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December 20 to 31, 2005
The Black Keys
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some great lo-fi blues rock. Some say they're better than the White Stripes...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hey, Silicon Valley people! Blue Lava Wireless, which
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s Tetris for cell phones, was acquired for $137 million...
...are made possible by a price war between Taiwan and South Korea, which
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90% of the world's LCD monitors...
I just want to
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a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
Scientists
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bacteria behave like computers...
Distracting TV visuals
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people forget, regardless of age...
I recently revisited AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released last year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-use, powerful panorama
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r I've eve...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Here's what your recycled, shredded HP PC could look like. If these photos give you a cathartic release, then it's time to
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the trade...
And email
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s people way more stupid than pot anyway. Sorry...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of activists. Some use the latest technology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to
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their voices heard, an...
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can see how the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will
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use of this new tool to help enforc...
The "stratellite" can replace satellites at 1/10 the cost. Hopefully, it will
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cellphone towers obsolete...
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could
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instan...
Interactive textiles are changing the shape and texture of electronic gadgets: http://www.we-
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April 4 to 10, 2005
This new wireless USB prototype dongle will
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any USB device wireless...
A new military combat simulator stuns people via electric shock if shot. But the real news is that people really like games that hurt you: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/005249.ph...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Homeland Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll
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it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
Things to use when clean water gets scarce - the AquaPak costs a dollar to
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, runs on solar, and can purify up to four gallons of water a day...
Remember, the goal of the revolutionary artist is to
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revolution irresistible...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Contact lenses are being used for all sort of things these days. Here's some fashion glitter contacts that look pretty sexy: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/005055.ph...
Here's a cool new food trend - food balls! They can be very healthy, can be dipped, they're easy to pack and store,
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good snacks, and require no utensils to eat...
Macs are starting to
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under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A nice quote from the Molokai land flap mentioned last week: "The controversy is hard to explain from the Western perspective that land is something to be bought, owned and sold to
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profit.....
A planned device allegedly "destroys" RFID tags: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004957.ph...
Use this magnetic paint to
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any surface sensitive to magnetism. No idea if it's eco-friendly though...
Some artists are slicing up billboards, recombining them into new images: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004937.ph...
March 7 to 13, 2005
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and online personality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
Meanwhile, a demonstration of how a hacker could easily disable a U.S. energy utility
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s the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wish he'd "had a diaper on"...
This thinking also
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s for flyer-less surfaces...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Add this little gadget to your toilet to
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it dual flush - save lots of water and money...
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interactive Web apps with the SAJAX PHP toolkit...
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...
A "brain pace
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r" turned previously untreatable "beyond suicidal" people into antique dealers and PTA members. Ever seen "The Terminal Man"...
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...
Forget ringtones. The smart money is in toothbrushing music! "Several recording artists" are in talks: http://www.we-
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February 14 to 20, 2005
New groovy stuff from the DEMO 2005 conference! Here's Bubbler, an app that allows you to
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your own multimedia blogs, from Five Across...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Want to
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something that can help others? Consult 43 Things first to see what people want to do...
Recording an album? Here's how to
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an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini...
Here's the mp3, despite the fact that Simmons denied NPR permission to
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the recording available...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times car stereo manufacturers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
The first artificial neon sky show. Unfortunately, implications for advertising: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004348.ph...
This was popular - the sushi chef that prints his food from an inkjet: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004352.ph...
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your own fires in the coming apocalypse with this gadget...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Or how about emulating the business model of San Francisco's Brainwash, a successful cafe-and-laundromat that also sells t-shirts and hosts local musicians as well as comedy nights? They've got a We...
This was understandably popular - people are worrying about hybrid human/animal experiments, including human/rabbit egg combinations and mice with human brain cells...
Whole-grain foods are becoming an industry trend. Wonder Bread now
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s a whole-grain alternative, following "unprecedented consumer interest in healthier foods"...
Here's how to
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your own Life Poster with iPhoto...
Bembo's Zoo, which
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s animals out of letters. The site is fun for kids and designers...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A new cheap DVD recorder (sold at Wal-Mart for $140) may
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the VCR obsolete...
Cornell researchers figure out how to
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plastic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to use petroleum to
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plastics...
UCLA researchers have made microscopic robots powered by living heart cells: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004203.ph...
License to sit - this art piece reflects on our ever-growing "culture by permission": http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004218.ph...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Or are you a slavish Apple devotee that will buy anything they
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...
The
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rs of the popular Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG image files by up to 30%...
The Web and the Internet are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will
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societies more aware of the real costs of war...
