcast with show commentary at the same time...
Here's a helpful
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of resources to use for when your iPod battery dies...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
Ancient computer ads. 32KB RAM, wow! http://www.1000bit.net/
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a/dati/altos/altos2086_ad.jp...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
February 14 to 20, 2005
This was deservedly popular this week - a great
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of the top 100 gadgets of all time...
A mura
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is jailed for painting breasts in a Michelangelo reproduction on a wall outside his studio...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Taking a photo in a public area? Carry a
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of your rights as a photographer...
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journa
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who had "unfettered" access to the White House and CIA documents was revealed as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
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...
Yet even more bad album covers - here's a top ten
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January 24 to 30, 2005
The top 100 soundtracks of all time: http://rateyourmusic.com/
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s/
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_id=5399&show=50&start=...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of
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ening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
Frequent traveler and ace writer Cory Doctorow was questioned at the airport by American Airlines personnel and asked for a written
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of his friends' addresses. Here's his story...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can
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en to every sound that humans use to communicate...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to
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en to all nominated songs in the "Record of the Year" category via iTunes...
November 8 to 14, 2004
So maybe that "who voted by IQ" article last week was a little bogus. But here's a verifiable
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of the most charitable states versus how they voted...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Here's a
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of "human universals"...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Incredible photorea
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ic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Beer may have the same benefits as wine: http://communications.uwo.ca/media_newsroom/story.html?
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ing_id=14653&PHPSESSID=f154f9a200e1883aa69ae681fa5c06b...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to remake a minima
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home for $50,000...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
From May to July the U.S. produced 86% of the worldwide volume of spam: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/US-Still-Tops-Spammer-
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-36128.htm...
Free, unedited, translated daily TV news programs from the Middle East: http://www.archive.org/movies/movies
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ing-browse.php?collection=independent_news&cat=Mosai...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Art from 1920's Japanese children's books. Nice Web design here, too, despite tiny text: http://www.kodomo.go.jp/gallery/digi/KODOMO_WEB/gallery/g_
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_e.htm...
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 item...
July 12 to 18, 2004
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en to the entire album here...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Spider-Man 2, done with legos: http://play
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.yahoo.com/makeplay
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.dll?id=1277883&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=40...
A new club in the UK invites people to play their iPod play
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for 15 minutes...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Thousands of truckers, bus drivers and rest-stop workers are being en
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ed to spot terrorists"...
The heartwarming story of independent, garage-based SomaFM, which broadcasts worldwide to 8,000
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eners a day...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Have you seen the live music archives at archive.org? http://www.archive.org/audio/etree
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ing-browse.ph...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Remember the photo diary of that Russian motorcyc
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touring around Chernobyl? It turns out that it was a fake...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
More pictures of the eco-prefab Glidehouse: http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/fab
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/031_Glidehouse_FL/glidehousestatus/sunsetglidehouse-interior.ht...
The entire Grateful Dead live music vaults are now online at the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree
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ing-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dea...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Another journa
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tries an all- McDonald's diet, with surprising results...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Your computer's security may be compromised just by
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ening to it (acoustic cryptanalysis)...
Funny
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s from a publisher on sci-fi and horror plots that are submitted too often...
April 19 to 25, 2004
If you
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en to a CD I give you, will you be busted? As part of a nationwide crackdown, the FBI raided Deer Valley High School...
RIAA Radar has been around for a while now, but their tools are getting better - support non-RIAA labels and check out their top 100
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s - there's some great music here...
April 12 to 18, 2004
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en to it here...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Here's Wing (sorry, not Wings). For your own protection, limit yourself to one of any of the following songs: http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/
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en.htm...
Kids can now pretend they're hunting shoe bombers with the Playmobil Security Check-In set...
A good review of a new book that refuses to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmenta
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s and the timber industry in Northern California...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A
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of current scandals in the government...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The New York Times refused to run this article - the journa
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posted it himself online instead. Here's a good idea to help offset online "sharing" - a $60 per year charge for broadband users...
The FBI gathered hotel guest
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information on 270,000 in Las Vegas...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Lots of end-of-year
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s popped up here and there. Here's a few: The 2003 year in pictures, from the San Francisco Chronicle...
Does anyone in Oahu need a free business-class RICOH FT7870 copy machine? I'm not sure if it's been sold yet: http://honolulu.craigs
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.org/zip/19133472.htm...
December 8 to 14, 2003
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...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Kev's news is now using a mailing
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program, which means that people can subscribe and unsubscribe automatically, all from...
Craigs
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Honolulu is up and running! Tell everybody to use it...
November 10 to 16, 2003
"Play
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November 3 to 9, 2003
Scientists are now visiting "traditional herba
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s" in search of breakthrough drugs...
October 14, 2003
The FCC is not really on your side, people, despite their "do not call"
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.....
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socia
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computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
September 8, 2003
The Global Rich Lis...
September 2, 2003
An award-winning British journa
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leaves the US after six years but finds it again at a Patti Smith concert. Lots of nice little facts in this article.....
July 21, 2003
Just released last month, Second Life is perhaps the closest thing to wide-scale cyberspace today. A journa
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is covering its own culture as it evolves...
July 8, 2003
PR firm Fleischman-Hillard's confidential "Managing External Communications" suggests a variety of strategies to help the Auto-ID Center "drive adoption" and "neutralize opposition," including th...