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December 20 to 31, 2005
Never mind those
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50's survival bunkers. Get yourself a new U.S. Bunker and prepare for the terrorist invasion...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep contents c
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er an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
April 18 to 24, 2005
High-Tech Junk http://news.com.com/Photos+For+
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+PCs%2C+the+end+comes+in+pieces/2009-1003_3-5679949.html?part=rss&tag=5679949&subj=new...
The DIY solar cycle h
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s its own solar panels...
The m
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able travel vase...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Could new photographic techniques shed light on ancient Greek texts and bring about the "second Renaissance"? http://c
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fury.com/reason/?p=38...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
In 2001 Poland hired a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, c
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, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
Some Iraqi s
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iers are wearing this...
"The Making of the Twenty-First-Century S
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A new solar-powered street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can h
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ten times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
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...
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...
How about making a bumper sticker with "IWASTEGAS.COM" on it - the site could h
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current information on gas guzzlers, fuel-efficient cars, and simple ways to save energy. The name's available...
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 s
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to make profit.....
March 7 to 13, 2005
Every U.S. s
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ier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think every American should, too...
A salmon may be the "first genetically enhanced animal s
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for consumption in the United States"...
Beautiful
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bookbinding with a groovy interface...
The blogosphere's raving about 27 year-
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Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with pop art and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
February 21 to 27, 2005
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...
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-
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employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite international attention, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
Nature is a lot tougher than you. Scientists revive 32,000 year-
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frozen bacteria...
A nice
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-school history of multimedia...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, the average American remains clueless regarding GMOs - only half are aware they are s
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, only a third realize they are eating them, and 70% don't think they're possible at all...
Consumer Reports offers a report on condom effectiveness: http://www.consumerreports.org/main/content/display_report.jsp?F
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ER%3C%3Ef
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er_id=551075&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=333141&bmUID=110783165299...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, written by an industry insider - too many writers! http://seemaxrun.com/hollywood_f
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er/toomanywriters.ht...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
The music industry sued an 83-year-
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dead woman for file sharing...
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...
A man s
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his forehead as advertising space for $37,375...
The Pack 'n' Chair, a f
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able chair/backpack/cooler...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A new cheap DVD recorder (s
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at Wal-Mart for $140) may make the VCR obsolete...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the PC world the average consumer seems to think that bigger is better. On the contrary, smaller computers by their nature require higher technology and more elegant design and engineering. Henc...
The Web and the Internet are enabling more direct s
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ier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the real costs of war...
* Estimated average amount of textiles thrown out by each U.S. househ
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in 2001, in pounds: 6...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The story of 21 year-
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Matt Leto, possibly the greatest video-game player ever. He likely h
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s over 800 world records and is set to make six digits in competitions this year...
"Liquid G
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: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants"...
Vintage turn-of-the-century postcard images of Tokyo: http://www.
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tokyo.com...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Tokyo U. invents a flexible plastic scanner, perfect for digitizing
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and fragile material...
About the sale of my
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company's patents, which highlights a disturbing trend...
An
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ie but goodie - Pat Metheny on the "out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out" wonder that is Kenny G...
December 6 to 12, 2004
New
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tech - Apple's selling refurbished Macs now, at discounts up to 1/3 off...
"Film use fading like an
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photo...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
"Anti-evolution teachings gain footh
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in U.S. schools"...
In South Korea, email is "for
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people"...
"Israel shocked by image of s
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iers forcing violinist to play at roadblock...
"Researchers compost
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mobile phones & transform them into flowers"...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new blog is created every 5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years
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A ten-year-
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toasted cheese sandwich said to bear the image of Virgin Mary s
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for $28,000 on eBay...
G
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teeth, freaking, and baggy pants - teenagers these days are driving school principals nuts...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
Uh-oh - Dieb
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has been contracted to secure the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
November 8 to 14, 2004
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...
"Living Outside Inside" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono t
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about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has s
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over 25 million albums...
New g
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CD-Rs are said to last 300 years...
Burt Lum has a great post regarding his trip to Kaho`olawe - people from the other islands gather at Kaho`olawe's highest peak to contribute offerings - "what you give you will receive in return, 1...
The RIAA issues its first g
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, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digitally downloaded music...
