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December 20 to 31, 2005
Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth
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ception". Defender: "You wasted quarters in this?...
The sorry state of wasteful corporate packaging - the most over-packed item in history: http://www.hy
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org.com/blogger/mtarchive/003508.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for recording, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
Su
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-strong flip flops, developed by surfers...
Click the face: http://www.zanorg.com/prod
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so/tronchedekek.ht...
Mathematicians turn an Escher drawing into a trippy interactive ex
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ience. Check out the movies...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you're switching to a Mac, it's now chea
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to get your HP or Dell PC recycled...
The sandal-combination-bottle opener!
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fect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming popular among college students, who use it to concentrate and stay awake for long
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iods at a time...
Hey, develo
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s - check out the Green Building Products directory...
I enjoy these, being an ex-cube solver myself. In the up
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right is Jessica Fridrich of the popular "Fridrich method"...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A better overview of
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pendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
This new wireless USB prototype dongle will make any USB device wireless: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/
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ipherals/idf-2005-wireless-usb-demo-038936.ph...
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of research via pa
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...
Interviews with over 300 people who live in mountainous regions around the world, with their
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spectives on change and development...
A profile on one of the first real 21st century su
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stars, journalist, blogger, polyglot, and hot babe Xeni Jardin...
Meanwhile, Swiss biotech firm Syngenta was fined for "mistakenly" selling hundreds of tons of ex
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imental GMO corn seed not yet approved for human consumption to the U.S. and Europe...
Hey develo
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s! Use Ecoglo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency lighting systems...
622 music videos: http://granfaro.blogspot.com/2005/04/622-music-videos-various-from-
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fect.htm...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
What blows my mind is that many of the documents I examined and commented on came from the 1992 hy
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text www-talk archives, which I helped archive in the first place, using software that I wrot...
Wow, wow. Go to Google Maps, go anywhere and then select the "Satellite" link to the up
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right...
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pendicular recording likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage technologies...
For Web develo
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s - this new simple PHP Bayesian filter allows one to develop spam filters, categorization tools, and technology that learns by example...
In 2001 Poland hired a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
Derren Brown uses basic psychological principles to
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form amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks...
Did you know that McDonald's is on its way to being the largest corporate land owner in Russia?
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haps I should get passports issued by McDonald's...
Here's a crab-cracking tool that's well-designed due to looking at the problem from a novel
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spective...
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 o
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ative...
Don't waste pa
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or plastic when shopping - carry around a key chain tote bag...
Also, use your
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sistent vegetative state to be "cynically manipulated for the cause of your choice"...
BTW there are plenty of online resources today for anti-SUV bum
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stickers...
A new newspa
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column only reviews cars that do better than 30 mpg. Let's see more columns like this...
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
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spective that land is something to be bought, owned and sold to make profit.....
For Web develo
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s: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Safari though)...
Using the BlueSni
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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
Philips says we're getting pa
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-like displays in 2007...
Here's twenty ways to say "no". Sadly, there are probably fewer ways to say "yes": http://www.onlineorganizing.com/Ex
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tAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=1...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and online
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sonality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
"Invocation of eminent domain by cities to seize pro
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ty for private development is on the rise"...
Meanwhile, a demonstration of how a hacker could easily disable a U.S. energy utility makes the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wish he'd "had a dia
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on"...
Irresponsible trapping over decades has psychologically changed monkeys in India to the point that "simian aggression has reached alarming proportions"...
Let's see Starbucks use these new pa
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coffee cups that are decomposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's ordered 20 million of them...
The Flickr guide to the planet - beautiful photos from around the world, via Gridskip
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...
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...
From Miami to Oakland, kids are putting 150-decibel train horns on their cars and stunning bystanders: http://www.duluthsu
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ior.com/mld/duluthsu
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ior/news/nation/11007028.ht...
This biometric pen verifies your signature: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/
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ipherals/input/biometric-pen-verifies-your-signature-034786.ph...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've ever ex
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ienced...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A startup creates molecular storage technology that could store 1 terabit
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square inch, or 25 DVDs of data in a postage stamp-sized area...
The 1GB Secure Digital USB card: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/
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ipherals/storage/sandisk-sd-card-with-flip-up-usb-update-033743.ph...
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its
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ils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her
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sonal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor ex
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ts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite international attention, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
New su
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-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into housetops. Let's see these around town...
