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December 20 to 31, 2005
The EFF releases Tor, an anonymous Inter
net
communications system. Note it's still in progress...
The winner of the second Dwell eco-prefab house contest: http://www.egarch.
net
/files/dwell.htm...
The "gallery of computation" has gotten both larger and more varied over the last year or so. Great stuff! http://www.complexification.
net
...
The RIAA and MPAA are intentionally putting adware into Windows Media files to thwart file sharing: http://p2p
net
.
net
/story/342...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Beautifully photographed abandoned structures in Japan: http://home.f01.itscom.
net
/spiral/research3.htm...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The miniMate adds extra storage and ports to your Mac mini. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck though: http://www.micro
net
.com/General/prodList.asp?CatID=99&Cat=Produc...
Another case of copyright law going too far - in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2005/04/21/ghana_nationalizes_f.htm...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually everything our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
Rethinking The Everyday Things http://www.abc.
net
.au/science/news/stories/s341719.ht...
An impressive photographic archive of mistakes. Check out "lost my job" and "women live longer": http://www.micom.
net
/oops...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The New Hippies http://www.circleoflife.org/news/newsletter/2005spring/newpla
net
bus.ht...
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the
net
gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
It's official - all the greatest new technology will be here in five years: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2005/04/11/popularity_of_using_.htm...
"Half of U.S. taxpayers filing online": http://lwn.
net
/Articles/129729...
The number one buyer of rice in the U.S. threatens a boycott if GMO crops are grown: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/12/beer.ge
net
ic.ap/index.htm...
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song online. Let's se...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Low-power FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio
net
works, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
Instant reusable whiteboard sheets are so cool. Useful for traveling workers, artists, and people without mag
net
ic refrigerators...
This was very popular this week - I think there's a pent-up need to avoid Starbucks! The delocator will show you local alternatives to Starbucks: http://www.delocator.
net
...
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of research via paper...
The book "Shadow Cities" describes squatter cities - they end up being cleaner and safer than low-income housing developments: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2005/04/04/shadow_cities_the_un.htm...
A profile on one of the first real 21st century superstars, journalist, blogger, polyglot, and hot babe Xeni Jardin: http://www.xeni.
net
/lat/041005.ht...
The life of a Verizon wireless test man, who drives over 3,000 miles a month: http://www.mobiletracker.
net
/archives/2005/04/04/verizon-wireless-hear-me-no...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that pla
net
ary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
Art made via electromag
net
ic fields...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
History, Patents, and You http://news.zd
net
.co.uk/inter
net
/ecommerce/0,39020372,39147408,00.ht...
Things to use when clean water gets scarce - the AquaPak costs a dollar to make, runs on solar, and can purify up to four gallons of water a day: http://www.abc.
net
.au/newinventors/txt/s1140156.ht...
A shortage of silicon is making solar cells scarce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has gone from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
A new solar-powered street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can hold ten times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
Gory images of this year's Canadian seal hunt: http://www.susanscott.
net
/OceanWatch1998/mar30-98.htm...
Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Computation continues to get more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time: http://www.complexification.
net
/gallery...
An interview with the most influential woman in rock, Patti Smith: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2005/03/28/more_antibeatles_agi.htm...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
A blogged picture of a procession in Spain demonstrates the rising use of cell phone cameras to capture major events...
"Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo's Brain": http://www.boingboing.
net
/2005/03/25/persistent_vegetativ.htm...
"The Basics on Ge
net
ically Modified Foods...
U.S. music sales rise, despite massive amounts of file sharing action on the
net
...
March 14 to 20, 2005
TV shows for modern kids - this children's show features music by a hip roster of post-punk acts. http://demandmedia.
net
//?op=displaystory;sid=2005/3/14/17510/103...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
Use this mag
net
ic paint to make any surface sensitive to mag
net
ism. No idea if it's eco-friendly though...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Hawaii's developing a strong, growing
net
work of organic farms. How about introducing mobile organic produce stores, like this successful one in West Oakland...
A study found that most Americans would cut defense spending and spend more on education and job training: http://www.tech
net
.org/press/Press_Releases/?newsReleaseId=371...
Turns out the human mind can't process more than four interdependent variables at once. Our pla
net
is doomed...
A salmon may be the "first ge
net
ically enhanced animal sold for consumption in the United States"...
Book Art http://www.ibook
net
.co.uk/news_images/Jan2005/movie_win.ht...
The Flickr guide to the pla
net
- beautiful photos from around the world, via Gridskipper...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
There are now at least 50 million Web sites on the
net
...