October 18 to 24, 2004
An HDTV PCMCIA card, with f
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ing antenna...
The median net worth of white househ
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s: $88,651. That of African-Americans: $5,988...
About Blake Ross, the 19-year-
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lead architect of Firefox, the browser downloaded by almost 3 million...
Nat'l Geographic survey - less than 15% of U.S. 18-to-24 year
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s can locate Iraq on a map...
October 11 to 17, 2004
19-year-
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Derek's "King George" sticker on his Grand Am got him a date with the Secret Service...
More on Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids - workers t
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to hide archaeological relics they found...
A design analysis of Kerry and Bush's campaign logos. I agree, the Kerry design looks wimpy and
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school...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
By the way, a Dieb
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representative now is an elections manager in California...
Future four-layer DVDs could h
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1,000 gigabytes...
The "Hello Kitty" debit card, targeted to 10 to 14 year-
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s...
Ever wanted to live on a houseboat? Here's some from Sausalito, CA, one of the best and
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est houseboat communities...
September 20 to 26, 2004
In response to online classifieds, newspapers are h
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ing their own local auctions...
Refer to this
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er article - "Nanotech buckyballs kill fish"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A visual history of spam and virus email: http://weblogs.asp.net/
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newthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.asp...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
This week's 12 and 16-year-
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s marked as terrorists and apprehended by the Secret Service...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to get g
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certification from the U.S. Green Building Council...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
A good first step: lofts are allowed back in Chinatown! My grandmother was born in a Chinatown loft (which is now Soullenz Gallery) in 1917, above the
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family store. Without mixed-use development...
"MIT study may h
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key to boosting brainpower"...
August 2 to 8, 2004
About 22 year-
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Ryan Pitlak, a marketing student who may have made hundreds of thousands from spam, coming from hundreds of shell companies he set up...
The African can guitar, made of
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oil cans...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
A pilot creates a f
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ing electric guitar...
An in-demand violin maker in Berkeley creates quality violins with 200-year
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wood from Lake Superior. Also an acupuncturist, he sees the vibrational connections between his vocations...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A fuel cell breakthrough leads to cooler, smaller cells - one the size of two soda cans could power your entire househ
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The fascinating story of East Germany's most embarrassing defection - an intelligence officer, a 16 year-
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, and his mother. Here's a taste of what it's like to grow up in an atmosphere of povert...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Recent progress in 3D visualization technology allows "virtual excavation", in this case, the ability to completely examine the contents of a 3,000 year-
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mummy without touching it...
G
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en Apples of the Su...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Clive Sinclair rolls out the world's smallest f
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ing bike...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Facetop", a method of videoconferencing that's actually about 35 years
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but may one day be popular...
An article on those trying to get China to eat more vegetarian and less things like sparrow chicks, snake heads, and badgers.
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cultures are hard to change though. "Asked why she eats domestic cats...
June 14 to 20, 2004
What does the military have to say about humanity? Here's a booklet carried by Vietnam s
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iers which they were t
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to keep at all times...
Replace your
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flashlight bulbs with brighter, longer-lasting LEDs...
Out of jewel cases? Here's how to make single and double CD h
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ers out of a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Facing critical shortage of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the player h
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s it to his lips....
May 24 to 30, 2004
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the abuse of Iraqi s
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iers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
A "talking toilet" gadget that sc
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s men if they put the toilet seat up sells over 1.6 million units...
Eight years ago my
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startup bought from Peapod every week. Now online groceries are coming back...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"C
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Turkey...
More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet cartridge recycler and an industrial composting company. This is a great model for cities to follow to get small businesses recycling compos...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-
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in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new open-source software kit turns batches of
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, obsolete PCs into wireless community networks...
In class a 15-year
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art student draws Bush's head on a stick. The Secret Service visits the school...
A company records shows live and sells USB devices h
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ing the recording after the concert...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A new take on an
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art form? Nifty homemade "lava light" movies...
Voting machines company Dieb
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may face criminal charges...
Technology has been developed that takes images of
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, damaged vinyl records and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AT&T's new music identification service seems to work pretty well: http://www.dailywireless.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=179&mode=&order=0&th
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Here's a project that removes toxins from mining sites with crops and makes a profit from g
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harvested with the process...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Bad singing - it's in fashion again! William Hung is a plucky 21-year-
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U.C. Berkeley engineering student who tried out for American Idol and was kicked off halfway through his audition. His firs...
