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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Very flat, flexible speaker technology: http://www.
popular
mechanics.com/technology/audio/1279551.html?page=1&c=...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Stats on how many forms of mainstream media are doing in terms of
popular
ity...
It's official - all the greatest new technology will be here in five years: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/11/
popular
ity_of_using_.htm...
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming
popular
among college students, who use it to concentrate and stay awake for long periods at a time...
I enjoy these, being an ex-cube solver myself. In the upper right is Jessica Fridrich of the
popular
"Fridrich method"...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This was very
popular
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
popular
"minute-charge" battery...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Anti-War Sentiment in
popular
Culture
March 14 to 20, 2005
Here's the story of Simlish, the fictional language of the very
popular
video game "The Sims", and the people behind it...
Breast-enhancing bubble gum is
popular
in Japan these days...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
...but it does boost the
popular
ity of your insecure products...
...and these
popular
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
popular
. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
February 14 to 20, 2005
This was deservedly
popular
this week - a great list of the top 100 gadgets of all time...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The super-cool baby name wizard. How
popular
has a name been over time...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
This was
popular
- the sushi chef that prints his food from an inkjet...
January 24 to 30, 2005
This was understandably
popular
- 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
popular
...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The digested read -
popular
novels condensed to 100 words. It sure has saved me some time...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The makers of the
popular
Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG image files by up to 30%...
"
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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
Here you can see the cultural influence of the beautiful classic medium of LP cover art, from Herb Alpert's
popular
"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
popular
item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
See how
popular
your name is...
An essay on dysfunction in
popular
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
popular
answers are larger...
November 22 to 28, 2004
"A true love story that originated on a message board of a
popular
Web site has been released in book form"...
November 8 to 14, 2004
This was really
popular
all over the net this week, perhaps because people need to be reminded of the perils of overworking...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so
popular
, everyone knows what they look like by now...
October 18 to 24, 2004
R.I.P. shirts are
popular
in high-homicide areas, where rappers wear shirts with the names and photos of victims they don't even know...
October 4 to 10, 2004
More money can be made by un
popular
media than by
popular
media. Here's how the net is changing the nature of what "
popular
" means. Highly recommended reading...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The
popular
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...
September 5 to 12, 2004
It's good to know that some people keep things secret (and sacred). Here's the
popular
article and its followup...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Skype, the most
popular
Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for Mac OSX! Talk to friends around the world for free using your Internet connection...
This was
popular
: 3 killed, 17 injured in Saudi Arabia at a stampede for discounts at an IKEA store...
The
popular
bottle opener fridge magnet...
August 8 to 14, 2004
This was
popular
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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galler...
The story behind the Internet Movie Database, one of the most
popular
, 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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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
popular
. He works for Microsoft now...
July 12 to 18, 2004
The
popular
ity 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
popular
ity 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
popular
...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Real-time file sharing music
popular
ity 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
popular
ity, and 2) artists should encourage the live recording community...
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...
May 24 to 30, 2004
This site was down for a week or two due to
popular
ity - 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
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...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most
popular
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
popular
ity of sophisticated tax preparation software...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually
popular
a month or two ago, but it was so
popular
the site was taken down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
March 15 to 21, 2004
This was pretty
popular
- 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
popular
...
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
popular
back catalog...
February 23 to 29, 2004
This has been pretty
popular
, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
A nice overview from
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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...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Tehran, where heavy metal is
popular
...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Japan's culture is getting
popular
and is being exported all around the globe...
December 8 to 14, 2003
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...
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson
popular
) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
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...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Some
popular
news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces)...
October 6, 2003
This was pretty
popular
a while ago, but in case you missed it...
September 30, 2003
This was
popular
a while ago, but they've upgraded the movie... check out the new version...
September 22, 2003
This has been
popular
this week: Al Franken's Supply-Side Jesus...
September 8, 2003
According to "youth marketing experts", Apple is one of the coolest,
popular
brands among teenagers (even though they're probably using Windows at school)...
Want to know what brands are mentioned the most in
popular
songs these days? Here's a chart, updated weekly...
August 12, 2003
This has been
popular
lately too... check it out...