For geeks only-the
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rs of Mr. Potato Head have come up with "Darth Tater"...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The story of 21 year-old Matt Leto, possibly the greatest video-game player ever. He likely holds over 800 world records and is set to
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six digits in competitions this year...
Do SUVs
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you stupid...
Has Somender Singh, a mechanic from India, developed an invention that
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s conventional engines 20% more fuel efficient...
Biojewelry - grow a ring from your own bone tissue: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/004092.ph...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The corporate fallout detector: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003927.ph...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Relax - high blood pressure
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s you stupid...
Are Detroit auto
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rs missing the hybrid car revolution...
However, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy. Note that old computer monitors
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better used TVs than TVs...
Scientists figure out how to
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hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to power my car from my cell phone compost pile...
The most influential piece of modern art. Much progress can be made when you don't take yourself seriously: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003860.ph...
An interactive surface with virtual squiggly worms you can "pick up". I've always wanted to open a bar where the entire floor is a virtual interactive koi pond myself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Reality Literature http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003826.ph...
November 15 to 21, 2004
A new device
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s shop windows and other flat surfaces interactive...
Remember, every public Web page you
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in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
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money with ad tattoos - are you brandable?...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image
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rs in the 1992 presidential election...
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
Scientists have created the "photocapacitor", a more efficient solar cell/battery combination: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003681.ph...
It's said that good fences
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good neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detailed Web site describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This
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s a nice metaphor for th...
"Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Film
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rs" - the film "Tarnation" may have cost $200 to
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, but it cost $500,000 to clear the rights for it. Stric...
The story behind the five-year development of Half-Life 2, which could be one of the greatest PC videogames of all time and
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over $700 million in revenues worldwide...
Yes, you can filter cheap vodka to
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it taste better than expensive vodka, all with a Brita water filter pitcher and one hour...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Students in Kolkata, India made a jacket that gives a shock to potential molesters. 99% of Kolkata women surveyed want one: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003666.ph...
Nat'l Guard and reserve troops
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up 40% of U.S. troops in Iraq and get the worst armor and equipment...
Farms
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big bucks hosting concerts, selling t-shirts...
Interactive wallpaper is going commercial: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003637.ph...
October 25 to 31, 2004
A new prototype medical robot that's supposed to crawl through your intestines? Seems a little hard to swallow: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003528.ph...
New autostitching algorithms
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seamless panoramas a snap. Now will someone please
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a Photoshop plug-in or simple OSX GUI for this...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest labels over CD prices. This is basically a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels get squeezed, consumers get less choice...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Use Windows and
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a name for yourself! Regarding last week's item "Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plan pile-up"...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic
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s those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter written by a former Hart technician wh...
Surprise of the Week: having money doesn't
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you happy (and it doesn't build strong societies either)...
The 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners - including "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide": http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003228.ph...
September 20 to 26, 2004
IBM scientists figure out how to
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single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense storage media...
A new permanent coating prevents glass from fogging up and can
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solar cells more efficient...
The first dental chair to use bone-conducting speakers, preventing patients from drill noises: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/003070.ph...
New pressure-sensor arrays can give robots "skin": http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/092204/Flexible_sensors_
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_robot_skin%20_092204.htm...
"Auto
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rs Give Biodiesel a Boost...
Researchers are finding ways to reduce buckyball toxicity: http://news.com.com/Rice+lab+
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s+nano+parts+less+toxic/2110-7337_3-5381544.html?part=rss&tag=5381544&subj=news.7337.2...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Chinese net surfers are creating a new language, a mix of Chinese and English: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/002904.ph...
Second, they
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unfounded assumptions...
NEC announces biodegradable laptops: http://www.we-
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-money-not-art.com/archives/002902.ph...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How high-tech "fab labs" are training kids in impoverished countries to
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needed tools...
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to re
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a minimalist home for $50,000...
Design Web sites? These eyetracking test results can help you
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a more effective site...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Yay! Now developers are more free to
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truly revolutionary, innovation-promoting technology...
Unpatched PCs are compromised in 20 minutes. Someone should
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a tiny USB-powered firewall device for upgrading PCs...
Got an underperforming theater in your town?
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big bucks by using it for video gaming...
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your own mathematical fidget-toy from paper...
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
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a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
"Onion routing" may help
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anonymous communications over the net more secure...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
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
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rs should look into th...
The first magazine for technology projects, "
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An in-demand violin
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r in Berkeley creates quality violins with 200-year old wood from Lake Superior. Also an acupuncturist, he sees the vibrational connections between his vocations...
Today's laws basically
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the folk music tradition illegal...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory Web site registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and they can lead to identify theft. But how are sites to
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money? Just go to BugMeNot to get around sit...