Stuff For Web Develo
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...
It isn't
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fect, but I like the clean, no-frills information design of Metacritic...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring
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formances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
Will an environmental impact statement requirement kill Hawaii's inter-island Su
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ferry? This article explains the issues involved, and why an EIS may not really be needed. In any case, could it no...
I went to the last meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's group organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at CommerceNet. If you'd like to get your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
Here's the latest in digital pa
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prototypes...
The 21-inch Wacom touch-screen flat-planel display: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/
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ipherals/input/wacom-cintiq-21ux-touch-screen-flatpanel-033025.ph...
New proof of manmade global warming, thanks to a study of ocean tem
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ature over 40 years...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Big news for software develo
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s - an open source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading networks, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging technologies...
They should also understand all the various ways in which Microsoft technology remains ino
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able with the rest of the World-Wide Web...
Alongside the Su
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Bowl, the Discovery Channel ran the "Puppy Bowl", twelve hours of puppies playing on a football mat. It was a huge hit with viewers, who found it strangely addicting. You can bu...
Another new study shows that peanuts are the nutritional equivalent of the "
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fect fruit"...
View all of the 2005 Su
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Bowl ads here, including the rejected and/or censored ones...
This technique was in the Su
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Bowl ad for the m:robe, a new wannabe iPod mp3 player from Olympus...
In related news, an interesting study on the power of graphical manipulation to
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suade people...
The su
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-cool baby name wizard. How popular has a name been over time...
Here's the mp3, despite the fact that Simmons denied NPR
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mission to make the recording available...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times car stereo manufacturers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and
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haps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
Intellectual pro
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ty lawyers are destroying the military model industry. Aren't defense contractors making enough money these days...
Information on the effort to free the seminal civil rights documentary "Eyes On The Prize" from intellectual pro
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ty limbo...
Dwell magazine, once a design magazine for the budget conscious masses, is now selling ads to the up
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class...
The largest climate prediction ex
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iment ever harnessed 90,000 home computers around the globe. The result? Global warming will be worse than expected...
Try using these climate change bum
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stickers...
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sonally, I think mercury in fish over long
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iods could be a factor...
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 concept of "bike stations", which could be placed next to mas...
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...
Using Skype (voice over the Internet), John
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ry Barlow was called at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn how to speak English. Here's his reflections on "th...
This was understandably popular - people are worrying about hybrid human/animal ex
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iments, including human/rabbit egg combinations and mice with human brain cells...
Why don't local su
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markets sell reusable shopping bags at time of checkout? Here's how some towns in Australia managed to ban disposable plastic bags at su
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markets, saving 350,000 bags in th...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Frequent traveler and ace writer Cory Doctorow was questioned at the airport by American Airlines
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sonnel and asked for a written list of his friends' addresses. Here's his story...
License to sit - this art piece reflects on our ever-growing "culture by
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mission"...
Were Robert Johnson's recordings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match actual guitar pitch and you get a whole new
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spective on his amazing talents...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Har
per
's Index for December 2004...
Pa
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or plastic? Neither. Here's a great answer to this question...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Professor Francis Boyle, an ex
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t on international law from the U. of Illinois, recently gave an informative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under international law...
Fluid flow simulation software is now open source. Implications for chea
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environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
Here you can see the cultural influence of the beautiful classic medium of LP cover art, from Herb Al
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t's popular "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" (1965)...
The StroboPick,
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haps the most accurate (and smallest) guitar tuner ever...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's BusLink system is the first use of smart card technology in a bus-only mass transit system in America. How about making a smart-card based Su
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Ferry pass...
New airship satellites can provide chea
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wireless coverage...
Researchers find a new efficient way to convert water into hydrogen by using high tem
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ature...
Lexar's new su
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-mini USB flash drive. I hope cameras incorporate this...
A neat photo of Hitachi's prototype color epa
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, due in 2006...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you ex
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ience, purchase, an...
John
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ry Barlow's fight against Homeland Security may set a legal precedent regarding searches...
A pa
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vase made of recycled design magazines...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of ex
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imental features to the blog which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
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...
The ten most
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sistent design bugs, from UI ex
per
t Bruce Tognazzini...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I just finished watching "The End of Suburbia", a great and disturbing DVD I mentioned here previously. You can watch one of the included bonus movies "In the Suburbs" for free at the Prelinge...