Flirt with iTunes - boy meets girl via music sharing and manages to swipe 700MB of her songs as well: http://www.al3x.
net
/archives/2005/02/22/they-stopped-calling-it-rendezvous...
Telcos are using legislation to prevent large-scale free public wireless
net
works...
"The Drugs I Need!" http://cu.convio.
net
/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_song_download&JServSessionIdr001=slppxu14l1.app14...
HIV/AIDS' impact on life expectancy in Africa - the big picture: http://web.acsalaska.
net
/~benmuse/blog/2005_02_01_archive.html#11093136429414417...
Ancient computer ads. 32KB RAM, wow! http://www.1000bit.
net
/lista/dati/altos/altos2086_ad.jp...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The late Hunter S. Thompson often visited Hawaii and wrote many infamous things there. Here's the best take on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake: http://starrbooks.
net
firms.com/thompson.ht...
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the
net
this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
The elegant Eva Solo mag
net
ic (kitchen) timer...
Stuff For Web Developers http://www.smackerel.
net
/smackerel_home.htm...
February 14 to 20, 2005
I went to the last meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's group organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at Commerce
net
. If you'd like to get your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
A review of the latest homemade flight simulators from the last few years: http://www.wakayama
net
.or.jp/jun/fs/mycockpit-e.htm...
It's true, the International Mo
net
ary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as noted by a former banker in this article mentioned last year...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Inter
net
overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
Big news for software developers - an open source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading
net
works, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging technologies...
Allan Schiffman offers a few quick numbers on federal debt, spending, etc.: http://webpages.charter.
net
/allanms/2005/02/lets-play-whats-real-problem.htm...
Ge
net
ically modified plants are proving to be an excellent way to clean up toxic soils...
A transcript of Gene Simmon's very funny interview with Terry Gross on NPR, which was replayed last week...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
The U.S. now has over 830,000
net
phone subscribers...
Information on the effort to free the seminal civil rights documentary "Eyes On The Prize" from intellectual property limbo: http://demandmedia.
net
//?op=displaystory;sid=2005/2/3/21647/3004...
"Climate Change Desiccating the Pla
net
, Researchers Conclude"...
Yet even more bad album covers - here's a top ten list: http://www.zonicweb.
net
/badalbmcvrs/badalbumcoverstopten/toptenbadalbumcovers10.ht...
January 24 to 30, 2005
This was the week of world-wide coincidences that could only happen thanks to the wonder of the Inter
net
. Now that so many are sharing photos online, people are beginning to find interestin...
Using Skype (voice over the Inter
net
), John Perry Barlow was called at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn how to speak English. Here's his reflections on "th...
The first feature film to be delivered via wireless inter
net
technology was shown at the Sundance Film Festival...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
Frequent traveler and ace writer Cory Doctorow was questioned at the airport by American Airlines personnel and asked for a written list of his friends' addresses. Here's his story...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Google link
net
work visualizations...
The Web and the Inter
net
are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the real costs of war...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International Pho
net
ic Alphabet. You can listen to every sound that humans use to communicate...
The top ten war profiteers of 2004: http://metronews
net
.homelinux.com:81/boards/showthread.php?pc...
Monsanto paid a $1.3 million penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian government to help facilitate the cultivation of its ge
net
ically modified crops...
Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art! http://www.fsi
net
.or.jp/~eneman/MUSIC/obaka/obakapict/herb.jp...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A detailed technical analysis of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, which consumes 35% of ALL inter
net
traffic...
Yahoo! Maps now overlays live traffic conditions on its maps. How about antialiasing those map lines first before doing any new, folks...
A nice-looking homemade iPod ad is the first true homebrew ad on the
net
...
Play twenty questions against this program. You may be surprised at how often it wins: http://y.20q.
net
...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Inter
net
...
Handy Mac-based tools for those recording audio interviews that need transcription: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2004/12/09/audio_recorder_for_o.htm...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of information in a compact, useful way: http://sparkline.sourceforge.
net
...
Thanks to overcrowding and stress over Muslim immigrants, more are leaving Holland than entering: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/11/w
net
h111.xm...
"Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have asked Ohio Secretary of State J. Ken
net
h Blackwell to answer for a host of voting irregularities they say occurred in Ohio Nov. 2."...
How to get your house off the grid: http://www.oreilly
net
.com/pub/a/
net
work/2004/12/03/grid.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how Google works - two PCs are expected to fail daily: http://www.zd
net
.co.uk/insight/hardware/0,39020433,39175560,00.ht...
