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December 20 to 31, 2005
I only hope that biohazardous materials will be sto
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in a way so to prevent them from washing out in the event of flooding.....
However, long-term toxicity questions remain unanswe
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...
Detailed, richly colo
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scientific photography...
Mash-ups, or combinations of songs, are going mainstream and making big bucks for some: http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/13.01/play.html?pg=...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Hey, Silicon Valley people! Blue Lava Wireless, which makes Tetris for cell phones, was acqui
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for $137 million...
Some privacy measures are at least being conside
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for the new RFID-enabled U.S. passport...
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated software that can track every financial transaction no matter how small: http://www.wi
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.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67249,00.htm...
Glass bottles require less energy to produce and recycle. But could Hawaii save due to
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uced shipping weight? It's a careful trade- off...
The beautiful long-lost music of
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Hash, circa 1973...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Here's what your recycled, sh
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ded HP PC could look like. If these photos give you a cathartic release, then it's time to make the trade...
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featu
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FireWire recording interface I've ever seen. Looks like it should be excellent for recording on the road with a laptop...
Did you know that half of all schoolchildren in France are bloggers (bloguers)? Score one for "vocal civic discourse": http://www.wi
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.com/news/culture/0,1284,67273-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next...
Partly thanks to its sale of hybrid cars, Toyota expects to see its best first quarter in 48 years. GM expects to lose $850 million that same quarter due to short term bets on "cheap" and "plentiful...
The brilliant
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esign of the prescription pill bottle...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Efficient hydroponic growing - did you know that clorophyll runs on
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light? Lettuce matures three times faster when growing under
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LEDs, which also cut electric bills by 60%...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
More on the future of liquid lenses via Wi
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...
Meanwhile, Swiss biotech firm Syngenta was fined for "mistakenly" selling hund
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s of tons of experimental GMO corn seed not yet approved for human consumption to the U.S. and Europe...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, open-source technology unencumbe
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by patents is allowing micro-startups to evolve better technology faster with less resources and funding. I hope new breeds of VCs come along to fil...
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly
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uce cost, maintenance, and long lines...
In 2001 Poland hi
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a marketing firm to rebrand themselves. Focus groups said Poland made them think of the words gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, sad, and car-stealing...
Homeland Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" because it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll make it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
1,360 scientists from 95 countries say that two-thirds of the world's resources are "used up" in a four-year $24 million U.N.-sponso
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survey...
A shortage of silicon is making solar cells scarce. A federal program could help, but funding for solar energy has gone from "pathetic" to "laughable and ridiculous"...
A new solar-powe
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street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can hold ten times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
The world's ugliest car, made in 1957, was resto
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from a pile of junk to a polished, functional car...
Ja
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Tarbell's Gallery of Computation continues to get more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
Viral marketing is huge these days. In this article are a few dos and don'ts of viral marketing: http://www.wi
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.com/news/business/0,1367,66960,00.htm...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A nice quote from the Molokai land flap mentioned last week: "The controversy is hard to explain from the Western perspective that land is something to be bought, owned and sold to make profit.....
"Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming" - in case you needed visual proof...
Could trapped frozen natural gas under the sea be a solution to the world's energy problems? http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,66925,00.htm...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping,
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undant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
Meanwhile, a group of tech CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global economy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offe
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a 10-point plan...
View the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be seen in infra
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...
Learning From Nature http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,66833,00.htm...
Nike launches "Conside
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", an eco-friendly line of shoes...
Let's see Starbucks use these new paper coffee cups that are decomposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's orde
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20 million of them...
There's lots of great interface ideas and art in the Flash Film Festival finalists: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/sha
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/spl/hi/americas/04/vote_usa/map/html/default.st...
The Colo
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Pencil Society of America's 2004 award winners...
For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live content online - 2.6GB worth! http://www.wi
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.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66819,00.htm...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their systems allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer information, including people's data from their Sidekicks...
...and these popular industrial sh
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der videos...
Ira Rennert's house was featu
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on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've ever experienced...
More on the DJammer, the "next-generation electric guitar": http://www.wi
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.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66722,00.htm...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage software development as if engineering matte
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. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
This was rumo
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to have been written by John Cleese, but whether it's true or not, it's still very funny...