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the information flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy:
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sonal, fast...
Ex
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ts say the health of the ocean is linked to Hawaii's economic health, warn of problems...
More than 27% of U.S. babies were delivered by Caesarean section, the highest
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centage since 1996...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power Plant near Aloha Tower.
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haps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
Pros and cons regarding the upcoming Su
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ferry - discuss them in public this week...
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspa
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s from 1836 through 1922 online...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The
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suaders" - 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
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suaders" 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...
"Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers" - the film "Tarnation" may have cost $200 to make, but it cost $500,000 to clear the rights for it. Stric...
This was really popular all over the net this week,
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haps because people need to be reminded of the
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ils of overworking...
Unemployment among IT workers is higher than the overall jobless rate for the first time in over 30 years: http://newpa
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.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,77065,00.htm...
This Dutch film caused the murder of its director on November 2. The Netherlands is now ex
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iencing attacks on Islamic mosques, churches, and schools. Can fundamentalism ever coexist with worl...
Here's one such community from the develo
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"Clarium Homes"...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Fear and Ignorance http://www-
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sonal.umich.edu/~mejn/election...
A new su
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-tough coating that resists wire-wool scrubbing has been developed, leading to anti-scratch CDs, DVDs, LCDs, PDAs, and other devices...
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same bacteria that was once considered so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-warfare ex
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iments...
Interactive wallpa
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is going commercial...
Brown Pa
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Tickets, a cheap alternative to Ticketmaster...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Pro
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evoting system usability means much more than just looking at the voting process alone. Here's the informal usability report I prepared on the eSlate system in September 2004...
Spyware is on 80% of PCs, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite ex
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t evidence...
October 18 to 24, 2004
UK Guardian readers write to undecided voters in Clark County, Ohio to
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suade them not to vote for Bush. A slew of hilarious, vile, and thoughtful letters return...
R.I.P. shirts are popular in high-homicide areas, where rap
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s wear shirts with the names and photos of victims they don't even know...
Nat'l Geographic survey - less than 15% of U.S. 18-to-24 year olds can locate Iraq on a map: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1120_021120_GeoRo
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Survey.htm...
October 11 to 17, 2004
The first waterless dishwater uses su
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critical carbon dioxide...
Cultural (read: advertising) messages affect sensory
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ception...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The su
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-cute high-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offered in Europe, would be a
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fect car for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles
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gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i Business Express", which allows one to start a business easily online via all the relevant departments. Unfortunately, ending a business is still ...
A rapid body tem
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ature cooling device may help improve athletic
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formance. My friend at IDEO helped design this a few years ago...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Suburbia is a health hazard - a new study has found that not only are people less healthy due to overdependence on cars, but from a community design
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spective, it's a very inefficient way to live...
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful su
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computer at Virginia Tech (it's also powered by Mac OSX)...
September 20 to 26, 2004
IBM scientists figure out how to make single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to su
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-dense storage media...
A new
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manent coating prevents glass from fogging up and can make solar cells more efficient...
Due to high-priced dorms, Berkeley students are finding it chea
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to rent mansions...
In response to online classifieds, newspa
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s are holding their own local auctions...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Print-on-demand custom wallpa
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...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80
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cent vacant town into ...
Working
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sonal jet-powered wings are now for real...
Pictures and
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sonal accounts of arrests and the detention area at the Republican National Convention...
"Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace And Pros
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ity Is Finally Over'...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Last year's Labor Day vigil at the sacred hill Pu'u Ohau, at the edge of the unfinished elite Hokulia estate and golf course development on top of ancient Hawaiian burial grounds. Kupunas calle...
Isn't it funny that the Su
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ferry sports an array of high-tech gadgets - and two human observers - to do nothing but ensure that whales are avoided at all costs.....
The first room tem
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ature plastic magnets are created...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with su
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-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
Are you an inefficient hy
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tasker? Workplace pressures, inadequate tools cause stress. I say this is a technology problem, not a brain problem...
Ecotourism needs more ex
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ienced guides...
Watch the fascinating evolution of 100 years of Olympic poster design: http://www.olym
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ial.com...
For Web develo
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s-ten CSS tricks you may not know...
August 22 to 29, 2004
All about the Hawaii Su
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ferry, which starts service in 2006 and will change island life as we know it...