Arm wrestling over the Inter
net
! Why can't we settle wars this way? It's basically the same thing...
A new consumer surveillance tool allows people to view satellite images of the ground at a resolution of two feet: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=inter
net
News&storyID=694688...
The zoom quilt - I've love to see this with lots more participants! http://www.cyphic.
net
/zoomquilt/zoom.ht...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the Commerce
net
"center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software research lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the information flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
Here's an excerpt from "Checkpoint", a documentary on the West Bank/Gaza Strip checkpoints that was readapted by the Israeli military for training purposes. This clip highlights the everyday tensio...
Cool underground pictures of the massive G-Cans project in Tokyo: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2004/11/21/gcans_massive_underg.htm...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Inter
net
Security Key safeguards your kids from online porn...
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 makers in the 1992 presidential election...
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a large-scale test of Inter
net
over power lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
Ultraviolet laser technology will lead to 500GB optical disks: http://www.theinquirer.
net
/?article=1953...
HP's prototype biodegradable printer: http://a1112.g.akamai.
net
/7/1112/492/2002091465/www.wired.com/news/images/full/cornprinter_f.jp...
The world's smallest PC/keyboard/mouse
net
connection combo...
Can't We All Just Get Along? http://www.feelmypain.
net
...
"Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers" - the film "Tarnation" may have cost $200 to make, but it cost $500,000 to clear the rights for it. Stric...
This was really popular all over the
net
this week, perhaps because people need to be reminded of the perils of overworking...
The FCC further deregulates Inter
net
phone services...
A good counterproposal to Creationists that want warning stickers on biology textbooks: put warning stickers on the Bible! http://www.boingboing.
net
/2004/11/10/story_on_cobb_county.htm...
This Dutch film caused the murder of its director on November 2. The
net
herlands is now experiencing attacks on Islamic mosques, churches, and schools. Can fundamentalism ever coexist with worl...
Live photos and commentary from the Falluja raid: http://www.kevinsites.
net
/2004_11_07_archive.html#11002700898692648...
An interesting interview with a man that has collected over 900,000 mp3 files online, for posterity's sake: http://www.mac
net
2.com/more.php?id=536_0_10_...
November 1 to 7, 2004
The Younger Generation Speaks Out http://www.world
net
daily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=4129...
iPodder allows you to browse audio feeds via RSS and download them to your iPod. For Mac and Windows: http://ipodder.sourceforge.
net
/index.ph...
"10 things the Chinese do far better than we do" http://aol
net
scape.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20041023/CHINATEN23?section=Technolog...
Most of the mainstream media's reporting of the latest bin Laden video is pretty narrow. Here's the full transcript: http://english.aljazeera.
net
/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.ht...
So who's to say that there won't be problems with ge
net
ically modified corn...
Healthy Clothing http://www.popgadget.
net
/2004/11/wearable-squeezed-lemons.htm...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The First
net
worked Open Source Community...
Will the Inter
net
give birth to the "creative generation"...
Homeland Security agents bust a toy store this time: http://p2p
net
.
net
/story/285...
Some cable companies now broadcast signals that prevent you from making copies of recordings: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2004/10/24/why_marketforces_can.htm...
Publish your Creative Commons-licensed audio or video with this app and have it hosted automatically by the Inter
net
Archive, which has massive amounts of bandwidth...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Re-establishing the Ancient Interne...
The median
net
worth of white households: $88,651. That of African-Americans: $5,988...
A living neural
net
work taken from a rat's brain interacts with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator...
Flexible drinking straw creations: http://soutosco.zip.
net
/arch2004-10-10_2004-10-16.html#2004_10-13_00_04_09-554081...
A little animation of a drawing in progress: http://images2.jokaroo.
net
/images/photoshop_drawing.gi...
"If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers..." http://twasink.
net
/blog/archives/2004/10/if_architects_h.htm...
ASCAP seals a huge deal to "let stations legally stream their on-air content over the "Inter
net
"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Tutorial D" looks like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL database language. I hope it takes off! http://dbappbuilder.sourceforge.
net
/Rel.htm...
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Inter
net
’s First Decade of Public Use" - TV down,
net
up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
October 4 to 10, 2004
More money can be made by unpopular media than by popular media. Here's how the
net
is changing the nature of what "popular" means. Highly recommended reading...
"George W. Bush - Keeping America Scared": http://home.earthlink.
net
/~houval/gopconstrm.mo...