There will be no encryption on new U.S. e-passports, even though they could be read stealthily from 30 feet away: http://www.wi
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.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66686,00.htm...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how inc
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ibly easy they are to hack...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could power 200,000 homes, has found a building site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
Bo
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? Try pixel art, using Post-Its for pixels...
Turns out Google Maps isn't that new. Here's its p
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ecessor, an amazing zooming map of Switzerland...
February 14 to 20, 2005
I went to the last meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's group organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at CommerceNet. If you'd like to get your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfette
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" access to the White House and CIA documents was revealed as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
44% of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists feel findings were suppressed that would require greater protection of endange
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species...
Genetically modified plants are proving to be an excellent way to clean up toxic soils: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,66575,00.htm...
A pretty good study of the contents of the
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Bull energy drink, recently approved for sale in Canada...
View all of the 2005 Super Bowl ads here, including the rejected and/or censo
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ones...
Lawrence Lessig writes on why Wilco represents the future of music: http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/13.02/view.html?pg=...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times car stereo manufacturers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
Microsoft is mad about all the Apple iPods that employees are buying and using at work: http://www.wi
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.com/news/mac/0,2125,66460,00.html?tw=rss.TO...
Cell phones are making area codes obsolete: http://www.wi
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.com/news/wireless/0,1382,66437,00.htm...
The largest climate p
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iction experiment ever harnessed 90,000 home computers around the globe. The result? Global warming will be worse than expected...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The first feature film to be delive
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via wireless internet technology was shown at the Sundance Film Festival...
The 101 dumbest moments in business. Number three: the chairman of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson was forced to resign after it was discove
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that he spent 15 years in prison for a string of arme...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
Inc
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ible before-and-after comparisons of the faces of meth users...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995 used to be Swain's House of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumo
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that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
UCLA researchers have made microscopic robots powe
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by living heart cells...
The Big
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Button (of Doom)...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Of course, note that you can create installations of hund
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s of Mac minis (for computer labs and offices), all remotely (and centrally) upgradable and managed via Apple Remote Desktop...
A new book, "Collapse", explores the reasons behind the fall of once-great civilizations. It outlines five causes: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, an...
Some avid video game players are having difficulty separating reality from the game, thanks to the increasing quality of such technology: http://www.wi
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.com/news/games/0,2101,66225,00.htm...
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking down on movie pirates, Monsanto is cracking down on farmers that save their patented GM seeds from year to year...
The new vortex dehydration system turns trash into a fine dry powder and can
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uce landfill volume by 90%. Those in Hawaii pondering the landfill problem should take note...
One in five FDA scientists were pressu
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to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a good thing for our pill-popping society...
* Average number of clothing items an adult American acqui
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in 2002: 5...
A few months since its launch, allofmp3.com seems to be gaining c
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ibility and customers. Tracks are one-tenth the cost of those in the iTunes music store and are offe
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in a variety of qualitie...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The genome of a pollution-eating bacterium has been decoded, leading to more efficient garbage-eating biotools: http://www.wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66188,00.htm...
December 13 to 19, 2004
There are so many brands now, they're igno
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. Although I design logos, I'm allergic to brands myself...
A nice-looking homemade iPod ad is the first true homebrew ad on the net: http://www.wi
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.com/news/mac/0,2125,66001,00.htm...
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 ...
A slew of cell phone tour guide companies are taking off: http://www.wi
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.com/news/wireless/0,1382,65945,00.htm...
"Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have asked Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to answer for a host of voting irregularities they say occur
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in Ohio Nov. 2."...
The Beginning of the Terminator http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65885,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
An absolutely cool higher-tech
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esign of the VW bus. I think this would be a huge hit...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The philosophy of "The Inc
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ibles" via Ayn Rand. Should we live in a society in which mediocrity is encouraged...
"RFID skills shortage p
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icted"...
The
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Cross says Guantanamo is worse than Abu Ghraib...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I just finished watching "The End of Suburbia", a great and disturbing DVD I mentioned here previously. You can watch one of the included bonus movies "In the Suburbs" for free at the Prelinge...
New algorithms purport to tell real artwork from fakes: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65794,00.htm...
