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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
April 4 to 10, 2005
How well is the U.S. doing regarding the 14 defining characteristics of fascism? You may not agree with all of the
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s, but a few sure hit the mark...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with
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ed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's information-cynical world...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, a group of tech CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global economy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-
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plan...
Irresponsible trapping over decades has psychologically changed monkeys in India to the
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that "simian aggression has reached alarming proportions"...
"I don't see / the
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of Haiku / in English" - the first(?) haiku poetry slam...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Hm, I like this free font browser. Fast, WYSIWYG, and to the
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, unlike many free font sites...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Two tourists took the same shot of an obscure bridge from a difficult vantage
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, 20 years apart...
January 10 to 16, 2005
If you're an average PC user, you'd be insane to keep a Windows machine at this
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. I've spent more time removing viruses and fixing problems on one friend's Windows XP box than the combined tim...
About two minutes after someone
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ed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
Here's a Power
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presentation on the manufacturing process - why they don't offer it as a PDF file is beyond me...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Place a remote camera on an eagle and this is what you get. See an eagle dogfight from the eagle's
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of view...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Connect your iPod photo to a projector and show Power
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presentations with it, thanks to this new software...
Here's an excerpt from "Check
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", a documentary on the West Bank/Gaza Strip check
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s that was readapted by the Israeli military for training purposes. This clip highlights the everyday tensio...
November 15 to 21, 2004
KAHEA
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s out the environmental impact of cruise ships in Hawaii...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Controversial thoughts on energy alternatives. The
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is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic - everything affects everything else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
October 18 to 24, 2004
USB flash drives with a thumbprint reader: http://www.starbursthomepage.com/xflash
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x.ht...
October 11 to 17, 2004
An astute reader
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s out that hyaluronic acid, which has been touted as an "anti-aging remedy", is found in taro (used for poi, the Hawaiian food staple). Here's the connection to a long-live...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Now steering wheel locks can be opened with Bic ball
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pens... I have a feeling this entire class of lock is vulnerable...
July 12 to 18, 2004
One of my favorite sci-fi authors, Bruce Sterling, gives a hilarious, philosophical, and insightful talk about the "singularity", the
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at which the pace of technology becomes too fast t...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (delaying ap
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ments and treatments...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The Bose L1 is a revolutionary new PA system that
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s the way to new amplification technology - it eliminates poles, monitors, and bulky equipment, and is causing a stir in the music industry...
April 12 to 18, 2004
There's a lot of participatory art going on around the net these days. Here's the surreal result at the mid
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of one photoshop-fest...
February 9 to 15, 2004
There was a little buzz around the net last week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the
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at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently predicted to happen in 2015. Jo...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The image of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots
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s on the real and imaginary planes...
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 - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"Counter
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: Downloading Isn’t Stealing...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
October 14, 2003
The main
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of this is that now a single computer can replace an entire cellular tower's worth of expensive equipment. This means smaller installations and better coverage to rural areas. Plus i...
August 4, 2003
This is a great article which
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s out...
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...