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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hawaii-gr
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tea could become a world-famous if these growers have their way...
Photo Stitching http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbr
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/autostitch/autostitch.htm...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Verizon and Movielink announced a movie d
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load service for broadband users...
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700 million for abusing its near-monopoly in the software industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually everything our
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government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
The DIY solar cycle holds its
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solar panels...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Stats on how many forms of mainstream media are doing in terms of popularity: http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/04/media_meltd
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.htm...
The number one buyer of rice in the U.S. threatens a boycott if GMO crops are gr
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D
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load the file directly here (it's 70MB)...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the sl
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ess of research via paper...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Today's college students are getting used to d
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loading high-speed movies and music on demand from their computers...
Derren Br
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uses basic psychological principles to perform amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks...
Did you know that McDonald's is on its way to being the largest corporate land
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er in Russia? Perhaps I should get passports issued by McDonald's...
A small visual poem of a lonely Japanese street singer (may be d
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)...
March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly kn
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for his quality graffiti work, snuck into New York's most famous museums and affixed his anti-war work to th...
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,
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ed and sold to make profit.....
Hey America - India isn't going to take the same kind of economic smackd
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you gave Japan not so long ago...
March 7 to 13, 2005
On a related eco-friendly note, there sure is a lot of unused roof real estate in d
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t
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Honolulu...
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart sidesteps a t
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ordinance limiting store size by building two Wal-Marts next to each other...
Giant Steps - a great animated visualization of John Coltrane's classic jazz number: http://michalevy.com/gs_d
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load.htm...
The world's thinnest building, with a very colorful history: http://www.seechinat
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.com/thin/thin.ht...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock declines and poor business decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
More TV shows should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while listening to this podcast with show commentary at the same time: http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/d
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loads/podcast...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its
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power plant. He
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ed the compan...
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close d
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a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
"The Drugs I Need!" http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_song_d
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load&JServSessionIdr001=slppxu14l1.app14...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands d
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, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've ever experienced...
February 21 to 27, 2005
New super-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into housetops. Let's see these around t
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...
February 14 to 20, 2005
New groovy stuff from the DEMO 2005 conference! Here's Bubbler, an app that allows you to make your
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multimedia blogs, from Five Across...
The grisly story of Manadel al-Jamadi, which just became fully kn
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- he died in Abu Ghraib while hung from his wrists...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke d
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and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
Make your
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fires in the coming apocalypse with this gadget...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The first feature film to be delivered via wireless internet technology was sh
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at the Sundance Film Festival...
Why don't local supermarkets sell reusable shopping bags at time of checkout? Here's how some t
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s in Australia managed to ban disposable plastic bags at supermarkets, saving 350,000 bags in th...
Here's how to make your
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Life Poster with iPhoto...
Generate, print, and cut your
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12-sided calendar...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Since 2003 airport security screeners have stolen $36 million in items from travelers. The Transportation Security Administration spokesman says, "We have a few bad apples. That is unfortunate. We'...
If you have some Robert Johnson recordings and a Mac, you can slow d
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the music with this program...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking d
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on movie pirates, Monsanto is cracking d
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on farmers that save their patented GM seeds from year to year...
* Estimated average amount of textiles thr
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out by each U.S. household in 2001, in pounds: 6...
The public domain USGS digital data image archives. Nice, quick stock imagery for all kinds of uses: http://gliff.org/whorent/btd
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load.php?type=torrent&file=usgs.all.zip.torren...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinat
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is cultivating an "art chic". This article notes that "the state is currently gathering data on what it calls the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic impact"...
Biojewelry - grow a ring from your
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bone tissue...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a record high. So why is the RIAA still suing music d
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loaders instead of going after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Create your
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mini office cubicle hell with the Cubes plastic figure set...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the fact that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring war over peace...
Artwork that comes with its
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URL - the URL has become a work of art in itself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the information flow in the blogosphere has its
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Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
Build your
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gramophone with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on CDs and plastic cups and play them back...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power Plant near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
The number of corporations that control U.S. media, 1983-2000: http://www.voteamericavote.com/VAV%20Graphics/
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ers.jp...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Transmit your
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TV station via low-power TV broadcasting...
This article gives the best "you can see the changes with your
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eyes" summary of the "Global Climate Change in the U.S." report...
Communities offering "zero-energy homes" are popping up that allow home
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ers to cut as much as 90% off their utility bill...
November 1 to 7, 2004
iPodder allows you to browse audio feeds via RSS and d
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load them to your iPod. For Mac and Windows...
Interactive 360-degree panoramas from around the world: http://www.gregd
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ing.com/pano/index.ht...
Br
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Paper Tickets, a cheap alternative to Ticketmaster...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"Administration's
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actions fuel rumors of draft"...
"Technology used to track d
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Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the workplace"...
