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December 20 to 31, 2005
Here you can
see
how close the biomedical facilities are to the ocean...
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr!
see
on a U.S. map where recent photos were taken...
This is a working graphic design of a computer, the first I've
see
n. Have there been other designs like this, either recently or in the ancient past? I envision a lot of interactive modern art in thi...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
There was a lot of news this week, but the big news was the release of Apple's new system upgrade, called "Tiger". I've tested the heck out of it and it
see
ms stable and faster...
This man's making a mint from moving U.S. factories overseas and is responsible for some of the Chinese-made goods you
see
at Wal-Mart. He's crying while driving his Hummer to the bank...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire recording interface I've ever
see
n. Looks like it should be excellent for recording on the road with a laptop...
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...
Power utilities can fund the migration to greener technologies by selling "green power", like the Tennes
see
Valley Authority is doing...
Another example of how people
see
only what they want (or are directed) to
see
- motion-induced blindness (and many other nifty optical illusions)...
April 11 to 17, 2005
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can
see
how the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will make use of this new tool to help enforc...
It now
see
ms possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
Thanks to eBay there
see
ms to be a healthy demand for poppy bulbs by opium addicts...
see
her solve the cube in 16 seconds...
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song online. Let's se...
April 4 to 10, 2005
And the Google sight
see
ing blog was born...
The bionic eye lets the blind
see
again...
Meanwhile, Swiss biotech firm Syngenta was fined for "mistakenly" selling hundreds of tons of experimental GMO corn
see
d not yet approved for human consumption to the U.S. and Europe...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Very cool drag-and-drop sortable lists with CSS and JavaScript. Let's
see
a music playlist interface...
All the great hackers are switching to Macs, again mirroring the early growth of the Web (which was developed on an ancestor of today's Mac, the NeXT). We'll just
see
what happens...
In 1993 Laurie Anderson shared some U.S. embassy tips about how to not make yourself
see
m like an American...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
A new newspaper column only reviews cars that do better than 30 mpg. Let's
see
more columns like this...
March 7 to 13, 2005
View the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be
see
n in infrared...
Let's
see
Starbucks use these new paper coffee cups that are decomposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's ordered 20 million of them...
The video jigsaw puzzle. Let's
see
more of these...
"I don't
see
/ the point of Haiku / in English" - the first(?) haiku poetry slam...
The world's thinnest building, with a very colorful history: http://www.
see
chinatown.com/thin/thin.ht...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
A "brain pacemaker" turned previously untreatable "beyond suicidal" people into antique dealers and PTA members. Ever
see
n "The Terminal Man"...
One of the better online color scheme generators I've
see
n...
February 21 to 27, 2005
New super-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into housetops. Let's
see
these around town...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Intellifit system is a 360-degree body scanner that creates accurate measurements in 10 seconds. Ever
see
n the 1981 sci-fi movie "Looker"...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Want to make something that can help others? Consult 43 Things first to
see
what people want to do...
Monkeys are willing to "pay" more to
see
pictures of alpha males and females, and to ignore subordinates...
The same developer made this chess program where one can
see
the lines of strategy that the computer is considering...
The mushroom version of the Game of Life. Let's
see
more visualizations that take time into account...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, written by an industry insider - too many writers! http://
see
maxrun.com/hollywood_folder/toomanywriters.ht...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Currently under development, the PALV flying car is the best flying car design I've
see
n yet...
Tag graphing allows people to
see
relationships between topically-sorted content on the Web...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking down on movie pirates, Monsanto is cracking down on farmers that save their patented GM
see
ds from year to year...
A few months since its launch, allofmp3.com
see
ms to be gaining credibility and customers. Tracks are one-tenth the cost of those in the iTunes music store and are offered in a variety of qualitie...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Here you can
see
the cultural influence of the beautiful classic medium of LP cover art, from Herb Alpert's popular "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" (1965)...
December 6 to 12, 2004
"Santa's
see
n it all...
see
how popular your name is...
