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December 20 to 31, 2005
Here's a map
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ing the rough location of the facilities (Ilalo Street, Honolulu), to the left of Kewalo Basin...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
"U.S. Figures
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Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism - State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report"...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to
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up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep contents colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Just because you're a penguin doesn't mean that you're not a terrorist: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slide
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/4402056/detail.html?qs=;s=1;w=32...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually everything our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This was very popular this week - I think there's a pent-up need to avoid Starbucks! The delocator will
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you local alternatives to Starbucks...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
This brilliant clip
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s how the modern shopping environment puts people in a cow-like suggestible state...
More wacky, unusual album covers: http://www.
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andtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.htm...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Towards fundamentalism - "IMAX theaters Reject Science
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s under Religious Pressure"...
TV
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s for modern kids - this children's
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features music by a hip roster of post-punk acts...
Breast-enhancing bubble gum is popular in Japan these days: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article
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/1056493.cm...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Listen to Dr. Demento
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s online...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More TV
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s should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while listening to this podcast with
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commentary at the same time...
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 clip from "The Bill Maher
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"...
"Declaration of Revocation" http://stephaniemiller
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.blogspot.com/2005/02/declaration-of-revocation.htm...
This quality photoshop contest
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s real life, cubed...
This design concept
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s a great way to recycle water bottles...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
MD Robotics
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ed off its instant scene modeler, which creates 3D scenes from digital photos...
And here's a really big satellite photo
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ing the entire park. That's a lot of curtains...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A new study
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s that melatonin may have broader effects in the brain than previously thought...
Another new study
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s that peanuts are the nutritional equivalent of the "perfect fruit"...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A nanoscale "crossbar latch" from HP's Quantum Science Research labs may one day replace the transistor: http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/
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story.jsp?storyid=5744...
The first artificial neon sky
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. Unfortunately, implications for advertising...
Wal-Mart gets slammed again on "The Daily
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". Hawaii's Wal-Mart is mentioned as well...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The first feature film to be delivered via wireless internet technology was
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n at the Sundance Film Festival...
The top 100 soundtracks of all time: http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5399&
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=50&start=...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A prototype car by Ford is described as a "rolling urban command center", with bullet-resistant windows, protective shutters, and a mini-home theater...
The American Heart Association says that over 10% of U.S. children between 2 and 5 are obese: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/
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/1063.htm...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The top ten war profiteers of 2004: http://metronewsnet.homelinux.com:81/boards/
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thread.php?pc...
Here's a humongous chart
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ing exactly where your tax dollar goes...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A New York art exhibition is stopped after
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ing a Bush portrait made of images of monkeys...
December 6 to 12, 2004
A pioneering global study
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s that U.S. kids don't rank so well in math skills...
Homeless Iraq vets are
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ing up at shelters...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Connect your iPod photo to a projector and
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PowerPoint presentations with it, thanks to this new software...
Enter your ZIP code and get a blast map that
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s the effects of a 10-kiloton nuclear blast in your area...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An overview of current work on Natural Language Programming: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=
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page&pid=22...
Tyranny of the few: A $1.2 million indecency fine levied against Fox by the FCC was brought on by only three people, of the millions that watched one
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November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
"The Persuaders" - now: This
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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...
"The Persuaders" also featured 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...
Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/content/
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article.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=659...
November 1 to 7, 2004
First, the best analysis, as given by Stephen Colbert of "The Daily
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" (movie)...
"How a CPU is Built" http://www.sudhian.com/
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docs.cfm?aid=61...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Wow! The Honolulu Wal-Mart issue actually got some air time on "The Daily
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" (video clip)...
Yes, the U.S. knows where Osama is. And he's still getting "only" $1 million a year from his family: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article
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/898084.cm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A UK photo exhibit
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s real people next to their online virtual 3D character...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"Daily
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" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly Factor" viewers...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Also, the Spacebox, completely self-contained stackable units with kitchen,
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er, and toilet...
The state-of-the-art in scientific visualization: http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2004/
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/slide1.shtm...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new radio modem is the size of a credit card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range: http://www.eeproductcenter.com/rf-micro/brief/
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Article.jhtml?articleID=3000030...