New autostitching algorithms make seamless panoramas a snap. Now will someone please make a Photoshop plug-in or simple OSX GUI for this? http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbr
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/panorama/panorama.htm...
The RIAA issues its first gold, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digitally d
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loaded music...
October 18 to 24, 2004
About Blake Ross, the 19-year-old lead architect of Firefox, the browser d
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loaded by almost 3 million...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use" - TV d
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, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest labels over CD prices. This is basically a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels get squeezed, consumers get less choice...
October 4 to 10, 2004
With this application and a GPS-enabled phone, you can walk around t
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and see which places are contributing money to which political parties. Get a rough idea of the political leanings and wealth o...
Finally, a startup uses BitTorrent-like tech for online movies: http://news.com.com/Start-up+delivers+movie+d
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loads/2110-1032_3-5395970.html?part=rss&tag=5395970&subj=news.1032.2...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Sarah McLachlan's video "World On Fire" breaks d
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the cost of making a music video vs. contributing to charities...
September 20 to 26, 2004
In response to online classifieds, newspapers are holding their
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local auctions...
September 13 to 19, 2004
"While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura Bush was kn
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'as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana.'...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "D
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side UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80 percent vacant t
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into ...
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 Internet connection: http://www.skype.com/d
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load_osx.htm...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A Rolling Stone report on Clear Channel, which
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s 70% of live events in the U.S....
August 15 to 22, 2004
Got an underperforming theater in your t
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? Make big bucks by using it for video gaming...
Instead of creative development, we have absentee land
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ers...
Make your
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mathematical fidget-toy from paper...
RIAA lawsuits causing agony, "unexpected twists": http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/08/20/slow_moving_lawsuits_over_music_d
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loads_producing_court_twists...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Revitalize the Waterfront and D
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tow...
The corporate
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ership of computer technology is a large factor. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science research...
About the new online TV-show swapping culture: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/08/11/must_d
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load_tv/index_np.htm...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The state will be left with no other mid-sized d
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t
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venue for locals with a stage layout that can pull in 300 to 500 (restaurants don't count), meaning that small local acts and events won't b...
3) Expand the ARTS at Marks to a larger, multi-use d
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t
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arts space...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
A great idea - putting city maps on traffic control boxes. Let's see these around t
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...
How the RIAA shut d
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a respected, thriving music store due to the sale of popular DJ-made mixtapes...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.apple.com/support/d
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loads/verizonbroadbandaccesssupport.htm...
About Dubai's cr
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price, the man behind the $3 billion Palm, the "eighth wonder of the world". He makes $2 billion a year without even trying...
Photo/video folks! Build your
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bottlecap tripod...
July 5 to 11, 2004
A new type of affordable condo complex with intelligently designed 347 square-foot spaces. I'd rather see a building like this than (yet) another rund
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concrete brick apartment in Hawaii any day...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Grow your
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(nearly) all-grass armchair...
Radio 1 in the UK will now be broadcasting a chart of the top (legally) d
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loaded tracks...
June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his
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equivalent textbooks and puts them online for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Here's what Wired has to say about such software, group decision-making, and how it can actually be more profitable to organizations versus top-d
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bureaucratic methods...
June 7 to 13, 2004
#8 - "Rock Lobster! D
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! D
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!...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"For the second straight year, an Internet unkn
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won the famed World Series of Poker on Friday, ravaging a field of professional players on his way to glory and riches....
"Dr
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ing in an Ocean of Plastic...
May 24 to 30, 2004
An S.F. gallery closes after its
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er is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the abuse of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
This site was d
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for a week or two due to popularity - it's better than the last "infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so ago...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Two teen poetry students give a public anti-Iraq/Bush reading. Their teacher is fired and the poetry club shut d
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...
Rupert Murdoch's first commercial waste-to-oil plant launched and makes 200 barrels a day from the turkey processing plant next door. It's 80% efficient and runs on its
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energy...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* London's Heathrow Airport (shutting d
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a terminal...
Will false teeth be a thing of the past? Successful experiments have regr
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teeth from stem cells...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
"One of the nation's wealthiest t
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s will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through....
Here's a cool (Mac and Windows) screensaver - an airplane window, with a moving aerial background: http://www.idle-time.org/d
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load.htm...
April 19 to 25, 2004
3) How about this for a cleanup-inducing pilot project? But use the voices of well-kn
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locals: Berlin's pilot program of talking trash cans that congratulate you when used have proven to be a hug...
If you listen to a CD I give you, will you be busted? As part of a nationwide crackd
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, the FBI raided Deer Valley High School...
April 12 to 18, 2004
It's the 10th anniversary of unsolicited commercial email, aka spam. Yay, not. On my servers I got about 1,500 spams daily until I installed a custom filtering system. Now it's d
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to about 20, bu...