A funny Asian class picture: http://www.boingboing.
net
/asianclass.jp...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Cancel your phone and cable TV - start a wireless neighborhood
net
work...
Pioneering electronic art from Sweden, 1960 to 1980: http://www.kopenhagen.dk/
net
kunst/articles/digipion0504.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
It takes a lot of energy and money to send Oahu's garbage to the mainland. Rather than spreading our trash around the pla
net
, are there better alternatives...
IBM scientists figure out how to make single-atom mag
net
ic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense storage media...
Researchers are studying
net
viruses using methods used to study human epidemics...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Ditch buggy Inter
net
Explorer! Spread Firefox...
A visual history of spam and virus email: http://weblogs.asp.
net
/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.asp...
Chinese
net
surfers are creating a new language, a mix of Chinese and English...
Spreading political activism in Colombia via dynamic low-power radio
net
works on bikes...
September 5 to 12, 2004
New applications of P2P technology are helping people to register to vote and search: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/090804/Simple_search_lightens_
net
_load_090804.htm...
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Skype, the most popular Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for Mac OSX! Talk to friends around the world for free using your Inter
net
connection...
The first room temperature plastic mag
net
s are created...
The basis for a new breed of software: "Exploring Social
net
works with Pattern Discovery Algorithms"...
The city of Philadelphia is considering providing free or cheap wireless Inter
net
access to everybody...
Melbourne scientists say they've developed a cure for malaria: http://www.abc.
net
.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1182008.ht...
The popular bottle opener fridge mag
net
...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new p2p
net
work allows hospitals to share patient information...
AI algorithms can take a trail of where you've been and determine regular and irregular activities: http://www.boingboing.
net
/2004/08/24/tell_an_ai_where_you.htm...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
Bruce Sterling gives another great, funny speech about the future of products - Blobjects! Are you a Gizmo user, or a Spime Wrangler? http://www.boingboing.
net
/images/blobjects.ht...
"Broadband users a majority in U.S." http://www.nwfusion.com/
net
.worker/news/2004/0818
net
rabroad.html?
net
&code=nl
net
flash52...
Forget Doom 3: Here's the state-of-the-art of video game graphics: http://www.pla
net
halflife.com/features/articles/sigg04/index.sht...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the last few years developer Ken
net
h Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
How ultrawideband technology may change the world - it may be as disruptive as the Inter
net
...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Inter
net
Shopping
net
work, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the bigger, hidden economic
net
benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
"Onion routing" may help make anonymous communications over the
net
more secure...
"Stealth wallpaper" can prevent insecure wireless
net
works from being hijacked...
The FCC, by the way, would like to prohibit you from recording anything from the Inter
net
...
The story behind the Inter
net
Movie Database, one of the most popular, useful Web sites ever made...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
The first debut of an entire TV show episode over the Inter
net
...
The first true city-wide wireless
net
work...
How to fully remove Inter
net
Explorer from your PC...
Kona Brewing Co. in Hawaii Kai is now a free wireless
net
work hotspot! I'm spending more time there...
This is a picture of a hard drive from circa 1975. It only held "a few megabytes": http://www.boingboing.
net
/2004/07/30/ancient_harddrive_gu.htm...
How the RIAA shut down a respected, thriving music store due to the sale of popular DJ-made mixtapes: http://www.nuvo.
net
/archive/2004/07/21/busting_berrys_music.htm...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless
net
work - get online anywhere in the U.S....
UH is building a plant waste processing facility that will
net
$100k a year by tunrning plant waste into charcoal...
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...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Inter
net
Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first recorded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Inter
net
Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
Ge
net
ic algorithms can help evolve a faster, more efficient Inter
net
...
Ghulam Sediq Wardak, Afghanistan's most famous inventor. He's made a solar-powered VW and over 300 other inventions: http://www.iwpr.
net
/index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200407_124_3_eng.tx...
"Movie piracy on Inter
net
called an epidemic"...
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Operation Castle, the single worst fallout exposure in the U.S. atmospheric testing program. With heartbreaking testimony from many veterans who were there...
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing
net
works...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"US Government warns against Inter
net
Explorer...
"Iraqis seek self-rule on the
net
...
The evolution of fractal art. This is the next generation of fractal and mathematics- based design, folks: http://home.comcast.
net
/~fractalsbykeith...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
Here's a 48-minute show called "Exposed: The Carlyle Group", which aired on TV in the
net
herlands...