One
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he worked on - here you can learn about all the toxic items around your house that leech into your bloodstream...
September 5 to 12, 2004
The CyberLite LED is one of the products made with the above methods: http://www.electronicproducts.com/
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Page.asp?SECTION=3130&PRIMID=&FileName=marHL1.mar200...
Regarding last week's item about fake tree-like cell phone masts: http://www.dw-world.de/dwelle/allgemein/bilder_
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/0,3772,89907_6,00.jp...
"A new study
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s that kids who watch lots of TV ads are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, stomachaches and other problems....
August 22 to 29, 2004
Microsoft's Spanish version of Windows XP translated "woman" as "bitch". Users unamused: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/article
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/msid-823975,curpg-1.cm...
A new poll
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s growing support for voter-verified paper trails in elections...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing Apps http://informationweek.com/story/
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Article.jhtml?articleID=2911657...
August 8 to 14, 2004
About the new online TV-
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swapping culture...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
The first debut of an entire TV
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episode over the Internet...
Prodded by the MPAA, the FBI pursues criminal charges against a Stargate SG1 fan Web site, despite endorsement by the
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's executive producer...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An LED research breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years: http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/
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Article.jhtml?articleID=2560014...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
A UH breakthrough - vegetable colorants
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cancer-fighting properties...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Sharp's new prototype color eBook reader: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/sharps-
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s-prototype-color-ebook-017256.ph...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
The evolution of fractal art. This is the next generation of fractal and mathematics- based design, folks: http://www.ultrafractal.com/
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case.htm...
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
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called "Exposed: The Carlyle Group", which aired on TV in the Netherlands...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
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s/music...
May 3 to 9, 2004
People see only what they what to see. "Scientists have gathered remarkable evidence which
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s that it is possible to see something without observing it". Did you see the gorilla...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
A company records
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s live and sells USB devices holding the recording after the concert...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Here's two of the grooviest Flash-based movies I've seen in a while: http://www.mantasoft.co.uk/anim/
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.php?url=Recursive.swf;title=Recursiv...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AAGH! Tax time! A study
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s that taxes are getting more complex, thanks to the rising popularity of sophisticated tax preparation software...
A study
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s that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also, go light on the techno...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Studies
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that Guinness is actually very healthy for you...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Newsmap, an interesting way to visually
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news. Not sure if it's useful, but it is kind of pretty...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings
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Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It
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s nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
Check out this video clip on HSS from NBC - it
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s how musical desirableness is analyzed visually in a 2D graph of 2.5 million songs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first car designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto
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, with emphasis on comfort, storage, and low maintenance...
Also (to be)
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n at the
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, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
A network map of political books based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It
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s a great division in thinking... you could use this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Video game studies are making their way into college curricula - what is their form and impact on culture? What is a game? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article
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/522375.cm...
"Game Development: Harder Than You Think" http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=
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page&pid=11...
February 16 to 22, 2004
It's been tested by the FBI and is so accurate its results are now admissible in court. "[it's] ... a method of reading the brain's involuntary electrical activity in response to a subject being
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...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A new paint eats smog for five years - it's been
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n to reduce pollution up to 60 percent at street level...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
December 8 to 14, 2003
The Second Coming of Nick Drake http://www.cnn.com/2003/
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BIZ/Music/12/01/hln.hot.hit.alexi.murdoch/index.htm...
A good interview
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ing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
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 featured on national TV
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s. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
A nice slide
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on "Aging in America". For the first time in the U.S., there will soon be more people over 55 than 18 and under...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Abercromie & Fitch got in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clothing catalog. Their first sweater doesn't
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up until page 122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle has always been a great columnist, but this column in particular
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s him at his best...
October 14, 2003
Spread of AIDS among Young ‘A Global Catastrophe’: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/article
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?msid=22572...
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser
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: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and light
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using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/
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Article.jhtml?articleID=1520028...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...
July 8, 2003
would provide such a compelling demonstration to the contrary," she added. Among the "confidential" documents available on the web site are slide
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s discussing the need to "pacify" citizens wh...