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December 20 to 31, 2005
The EFF releases Tor, an anonymous Internet communications system.
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it's still in progress...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
21st Century Music Videos http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/04/29/
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April 11 to 17, 2005
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also
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d is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
All the great hackers are switching to Macs, again mirroring the early growth of the Web (which was developed on an ancestor of today's Mac, the NeXT). We'll just see what happens...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Another great historical overview from Mobile PC magazine. This time, they examine the evolution of the
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book computer...
At last, "rising gas prices threaten viability of biggest SUV sales".
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that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them farther to boot...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Only in Hawaii - people made corned beef sushi with green rice for St. Patrick's day. I think it should be a symbol of world unity or something.
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that this type of sushi (musubi) is usually mad...
March 7 to 13, 2005
On a related eco-friendly
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, there sure is a lot of unused roof real estate in downtown Honolulu...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB
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book drive. Side
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- a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
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 14 to 20, 2005
It's true, the International Monetary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as
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d 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 Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design.
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that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
More on the copyrighting of public space.
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that the city of Chicago is enforcing this...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Microsoft is mad about all the Apple iPods that employees are buying and using at work: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/
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January 17 to 23, 2005
Were Robert Johnson's recordings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match actual guitar pitch and you get a whole new perspective on his amazing talents...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Of course,
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that you can create installations of hundreds of Mac minis (for computer labs and offices), all remotely (and centrally) upgradable and managed via Apple Remote Desktop...
The new vortex dehydration system turns trash into a fine dry powder and can reduce landfill volume by 90%. Those in Hawaii pondering the landfill problem should take
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January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinatown is cultivating an "art chic". This article
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s that "the state is currently gathering data on what it calls the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic impact"...
Do SUVs make you stupid? http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/01/07/
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December 6 to 12, 2004
Mark Morford details the long history of rock and roll selling out to corporate interests: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/12/10/
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November 29 to December 5, 2004
However, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy.
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that old computer monitors make better used TVs than TVs...
November 1 to 7, 2004
We can explain a few things with visuals... here's a U.S. election map with county detail. Things aren't so red vs. blue now.
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how the rural areas tend to be the most red...
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that modern Macs are compatible with Verizon's wireless BroadbandAccess plan ($80 a month for unlimited access)...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?"
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that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offered in Europe, would be a perfect car for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
What were the candidates scribbling on during the Presidential debates? Here's Bush's
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pad...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
The "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade.
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: not for the timid - this is life at its messiest! Art cars, nudists, communists, Trekkies, Tibetans, more...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Refer to this older article - "Na
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ch buckyballs kill fish"...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Dates of public hearings on the sale of Verizon Hawaii to The Carlyle Group: http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911
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August 15 to 22, 2004
Na
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ch funding grows to $8.6 billion. Hype, or not...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
About Singapore's new world-class bioscience empire, including "Biopolis", a $300 million center for molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and na
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ch...
July 19 to 25, 2004
"Worship My Radiant iPod" http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/07/23/
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June 14 to 20, 2004
A review of the coolest palmtop computer. Sorry, available in Japan only: http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/
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books/sony_vaio_U50.ht...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Although this is not new, SubEthaEdit is likely the best application for collaborative text editing. Imagine multiple people collaborating on meeting
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s, screenplays, and class lectures! Sorry, Ma...
May 17 to 23, 2004
LANL researchers have figured out how to use na
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chnology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A material widely used in na
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chnology research has been found to trigger organ damage in fish...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Ghost Town" -
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s from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Did you know that Jerry Garcia, Django Reinhardt, and Tony Iommi all had missing or damaged fingers...
February 16 to 22, 2004
(Also, if you have an iPod,
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that a hack is likely forthcoming that will allow them to play Windows Media files)...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A California bill has been signed to invest $3.7 billion in the next four years in na
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ch research...
Na
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ch thinkers fear the "gray goo" syndrome, where a na
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ch product may go haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into goo, the na
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ch equivalent of a nuclear meltdown. One smart gu...
December 22 to 28, 2003
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that this "Copy Control Technology" stuff is easy to circumvent if you have the right software...
December 8 to 14, 2003
(I also
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that the Honolulu Jazz Quartet is now on cdbaby...
The String Cheese Incident is taking on ticketmaster: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/
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November 17 to 23, 2003
"Technion scores na
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chnology breakthrough...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle has always been a great columnist, but this column in particular shows him at his best...
October 20, 2003
Finally, on an artistic
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, beautiful painterly abstract photos taken from the sides of boxcars...
October 14, 2003
Finally, on a lighter
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, a partial Latin translation of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back": "Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter....
August 12, 2003
(
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: the Cacophony Society helped start the Burning Man - I had a great Halloween party at their "headquarters" once...
July 21, 2003
However,
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that every year since 1977 there have been more Canadians moving to the US than vice-versa...