The chief economist at MorganStanley p
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icts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming facts"...
More than 27% of U.S. babies were delive
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by Caesarean section, the highest percentage since 1996...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Timekeeping has just become more accurate, and the second is
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efined for the first time in 37 years...
Some think RSS is just a fad, but I think it's a long-term enabling technology - "RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy": http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65702,00.htm...
Bob Dylan-singin' liberals are going to have to wear mirro
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hats to peace rallies now that the Army's got a new airborne pain ray in the works...
Stem cells may be the key to controlling tumors: http://www.wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65735,00.htm...
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, they've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening interview...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show ai
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on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
"The Persuaders" also featu
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a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-cente
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. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
HP's prototype biodegradable printer: http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091465/www.wi
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.com/news/images/full/cornprinter_f.jp...
All about the new anti-piracy technology coming to theaters: http://www.wi
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.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65683,00.htm...
"I want to tell you how much Japanese business man is ti
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....
But although
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states give more in proportion to income, they benefit more from federal spending funded by blue states. This appears to be an inverse relationship and warrants further study...
It would be nice to see evoting receipts that looked like this: http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/12.11/images/1211Found800w.jp...
This article gives the best "you can see the changes with your own eyes" summary of the "Global Climate Change in the U.S." report: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65654,00.htm...
Communities offering "zero-energy homes" are popping up that allow homeowners to cut as much as 90% off their utility bill: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65615,00.htm...
November 1 to 7, 2004
We can explain a few things with visuals... here's a U.S. election map with county detail. Things aren't so
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vs. blue now. Note how the rural areas tend to be the most
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...
The above international news item was originally discove
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by blogger Jonas Luster...
Boeing's high-tech 7E7 jetliner slated for a 2008 launch will finally allow cabin humidity to approach humane levels: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65586,00.htm...
Stem cell manipulation induces the birth of new neurons. This work may lead to Alzheimer's and spinal cord injury cures: http://www.wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65560,00.htm...
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same bacteria that was once conside
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so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-warfare experiments...
A photoessay on how "The Inc
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ibles" was created...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Proper evoting system usability means much more than just looking at the voting process alone. Here's the informal usability report I prepa
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on the eSlate system in September 2004...
Spyware is on 80% of PCs, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
"Technology used to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offe
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to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the workplace"...
The great history of Sun Studio, the most influential recording studio ever: http://www.wi
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.com/news/roadtrip/riverroad/0,2704,65180,00.htm...
The rock band Marillion asked online fans to contribute money towards new albums - and has raised almost $1 million so far...
October 18 to 24, 2004
"Humans Aren't So Complicated" http://www.wi
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.com/news/business/0,1367,65382,00.htm...
"Scientists are developing a pill to
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uce the terror of a traumatic event"...
The first 100% solar-powe
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winery...
Researchers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that works "with a 95% accuracy rate": http://wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65422-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next...
The photojournal of a modern geisha in Kyoto: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/sha
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/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/asia_pac_geisha/html/1.st...
October 11 to 17, 2004
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based tech company made big news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a MacOSX emulator for PCs, and their Web site is getting slammed...
Advertising is coming to RSS feeds near you. If you're putting ads in RSS, don't overdo it! http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65347,00.htm...
The average mpg of a 40-foot Gillig Phantom bus, used in Honolulu: about 4. The average mpg of a hybrid-diesel bus used in Seattle: 7.5. http://www.wi
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.com/news/autotech/0,2554,65273,00.htm...
Can nanofiltration solve the world's water problems? http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65287,00.htm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offe
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in Europe, would be a perfect car for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
Podcasting puts audio content you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast Howard Stern from XM Radio! http://www.wi
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.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65237,00.htm...
"The Long Tail" http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/12.10/tail.htm...
A UK photo exhibit shows real people next to their online virtual 3D character: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/sha
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/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/technology_gamers_and_their_avatars/img/1.jp...
"George W. Bush - Keeping America Sca
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"...
A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck powe
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on nothing but sunlight and water...
The world's largest wind power project starts near Beijing: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65139,00.htm...
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 recent article about a letter written by a former Hart technician wh...
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercomputer at Virginia Tech (it's also powe
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by Mac OSX)...