About Dubai's crown price, the man behind the $3 billion Palm, the "eighth wonder of the world". He
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s $2 billion a year without even trying...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Hawaii has lots of red clay. Why not
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native seed balls and use them to quickly repopulate areas with native plants...
The popularity of the iPod is forcing
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rs of CD copyright-protection technology to switch formats...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Spider-Man 2, done with legos: http://playlist.yahoo.com/
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playlist.dll?id=1277883&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=40...
June 21 to 27, 2004
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks
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s his own equivalent textbooks and puts them online for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A section of the film explores the need for corporations to be more democratic. How about introducing software that enables companies to
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better group decisions? This isn't polling and it isn'...
Mentioned the other week as the key ingredient to self-cleaning windows, titanium dioxide is now being incorporated into clothing to
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them self-cleaning...
Out of jewel cases? Here's how to
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single and double CD holders out of a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on how to
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your Windows PC look just like a modern Mac...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and
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s the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
Personal photos by the master Russian film
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r Andrei Tarkovsky...
May 24 to 30, 2004
"How to
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friends by Telephone...
The latest advances in animation as developed by the
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rs of Shrek 2...
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to
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it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter
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s use of latent semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail...
Rupert Murdoch's first commercial waste-to-oil plant launched and
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s 200 barrels a day from the turkey processing plant next door. It's 80% efficient and runs on its own energy...
Seattle's new public library looks quirky outside but is astounding inside. May
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you rethink the role of (public) architecture. And check out the great VR movies...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-tech, and
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a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
5) Support sustainable architecture and treat architecture as part of the environment: "The McMansion Next Door - Why the American house needs a
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over" (10/2003)...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A scientist has been studying the sound of cells - they
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noises and sound different when healthy or diseased...
Here's a project that removes toxins from mining sites with crops and
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s a profit from gold harvested with the process...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Aspiring film
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r?
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your own Steadycam (camera stabilizer) for $14...
March 31, 2004
If local architects aren't willing to follow that cue, at least here's a translucent concrete material that can
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buildings appear light and airy instead:...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Some bands find their fans are donating thousands to charities to
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up for their file sharing...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Lawrence Lessig released his latest book, and you can download and read it for free. If living in an open, free culture is important to you, or if you take photos, draw, write,
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music, or i...
Thanks to a new bill just drafted. Read the book "Free Culture" first and then see if this
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s sense to you...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Books on how having more choices
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s you unhealthy and unhappy...
The swoosh of wind turbines
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s locals report ghosts. Again, noise cancellation technology may alleviate that...
"
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Global Warming an Issue", by Walter Cronkite...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Also (to be) shown at the show, the first hybrid sports car from a major auto
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r (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
1.8 tons of raw material are used to
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your average desktop computer and monitor. Upgrading rather than replacing your computer saves more energy than recycling it...
"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could
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sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
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...
The cat's out of the bag: the first decent mainstream article on the brilliant BitTorrent, the file sharing network that "
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s trading movies a breeze". As well as gigabytes of other stuff as well...
Face recognition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to
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a helmet," says [forme...
February 2 to 8, 2004
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an efficient, cheap camping stove out of aluminum cans...
January 19 to 25, 2004
A film
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r decides to
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a documentary - he'll eat nothing but McDonald's food 3 times a day for 30 days. The result? 25 more pounds, liver toxicity, high cholesterol, headaches, depression, an...
An aspiring film
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r made a splash at Sundance with the first feature-length film ever made with nothing but iMovie. Total cost of the production: $218...
December 22 to 28, 2003
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can
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vehicles up to 50 percent more efficient and is being tested on a city bus in the Netherlands...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Diebold, the
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r of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
1) It
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s you more susceptible to identity theft and spa...
And now, in complete contrast to the above... the Mushroom House, a beautiful handcrafted wooden house in Canada that took 22 years to
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...
November 3 to 9, 2003
But some of these healers are refusing to divulge information, saying they are not fairly compensated for their information - which could
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some biotech firms millions of dollars...
October 14, 2003
The main point of this is that now a single computer can replace an entire cellular tower's worth of expensive equipment. This means smaller installations and better coverage to rural areas. Plus i...
October 6, 2003
"Girl, 5,
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s bong in class...
September 22, 2003
About Stefanie Nagorka, who
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s spontaneous sculptures in Home Depot aisles wihout permission...
September 2, 2003
"Urban Sprawl
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s Americans Fat, Study Finds...
August 25, 2003
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-business view of one CEO who removed every bit of Microsoft software from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest tech wizardry
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s voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...
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...