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December 20 to 31, 2005
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr! See on a U.S. map where recent photos were taken: http://mappr.com/
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/recent/index.htm...
Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You wasted quarters in this?...
The weight of American tourists is causing chairs on the Queen Mary 2 to break: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_
page
/0,5478,11609204%255E663,00.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Very flat, flexible speaker technology: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/audio/1279551.html?
page
=1&c=...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Did you know that half of all schoolchildren in France are bloggers (bloguers)? Score one for "vocal civic discourse": http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67273-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_
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_next...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Christopher Swain swims through miles of polluted sewage to bring attention to clean water issues: http://www.swimforcleanwater.org/
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s/1...
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A
page
on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
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...
More wacky, unusual album covers: http://www.showandtellmusic.com/
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s/galleries_main.htm...
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...
Here's what sumo wrestlers eat to grow weight, and the recipe for making it. Looks delicious! http://www.gastronomica.org/
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s/sample4.1.htm...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
March 7 to 13, 2005
New input devices are challenging the status quo! Here's the rollermouse for stressless mousing: http://www.ergodex.com/main
page
.ht...
Some of the U.K.'s worst shop names: http://www.shophorror.co.uk/
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s/gallery.htm...
View the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be seen in infrared: http://home
page
.ntlworld.com/geoff.johnson2/IR...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
"The Drugs I Need!" http://cu.convio.net/site/
page
Server?
page
name=Rx_song_download&JServSessionIdr001=slppxu14l1.app14...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://shuffle.servepics.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=12&
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=...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Podcasting is getting more media attention, along with front
page
space in USA Today. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting right now...
Allan Schiffman offers a few quick numbers on federal debt, spending, etc.: http://web
page
s.charter.net/allanms/2005/02/lets-play-whats-real-problem.htm...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Intellectual property lawyers are destroying the military model industry. Aren't defense contractors making enough money these days? http://www.strategy
page
.com/dls/articles/2005230.as...
The McNipple, from artist Casey Weldon: http://www.caseyweldon.com/home/
page
10.ht...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
Amazon adds 20 million pictures of storefronts to its Yellow
page
s search...
January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress tests (Logic,
page
s, iPhoto) and it never got too hot or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
January 10 to 16, 2005
If you're an average PC user, you'd be insane to keep a Windows machine at this point. I've spent more time removing viruses and fixing problems on one friend's Windows XP box than the combined tim...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Before and after tsunami photos, matched up with each other: http://home
page
.mac.com/demark/tsunami...
December 13 to 19, 2004
An article on Web "design usability" that takes up only 20% of the
page
, surrounded by grievous clutter...
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to listen to all nominated songs in the "Record of the Year" category via iTunes: http://keola.editthis
page
.com/2004/12/15#a178...
December 6 to 12, 2004
"One billion children affected by poverty": http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?
page
=story_11-12-2004_pg7_3...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The debut of Wikinews, a free content news source that people around the world can contribute to: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Pag...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An overview of current work on Natural Language Programming: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=show
page
&pid=22...
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million
page
s of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
Remember, every public Web
page
you make in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
The coolest fractal art I've seen online: http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal
page
s/northwest.ht...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Guess we'll all be eating squid in the future. There are more squids than humans by biomass now, thanks to overfishing and climate change...
October 18 to 24, 2004
USB flash drives with a thumbprint reader: http://www.starbursthome
page
.com/xflashpointx.ht...
Researchers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that works "with a 95% accuracy rate": http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65422-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_
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_next...
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 down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
I think I got a spyware popup on this
page
...
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...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Incredible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos: http://home
page
3.nifty.com/highside/gallery.ht...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The CyberLite LED is one of the products made with the above methods: http://www.electronicproducts.com/Show
page
.asp?SECTION=3130&PRIMID=&FileName=marHL1.mar200...
"Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'" http://chak.org/
page
s/onion/bush_nightmare.htm...
Hip Japanese robot t-shirts: http://www.terratag.com/
page
2p.php?er=0&clientid=&basketid...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Pictures at the bottom of this
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...
Cool watermelon carvings: http://takashi64.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
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009.htm...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Yet another "revolutionary spam firewall": http://news.com.au/common/story_
page
/0,4057,10558883%255E3102,00.htm...
Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered...
August 15 to 22, 2004
The first invisible barcode system, using spray-on DNA-encapsulated inorganic nanomaterial (whew): http://times.hankooki.com/l
page
/tech/200408/kt2004081219261211810.ht...