Telcos' latest shot in the broadband war - TV over phone lines: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65105,00.htm...
Digital print-on-demand bookmobiles are helping out kids in Third World countries: http://www.wi
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.com/news/culture/0,1284,64627,00.htm...
"Greenlanders Mystified by Inc
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ible Shrinking Glacier"...
Will solar-powe
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ISPs take off...
Inc
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ible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos...
XM satellite radio seems to be taking off: http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/12.10/xmradio.htm...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The first half of 2004 saw 5,000 new Windows viruses: http://wi
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blogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=45452...
In response to online classifieds, newspapers are holding their own local auctions: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,65006,00.htm...
Since 1980, sales of presidential masks have p
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icted the election correctly...
"Automakers Give Biodiesel a Boost" http://www.wi
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.com/news/autotech/0,2554,65054,00.htm...
Discovery - morphine occurs naturally in the brain: http://wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65053,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Researchers are finding ways to
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uce buckyball toxicity...
Nifty two-story wind-powe
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walking sculptures...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Has this startup developed the universal computer emulator? http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.htm...
A new radio modem is the size of a c
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it card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Working personal jet-powe
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wings are now for real...
It's good to know that some people keep things secret (and sac
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). Here's the popular article and its followup...
How high-tech "fab labs" are training kids in impoverished countries to make needed tools: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64864,00.htm...
Bring out your Uzis! The assault weapon ban has expi
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with much debate on both sides...
"Bacteria Turn Toxins Into Plastic": http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64862,00.htm...
"Clean Air Tech Has Ancient Roots" http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64871,00.htm...
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pionee
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works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Last year's Labor Day vigil at the sac
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hill Pu'u Ohau, at the edge of the unfinished elite Hokulia estate and golf course development on top of ancient Hawaiian burial grounds. Kupunas calle...
Revolutionary lens implants for the severely nearsighted are expected to receive FDA approval soon: http://www.wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64803,00.htm...
This was popular: 3 killed, 17 inju
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in Saudi Arabia at a stampede for discounts at an IKEA store...
Hund
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s of people from different world regions are morphed into one, highlighting differences as well as similarities...
New anime films from the masters are coming: http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/12.09/anime.htm...
August 22 to 29, 2004
"RSS Attracts Really Serious Money" http://www.wi
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.com/news/business/0,1367,64716,00.htm...
Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discove
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...
A new poll shows growing support for voter-verified paper trails in elections: http://www.wi
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.com/news/politics/0,1283,64700,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
It costs the U.S. Government $6.5 billion a year just to keep things secret. 90% of those things shouldn't be: http://www.wi
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.com/news/print/0,1294,64731,00.htm...
An experiment reviving coral reefs with low-voltage electrical current receives "remarkable results": http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64671,00.htm...
New ventures try to generate electricity from sea power with wave turbines: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64695,00.htm...
A car engine that runs off air: http://www.
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nova.com/news/stories/3/2004/08/26/story002.htm...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Unpatched PCs are compromised in 20 minutes. Someone should make a tiny USB-powe
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firewall device for upgrading PCs...
The Olympics is selling a lot less tickets than desi
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...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious
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evelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
Spray-on microdots
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uce car theft...
Dopamine blockers turn slackers into workaholics: http://www.wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64550,00.htm...
A great business model for online publishing - "fast turnaround e-books": http://wi
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.com/news/mac/0,2125,64563,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Fans at the Olympics will be escorted off the premises if they eat or drink non-sponso
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food...
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 popular galler...
Check out the inc
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ible satellite images you can view on this baby...
"Onion routing" may help make anonymous communications over the net more secure: http://www.wi
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.com/news/print/0,1294,64464,00.htm...
Some amazing bluetooth hacking - address book contents can be stolen from up to a mile away! Or run a sneaky bluetooth content-grabbing program from your PDA and walk around unnoticed...
Students in India and China commit suicide (and spark riots in the process) due to their inability to pay tuition/testing fees: http://in.
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iff.com/news/2004/aug/05flip.ht...
About 22 year-old Ryan Pitlak, a marketing student who may have made hund
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s of thousands from spam, coming from hund
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s of shell companies he set up...
