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April 11 to 17, 2005
The iPod DJ mixer: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/musical-instruments/nu
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April 4 to 10, 2005
The
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et for dead celebrities has become quite lucrative. Bill Gates bought a lot of them recently...
How well is the U.S. doing regarding the 14 defining characteristics of fascism? You may not agree with all of the points, but a few sure hit the
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March 28 to April 3, 2005
Perpendicular recording likely
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s civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage technologies...
In 2001 Poland hired a
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eting firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
Did you know that the
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et for seal penises is a major driver for this? Buy Viagra, save a seal...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's information-cynical world...
Viral
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eting is huge these days. In this article are a few dos and don'ts of viral
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eting...
March 7 to 13, 2005
A land sale of over 1,000 acres on Molokai by software millionaire John McAfee could
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the beginning of the end of the island's way of life...
View the U.S. dollar's secret
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ings that can only be seen in infrared...
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 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
A pretty good study of the contents of the Red Bull energy drink, recently approved for sale in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/
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et/files/health/redbull/index.htm...
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...
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Morford asks, why isn't everyone on a Mac...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Why don't local super
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ets sell reusable shopping bags at time of checkout? Here's how some towns in Australia managed to ban disposable plastic bags at super
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ets, saving 350,000 bags in th...
January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress tests (Logic, Pages, iPhoto) and it never got too hot or unbearably slow. Here's some bench
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January 1 to 9, 2005
Before and after tsunami photos, matched up with each other: http://homepage.mac.com/de
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December 6 to 12, 2004
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Morford details the long history of rock and roll selling out to corporate interests...
November 22 to 28, 2004
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The First Networked Open Source Community? http://byte
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Some cable companies now broadcast signals that prevent you from making copies of recordings: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/24/why_
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etforces_can.htm...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"McDonald's Losing Revenue in World-Wide
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August 30 to September 5, 2004
This week's 12 and 16-year-olds
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ed as terrorists and apprehended by the Secret Service...
August 22 to 29, 2004
An experiment reviving coral reefs with low-voltage electrical current receives "re
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able results"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of online album tracks as part of a
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eting campaign. Are they starting to get a clue...
August 2 to 8, 2004
3) Expand the ARTS at
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s to a larger, multi-use downtown arts space...
About 22 year-old Ryan Pitlak, a
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eting student who may have made hundreds of thousands from spam, coming from hundreds of shell companies he set up...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
What the U.S. can learn from South Korea, where broadband is cheap, over 10 times faster, and is transforming government and society with telemedicine to the house, video on demand, and a lucrativ...
July 19 to 25, 2004
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Morford's very funny pean to the iPod...
July 12 to 18, 2004
New chips designed in 3D stacks hit the
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New surfboards with shark-repelling devices will hit the
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et this year...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter makes use of latent semantic analysis to successfully
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98% of spam mail...
Will the RIAA create artificial scarcity in the $3 billion cellphone ringtone
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et...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"E-filing nears 50 percent
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May 3 to 9, 2004
Over ten years since the first Web survey mentioned women,
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eters still have misconceptions about what women want online...
People see only what they what to see. "Scientists have gathered re
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able evidence which shows that it is possible to see something without observing it". Did you see the gorilla...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be hitting the
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et - they have a wider and smoother frequency response than conventional speaker technology. Here's the story of how this breakthrough was achieved afte...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous business practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Somebody
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et this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Although this technology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
Anti-vandal technology has been installed that detects spray can sounds. Of course, once the above device is
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eted, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Neuro
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The
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et for luxury cars (which cost up to $1 million) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people every day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is gettin...
November 10 to 16, 2003
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Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle has always been a great columnist, but this column in particular shows him at his best...
November 3 to 9, 2003
I'm currently reading their "Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social
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eting" - its author was in Hawaii recently...
The world's first disposable cellular phone just hit the
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et. It comes with 60 minutes of prepaid time, its own phone number, and you can add more minutes as needed...
October 20, 2003
"Wal-Mart, Driving Workers and Super
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ets Crazy...
* The iPod is the #1 music (MP3) player, with 31%
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et share...
September 8, 2003
According to "youth
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eting experts", Apple is one of the coolest, popular brands among teenagers (even though they're probably using Windows at school)...
August 25, 2003
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically
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ed as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
August 12, 2003
FOX News apparently owns the trade
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to the phrase "Fair and Balanced". We'll see if it holds up in court...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...