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
Following AT&T and BT, giant telco SBC Communications is moving to an all-IP
net
work...
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for
net
works, cell phones, radios, more...
Texas is putting wireless
net
access into rest stops to encourage breaks - a great idea...
Now here's a secondary BigChampagne report that indicates that "artists receiving little or no radio play are still gaining very significant activity on file sharing
net
works". Meaning...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the latest tech fad of creating personal social
net
works - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies
net
work and think smarter...
"The Fight of Our Lives" http://www.alter
net
.org/story/1895...
Photoshop challenge: depict "Americanization": http://home.grandecom.
net
/~bargirl24/velveetafranzia.jp...
"Ge
net
ically-modified virus explodes cancer cells"...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Following in the footsteps of AT&T, telephone giant BT is transforming its entire phone
net
work to using IP (Inter
net
) protocol...
Here's some of the best conference goodies (schwag) given out these days: http://www.gism.
net
/shwag.htm...
The ten best Inter
net
fads...
"Declining respect for American cultural values exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq is having a potentially disastrous effect on the image of US brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
"Dirty Air - Dirty Power" http://cta.policy.
net
/dirtypower/map.htm...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"BBN Tech Unveils World's First Quantum Cryptography
net
work...
"For the second straight year, an Inter
net
unknown won the famed World Series of Poker on Friday, ravaging a field of professional players on his way to glory and riches....
May 24 to 30, 2004
This site was down for a week or two due to popularity - it's better than the last "infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so ago: http://www.zongrila.
net
/swirl.ht...
May 17 to 23, 2004
The first 40-inch organic LED display: http://asia.c
net
.com/newstech/personaltech/0,39001147,39179788,00.ht...
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod every week. Now online groceries are coming back! http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/inter
net
/05/19/inter
net
.grocery.ap/index.htm...
The New World Symphony uses Inter
net
2 videoconferencing for orchestra training...
How iTunes sharing is creating music- based social
net
works in colleges...
The entire Grateful Dead live music vaults are now online at the Inter
net
Archive...
May 10 to 16, 2004
A lot of prefab buzz is going around on the
net
these days. I hope more people are getting tired of living in expensive, soulless boxes! About the Glidehouse debut...
Better than the Pringles can! Use $3 Chinese cooking vat scoops to create wireless connections spanning about 7 miles! http://www.usbwifi.orcon.
net
.nz/usbscoop.jp...
Less Than 7 Degrees of Separation http://www.theyrule.
net
/2004/tr2.ph...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "
net
sky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
Laser spectroscopy is now being used to detect suicide bombers in Israel. Why don't the lidar folks at UH get into this? http://www.abc.
net
.au/news/newsitems/s1100567.ht...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new open-source software kit turns batches of old, obsolete PCs into wireless community
net
works...
When the island of Tuvalu sinks, it will be the only country to exist solely on the Inter
net
...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
RIAA Radar has been around for a while now, but their tools are getting better - support non-RIAA labels and check out their top 100 lists - there's some great music here...
April 12 to 18, 2004
There's a lot of participatory art going on around the
net
these days. Here's the surreal result at the midpoint of one photoshop-fest...
This is the logical progression of hampsterdance.com, which took the
net
by storm five years ago, gathering over 60 million visitors worldwide...
Sony and TOPPAN Printing announced the development of a 25GB optical disc made of 51% paper: http://www.japancorp.
net
/Article.Asp?Art_ID=710...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Americans are increasingly resorting to stomach-shrinking surgery so much so that health experts and insurance companies are becoming alarmed": http://www.news-medical.
net
/view_article.asp?id=38...
"Scotts Testing Ge
net
ically Modified Grass...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Photoshop of the week: http://da5id.home.comcast.
net
/condoliens.jp...
Rapid Growth of "Dead Zones" in Oceans Threatens Pla
net
...
March 22 to 28, 2004
All about the Minato Motor, which leverages mag
net
ic effects to produce more electricity than it consumes. Sound wacky? They've just sold 40,000 motors to a major convenience store chain...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Three out of four Americans have access to the Inter
net
...
Apple sells 50 million songs over the Inter
net
...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Writing a screenplay? Here's a catalog of "narrative tropes and idioms". Learn about character archtypes such as the Anti Hero, the Evil Twin, and the Green Skinned Space Babe...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Inter
net
service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
To save money, school systems and other organizations are building their own DIY fiber
net
works and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
A
net
work map of political books based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It shows a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Inter
net
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
net
work that "makes trading movies a breeze". As well as gigabytes of other stuff as well...