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-cente
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projects? "What I see happening is horrible," said Maui Realto...
About Singapore's new world-class bioscience empire, including "Biopolis", a $300 million center for molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and nanotech...
Where do whales go when they die? A newly discove
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worm lacks a mouth, stomach, legs, and eyes and lives on deep-sea whale bones...
July 19 to 25, 2004
"We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login": http://www.wi
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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
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich
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clay. Scatter one abou...
Ti
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of Hotmail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
The Stork - an animated film: http://www.wi
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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 recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
After two years of noodling, Ford announces the first hybrid SUV: http://www.wi
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More about transparent videoconferencing, which has received a lot of press lately: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,64129,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Ghulam Sediq Wardak, Afghanistan's most famous inventor. He's made a solar-powe
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VW and over 300 other inventions...
The inc
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ible All Music Guide is getting a complete overhaul, really, really soon...
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing networks: http://www.wi
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June 28 to July 4, 2004
A new hypersensitive sensor has been developed in Israel, allowing heart readings from "several feet away" without physical contact: http://www.wi
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June 21 to 27, 2004
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...
Here's a 48-minute show called "Exposed: The Carlyle Group", which ai
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on TV in the Netherlands...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Here's what Wi
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has to say about such software, group decision-making, and how it can actually be more profitable to organizations versus top-down bureaucratic methods...
Mentioned the other week as the key ing
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ient to self-cleaning windows, titanium dioxide is now being incorporated into clothing to make them self-cleaning...
Japanese balloons and the importance of uncenso
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wartime news...
A pre-wi
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, pre-plumbed, cheap 280 square- foot modern modular housing unit that looks decent...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Are you ti
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of answering stupid questions...
"Bringing [wolves] back to Yellowstone has trigge
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a cascade of unanticipated changes in the park's ecosystem...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic" http://www.wi
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I recently saw Tarkovsky's 1983 movie "Nostalgia" - it is a masterpiece, but only for lovers of poetry, atmosphere, ideals, madness, and the sac
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An article on Kyle Cooper, who's made the art-intensive opening and closing c
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its of such movies as Spiderman, Se7en, Sphere, Twister, and Mission: Impossible...
"L.A. To Oregon at Mach 9" http://quickwi
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.com/kallahar/stories/2004-Apr23/trip.ph...
An innovative new music video by up-and-coming musician Sam Bisbee. I don't know about the music, but this effect has never been done with live video before (I believe it was pionee
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in the Beatles...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Ryan Wieber was hi
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by LucasArts at 19 for his homemade lightsaber special effects that rivalled that of Hollywood's...
Play video games to
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uce obesity! "Video game fans dance off extra pounds"...
Drink beer to
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uce liver damage! (see last week's "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Damage")...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Two teen poetry students give a public anti-Iraq/Bush reading. Their teacher is fi
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and the poetry club shut down...
Attract tenants with wireless: http://forevergeek.com/articles/apartment_complex_unwi
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.ph...
LANL researchers have figu
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Drink coffee before hitting the bar! "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Damage": http://
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May 10 to 16, 2004
A lot of prefab buzz is going around on the net these days. I hope more people are getting ti
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of living in expensive, soulless boxes! About the Glidehouse debut...
More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet cartridge recycler and an industrial composting company. This is a great model for cities to follow to get small businesses recycling compos...
Are jet-created clouds responsible for some climate change? http://www.wi
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A wrought-iron cove
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VW bug...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Current chip design is overkill, often applying more precision to tasks when needed. By making chips that guess results when needed, one may be able to
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uce power usage by a factor of 1,000...
The new $284 million "Geek Palace" at MIT, designed by cutting-edge architect Frank Gehry: http://www.wi
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People see only what they what to see. "Scientists have gathe
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remarkable evidence which shows that it is possible to see something without observing it". Did you see the gorilla...
"Blood pressure rising in kids" - I'm starting to get ti
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of these "X rising in kids" articles.....
April 26 to May 2, 2004
"Eco-friendly" diapers may not be so eco-friendly after all: http://www.wi
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April 19 to 25, 2004
The first fully-sustainable house has been developed - it's powe
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by solar and runs entirely on hydrogen...
