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April 25 to May 1, 2005
"The Wal-Mart 'Foundation' is nothing more than a front group for Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated, and should not be confused for a
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charitable non-profit"...
Unhackable communications get one step closer to
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ity...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Is environmentalism
real
ly dead? Let's start the debate...
Suspended animation gets one step closer to
real
ity...
April 11 to 17, 2005
New physics chips are taking
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ity simulation to the next level...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A profile on one of the first
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21st century superstars, journalist, blogger, polyglot, and hot babe Xeni Jardin...
A new military combat simulator stuns people via electric shock if shot. But the
real
news is that people
real
ly like games that hurt you...
The work of graphic spin-doctor Glenn Feron. In case you thought those media images reflected
real
ity...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
March 7 to 13, 2005
On a related eco-friendly note, there sure is a lot of unused roof
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estate in downtown Honolulu...
"Invocation of eminent domain by cities to seize property for private development is on the rise": http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/02/25/carollloyd.DTL&feed=rss.sur
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estat...
February 21 to 27, 2005
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should
real
ize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
This quality photoshop contest shows
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life, cubed...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Will an environmental impact statement requirement kill Hawaii's inter-island Superferry? This article explains the issues involved, and why an EIS may not
real
ly be needed. In any case, could it no...
And here's a
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ly big satellite photo showing the entire park. That's a lot of curtains...
The Grafik Dynamo assembles random words and images from the Web into strangely compelling and sur
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comic strips...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Allan Schiffman offers a few quick numbers on federal debt, spending, etc.: http://webpages.charter.net/allanms/2005/02/lets-play-whats-
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-problem.htm...
Meanwhile, the average American remains clueless regarding GMOs - only half are aware they are sold, only a third
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ize they are eating them, and 70% don't think they're possible at all...
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ity Is Subjectiv...
This sur
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1980's Estonian TV commercial for minced chicken meat has been making the rounds...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Another account from a tsunami volunteer - "the only
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irritation has been the American Christian volunteers"...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Some avid video game players are having difficulty separating
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ity from the game, thanks to the increasing quality of such technology...
The Web and the Internet are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the
real
costs of war...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinatown is cultivating an "art chic". This article notes that "the state is currently gathering data on what it calls the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic impact"...
Here's what "Auld Lang Syne"
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ly means. The song has a long, fascinating history...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a record high. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of going after
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pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
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Artists Speak Out Against Mediocrit...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Architects Are
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ly Poor Web Designer...
November 22 to 28, 2004
New algorithms purport to tell
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artwork from fakes...
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ity Literatur...
November 8 to 14, 2004
This was
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ly popular all over the net this week, perhaps because people need to be reminded of the perils of overworking...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"Administration's own actions fuel rumors of draft": http://www.enjoythedraft.com/faq
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.ht...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A UK photo exhibit shows
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people next to their online virtual 3D character...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"What a Top Reporter in Baghdad
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ly Thinks About the War"...
Incredible photo
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istic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Working personal jet-powered wings are now for
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...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Do you like Jim Woodring's sur
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comic Frank? Here's the first animated short based on same...
August 22 to 29, 2004
"RSS Attracts
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ly Serious Money...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a
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parking garage and build apartments...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A few of the
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ly stupid things Jack Valenti (outgoing head of the MPAA) has said about new media technologies and intellectual property...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Hawaii is getting crowded, a symptom of short-term thinking in development. Where's the mixed-use, decentralized, community-centered projects? "What I see happening is horrible," said Maui
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to...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Saddam's trial
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ly is just a game, isn't it...
July 5 to 11, 2004
The incredible All Music Guide is getting a complete overhaul,
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ly,
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ly soon...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and
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ly malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
real
-time file sharing music popularity results reside at BigChampagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue everybody...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A
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ly nice page of digital photography composition tips...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
For when you
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ly,
real
ly need a TV dinner, check out "The Single Man's Guide to TV Dinners"...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Here's his winning lightsaber battle movie. It's
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ly well done...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are
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ly 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...
May 17 to 23, 2004
The story of a
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ly,
real
ly bad neighbor...
April 12 to 18, 2004
There's a lot of participatory art going on around the net these days. Here's the sur
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result at the midpoint of one photoshop-fest...
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...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous business practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
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...
Trixie, the baby with the most comprehensive Web site in the world. With
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-time sleep, bottle, and diaper telemetrics, a blog, gallery, forum, archives, and voting topic...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Well, this is
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ly late but I've been busy developing the Web site for Soullenz Gallery - check it out...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of
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ity 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...
A sur
real
report of Arayanfest 2004, the latest "international" gathering of white supremacists...
February 9 to 15, 2004
For Valentine's Day, another fascinating "science and love" article - "Scientists are finding that, after all, love
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ly is down to a chemical addiction between people"...
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...
The image of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the
real
and imaginary planes...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
The
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story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (international) conference on next-generation Internet technology - it's the fact that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
January 12 to 18, 2004
A new joystick combination fitness machine gives you a
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workout.....
"This experience encapsulated so many benefits about technology that I don’t
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ly know where to begin...
December 8 to 14, 2003
3) The electoral college and/or Supreme Court
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ly decide anywa...
A good interview showing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from
real
people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
December 1 to 7, 2003
A great five-part essay on the homeless problem in San Francisco, which has the nation's worst problem with "hard-core homelessness". What to know what life is
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ly like on the street...
Low-wage life is getting much worse for Americans: "Myths and
real
ities About Low-Wage Jobs"...
November 17 to 23, 2003
For those designers out there:
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client quotes from Web designers back at the height of the dot-com craze (yes, these stories are true)...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Quote of the week: "If voting could
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ly change things, it would be illegal." -- Revolution Books, New York, NY Feel safe? Last week was "Protection From Pornography Week"...
October 14, 2003
"New Disney Space Ride So
real
It's Sickening...
The FCC is not
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ly on your side, people, despite their "do not call" list.....
September 30, 2003
"A prototype digital video system producing images of such high quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from
real
ity has been developed by Japanese engineers...
September 22, 2003
The worst jobs in science.
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ly...
September 8, 2003
A great story about Disney's biggest fans, and an interesting comparison to Talmudic scholarship. Is God
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ly in the details, and are details necessary for organizational and religious longevity...
In some developing countries counterfeits are of better quality than the
real
thing.....
August 12, 2003
There are at least three
real
ly good songs here...
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 21, 2003
...I'm
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ly tempted to write a program that automatically generates your own Nigerian Email Scam Letter, but I don't think my server could handle the bandwidth...
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...