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December 20 to 31, 2005
However,
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-term toxicity questions remain unanswered...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
"Does the Future Be
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to China?...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep contents colder an hour
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er, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
The beautiful
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-lost music of Red Hash, circa 1973...
April 18 to 24, 2005
An impressive photographic archive of mistakes. Check out "lost my job" and "women live
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er"...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Stats on how many forms of mainstream media are doing in terms of popularity: http://
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tail.typepad.com/the_
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The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming popular among college students, who use it to concentrate and stay awake for
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periods at a time...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, open-source technology unencumbered by patents is allowing micro-startups to evolve better technology faster with less resources and funding. I hope new breeds of VCs come a
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to fil...
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and
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lines...
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...
Meanwhile, here's the best a
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those lines that humans can do so far. We have a
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way to go...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Hey America - India isn't going to take the same kind of economic smackdown you gave Japan not so
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ago...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Is Hawaii turning into a consumption-addicted haven for the wealthy at the expense of
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-time residents and native familes? The state's only international cargo shipping terminal is near capacity...
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
Australian scientists prove that less trees a
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the Amazon River mean less rain...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The court be
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s to the Burj Al Arab, purported to be the world's best and most luxurious hotel. Here's an opulent virtual tour...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A
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side 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...
Podcasting is getting more media attention, a
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with front page space in USA Today. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting right now...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Everybody learned that you no
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er have the right to publish photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...
Personally, I think mercury in fish over
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periods could be a factor...
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...
January 17 to 23, 2005
It's been a
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time since I've forwarded anything by the Onion...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Here's what "Auld Lang Syne" really means. The song has a
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, fascinating history...
More on Michelin's air-less tire, which lasts two to three times
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er than conventional tires...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Mark Morford details the
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history of rock and roll selling out to corporate interests...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the fact that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring war over peace...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Some think RSS is just a fad, but I think it's a
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-term enabling technology - "RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy"...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Can't We All Just Get A
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October 25 to 31, 2004
"No
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er a Christian"...
October 18 to 24, 2004
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. A
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these lines, it's your fault every time your PC crashes, too...
October 11 to 17, 2004
An astute reader points out that hyaluronic acid, which has been touted as an "anti-aging remedy", is found in taro (used for poi, the Hawaiian food staple). Here's the connection to a
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-live...
October 4 to 10, 2004
"The
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Tail...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"Bush: 'Our
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National Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
This week's 12 and 16-year-olds marked as terrorists and apprehended by the Secret Service: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/
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island/ny-likid0904,0,892344.story?coll=ny-topstories-headline...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Land-rich Hawaiians can no
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er afford to live on Maui due to zooming property taxes. Such is the inevitable spiral of selling land, development, gentrification, and overcrowding. "We're no...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! 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 12 to 18, 2004
One of my favorite sci-fi authors, Bruce Sterling, gives a hilarious, philosophical, and insightful talk about the "singularity", the point at which the pace of technology becomes too fast t...
According to European copyright law, Elvis' first big hit will enter the public domain in 2005, a
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with a lot of other still-selling music...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Replace your old flashlight bulbs with brighter,
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er-lasting LEDs...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Artificial muscle technology is coming a
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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 be
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ed to home users an...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"The share of the economic pie going to wages and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and perhaps
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er....
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
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er than a day.....
February 16 to 22, 2004
"Pro
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ed exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common household devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according t...
Some of the funniest, most creative uses of Photoshop I've seen in a
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time.....
Ibogaine (illegal in the U.S.) and its miraculous effect on
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-term hard-core drug addicts... "Our first round in St. Kitts, we treated six individuals, and I will go to my grave with the memory o...
February 9 to 15, 2004
A Swedish company has developed an environmentally friendly way to dispose of (and recycle) bodies. This is as opposed to the current methods, whose byproducts are polluting incinerators, toxi...
January 19 to 25, 2004
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similar lines, the Frito-Lay corporation would like to substitute one of the "food pyramid" groups with its products...
December 8 to 14, 2003
4) Thanks to large-scale gerrymandering, voters are no
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er choosing members to the House of "Representatives" and politics are becoming even more polarized...
When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the
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est line ever seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10
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city blocks...
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
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er considered a rare condition...
September 15, 2003
Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (
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a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a Mac and wrote two articles about the experience... "It just works... an option that'...
September 8, 2003
A great story about Disney's biggest fans, and an interesting comparison to Talmudic scholarship. Is God really in the details, and are details necessary for organizational and religious
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evity...
August 12, 2003
...then I predict that it won't be too
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before we start seeing phones that notify you when a potential "best match" for you is close by...
As people begin their life as a captured stream of digital documents, we'll be seeing more of this. A great idea would be to create software that allows people to create life
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free-form digita...
July 8, 2003
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with findings that 78% of surveyed consumers feel RFID is negative for privacy and 61% fear its health consequences....