Voting machines company Diebold may face criminal charges: http://www.wi
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.com/news/evote/0,2645,63191,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Study: "less soft drinks
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uces obesity"...
Technology has been developed that takes images of old, damaged vinyl records and produces resto
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music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
April 12 to 18, 2004
An extensive 20-year study of a baboon troop found a permanent, unprecedented cultural shift occur
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when the most violent, dominant males died out from a tuberculosis outbreak...
Just by using a white-colo
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roof on your home, you can save up to 40% in air conditioning costs...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry" http://www.wi
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Bioenginee
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weed-killer resistant grass is being tested on golf courses. Unless trimmed regularly, it may flower and spread to public areas...
"Easy-to-use unit converts scrap wood to electricity" http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=
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March 31, 2004
Let's face it folks - taken as a whole, Hawaii architecture sucks. And the urban planning leaves a lot to be desi
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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...
Hawaii construction and typical apartment developments use a lot of concrete, a material that John Lautner conside
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"most desireable" for his needs. But these developments often end up being block...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Nude women have been on the menu at The Sutler for years, but the Nashville pub cove
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up the 19th-century Victorian photos after being warned they might be too racy for state law....
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manufacturing method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
"How E-Voting Threatens Democracy" http://www.wi
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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
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical records and c
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it histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
"Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P" http://www.wi
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.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62830,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
A new system for powe
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saws detects skin contact in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade...
"Soya-powe
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planes promise greener air travel...
March 15 to 21, 2004
A steep decline in "birds, butterflies and native plants" in Britain is alarming scientists: http://www.wi
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This was pretty popular - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld caught
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-handed on TV lying about one of his statements regarding Iraq...
Beautiful, free, colo
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19th-century artwork of biological forms...
Inc
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ible pencil carvings...
Some independent music stores are finding that "file sharing can help create a buzz online that can lead to more sales": http://www.wi
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March 8 to 14, 2004
Those who do not learn from history... The amazing Lawrence Lessig wrote a nice piece on how Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and the music industries were all born from content piracy...
HSS claims to have already sco
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a hit on the charts with the single "Left Outside Alone" by Anastacia. I admit it's catchy...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Ozone Depletion Three Times Worse Than P
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icted...
"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could make sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
Remember that photojournal on shipbreaking, one of the most toxic and dangerous jobs on earth? Here's a short summary of some new technologies (including a wash that neutralizes PCBs) being used i...
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...
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (online journals), with visuals. For future research: How is the spreading of ideas like the transmission of virii? Can one reliably p
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ict the mos...
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fi
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him, despite the fact that the correc...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Hoo boy, lots of news this week. You heard it here first, folks! Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war "LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepa
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by the Pentagon warns tha...
Apple's Mac OS X has been decla
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one of the world's safest operating systems by London-based security experts, mi2g...
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
Mathematical formula 'p
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icts marriage breakdown' "The mathematics we came up with is trivial, but the model is astonishingly accurate"...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Borneo Forest Faces Extinction http://www.wi
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There was a little buzz around the net last week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the point at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently p
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icted to happen in 2015. Jo...
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pionee
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in Canada.....
A new paint eats smog for five years - it's been shown to
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uce pollution up to 60 percent at street level...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
The real 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...
"The New Face of the Silicon Age - How India became the capital of the computing revolution" http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/12.02/india.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
"Wireless Cable TV In The Works": http://www.wi
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.com/news/wireless/0,1382,62061,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
January 19 to 25, 2004
An aspiring filmmaker made a splash at Sundance with the first feature-length film ever made with nothing but iMovie. Total cost of the production: $218...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Atoms can be seen and counted with the new SuperSTEM microscope: http://www.wi
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January 5 to 11, 2004
The FBI can now obtain financial records without requiring a judge's permission: http://www.wi
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.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61792,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
The FBI gathe
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hotel guest list information on 270,000 in Las Vegas...
Yet another international study on global warming was released - 1/4 of all species could be extinct by 2050? "Global Warming Imperils Species...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Here's a panorama of Times Square on New Year's Eve (QuickTime requi
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December 22 to 28, 2003
Favorite antipop CDs of 2003 Ti
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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...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secu
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management positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.....