August 8 to 14, 2004
The LED balloon lamp: http://www.kyouei-ltd.co.jp/
page
/balloon.htm...
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.content/
page
/pres...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://home
page
s.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/publicdomain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Quantum computing breakthrough - a single electron's spin is controlled using ordinary transistors: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/
page
.asp?RelNum=535...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
The demand for larger luxury garages in homes is increasing: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/full
page
.html?res=9B0CE3DC143AF93BA25754C0A9629C8B6...
July 12 to 18, 2004
New surfboards with shark-repelling devices will hit the market this year: http://news.com.au/common/story_
page
/0,4057,10131332%255E2682,00.htm...
July 5 to 11, 2004
"I think he's a big jerk" http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/feature
page
s/0,4120,1256962,00.htm...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An Antarctic scientific research vessel gets equipped with two heavy-caliber machine guns to fight fish poaching off of Australia...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The (relatively new) RoadRunner business-class services are not only competitive with business-class DSL now, but are actually cheaper as the bandwidth gets bigger (Hawaii prices) - you get bette...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This has been popular, but I love the quote: "[Defense] firms are about to pitch "a frightening new breed of stun gun" to police in America and Europe that has left human rights groups appalled abou...
June 7 to 13, 2004
The ten best Internet fads: http://www.thewavemag.com/
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gen.php?
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name=article&articleid=2485...
A really nice
page
of digital photography composition tips...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Drink beer to reduce liver damage! (see last week's "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Damage"): http://www.news.com.au/common/story_
page
/0,4057,9700246%255E2,00.htm...
Also on the same
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- condoms can leak carcinogens! I guess from now on I'm chugging coffee and beer, playing video games, and avoiding condoms for my health's sake! "Investment in environmenta...
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_
page
content?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.yamano-music.com/docs/hard/handroll_piano.htm...
The latest advances in animation as developed by the makers of Shrek 2: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=
page
one&article_no=209...
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
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s/frontline/shows/music...
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
$20 biodegradable cardboard speakers pack flat and actually sound decent: http://www.t3.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?
page
typeid=2&articleid=14704&subsectionid=756&subsubsectionid=65...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
March 31, 2004
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Citizen Kubrick" http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/feature
page
s/0,4120,1177734,00.htm...
March 8 to 14, 2004
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web
page
s, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
"Game Development: Harder Than You Think" http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=show
page
&pid=11...
February 9 to 15, 2004
A Swedish company has developed an environmentally friendly way to dispose of (and recycle) bodies. This is as opposed to the current methods, whose byproducts are polluting incinerators, toxi...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
Make an efficient, cheap camping stove out of aluminum cans: http://www.pcthiker.com/
page
s/gear/pepsiGstoveinstruct.shtm...
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-
page
book on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed online for free...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World Economy...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Whoo boy, lots of new stuff in the world lately. Guess I'll just jump in: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61543-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_
page
_next...
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 download it her...
Details behind the first National Geographic cover story ever to be completely shot digitally: http://65.110.81.28/bins/multi_
page
.asp?cid=7-6450-656...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Abercromie & Fitch got in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clothing catalog. Their first sweater doesn't show up until
page
122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
October 27, 2003
The rise of underground restaurants: http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-
page
.html?
page
wanted=all&res=9C00EFD9143EF931A25750C0A9659C8B6...
October 20, 2003
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract photos taken from the sides of boxcars: http://www.timdavisartimages.com/
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s/main.htm...
October 6, 2003
"Girl, 5, makes bong in class" http://news.com.au/common/story_
page
/0,4057,7401630%255E13569,00.htm...
September 22, 2003
About Stefanie Nagorka, who makes spontaneous sculptures in Home Depot aisles wihout permission: http://www.npr.org/display_
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s/features/feature_1266165.htm...
"The Revenge of the Copyright Cops" http://www.nytimes.com/image
page
s/2003/09/16/arts/20030916_POPLIFE_IMAGE.html?8hpi...
September 15, 2003
The optical illusions
page
from Japan has been greatly expanded. WARNING: may cause headaches or discomfort...
September 8, 2003
California candidates are given the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, to see which ones are replicants. This is hilarious! http://www.thewavemag.com/
page
gen.php?
page
name=article&articleid$03...
September 2, 2003
The incredible story of an Estonian man who lived in the forest for eight years evading the Soviets: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/international/europe/23FPRO.html?8bl=&
page
wanted=all&position...
July 21, 2003
Status report: there have been almost 7 million hits on the Star Wars Kid
page
, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...
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...
July 8, 2003
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...