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 29 to April 5, 2004
Ever wonder why so many business majors think Microsoft invented computing? A study of eight textbooks reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in business...
Robert Cringely argues that in the end anti-trust laws are ineffective when in comes to Microsoft, since they actually end up saving money by being non-compliant with government regulations...
Microsoft reports that 16 million PCs were affected by the recent MSBlast virus, ten times more than previously thought...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A portable, cordless s
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ering tool that runs on 4 AA batteries, heats in one second, and cools in two...
All about the Minato Motor, which leverages magnetic effects to produce more electricity than it consumes. Sound wacky? They've just s
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40,000 motors to a major convenience store chain...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Dieb
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(electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
A Dieb
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(Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives everyone free access...
March 8 to 14, 2004
And have you seen their
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"Mars Attacks" series from the early 60's...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Heard of SCO, that company that's suing Linux users? According to an acknowledged memo, Microsoft may be funding them to the tune of $86 million... but it is clear that Microsoft wishes to fund SC...
February 23 to 29, 2004
10 million Pacific giant crabs are invading Norway's coast and destroying the local ecology. "But Glenn, a 30-year-
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car mechanic, replied: 'It's true the seabed now looks like the Sahara but the...
February 16 to 22, 2004
"Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common househ
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devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according t...
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Pictures and information about Destino, the lost 50 year-
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animated collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali. It's been nominated for an Oscar...
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/c
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faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"The average age of people who buy fitness equipment is 31," Mr Martinez t
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BBC News Online, "and the average age of gamers is 29....
January 5 to 11, 2004
Burger King customers t
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: 'You are too fat to have a Whopper...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
"Army Stops Many S
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iers From Quitting"...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope everyone had a happy 2003! Kev's News is now six months
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. (Obligatory holiday picture link below)...
Does anyone in Oahu need a free business-class RICOH FT7870 copy machine? I'm not sure if it's been s
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yet...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Dieb
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, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
This Chinese video has been wildly popular this week: A great "new" way to f
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your shirts (it's true, I learned too) the way professionals do in retail stores. You may be able to download it her...
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-
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4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
December 1 to 7, 2003
"Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell
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Books, Help Budgets...
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"lost" Hawaiian literature is getting resurrected via e-books...
Money For The (
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) New World Orde...
A 7-year-
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is punished in school for talking about his lesbian moms...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Did you know they also s
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thongs for kids? (from May 2002): "Parents say kid's thong is just plain wrong...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Kev's News: No matter what happens, there it is! Did you know that this is the Year of the Hawaiian Forest? In honor, here's a picture from last week of what they're replacing the forests with.....
October 27 to November 2, 2003
In honor, here is every Playboy centerf
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averaged out over four decades...
October 27, 2003
A trial just started that could pave the way for h
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ing U.S. companies accountable for pollution overseas - it involves toxic oil dumps in total 50 percent larger than the Exxon Valdez spill sprea...
October 20, 2003
* 82% of American househ
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s made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart...
* 10 million songs were s
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in 4 months...
October 6, 2003
I was thinking about replacing my
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Devo costume for Halloween and decided to see what was out there on the Web. A store with a very good selection is Halloween Mart, with decent prices as well...
* The soundtrack was mixed by Moby and features the music of Radiohead, U2, C
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play, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, The Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Fischerspooner, and Boards of Canada...
September 15, 2003
Strange tiles have been sighted in over 100 different places around the world, created by an unknown artist. They reference Arn
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Toynbee, who believed that "humanity's perception of its histor...
The iTunes music store just s
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its 10 millionth song! Yay...
"12-Year-
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Sued for Music Downloading (by RIAA)...
September 8, 2003
The trials of teaching 14 year-
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s...
August 25, 2003
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail f
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er. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
August 12, 2003
The English to 12-year-
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AOLer Translato...
FOX News apparently owns the trademark to the phrase "Fair and Balanced". We'll see if it h
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s up in court...
August 4, 2003
This week's theme: techniques for separating the wheat from the chaff and the signal from the noise. Much confusion arises from people not being able to see the difference between the theory o...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...