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December 20 to 31, 2005
At a peace rally in Oklahoma, a
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ster gave this damning and inspiring speech on morality, war, and religion...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Now classified military research is making inroads into the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dozens of students and faculty have occupied the ad
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stration building in a rare sit-in...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The
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Mate adds extra storage and ports to your Mac
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. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck though...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Kits turn Subaru vans into VW microbus imitations and more: http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/retro/replicas/more-on-japans-
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March 7 to 13, 2005
China is fighting the Tibetan exile ad
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stration with computer virii...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock declines and poor business decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In related news, a man connects a Mac
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to a 60-inch TV and creates a spectacular-looking media center. It ends up being far more capable and much, much smaller than any of the other boxes attache...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Recording an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac
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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
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jack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
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...
The Bush ad
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stration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton ad
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stration. Thi...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995 used to be Swain's House of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumored that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a
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-home theater...
Since 2003 airport security screeners have stolen $36 million in items from travelers. The Transportation Security Ad
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stration spokesman says, "We have a few bad apples. That is unfortunate. We'...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac
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- it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac
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was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
Of course, note that you can create installations of hundreds of Mac
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s (for computer labs and offices), all remotely (and centrally) upgradable and managed via Apple Remote Desktop...
January 1 to 9, 2005
"The Bush Ad
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stration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood"...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Lexar's new super-
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USB flash drive. I hope cameras incorporate this...
Create your own
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office cubicle hell with the Cubes plastic figure set...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Restaurants are installing fake phone booths for use by cell phone users to
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mize noise pollution...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"Ad
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stration's own actions fuel rumors of draft"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Option, a new
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enviro-friendly prefab house...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to remake a
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malist home for $50,000...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
August 22 to 29, 2004
The plight of the
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mum-wage dairy worker...
June 7 to 13, 2004
For the Euro 2004 soccer championships, English fans are encouraged to smoke dope instead of drink alcohol in order to
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mize potential riots...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
52 former senior British diplomats write a nasty letter to Prime
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ster Tony Blair...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Here's a project that removes toxins from
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ng sites with crops and makes a profit from gold harvested with the process...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 15 to 21, 2004
There is NO excuse not to buy a PC (non-laptop) larger than a shoebox any more. Anything larger is wasteful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based PC...
March 8 to 14, 2004
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating
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-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
February 23 to 29, 2004
The Transportation Security Ad
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stration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the fact that the correc...