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December 20 to 31, 2005
The greatest
open
ing song lines...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Did you know the keys on your GM van may
open
the doors on "a half-dozen other GM vans and pickups"...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The sandal-combination-bottle
open
er! Perfect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile,
open
-source technology unencumbered by patents is allowing micro-startups to evolve better technology faster with less resources and funding. I hope new breeds of VCs come along to fil...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Adobe
open
sources software that can be used to build systems with complex dependency graphs...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Here's a brilliant business and innovative social practice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this social role. The business is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
February 14 to 20, 2005
GoDaddy is offering free one-year SSL certificates to
open
source projects...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is actually a pretty good
open
-source cross-platform WYSIWYG Web designing tool...
Big news for software developers - an
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source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading networks, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging technologies...
An Ikea store
open
ing in London turns into a riot, leaving 20 with heat exhaustion and five in the hospital...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Fluid flow simulation software is now
open
source. Implications for cheaper environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
The recently
open
ed Tropical Island Resort in Germany, a manmade environment in a massive modified hanger that could fit the Statue of Liberty...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
An interactive surface with virtual squiggly worms you can "pick up". I've always wanted to
open
a bar where the entire floor is a virtual interactive koi pond myself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Lost your key in the car? Knock a code on your window to
open
it...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Living Outside Inside" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The First Networked
open
Source Community...
Best Buy
open
s online photo processing labs...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Once the Yucca Mountain 40,000-year nuclear waste repository
open
s in 2010, it will be 1/3 smaller than needed to store all the accumulated waste by then...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Now steering wheel locks can be
open
ed with Bic ballpoint pens... I have a feeling this entire class of lock is vulnerable...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Pioneering electronic art from Sweden, 1960 to 1980: http://www.k
open
hagen.dk/netkunst/articles/digipion0504.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The popular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's nothing wrong with more bus lines, but now there's less character, no
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-air transportation with wide views, and less fun for tourist...
Time-lapse road trip - LA to New York in five minutes: http://www.lacquersound.com/english/
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er1.htm...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
The popular bottle
open
er fridge magnet...
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...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The new, groovy world of
open
-source business models...
The Kensington computer cable lock can be
open
ed in 30 seconds with $1 worth of material...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
An article on Kyle Cooper, who's made the art-intensive
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ing and closing credits of such movies as Spiderman, Se7en, Sphere, Twister, and Mission: Impossible...
May 10 to 16, 2004
One of the coolest painting programs I've seen in years: Cosmic Painter! It's free and better than a Spirograph. (Sorry, for Mac OSX only): http://www.garagecube.com/
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source/cosmicpainter...
May 3 to 9, 2004
...and experts warn of worse to come. Now why banks, airlines, and stock exchanges would
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themselves up to being so vulnerable by using unpatched, networked Windows systems is completely beyon...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new
open
-source software kit turns batches of old, obsolete PCs into wireless community networks...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million installed systems, the
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-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...
The winners of the 2004 "Lyttle Lytton" contest, for the worst
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ing line...
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 22 to 28, 2004
Lawrence Lessig released his latest book, and you can download and read it for free. If living in an
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, free culture is important to you, or if you take photos, draw, write, make music, or i...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The latest in modernist prefabricated housing, where you can purchase a beautiful,
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wooden contemporary house kit for $100,000...
December 8 to 14, 2003
When Apple
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ed its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest line ever seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Unlike the U.S., Australians "do e-voting right" by
open
ing up the software running their voting systems to public scrutiny...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
open
Source Everywher...
October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to
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hundreds of new "supercenters"...
July 8, 2003
Consumer citizens who are not feeling apathetic will be pleased to learn that the site provides names and contact information for the corporate executives who oversee the Center's efforts. Since th...