Place a remote camera on an eagle and this is what you get.
see
an eagle dogfight from the eagle's point of view...
I'm intrigued by the clean design of this design magazine - it
see
ms to be getting raves...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The most inclusive church ad I've
see
n is refused by TV stations due to controversy - the ad depicts the church allowing blacks, the disabled, and gays...
The zoom quilt - I've love to
see
this with lots more participants...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software research lab in the area - let's
see
what we whi...
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power Plant near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to
see
a greener mix o...
The GOP
see
ks a ban on RU-486, the "abortion pill"...
The coolest fractal art I've
see
n online...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
It would be nice to
see
evoting receipts that looked like this...
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...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Things That Return To Bite Us http://
see
dsofdeception.com/Media-maizepollen.ph...
October 25 to 31, 2004
A new prototype medical robot that's supposed to crawl through your intestines?
see
ms a little hard to swallow...
October 4 to 10, 2004
With this application and a GPS-enabled phone, you can walk around town and
see
which places are contributing money to which political parties. Get a rough idea of the political leanings and wealth o...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
XM satellite radio
see
ms to be taking off...
September 5 to 12, 2004
It's good to
see
that MAD Magazine is edgy again...
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered 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
Cool watermelon carvings: http://takashi64.hp.info
see
k.co.jp/page009.htm...
August 15 to 22, 2004
FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't test it too much, but it
see
ms to work with Safari...
August 2 to 8, 2004
As
see
n in recent 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'...
see
how a family changes, via similar photos taken every year for 28 years...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone
see
ms to have a blog these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I
see
the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
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 Realto...
A great idea - putting city maps on traffic control boxes. Let's
see
these around town...
An in-demand violin maker in Berkeley creates quality violins with 200-year old wood from Lake Superior. Also an acupuncturist, he
see
s the vibrational connections between his vocations...
July 19 to 25, 2004
see
d Magazine debuts - think "Maxim" crossed with "Scientist"...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week:
see
d Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen
see
ds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
An enlightening visit with sensei Masanobu Fukuoka: http://www.
see
dballs.com/gmmfpa.htm...
The
see
d Ball site...
July 5 to 11, 2004
A new type of affordable condo complex with intelligently designed 347 square-foot spaces. I'd rather
see
a building like this than (yet) another rundown concrete brick apartment in Hawaii any day...
Steve Winwood's label "has
see
n a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing networks...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
The best-designed appliance plug I've
see
n...
"Iraqis
see
k self-rule on the net...
June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've
see
n 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...
...while the Verizon deal will likely go through, people in Hawaii should
see
the film and take the opportunity to reflect how the war will soon be affecting their lives in a very direct way...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Have you
see
n the live music archives at archive.org...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever
see
n. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A how-to booklet from the 1940's. Remember, "how-to" books on today's technology will
see
m just as quaint in 2070...
Drink beer to reduce liver damage! (
see
last week's "Caffeine May Prevent Liver Damage")...
May 17 to 23, 2004
This is one of the best Web-based data visualization apps I've
see
n! You could mine this public database for all manner of interesting purposes. Fundrace -
see
which of your neighbors contributed t...
May 10 to 16, 2004
One of the coolest painting programs I've
see
n in years: Cosmic Painter! It's free and better than a Spirograph. (Sorry, for Mac OSX only)...
A nice aerial photo of a New York cab in winter. Also
see
Vincent LaForet's other aerial photos...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* The entire school district of Maury County, Tennesse...
People
see
only what they what to
see
. "Scientists have gathered remarkable evidence which shows that it is possible to
see
something without observing it". Did you
see
the gorilla...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The portable Q barbecue is the best- designed small hibachi/grill I've ever
see
n...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Here's two of the grooviest Flash-based movies I've
see
n in a while...
April 12 to 18, 2004
I've
see
n a lot of Web sites. This could be the worst-designed site ever made...
AT&T's new music identification service
see
ms to work pretty well...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have
see
n 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...
