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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
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again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You wasted quarters in this?...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Canada
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took in 50,000 Vietnam-era draft dodgers. But today it's denying political asylum to those who refuse to participate in the Iraq war...
The all-wood musical door/doorchime based on the African tongue drum. What a great c
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April 11 to 17, 2005
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming popular among college students, who use it to c
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ntrate and stay awake for long periods at a time...
If case you're wondering why I'm so c
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rned about this topic, that's because I work for an RFID startup and know full well the problems this can cause...
March 21 to 27, 2005
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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...
March 14 to 20, 2005
For the first time, people can visualize the characters in most of the written languages of the world at
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Merge 50 photos of any given topic, and you get artful atmospheric pictures of c
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March 7 to 13, 2005
20% of kids 8 to 18 can surf the Web from their bedrooms. 26% say they can "multitask" different media streams at
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Turns out the human mind can't process more than four interdependent variables at
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. Our planet is doomed...
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,
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the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
This design c
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pt shows a great way to recycle water bottles...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The arctic is becoming a "chemical waste sump" - there's DDT in higher c
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ntrations there than in the countries that made it...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Dwell magazine,
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a design magazine for the budget conscious masses, is now selling ads to the upper class...
Brian Dear wrote a funny review of a Laurie Anderson c
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rt he went to recently, in the form of a Laurie Anderson monologue...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It's time for Hawaii to promote innovate mixed-use businesses that foster community development. Mentioned last week was the c
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pt of "bike stations", which could be placed next to mas...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-home theater...
January 10 to 16, 2005
A new book, "Collapse", explores the reasons behind the fall of
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-great civilizations. It outlines five causes: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, an...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
It's come full circle - This is exactly what the Nazis did to Jews in c
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ntration camps...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Young tech workers can't afford to live in Silicon Valley anymore, a c
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rn for years...
November 1 to 7, 2004
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same bacteria that was
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considered so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-warfare experiments...
Farms make big bucks hosting c
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rts, selling t-shirts...
October 18 to 24, 2004
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the Yucca Mountain 40,000-year nuclear waste repository opens in 2010, it will be 1/3 smaller than needed to store all the accumulated waste by then...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Segway's four-wheel Centaur c
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For its 150th anniversary, Timex created a design competition for future timekeeping c
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pts. Here are the winners...
September 5 to 12, 2004
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.
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the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Idea of the Week: Nature Cemeteries What a great c
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pt: there's less cost and waste for the industry, there's a pent-up demand, land is conserved (and preserved), and it's cheaper for consumers...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A very cool design c
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pt - the circular printer. It's efficient, fast, and small...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool C
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pt of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet 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...
Not a product yet, but a c
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pt: this Bluetooth wireless device attaches to your luggage and blinks when you are near it at the baggage carousel. Other neat ideas here...
Here's Doug Englebart's infamous 1968 demo, which originated the c
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pt and also introduced the world to the mouse, word processing, hyperlinks, outline editing, graphics editing, and more...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old 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...
Over ten years since the first Web survey mentioned women, marketers still have misc
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ptions about what women want online...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A company records shows live and sells USB devices holding the recording after the c
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rt...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Anti-vandal technology has been installed that detects spray can sounds. Of course,
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the above device is marketed, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
March 8 to 14, 2004
...so here's a pill that allows you to do it - it speeds weight loss and helps smokers kick the habit at
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February 9 to 15, 2004
The sad story of a
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-historic downtown area that is planned to be an auto dealership due to the city's current budget shortfall...
"Illegal logging is destroying the equatorial rain forests of Indonesian Borneo, bringing the island,
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known as the lungs of Asia, to the brink of an ecological disaster....
October 14, 2003
Finally, on a lighter note, 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 c
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rning this matter....
September 30, 2003
A Jurassic-age plant
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thought extinct has been discovered, cultivated, and commercialized...
September 2, 2003
An award-winning British journalist leaves the US after six years but finds it again at a Patti Smith c
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rt. Lots of nice little facts in this article.....
August 12, 2003
Things like this are good to see every
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in a while so you don't get so proud about being a human, having two arms and two legs and all...
(Note: the Cacophony Society helped start the Burning Man - I had a great Halloween party at their "headquarters"
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August 4, 2003
It is official U.S. policy to encourage people to buy larger, less efficient cars: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after c
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rns wer...
July 8, 2003
Despite the overwhelming evidence of negative consumer attitudes toward RFID technology revealed in its internal documents, the Auto-ID Center hopes that consumers will be "apathetic" and "resig...