Su
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ferry CEO Tim Dick will be speaking at the Plaza Club on September 15th...
Five photons have been linked in an milestone ex
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iment that will lead to full-scale quantum computing...
A new poll shows growing support for voter-verified pa
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trails in elections...
An ex
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iment reviving coral reefs with low-voltage electrical current receives "remarkable results"...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Idea of the Week: Nature Cemeteries What a great concept: there's less cost and waste for the industry, there's a pent-up demand, land is conserved (and preserved), and it's chea
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for consumers...
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving pa
per
-base...
Yay! Now develo
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s are more free to make truly revolutionary, innovation-promoting technology...
Got an under
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forming theater in your town? Make big bucks by using it for video gaming...
Make your own mathematical fidget-toy from pa
per
...
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...
Over the last few years develo
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Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
Land-rich Hawaiians can no longer afford to live on Maui due to zooming pro
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ty taxes. Such is the inevitable spiral of selling land, development, gentrification, and overcrowding. "We're no...
New algorithms allow projectors to project clearly on any surface, such as wallpa
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and curtains...
Why dynamic languages (still) represent the future of computing (warning: tech-heavy): http://www.activestate.com/Company/NewsRoom/whitepa
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s_ADL.ple...
An analysis of files taken from a hard drive used in Al-Qaeda's o
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ations. Insightful...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local Arts and Designs Hawaii is one of the toughest states for those involved in the arts to make a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
Although over 80% of the public feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security ex
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ts feel that current e-voting systems are much less secure than traditional pa
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-base...
"Stealth wallpa
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" can prevent insecure wireless networks from being hijacked...
"...the information su
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highway... will collapse...
Amsterdam needs cheap temporary housing for 7,000 college students quickly! A develo
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is building a temporary, modular, and easily moveable student city made of 1,000 40-foot cargo containers...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to impro
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use. Could the use of
per
meable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
Semi-transparent solar panels can be used as a new building material and video projection surface, and they generate 3.8 watts
per
square foot...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in o
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ation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone seems to have a blog these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I see the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
An in-demand violin maker in Berkeley creates quality violins with 200-year old wood from Lake Su
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ior. Also an acupuncturist, he sees the vibrational connections between his vocations...
If similar intellectual pro
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ty laws existed in the 18 century, "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" would be illegal...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Huge manmade cities for the su
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rich are being built all over the world. Here's a few of them...
A UH breakthrough - vegetable colorants show cancer-fighting pro
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ties...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 pro
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ly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
Some
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sonal stories of the 1.5 million women vs. Walmart, the largest class action suit ever...
During the summer, Office Depot is allowing people to drop off and recycle one electronics product
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day, for free...
Rock, Pa
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, Saddam...
Are you glad your husband's an engineer? This 1956 ad made me laugh: http://www.thoughtvi
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.com/inexob/images/1956/engineer.jp...
Don't forget to hear Molvania's entry into the Eurovision song contest - "Elektronik Su
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sonik"...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Here's Doug Englebart's infamous 1968 demo, which originated the concept and also introduced the world to the mouse, word processing, hy
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links, outline editing, graphics editing, and more...
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of O
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ation Castle, the single worst fallout exposure in the U.S. atmospheric testing program. With heartbreaking testimony from many veterans who were there...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
A new hy
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sensitive sensor has been developed in Israel, allowing heart readings from "several feet away" without physical contact...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The (relatively new) RoadRunner business-class services are not only competitive with business-class DSL now, but are actually chea
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as the bandwidth gets bigger (Hawaii prices) - you get bette...
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating,
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sistent, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
Following AT&T and BT, giant telco SBC Communications is moving to an all-IP network: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/sbc_su
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_network...
Better than wallpa
per
- Blik...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the latest tech fad of creating
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sonal social networks - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies network and think smarter...
Out of jewel cases? Here's how to make single and double CD holders out of a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" pa
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...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and
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malinkable... We need on...
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sonal photos by the master Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky...
An article on Kyle Coo
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, who's made the art-intensive opening and closing credits of such movies as Spiderman, Se7en, Sphere, Twister, and Mission: Impossible...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless
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imeter sensors on public land and get busted by the FBI and Air Force agents...
A new company helps traditional radio stations migrate to digital radio. A great idea, but receivers need to get chea
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...
