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April 18 to 24, 2005
Meanwhile,
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Francisco is trying to figure out how to "rein in" its 43 medical marijuana dispensaries while remaining friendly with the feds...
The
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dal-combination-bottle opener! Perfect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Could new photographic techniques shed light on ancient Greek texts and bring about the "second Renais
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ce"...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, Burger King rolled out a
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dwich with 730 calories and 47 grams of fat...
Gory images of this year's Canadian seal hunt: http://www.su
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scott.net/OceanWatch1998/mar30-98.htm...
Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Computation continues to get more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/
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dTraveler/index.ph...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Strei
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d), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Towards tolerance - "Under armed guard, a woman broke with more than a thou
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d years of Islamic tradition to lead men and women in a prayer service yesterday in Manhattan"...
Cropless circles, made on
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d...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Ira Rennert's house was featured 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...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A startup creates molecular storage technology that could store 1 terabit per square inch, or 25 DVDs of data in a postage stamp-sized area...
The 1GB Secure Digital USB card: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/storage/
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disk-sd-card-with-flip-up-usb-update-033743.ph...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Honolulu was recently ranked as the fourth most expensive place to live in the U.S. lately, behind New York,
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Francisco, and
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Jose, CA...
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...
Sales of $1 million-plus homes in
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Francisco grew an amazing 73% last year...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
Or how about emulating the business model of
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Francisco's Brainwash, a successful cafe-and-laundromat that also sells t-shirts and hosts local musicians as well as comedy nights? They've got a We...
January 10 to 16, 2005
If you're an average PC user, you'd be in
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e to keep a Windows machine at this point. I've spent more time removing viruses and fixing problems on one friend's Windows XP box than the combined tim...
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking down on movie pirates, Mon
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to is cracking down on farmers that save their patented GM seeds from year to year...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Nothing lasts - Buddhist monks who have meditated on corpses find themselves well-suited to help with cremating thou
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ds of tsunami victims. "We just sort of live in denial of the fact that we hav...
A Marine is jailed for refusing to pick up a gun, citing religious reasons: http://www.mlive.com/news/
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ews/index.ssf?/base/news-13/110450641421070.xm...
Mon
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to paid a $1.3 million penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian government to help facilitate the cultivation of its genetically modified crops...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A gamer buys a piece of virtual land for $26,500. I should enter the virtual holy cheese
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dwich business...
A dialect map of American English. I had a suspicion that "
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Francisco Urban" was a dialect, but didn't know it was official...
December 6 to 12, 2004
In an area of SUV-dominated
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Francisco, a car gets ticketed for being too small...
"
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ta's seen it all...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
"Researchers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers": http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/new
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devents/pressreleases/NE1000000097300...
November 22 to 28, 2004
A ten-year-old toasted cheese
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dwich said to bear the image of Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Condi Rice is Angry!!! http://www.condiricei
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gry.com...
November 1 to 7, 2004
And an exotic grass once planted by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 70's now threatens to overrun the
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Francisco Bay...
Because of a clash with federal law, legislation protecting whales from high-speed boats in the Hawaiian Islands National Marine
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ctuary has been overturned. This may lead to the end of offshor...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New 4GB flash SD cards: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04102702
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disk_highcapcards.as...
October 18 to 24, 2004
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Francisco sets the goal of providing everyone in the city free wireless access...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"From the time that Hawai'i first became a strategic American outpost in the Pacific, the military has condemned thou
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ds of acres of state and private land for training and military bases...
The 9/11 "tower of light" tribute captures thou
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ds of birds...
August 15 to 22, 2004
One thou
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ds words on our era's war crime image. Insightful...
August 2 to 8, 2004
About 22 year-old Ryan Pitlak, a marketing student who may have made hundreds of thou
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ds from spam, coming from hundreds of shell companies he set up...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
The first true city-wide wireless network: http://www.walker
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ds.com/Grand-Haven-First-Citywide-WiFi.ht...
SecuritySpy - This Mac-based software allows one to install a cheap multi-cam security system for many thou
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ds less than traditional systems...
July 12 to 18, 2004
This method has cheaply and quickly restored tall grass prairies, watersheds, wildlife habitats in New Jersey, and arid lands in Thailand, the Philippines, Africa, and India. Ma
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obu Fukuoka, th...
An enlightening visit with sensei Ma
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obu Fukuoka...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Thou
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ds of truckers, bus drivers and rest-stop workers are being enlisted to spot terrorists"...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular because of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"Thou
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ds tour first Glidehouse at Sunset - Interest in affordable, 'green,' modern prefab runs high:...
More groovy green efforts from
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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...
April 19 to 25, 2004
And Intel plans to cut the lead content of computer chips by 95%: http://www.signon
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diego.com/news/business/20040407-1355-ca-intel-lead.htm...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Some guy hooked up a music-generating apparatus controlled by six live hampsters. It's actually plea
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t music...
March 31, 2004
In the Bay Area, multiple offers over 10 are not uncommon. Houses have gone for $300,000 over the asking price. Median home prices in
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Francisco are $200,000 over that of Oahu and $100,000 ove...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Doctors Report Sharp Increase In Broken Bones" http://www.nbc
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diego.com/health/2965609/detail.htm...
Some bands find their fans are donating thou
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ds to charities to make up for their file sharing...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Anti-vandal technology has been installed that detects spray can sounds. Of course, once the above device is marketed, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
Da
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i bottled water pulled from all shelves in the UK after large amounts of a carcinogen is found in it...
January 19 to 25, 2004
A free city-wide wireless project has been taking off in
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Francisco. Can this be a model for other cities...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Did you know that 20 billion tampons/
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itary pads went into landfills in 1998? Encourage females to try the Diva Cup...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Lots of end-of-year lists popped up here and there. Here's a few: The 2003 year in pictures, from the
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Francisco Chronicle...
December 1 to 7, 2003
A great five-part essay on the homeless problem in
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Francisco, which has the nation's worst problem with "hard-core homelessness". What to know what life is really like on the street...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Mark Morford of the
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Francisco Chronicle has always been a great columnist, but this column in particular shows him at his best...
October 27, 2003
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yo is making corn-derived biodegradable CDs - they'll hit stores in December. Much better for landfills. They degrade after 50-100 years...