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December 20 to 31, 2005
The state's
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ulation is aging, with many implications for the future of our island society...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Very flat, flexible speaker technology: http://www.
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ularmechanics.com/technology/audio/1279551.html?page=1&c=...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Loss of habitat and food has led to a steep decline in the Monarch butterfly
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ulation...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Stats on how many forms of mainstream media are doing in terms of
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ularity...
It's official - all the greatest new technology will be here in five years: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/11/
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ularity_of_using_.htm...
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming
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ular among college students, who use it to concentrate and stay awake for long periods at a time...
Thanks to eBay there seems to be a healthy demand for
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py bulbs by opium addicts...
I enjoy these, being an ex-cube solver myself. In the upper right is Jessica Fridrich of the
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ular "Fridrich method"...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This was very
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ular this week - I think there's a pent-up need to avoid Starbucks! The delocator will show you local alternatives to Starbucks...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Toshiba's
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ular "minute-charge" battery...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Anti-War Sentiment in
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ular Culture
March 14 to 20, 2005
Here's the story of Simlish, the fictional language of the very
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ular video game "The Sims", and the people behind it...
Breast-enhancing bubble gum is
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ular in Japan these days...
March 7 to 13, 2005
The blogosphere's raving about 27 year-old Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with
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art and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
...but it does boost the
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ularity of your insecure products...
...and these
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ular industrial shredder videos...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got
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ular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
The way things are going, the world's
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ulation will be 9.1 billion by 2050...
Canada's Oscar-winning animated short film "Ryan": http://www.nfb.ca/oscars2005/nfb
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2.htm...
February 14 to 20, 2005
This was deservedly
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ular this week - a great list of the top 100 gadgets of all time...
Lots of retro album cover designs here at the Mod
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Punk archives...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A new digital animation technique - making people dance in a robotic
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-lock style. Here's an amazing remix of Gene Kelly in "Singing In The Rain"...
The super-cool baby name wizard. How
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ular has a name been over time...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
While I'm on a rant, why can't digital camera makers emulate the design of the iPod and allow charging via the USB/firewire cable? I hate having to buy a separate cradle and power brick just fo...
This was
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ular - the sushi chef that prints his food from an inkjet...
January 24 to 30, 2005
This was understandably
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ular - people are worrying about hybrid human/animal experiments, including human/rabbit egg combinations and mice with human brain cells...
It appears that the very healthy white tea is getting
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ular...
January 17 to 23, 2005
"Study: Watching Fewer Than Four Hours Of TV A Day Impairs Ability To Ridicule
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Culture...
The digested read -
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ular novels condensed to 100 words. It sure has saved me some time...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The makers of the
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ular Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG image files by up to 30%...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a good thing for our pill-
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ping society...
"
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ular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage". Apparently this includes Head and Shoulders, Suave, Clairol and Pantene Hair Conditioner...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Has Somender Singh, a mechanic from India, developed an invention that makes conventional engines 20% more fuel efficient? http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/futurecar/article/0,20967,679464,00.htm...
Here you can see the cultural influence of the beautiful classic medium of LP cover art, from Herb Alpert's
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ular "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" (1965)...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their systems! This
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ular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
See how
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ular your name is...
An essay on dysfunction in
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ular music. What did you expect from kids who were products of the highest divorce rates in history...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What do you want to do with your life? More
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ular answers are larger...
The world is not growing enough food to meet the rising
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ulation...
November 22 to 28, 2004
"A true love story that originated on a message board of a
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ular Web site has been released in book form"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The artificial disc - "the first major breakthrough in back surgery since the 1940s": http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/medicine/article/0,20967,783372,00.htm...
November 8 to 14, 2004
This was really
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ular all over the net this week, perhaps because people need to be reminded of the perils of overworking...
Communities offering "zero-energy homes" are
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ping up that allow homeowners to cut as much as 90% off their utility bill...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Here's a series of maps taking
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ulation and county-level detail into account...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so
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ular, everyone knows what they look like by now...
Healthy Clothing http://www.
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gadget.net/2004/11/wearable-squeezed-lemons.htm...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political
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videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums...
October 18 to 24, 2004
R.I.P. shirts are
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ular in high-homicide areas, where rappers wear shirts with the names and photos of victims they don't even know...
October 11 to 17, 2004
I think I got a spyware
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up on this page...
October 4 to 10, 2004
More money can be made by un
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ular media than by
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ular media. Here's how the net is changing the nature of what "
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ular" means. Highly recommended reading...
A UK photo exhibit shows real people next to their online virtual 3D character: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/
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_ups/04/technology_gamers_and_their_avatars/img/1.jp...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The
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ular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's nothing wrong with more bus lines, but now there's less character, no open-air transportation with wide views, and less fun for tourist...
Autopsies of the future may require less surgical probing, thanks to CT/MRI scanning: http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/medicine/article/0,12543,698478-1,00.htm...