May 17 to 23, 2004
3) If we did Iraq right, gas would be chea
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...
The first 40-inch organic LED display: http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/
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sonaltech/0,39001147,39179788,00.ht...
Ru
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t 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 own energy...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More architecture! Architect Michelle Kaufmann is an American hero. She's the first
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son to finally begin to fulfill Frank Lloyd Wright's dream of cheap quality homes, a goa...
"E-filing nears 50
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cent mark...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* Taiwan's national postal service (forcing 1/3 of branches to pa
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...
Will false teeth be a thing of the past? Successful ex
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iments have regrown teeth from stem cells...
"Blood pressure rising in kids" - I'm starting to get tired of these "X rising in kids" articles... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040505/HHY
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05/TPHealth...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature su
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computer-class levels of
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formance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
As an ex
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iment, every 5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is getting a laptop with digital versions of textbooks and 2,000 works of literature...
"Eco-friendly" dia
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s may not be so eco-friendly after all...
April 19 to 25, 2004
4) Endorse the use of lead-free computer systems, at least by government: The world's first lead-free motherboard (the main component in
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sonal computers) has been developed...
A review of the first electronic pa
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- based reading device and its implications for libraries, books, and traditional reading habits...
A new technology using nanowires promises storage capacities of 40GB
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square centimeter...
April 12 to 18, 2004
An extensive 20-year study of a baboon troop found a
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manent, unprecedented cultural shift occurred when the most violent, dominant males died out from a tuberculosis outbreak...
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.su
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downloads.net/uploads/myturn_04122004.jp...
Sony and TOPPAN Printing announced the development of a 25GB optical disc made of 51% pa
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...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"The share of the economic pie going to wages and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and
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haps longer....
"Americans are increasingly resorting to stomach-shrinking surgery so much so that health ex
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ts and insurance companies are becoming alarmed"...
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...
These projects are
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fect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Nude women have been on the menu at The Sutler for years, but the Nashville pub covered up the 19th-century Victorian photos after being warned they might be too racy for state law....
Although expensive, mechanized parking is
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fect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a look at the data...
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...
Drug company GlaxoSmithKline used orphans as guinea pigs in potentially dangerous medical ex
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iments...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Trixie, the baby with the most comprehensive Web site in the world. With real-time sleep, bottle, and dia
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telemetrics, a blog, gallery, forum, archives, and voting topic...
The first device ever with an electronic pa
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display, a reading device, hits the shelves next month, with a 170dpi screen...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Although silly bills are introduced all the time, this one's a whop
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: "To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Those who do not learn from history... The amazing Lawrence Lessig wrote a nice piece on how Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and the music industries were all born from content piracy...
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is suing the FCC on "overbroad regulation of next-generation televisions and related devices". Left unchallenged, anything you watch on TV or computers in th...
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer su
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-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school systems and other organizations are building their own DIY fiber networks and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional o
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ators (such a...
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...
An influential Washington policy group released a report stating that the entertainment industry's pursuit of anti-piracy laws is bad for business and for the economy...
How I Lost The Big On...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
"Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace" http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/pa
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s/blogs/index.htm...
Face recognition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific
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son in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using su
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conducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of reality simulation: where 20 years ago a shoot-'em-up game took one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized knowledge o...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Apple's Mac OS X has been declared one of the world's safest o
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ating systems by London-based security ex
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ts, mi2g...
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs ex
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ience...
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...
Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40
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cent of customers say that free wireless access is a factor in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Let's start with some fun stuff this week! This French
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former attaches dozens of horns to his jumpsuit and proceeds to play classical music...
"So the prices, which seem ridiculous to 99
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cent of the population, are not....
A new paint eats smog for five years - it's been shown to reduce pollution up to 60
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cent at street level...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
News on "The Corporation" - which analyzes the institution known as the corporation as if it were the
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son 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 O
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ations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
"Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and
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iodically passing on copies to the media"...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"This ex
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ience encapsulated so many benefits about technology that I don’t really know where to begin...
Atoms can be seen and counted with the new Su
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STEM microscope...
"Ex
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ts slam Wal-Mart lockdowns...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The New York Times refused to run this article - the journalist posted it himself online instead. Here's a good idea to help offset online "sharing" - a $60
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year charge for broadband users...
Burger King customers told: 'You are too fat to have a Whop
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...