Sony has developed the first autonomous running robot: http://www.wi
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The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discove
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a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
Lessons learned: UH and the Star-Bulletin need to get their science/high-tech reporting act together. This item was featu
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in dozens of international publications before locals got wind of it.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
Whoo boy, lots of new stuff in the world lately. Guess I'll just jump in: http://www.wi
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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 featu
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on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest line ever seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
A new way to filter out toxins from the blood has been invented. It uses magnetized nanoaparticles, and may revolutionize current dialysis techniques as well as eliminate certain classes of diseases...
"Motorist gets vehicle registe
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Keiko, the killer whale that star
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in "Free Willy", has died of sudden pneumonia, exacerbated by moves to Canada and Mexico...
November 24 to 30, 2003
"Congress Expands FBI spying Power" http://www.wi
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.com/news/politics/0,1283,61341,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Austism, its role in genius, and the latest theories about the disorder: http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/11.12/genius.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
The rise of informal iPod sharing: http://www.wi
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.com/news/mac/0,2125,61242,00.htm...
Pebble Bed Modular Reactors may be the future of nuclear power, as their design eliminates the possibility of a meltdown: http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,61088,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, the Next Big Thing in display technology (a nice overview if you're not familiar): http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/11/19/hln.wi
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.oleds/index.htm...
The first genetically enginee
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pet goes on sale - glow-in-the-dark fish (called GloFish)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
"Playlistism" http://www.wi
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.com/news/mac/0,2125,61177,00.htm...
Some popular news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces): http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,61252,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
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: http://www.wi
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.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Everything that Wi
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Magazine has called "a thing of the past"...
Scientists are now visiting "traditional herbalists" in search of breakthrough drugs. http://www.wi
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.com/news/medtech/0,1286,61090,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
The first optical processor, which computes at the speed of light... http://www.wi
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.com/news/technology/0,1282,61009,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6(Picture...
Infra
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light heals wounds/boosts immunity, but nobody knows why...
Open Source Everywhere http://www.wi
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.com/wi
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/archive/11.11/opensource.htm...
20% less males aged 18 to 34 are watching TV compa
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to last year...
Is the Akaka Bill good? Bad? I think this appea
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in a Weekly a while ago.....
October 27, 2003
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
Are you a natural networker? Some people are natural "connectors" - in social networks, the important people aren't necessarily who you know, but who you vaguely know...
A school has begun tracking students with RFID devices, the first known school to identify and track its children. Good? Bad? http://www.wi
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October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hund
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s of new "supercenters"...
October 14, 2003
A great, great explanation of how this nation's electrical grid works, why more large-scale blackouts are p
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icted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
October 6, 2003
* It's powe
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by a Linux-running 78-processor supercomputer that can manage nine terabytes of data, 13 times the size of the data in a two-hour digital feature film...
"The Inc
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ible Shrinking Studio...
September 30, 2003
Of course, a co-author of the report was fi
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from his company...
A Jurassic-age plant once thought extinct has been discove
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, cultivated, and commercialized...
September 15, 2003
Also, reinforcing the "Apple = cool" theme from last week, the iPod is now featu
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in a hot new hip-hop music video by 50 Cent...
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)...
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wi
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) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
India's struggles with genetically modified crops... http://www.wi
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.com/news/business/0,1367,57615,00.htm...
Thanks to the human genome project, researchers are pioneering the field of ionomics, the study of how genes regulate ions. That can lead to plants that soak up heavy metals.....
September 2, 2003
The inc
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ible story of an Estonian man who lived in the forest for eight years evading the Soviets...
"...it has awakened governments to the need to
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uce their dependence on Windows operating systems....
August 12, 2003
...then I p
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ict that it won't be too long before we start seeing phones that notify you when a potential "best match" for you is close by...
As people begin their life as a captu
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stream of digital documents, we'll be seeing more of this. A great idea would be to create software that allows people to create lifelong free-form digita...
July 28, 2003
The Star Wars Kid's parents sue... http://www.wi
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.com/news/culture/0,1284,59757,00.htm...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...
July 7, 2003
An article on Estonia, where Internet access was decla
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a fundamental human right by law.....