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December 20 to 31, 2005
Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You wasted quarters in this?...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The "stratellite" can replace satellites at 1/10 the cost. Hopefully, it will make cellphone towers obsolete: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?
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April 4 to 10, 2005
The new Breezehouse, a modern prefab home designed for "casual indoor-outdoor living": http://www.livemodern.com/sun
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The neo-psychedelic art of Shawn Wolfe: http://www.shawnwolfe.com/gallery/view_album.php?
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March 21 to 27, 2005
Macs are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
Transparent screens - I want something that changes with the amount of ambient light: http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/
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March 14 to 20, 2005
Cropless circles, made on sand: http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?
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Latte art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/
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Merge 50 photos of any given topic, and you get artful atmospheric pictures of concepts: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brevity/
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March 7 to 13, 2005
For some reason the U.S. Army's $127 billion modernization program has been categorized in the budget in a way that relieves them of the obligation to give "cost and purchasing data to militar...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment...
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off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny online vide...
Here's a brilliant business and innovative social practice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this social role. The business is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
New super-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into hou
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ops. Let's see these around town...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Two strangers took a photo of the same sun
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January 1 to 9, 2005
The story of 21 year-old Matt Leto, possibly the greatest video-game player ever. He likely holds over 800 world records and is
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to make six digits in competitions this year...
Monsanto paid a $1.3 million penalty to
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tle charges of bribing the Indonesian government to help facilitate the cultivation of its genetically modified crops...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Create your own mini office cubicle hell with the Cubes plastic figure
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December 6 to 12, 2004
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large
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John Perry Barlow's fight against Homeland Security may
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a legal precedent regarding searches...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Arm wrestling over the Internet! Why can't we
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tle wars this way? It's basically the same thing...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Bob Dylan-singin' liberals are going to have to wear mirrored hats to peace rallies now that the Army's got a new airborne pain ray in the works: http://www.defen
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October 18 to 24, 2004
San Francisco
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s the goal of providing everyone in the city free wireless access...
October 4 to 10, 2004
JibJab's new "Good to be in DC!" short: http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/content/goodtobeindc/frame
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September 20 to 26, 2004
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who
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up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
August 2 to 8, 2004
About 22 year-old Ryan Pitlak, a marketing student who may have made hundreds of thousands from spam, coming from hundreds of shell companies he
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May 24 to 30, 2004
Computerless single mom gets busted by the RIAA, can't afford to
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May 17 to 23, 2004
More pictures of the eco-prefab Glidehouse: http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/fablist/031_Glidehouse_FL/glidehousestatus/sun
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May 10 to 16, 2004
"Thousands tour first Glidehouse at Sun
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April 5 to 11, 2004
And the top 50% of families own 95% of as
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Kids can now pretend they're hunting shoe bombers with the Playmobil Security Check-In
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March 31, 2004
The last two years have seen 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
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a look at the data...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new sonic "construction
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March 1 to 7, 2004
Nifty animations of typography
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January 19 to 25, 2004
The Dutchtub, a plastic outdoor hot tub that requires no electricity, plumbing, or hot water. Faster and easier
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up than a wood-fire tub...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The New York Times refused to run this article - the journalist posted it himself online instead. Here's a good idea to help off
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online "sharing" - a $60 per year charge for broadband users...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Why frivolous software patents suck - here's all the patents you're violating now by
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ting up an online store...
October 27, 2003
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be
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up in major cities...
August 25, 2003
* I
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an (a department store in Singapore, shut down...
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...