The FBI can now obtain financial records without requiring a judge's
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mission...
Yet another international study on global warming was released - 1/4 of all species could be extinct by 2050? "Global Warming Im
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ils Species...
December 22 to 28, 2003
63
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cent of Americans are now online...
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can make vehicles up to 50
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cent more efficient and is being tested on a city bus in the Netherlands...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military hardware turned into spamming machine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official o
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ating system for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
December 8 to 14, 2003
This enables desktop-sized su
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computers and cell phones lasting 60 hours...
The Justice Department wants to brand Greenpeace as a criminal o
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ation...
December 1 to 7, 2003
The abuse of
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iod typography in the movies...
"Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old Books, Help Budgets" http://www.technewsworld.com/
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l/story/32269.htm...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Some Thanksgiving sale goodness-this one made all the pa
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s: "Woman knocked unconscious by trampling shop
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s" ...and this happened at a Wal-Mart Su
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center.....
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
November 10 to 16, 2003
An interview with Gore Vidal about his latest book on the Founding Fathers and what they would have done to Bush: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/52/features-coo
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.ph...
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bigotry is emerging: discrimination based on a
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son's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
IBM created a (large) "TV-sized" su
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computer that's the 73rd most powerful su
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computer in the world...
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.....
You can read about one of their books, "Su
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bia!", a manual on transforming suburban wastelands into more community-oriented, sustainable villages... "I was amazed when my neighbor waved to me"...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Why Forest Management Exacerbates Loss of Lives and Pro
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t...
October 27, 2003
A trial just started that could pave the way for holding U.S. companies accountable for pollution overseas - it involves toxic oil dumps in total 50
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cent larger than the Exxon Valdez spill sprea...
October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "su
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centers"...
October 6, 2003
* It's powered by a Linux-running 78-processor su
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computer that can manage nine terabytes of data, 13 times the size of the data in a two-hour digital feature film...
"Working on the go has become standard o
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ating procedure in the music industry...
"So you wanna fake being an indie rock ex
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t?...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.ccianet.org/pa
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s/cyberinsecurity.pd...
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rap
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"Trick Daddy"...
September 22, 2003
Howard Levy, harmonica player extrordinaire: http://www.hy
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org.com/blogger/misc/amazinggrace_HowardLevy.mp...
A great essay on MP3s and intellectual pro
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ty by sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card...
About Stefanie Nagorka, who makes spontaneous sculptures in Home Depot aisles wihout
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mission...
September 15, 2003
The importance of dreaming for the future Why are people retreating to past fantasy instead of thinking forward? Humanity's
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ception of the future indeed shapes its present. Recent Hugo award winne...
Strange tiles have been sighted in over 100 different places around the world, created by an unknown artist. They reference Arnold Toynbee, who believed that "humanity's
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ception of its histor...
View the groovy Star-Trek like o
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ations room...
Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a Mac and wrote two articles about the ex
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ience... "It just works... an option that'...
September 8, 2003
"We have almost 30
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cent of our prison population in Texas infected with hepatitis. That’s not so different from the numbers you see in the Dark Ages with the plague....
According to "youth marketing ex
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ts", Apple is one of the coolest, popular brands among teenagers (even though they're probably using Windows at school)...
"Kee
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s of the Magic Kingdom...
September 2, 2003
Japanese Ping-Pong meets the Matrix meets
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formance art...
"...it has awakened governments to the need to reduce their dependence on Windows o
per
ating systems....
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 28, 2003
When nothing gets done in groups the way people want that's
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haps more often due to an inability to manage agreement than manage conflict - read about the Abilene Paradox...
The latest in the Kealakekua fight, in which protected trails are being erased, kupuna burial sites are being bulldozed, and dirt runoff is killing coral in order to keep a development for th...
It's scientifically proven than Kansas is flatter than a pancake: http://www.improb.com/airchives/pa
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air/volume9/v9i3/kansas.htm...
July 21, 2003
Just released last month, Second Life is
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haps the closest thing to wide-scale cyberspace today. A journalist is covering its own culture as it evolves...
But still "up to five Americans
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day" are waiting in London hotel rooms to meet people about "liberating funds" (12/2002)...
July 16, 2003
But
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haps the best commentary is from David Cross, who manages to skewer American "culture" at the same time.....
July 8, 2003
I
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sonally 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...