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: http://photoshop.superd
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loads.net/uploads/myturn_04122004.jp...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Here's Wing (sorry, not Wings). For your
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protection, limit yourself to one of any of the following songs...
And the top 50% of families
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95% of assets...
A rund
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on the more questionable patents granted of late...
Aspiring filmmaker? Make your
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Steadycam (camera stabilizer) for $14...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Falsifying workers' hours held to be common management trick to pare d
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expenses...
"Dogs do resemble their
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ers, finds study...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Lawrence Lessig released his latest book, and you can d
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load and read it for free. If living in an open, free culture is important to you, or if you take photos, draw, write, make music, or i...
"Ghost T
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" - notes from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was taken d
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. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new sonic "construction set" has been released freely online which contains clips art and samples and breaks from the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. This allows people to create their
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albums based o...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school systems and other organizations are building their
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DIY fiber networks and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
Also (to be) sh
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at the show, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
February 23 to 29, 2004
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
February 16 to 22, 2004
It's been tested by the FBI and is so accurate its results are now admissible in court. "[it's] ... a method of reading the brain's involuntary electrical activity in response to a subject being show...
I can't wait to upgrade my memory! Cells-on-silicon breakthrough "Researchers... have found that nerve cells gr
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on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to th...
Mathematical formula 'predicts marriage breakd
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' "The mathematics we came up with is trivial, but the model is astonishingly accurate"...
February 9 to 15, 2004
For Valentine's Day, another fascinating "science and love" article - "Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is d
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to a chemical addiction between people"...
The sad story of a once-historic d
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t
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area that is planned to be an auto dealership due to the city's current budget shortfall...
(from Jan 3) Now that Oahu only has two art-house movie venues (with one whose fate is uncertain), will people be able to see movies like the ones below in the future? Or will we have to d
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loa...
"Illegal logging is destroying the equatorial rain forests of Indonesian Borneo, bringing the island, once kn
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as the lungs of Asia, to the brink of an ecological disaster....
February 2 to 8, 2004
Nanotech thinkers fear the "gray goo" syndrome, where a nanotech product may go haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into goo, the nanotech equivalent of a nuclear meltd
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. One smart gu...
A t
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-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
A new paint eats smog for five years - it's been sh
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to reduce pollution up to 60 percent at street level...
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 - Cr
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e Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
News on "The Corporation" - which analyzes the institution kn
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as the corporation as if it were the person that it legally is. The analysis? It "fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath"...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went d
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...
January 12 to 18, 2004
I used to get about 500 to 1000 spams a day. Now it's d
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to about 100 now that I put tough anti-spam filters in.....
Cuba cracks d
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on Internet use...
"Experts slam Wal-Mart lockd
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s...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"Counterpoint: D
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loading Isn’t Stealing...
December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unkn
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subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
December 8 to 14, 2003
It's legal (and has been for years) in over half the states to sell your voter registration information - including name, race, email, street address, phone number, birth date, political affiliation...
This Chinese video has been wildly popular this week: A great "new" way to fold your shirts (it's true, I learned too) the way professionals do in retail stores. You may be able to d
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load it her...
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson popular) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Have you ever wanted your
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Death Ray? Check out the commercial at Brotron Labs...
"My First DNA Sequencer" http://www.popsci.com/popsci/b
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/2003/article/0,18881,537113,00.htm...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Pebble Bed Modular Reactors may be the future of nuclear power, as their design eliminates the possibility of a meltd
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...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The world's first disposable cellular phone just hit the market. It comes with 60 minutes of prepaid time, its
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phone number, and you can add more minutes as needed...
October 27, 2003
A school has begun tracking students with RFID devices, the first kn
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school to identify and track its children. Good? Bad...
October 20, 2003
* The iTunes music store now represents 70% of all music d
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loads...
September 15, 2003
Strange tiles have been sighted in over 100 different places around the world, created by an unkn
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artist. They reference Arnold Toynbee, who believed that "humanity's perception of its histor...
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
"12-Year-Old Sued for Music D
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loading (by RIAA)...
August 25, 2003
Promising biomass-based power generation technology "Fueled by sawdust pellets, corncobs or coconut shells, BioMax generates electricity for rural t
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s, businesses...
* Air Canada (the reservations, check-in, and call center systems shut d
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, causing canceled flights...
August 12, 2003
FOX News apparently
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s the trademark to the phrase "Fair and Balanced". We'll see if it holds up in court...
July 21, 2003
Just released last month, Second Life is perhaps the closest thing to wide-scale cyberspace today. A journalist is covering its
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culture as it evolves...
...I'm really tempted to write a program that automatically generates your
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Nigerian Email Scam Letter, but I don't think my server could handle the bandwidth...
July 10, 2003
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we manage it." Also, if yo...
July 8, 2003
...reminds me of the grad student many years ago that built his
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atom bomb.....
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...