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting mag
net
s, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
Summarize a novel in 25 words (or less)... "The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien: Little guys go to a lot of trouble to get rid of stolen jewelry." http://ilx.wh3rd.
net
/thread.php?msgid=432858...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Exposure To Low-level Mag
net
ic Fields Causes DNA Damag...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Pictures and information about Destino, the lost 50 year-old animated collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali. It's been nominated for an Oscar: http://www.movie
net
.com/destino.htm...
A movie with four vig
net
tes that explore what it means to be human in a world where robots are commonplace. It won the "Special Jury Award for Emotional Truth" at the Florida Film Festival as well a...
There was a little buzz around the
net
last week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the point at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently predicted to happen in 2015. Jo...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
A town-wide high-speed
net
-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
The image of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the real and imaginary planes: http://www.complexification.
net
/gallery/machines/buddahbrot...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
"There has been a dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for inter
net
-related offences in China, according to the London-based rights group Amnesty International"...
"UH to host world conference on future of Inter
net
...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Inter
net
- the
net
work Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Finally, Verizon announces that it will convert its entire nationwide telecommunications
net
work to packet switching, "the protocol on which the Inter
net
runs". This, over 40 years after AT&...
"New anti-spam laws fail to bite" http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/inter
net
/01/12/spam.continues/index.htm...
An uplifting story of how a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before takeoff by a laptop connected with Bluetooth to a cell phone connected to the Inter
net
connected to her email...
Cuba cracks down on Inter
net
use...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can make vehicles up to 50 percent more efficient and is being tested on a city bus in the
net
herlands...
December 8 to 14, 2003
I've mentioned cdbaby before, but it's becoming a force in the music industry to be reckoned with, thanks to the power of the Inter
net
...
A new way to filter out toxins from the blood has been invented. It uses mag
net
ized nanoaparticles, and may revolutionize current dialysis techniques as well as eliminate certain classes of diseases...
The first 5 nanometer transistor has been developed. http://zd
net
.com.com/2100-1103_2-5118680.htm...
A Pattern Language for Sustainability http://www.conservationeconomy.
net
/INDEX.CF...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Why frivolous software patents suck - here's all the patents you're violating now by setting up an online store: http://www.mimesis.
net
/swpat/video.ht...
"Public Libraries Use Inter
net
to Sell Old Books, Help Budgets...
November 24 to 30, 2003
I didn't think Michael Jackson could look worse... (picture) http://i.cnn.
net
/cnn/2003/LAW/11/24/jackson.accuser/vert.mugshot.jp...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The first ge
net
ically engineered pet goes on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (called GloFish)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bigotry is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among
net
worked college students). It "tell...
November 3 to 9, 2003
"Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the inter
net
as they are on CDs from stores, according to a report"...
October 27, 2003
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
Are you a natural
net
worker? Some people are natural "connectors" - in social
net
works, the important people aren't necessarily who you know, but who you vaguely know...
October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "supercenters": http://www.alter
net
.org/print.html?StoryID=1628...
October 14, 2003
The Beginning of the End of the Inter
net
...
September 30, 2003
Powers of 10 http://micro.mag
net
.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10...
The most phallic building in the world and more: http://www.cabi
net
magazine.org/phallic/winner.ph...
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.inter
net
wk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1520028...
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Inter
net
-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
September 8, 2003
India's struggles with ge
net
ically modified crops.....
September 2, 2003
Japanese Ping-Pong meets the Matrix meets performance art: http://www.astercity.
net
/~tobik/pingpong.htm...
August 25, 2003
Disney is laying off its traditional 2D animators, opting instead to only do 3D (computer generated) animated films from now on. A passing of an era... http://www.mousepla
net
.com/david/dk030814.ht...
* 30% (estimated) of China's Inter
net
users (about 22 million users...
July 21, 2003
When 70% of a population of 11 million have high-speed
net
access, how does that affect the culture? Here's how it's affecting Korea.....
Status report: there have been almost 7 million hits on the Star Wars Kid page, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...
Making the rounds of instant
net
pop fame are these two hapless Korean teenagers singing in a video karaoke booth...
I'm sure you've seen this satire already: http://www.theinquirer.
net
/?article=668...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest tech wizardry makes voice calling over the
net
a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Inter
net
, and phone
net
works throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what
net
work wires t...
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...
July 7, 2003
An article on Estonia, where Inter
net
access was declared a fundamental human right by law.....