September 5 to 12, 2004
It's good to know that some people keep things secret (and sacred). Here's the
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ular article and its followup...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Skype, the most
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ular Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for Mac OSX! Talk to friends around the world for free using your Internet connection...
This was
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ular: 3 killed, 17 injured in Saudi Arabia at a stampede for discounts at an IKEA store...
The
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ular bottle opener fridge magnet...
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 cheaper for consumers...
More
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ulation shifts. The world's changing...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A new material - "Metal Rubber": http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/science/article/0,12543,676853,00.htm...
This was
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ular last week - beautiful aerial photography...
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
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ular galler...
The story behind the Internet Movie Database, one of the most
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ular, useful Web sites ever made...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
How the RIAA shut down a respected, thriving music store due to the sale of
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ular DJ-made mixtapes...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An inside look at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit because he had no confidence it would be
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ular. He works for Microsoft now...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Hawaii has lots of red clay. Why not make native seed balls and use them to quickly re
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ulate areas with native plants...
The
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ularity of the iPod is forcing makers of CD copyright-protection technology to switch formats...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in
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ularity so far, its first recorded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Facetop", a method of videoconferencing that's actually about 35 years old but may one day be
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ular...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Real-time file sharing music
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ularity results reside at BigChampagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue everybody...
1) radio is becoming less of a factor in music
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ularity, and 2) artists should encourage the live recording community...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This has been
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ular, 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...
Replace your old flashlight bulbs with brighter, longer-lasting LEDs: http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/computers/article/0,12543,652471,00.htm...
May 24 to 30, 2004
This site was down for a week or two due to
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ularity - it's better than the last "infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so ago...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really
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ular these days. The mp3 format actually got
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ular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
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 down...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most
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ular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AAGH! Tax time! A study shows that taxes are getting more complex, thanks to the rising
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ularity of sophisticated tax preparation software...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually
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ular a month or two ago, but it was so
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ular the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
March 15 to 21, 2004
This was pretty
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ular - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld caught red-handed on TV lying about one of his statements regarding Iraq...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Encyclopedias, whether printed or digital, are becoming less
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ular...
George Michael will offer his songs freely online from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already
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ular back catalog...
February 23 to 29, 2004
This has been pretty
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ular, 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...
A nice overview from
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ular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
February 2 to 8, 2004
"So the prices, which seem ridiculous to 99 percent of the
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ulation, are not....
January 5 to 11, 2004
Tehran, where heavy metal is
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ular...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Lots of end-of-year lists
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ped up here and there. Here's a few: The 2003 year in pictures, from the San Francisco Chronicle...
Favorite anti
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CDs of 2003 Tired of mainstream music? How about great jazz/world/folk/acoustic fusion? Highly recommended are David Tanenbaum, Tord Gustavsen, and the Be Good Tanyas. Of course...
Japan's culture is getting
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ular and is being exported all around the globe...
December 8 to 14, 2003
This Chinese video has been wildly
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ular 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...
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson
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ular) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
Alexi has become
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ular 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...
Holographic lolly
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s...
November 24 to 30, 2003
"My First DNA Sequencer" http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/bown/2003/article/0,18881,537113,00.htm...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Some
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ular news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces)...
October 14, 2003
Homeland Defense employee has his German fiance detained, handcuffed, jailed, and after 20 hours without food, shipped back to Germany, without being officially arrested, a la "The Patriot Act".....
October 6, 2003
This was pretty
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ular a while ago, but in case you missed it...
September 30, 2003
This was
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ular a while ago, but they've upgraded the movie... check out the new version...
September 22, 2003
The worst jobs in science. Really. http://www.
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sci.com/
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sci/science/article/0,12543,484153-1,00.htm...
This has been
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ular this week: Al Franken's Supply-Side Jesus...
"The Revenge of the Copyright Cops" http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/09/16/arts/20030916_
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LIFE_IMAGE.html?8hpi...
September 8, 2003
Whew, lots of interesting things this week
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ped up.....
"We have almost 30 percent of our prison
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ulation 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 experts", Apple is one of the coolest,
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ular brands among teenagers (even though they're probably using Windows at school)...
Want to know what brands are mentioned the most in
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ular songs these days? Here's a chart, updated weekly...
August 12, 2003
Slow news week. Most of the new good stuff
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ped up today. This week's theme: trends on the edge of culture...
This has been
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ular lately too... check it out...
Bastard Po...
July 28, 2003
Finally, technology has brought us virtual bubble wrap! http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/
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now.shtm...
July 21, 2003
When 70% of a
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ulation of 11 million have high-speed net access, how does that affect the culture? Here's how it's affecting Korea.....
Making the rounds of instant net
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fame are these two hapless Korean teenagers singing in a video karaoke booth...
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...