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December 20 to 31, 2005
iPod Stuff http://online.wsj.com/
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/article/0,,SB110373871528907298,00.html?mod=todays_free_featur...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
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 hypertext www-talk archives, which I helped archive in the first place, using software that I wrot...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Environment Hawaii, an independent, nonprofit, award-winning
public
ation that has been around for nearly 15 years may be going out of business due to lack of financial support. It's the last 100...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Telcos are using legislation to prevent large-scale free
public
wireless networks...
A funny little movie advocating
public
disclosure of drug trials...
The New York
public
Library Digital Gallery...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Stuff For Web Developers http://adaptivepath.com/
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ations/essays/archives/000385.ph...
February 7 to 13, 2005
More on the copyrighting of
public
space. Note that the city of Chicago is enforcing this...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
January 17 to 23, 2005
eXeem, the new distributed P2P BitTorrent client, is now in
public
beta and it works quite well. Sorry, it's only available for Windows right now...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The
public
domain USGS digital data image archives. Nice, quick stock imagery for all kinds of uses...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Pros and cons regarding the upcoming Superferry - discuss them in
public
this week...
New hybrid buses have started in Honolulu and wow the
public
. New smart card bus passes, too...
Remember, every
public
Web page you make in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Yes, the same Hart eSlate voting machines used in Hawaii caused Democratic votes to turn into Re
public
an ones in Austin, Texas...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Warm offices are linked to higher productivity: http://www.newswise.com/
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/articles/507802.htm...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of
public
Use" - TV down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
A good idea - lease satellite radio feeds and bring the
public
back into radio...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck powered on nothing but sunlight and water: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonare
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/local/articles/1001hydrocar01.htm...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Also, a court rules that posting voting machine flaws are not DMCA violations but are instead "an important part of the
public
debate"...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Pictures and personal accounts of arrests and the detention area at the Re
public
an National Convention...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Dates of
public
hearings on the sale of Verizon Hawaii to The Carlyle Group...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
Jewish groups are up in arms about the Christian cross-like podium at the Re
public
an National Convention...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Yay! "This Land Is Your Land" is actually in the
public
domain...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Although over 80% of the
public
feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security experts feel that current e-voting systems are much less secure than traditional paper-base...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/
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domain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 12 to 18, 2004
According to European copyright law, Elvis' first big hit will enter the
public
domain in 2005, along with a lot of other still-selling music...
July 5 to 11, 2004
How Fahrenheit 9/11 plays to Re
public
an audiences in Washington and Texas...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Childhood obesity in the United States looks significantly worse than previously believed, suggests the largest assessment ever of
public
school students....
May 24 to 30, 2004
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless perimeter sensors on
public
land and get busted by the FBI and Air Force agents...
May 17 to 23, 2004
This is one of the best Web-based data visualization apps I've seen! You could mine this
public
database for all manner of interesting purposes. Fundrace - see which of your neighbors contributed t...
Two teen poetry students give a
public
anti-Iraq/Bush reading. Their teacher is fired and the poetry club shut down...
Seattle's new
public
library looks quirky outside but is astounding inside. May make you rethink the role of (
public
) architecture. And check out the great VR movies...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glidehouse", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* At least four
public
banks in Indi...
A
public
library's success story in converting its
public
access systems to Linux...
April 12 to 18, 2004
The Pixies played together in
public
for the first time in about 12 years...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Bioengineered weed-killer resistant grass is being tested on golf courses. Unless trimmed regularly, it may flower and spread to
public
areas...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Scubadoo, the first underwater motorcycle! Will it revolutionize scuba diving? http://www.gizmo.com.au/
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/News/news.asp?articleid=275...
March 1 to 7, 2004
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...
February 23 to 29, 2004
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the fact that the correc...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"Re
public
an staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media"...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Lessons learned: UH and the Star-Bulletin need to get their science/high-tech reporting act together. This item was featured in dozens of international
public
ations before locals got wind of it.....
December 1 to 7, 2003
"
public
Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old Books, Help Budgets...
Some Re
public
an Congressmen want Reagan on the dime in place of Roosevelt...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Those in Hawaii can now use the Forward Foundation's calendar to
public
ize events related to the arts, culture, technology, and environment at...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Unlike the U.S., Australians "do e-voting right" by opening up the software running their voting systems to
public
scrutiny...
October 27, 2003
Next year
public
, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
September 15, 2003
Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented
public
ation) has moved to a Mac and wrote two articles about the experience... "It just works... an option that'...
August 25, 2003
* National
public
Radi...
July 21, 2003
Reading the wrong thing in
public
gets man in trouble with the FBI...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...
Consumer citizens who are not feeling apathetic will be pleased to learn that the site provides names and contact information for the corporate executives who oversee the Center's efforts. Since th...