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April 25 to May 1, 2005
An "alarming number" of young American girls are taking steroids to emulate the
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of "models and movie stars"...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Here's what your recycled, shredded HP PC could
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like. If these photos give you a cathartic release, then it's time to make the trade...
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire recording interface I've ever seen.
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s like it should be excellent for recording on the road with a laptop...
April 11 to 17, 2005
I get some traffic to this site from people
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ing for information on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with information on artists, albums, influences, and musi...
SVG will radically change how the Web
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s and feels. It will be making its debut in Web browsers very soon...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Entire city blocks are being purchased as malls and made up to
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exactly like - city blocks. Corporate community centers, parks, and villages are the new development trend in America...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes.
look
ing at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Here's a crab-cracking tool that's well-designed due to
look
ing at the problem from a novel perspective...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Contact lenses are being used for all sort of things these days. Here's some fashion glitter contacts that
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pretty sexy...
Here's what sumo wrestlers eat to grow weight, and the recipe for making it.
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s delicious...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
What a cell phone bomb trigger
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s like...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In related news, a man connects a Mac mini to a 60-inch TV and creates a spectacular-
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ing media center. It ends up being far more capable and much, much smaller than any of the other boxes attache...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Intellifit system is a 360-degree body scanner that creates accurate measurements in 10 seconds. Ever seen the 1981 sci-fi movie "
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er"...
U.S. cities are increasingly
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ing into tapping ocean waves for power...
A nice-
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ing floating homes prototype...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
New modular, great
look
ing, eco-friendly rug systems...
January 24 to 30, 2005
All about the new spacesuit of the future, now under development at MIT. It
look
s nothing like those suits in "2001"...
Only nine chlorine plants in the U.S. put eight tons of mercury into the environment each year, although some say 65 more tons are unaccounted for annually. This is mostly due to the use of obsolet...
This Target ad is a clever
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into how design shapes our culture and environment...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Unfortunately, it
look
s like the GM power train in Hawaii's new hybrid buses is not quite as fuel efficient as promised...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Want to know where your package goes? This student mailed a disposable camera, encouraging all who handled it to take a photo. An insightful
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into the U.S. Postal Service...
An architecture firm is turning the considerable amount of waste from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office buildings and groovy-
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ing modern housing...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A nice-
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ing homemade iPod ad is the first true homebrew ad on the net...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Big-time convergence - this new home entertainment PC
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s like a Tivo on steroids...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An insightful
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into the life of a professional logo designer...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating
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into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
It would be nice to see evoting receipts that
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ed like this...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Here's what the map would have
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ed like if the election were up to voters age 18 to 29...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so popular, everyone knows what they
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like by now...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Proper evoting system usability means much more than just
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ing at the voting process alone. Here's the informal usability report I prepared on the eSlate system in September 2004...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Tutorial D"
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s like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL database language. I hope it takes off...
A design analysis of Kerry and Bush's campaign logos. I agree, the Kerry design
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s wimpy and old school...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Here's what the mailer
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ed like...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Do these
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like crosses to you...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local Arts and Designs Hawaii is one of the toughest states for those involved in the arts to make a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
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...
They're not inspiring. The difficulty in developing a pat symbol for higher learning in Hawaii is a symptom of the loss of core, uniquely Hawaiian values and culture. Logo makers should
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into th...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An inside
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at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit because he had no confidence it would be popular. He works for Microsoft now...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Second, the Carlyle Group is
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ing to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just part of their recent massive purchases of telecoms in the Pacific region. The deal is "complex", as it involves a number o...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A pre-wired, pre-plumbed, cheap 280 square- foot modern modular housing unit that
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s decent...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on how to make your Windows PC
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just like a modern Mac...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Childhood obesity in the United States
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s significantly worse than previously believed, suggests the largest assessment ever of public school students....
May 24 to 30, 2004
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Seattle's new public library
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s quirky outside but is astounding inside. May make you rethink the role of (public) architecture. And check out the great VR movies...
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
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s and feels like ...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
More news about the amazing Toyota Volta (the first hybrid sports car) which
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s great, goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and gets 40 mpg...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A new firefighting chemical
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s and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
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...
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ing at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a
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at the data...
March 8 to 14, 2004
These fake tattoo sleeves
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pretty cool - would be great for Halloween, parties, or fitting in at the local biker bar...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
Also (to be) shown at the show, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It
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s groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
February 23 to 29, 2004
10 million Pacific giant crabs are invading Norway's coast and destroying the local ecology. "But Glenn, a 30-year-old car mechanic, replied: 'It's true the seabed now
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s like the Sahara but the...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Going through the Frankfurt airport? You may have to
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through their new retinal scanning system...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a
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at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Did you have champagne over the holidays? Tiny bubbles are better - when picking champagne,
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for more, smaller bubbles...
December 1 to 7, 2003
How Michael Jackson would have
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ed without the plastic surgery...
November 24 to 30, 2003
I didn't think Michael Jackson could
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worse... (picture...
September 8, 2003
The best article so far on the Aquada, the first amphibious sports car that actually
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s sporty...
Visionary architect Eugene Tsui Why generic "modernism" is a plague, and how to design a humane future: "
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at a box-shaped house - it wastes so much space and so much material, it is structurall...
August 25, 2003
Affected by the recent computer viruses? The solution: 1) Don't use Out
look
. 2) Don't use Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows machine this week. In over 1...
July 14, 2003
So what does Mr. Winkle
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like? See:...