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've
see
n. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
The last two years have
see
n a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"The Molvania Tourists Rarely Get to
see
...
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...
Thanks to a new bill just drafted. Read the book "Free Culture" first and then
see
if this makes sense to you...
Here's info on the motor and anecdotes from 1997. Mr. Minato got his inspiration for the motor while playing piano. It's not hard to
see
why, the magnets are arranged like black keys on a keyboard...
March 8 to 14, 2004
And have you
see
n their old "Mars Attacks" series from the early 60's...
It's officially true! Thanks to confirmation from China's first astronaut, you CANNOT
see
the Great Wall from space...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Someone's collecting all the election-related wire service stories on Yahoo that use the phrase "The American People".
see
how politicians are using your name in vain...
February 23 to 29, 2004
A nice overview from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of turning Kalihi into a high-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to
see
)? The area's got ...
Some of the funniest, most creative uses of Photoshop I've
see
n in a long time.....
February 9 to 15, 2004
(from Jan 3) Now that Oahu only has two art-house movie venues (with one whose fate is uncertain), will people be able to
see
movies like the ones below in the future? Or will we have to downloa...
February 2 to 8, 2004
"So the prices, which
see
m ridiculous to 99 percent of the population, are not....
January 19 to 25, 2004
This Star Wars fan turned his Honda into an "H-Wing" fighter. It's the best car-to-starship conversion I've ever
see
n...
"Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media"...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Atoms can be
see
n and counted with the new SuperSTEM microscope...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Cool photos of Osaka, Japan.
see
ms a little crowded to me...
December 22 to 28, 2003
"10 Ads America Won't
see
...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Nanoscale fibers smaller than the wavelengths of light have been developed -
see
the picture of one winding around a human hair...
December 8 to 14, 2003
When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest line ever
see
n in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
Business Week on "The Rise of The Indian" There are more IT engineers in Bangalore than Silicon Valley now. Startups
see
king funds are now asked what their "India strategy" is...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Have you ever
see
n a gigpixel image...
October 27, 2003
The fires in Southern California as
see
n from space (picture)...
October 20, 2003
I should get into this business... "Execs who are tech dummies
see
k secret training...
October 6, 2003
I was thinking about replacing my old Devo costume for Halloween and decided to
see
what was out there on the Web. A store with a very good selection is Halloween Mart, with decent prices as well...
As this type of experience gets cheaper to create, perhaps one day we'll
see
more artists and other types of visionary people making use of it...
September 22, 2003
Spam! This is the best visual representation I've
see
n.....
September 8, 2003
"We have almost 30 percent of our prison population in Texas infected with hepatitis. That’s not so different from the numbers you
see
in the Dark Ages with the plague....
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (
see
the recent Wired) and you'll
see
how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
see
how many people are poorer than you in the world...
Ever
see
that movie "Blast From The Past", about a man who spent 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter built by his dad...
California candidates are given the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner, to
see
which ones are replicants. This is hilarious...
August 25, 2003
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...
August 12, 2003
FOX News apparently owns the trademark to the phrase "Fair and Balanced". We'll
see
if it holds up in court...
Things like this are good to
see
every once in a while so you don't get so proud about being a human, having two arms and two legs and all...
Now that everyone has access to professional-class studio software, we are
see
ing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd never would have put together. Read the Salon article...
...then I predict that it won't be too long before we start
see
ing phones that notify you when a potential "best match" for you is close by...
As people begin their life as a captured stream of digital documents, we'll be
see
ing more of this. A great idea would be to create software that allows people to create lifelong free-form digita...
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...
We'll be
see
ing more good and bad uses of cell phone cams in the future...
July 21, 2003
I'm sure you've
see
n this satire already...
July 14, 2003
So what does Mr. Winkle look like?
see
:...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and
see
exactly what network wires t...
Consumer citizens who are not feeling apathetic will be pleased to learn that the site provides names and contact information for the corporate executives who over
see
the Center's efforts. Since th...