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December 20 to 31, 2005
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr! See on a U.S. map where
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photos were taken...
This is a working graphic design of a computer, the first I've seen. Have there been other designs like this, either
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ly or in the ancient past? I envision a lot of interactive modern art in thi...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
I
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ly revisited AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released last year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-use, powerful panorama maker I've eve...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The market for dead celebrities has become quite lucrative. Bill Gates bought a lot of them
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ly...
March 21 to 27, 2005
The movie "Meet the Fockers"
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ly became the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever, making almost $500 million worldwide...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
"A man who
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ly had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Honolulu was
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ly ranked as the fourth most expensive place to live in the U.S. lately, behind New York, San Francisco, and San Jose, CA...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The
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ly launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
A pretty good study of the contents of the Red Bull energy drink,
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ly approved for sale in Canada...
Here's the same effect, used in a
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music video...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Brian Dear wrote a funny review of a Laurie Anderson concert he went to
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ly, in the form of a Laurie Anderson monologue...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Here are the best images from
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sunspot activity, from January 15 to 21...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Professor Francis Boyle, an expert on international law from the U. of Illinois,
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ly gave an informative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under international law...
The
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ly opened Tropical Island Resort in Germany, a manmade environment in a massive modified hanger that could fit the Statue of Liberty...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his thoughts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based online encyclopedia that passed 401,000 articles
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ly...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Adam Rifkin's great summary of the
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Web 2.0 conference...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Some
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360-degree panoramas. Here's ground zero in NY...
Spotted
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ly in L.A....
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a
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article about a letter written by a former Hart technician wh...
Inside the
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ly upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercomputer at Virginia Tech (it's also powered by Mac OSX)...
September 13 to 19, 2004
The Olsen twins, one of which was
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ly treated for an eating disorder, are now promoting McDonald's happy meals in France...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Even Windows'
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Service Pack 2 is insecure...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Me and my friends
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ly switched from T-Mobile due to lousy service. Here's another sad customer...
"If the US Wants to Restore Confidence in Its Voting System It Must Learn Lessons from the
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Elections in Venezuela"...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
As seen in
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floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
July 12 to 18, 2004
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progress in 3D visualization technology allows "virtual excavation", in this case, the ability to completely examine the contents of a 3,000 year-old mummy without touching it...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating
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talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Second, the Carlyle Group is looking to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just part of their
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massive purchases of telecoms in the Pacific region. The deal is "complex", as it involves a number o...
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who
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ly designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for networks, cell phones, radios, more...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Some of my friends are interested in biodiesel - here's a
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primer...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
I
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ly saw Tarkovsky's 1983 movie "Nostalgia" - it is a masterpiece, but only for lovers of poetry, atmosphere, ideals, madness, and the sacred...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Related to the
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uncovering of the secrets of gecko adhesion, here's how spiders manage to stay sticky...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's
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massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Microsoft reports that 16 million PCs were affected by the
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MSBlast virus, ten times more than previously thought...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Windows PC? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to the
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Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
February 9 to 15, 2004
20% of this beer's profits go to the non-profit World Turtle Trust, which is currently financing four international projects. I tried it
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ly and it's very good (and I am a beer snob)...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the
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Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away...
December 15 to 21, 2003
A good interview with the somewhat
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ly busted Tommy Chong, from Taft Correctional Institution...
November 3 to 9, 2003
I'm currently reading their "Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing" - its author was in Hawaii
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ly...
September 15, 2003
The importance of dreaming for the future Why are people retreating to past fantasy instead of thinking forward? Humanity's perception of the future indeed shapes its present.
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Hugo award winne...
September 8, 2003
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the
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progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the
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Wired) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
August 25, 2003
Affected by the
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computer viruses? The solution: 1) Don't use Outlook. 2) Don't use Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows machine this week. In over 1...
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...