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December 20 to 31, 2005
An official collection of satellite photos of the tsunami
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s...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
My Future China http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693580/
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/newswee...
Training wheels, rethought: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TRIKE_BIKE?
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=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
I recently revi
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d AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released last year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-use, powerful panorama maker I've eve...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Consumating, the new dating
site
for hipsters...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This couple started an eco-porn
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for rain forest protection and have already raised almost $100,000...
I get some traffic to this
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from people looking for information on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with information on artists, albums, influences, and musi...
April 4 to 10, 2005
New artistic ways to compose music: http://www.moomu.com/kontent/user-
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/v2/archives/2005/03/our_friend_pela.htm...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
If you have an iPod, this well-designed guide to all things poddish - software, accessories, reviews - is a must-read: http://ipodlounge.com/
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news_comments.php?id=6799_0_2_0_...
It's 2005 now, but the state's Web
site
is still a bit drab...
Derren Brown uses basic psychological principles to perform amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks: http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/micro
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s/M/mindcontrol/streaming/suggestion.ra...
The
site
for the prefab Flatpak house has been revised and is better than ever, with lots of nice pictures...
An interview with the most influential woman in rock, Patti Smith: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7352508/
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/newsweek...
March 21 to 27, 2005
How about making a bumper sticker with "IWASTEGAS.COM" on it - the
site
could hold current information on gas guzzlers, fuel-efficient cars, and simple ways to save energy. The name's available...
A compliment to last week's interview with Robert Crumb, an interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his wife: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7152283/
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/newsweek...
March 14 to 20, 2005
More and more young kids want cell phones these days: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CELLULAR_KIDS?
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=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
March 7 to 13, 2005
20% of kids 8 to 18 can surf the Web from their bedrooms. 26% say they can "multitask" different media streams at once...
A salmon may be the "first genetically enhanced animal sold for consumption in the United States": http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MODIFIED_SALMON?
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=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock declines and poor business decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
There are now at least 50 million Web
site
s on the net...
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
"The Drugs I Need!" http://cu.convio.net/
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/PageServer?pagename=Rx_song_download&JServSessionIdr001=slppxu14l1.app14...
"Dolphin Beaching Came After Sub Exercise" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STRANDED_DOLPHINS?
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=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
Bubba, the 22-pound lobster: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LEVIATHAN_LOBSTER?
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=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
Hm, I like this free font browser. Fast, WYSIWYG, and to the point, unlike many free font
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s...
February 21 to 27, 2005
New RSS feeds from the Associated Press: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/RSS_FEEDS?
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=APWEB&SECTION=HOM...
The late Hunter S. Thompson often vi
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d Hawaii and wrote many infamous things there. Here's the best take on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake...
Boston resident Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His
site
got 4 million hits, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in international newspaper...
Top tennis stars Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play on the world's highest tennis court in Dubai, about 1,000 feet up...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly 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...
Add a little mp3 player to your Web
site
...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Or how about emulating the business model of San 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...
Newsweek on the decline of the American Dream: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6857387/
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/newsweek...
This Target ad is a clever look into how design shapes our culture and environment: http://targetflash.
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stream.com/TargetCommercials/dsa/dsa.htm...
Bembo's Zoo, which makes animals out of letters. The
site
is fun for kids and designers...
January 10 to 16, 2005
"Babylon Wrecked by War: US-Led Forces Leave a Trail of Destruction and Contamination in Architectural
site
of World Importance"...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Monsanto 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 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
site
s. Architects typically have the least usable
site
s on the Internet ...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of experimental features to the blog which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
November 22 to 28, 2004
"A true love story that originated on a message board of a popular Web
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has been released in book form"...
November 8 to 14, 2004
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detailed Web
site
describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
BTW, this
site
("MasaManiA") can be hilarious due to the punk attitude and broken English but is also sometimes highly politically incorrect and not worksafe. You've been warned...
"Submission" http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6479272/
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/newsweek...
Live photos and commentary from the Falluja raid: http://www.kevin
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s.net/2004_11_07_archive.html#11002700898692648...
"sorryeverybody.com" spawns "werenotsorry.com" and "apologiesaccepted.com"...
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
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is getting slammed...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Design Web
site
s? These eyetracking test results can help you make a more effective
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...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Melbourne scientists say they've developed a cure for malaria: http://www.abc.net.au/news/new
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ms/200408/s1182008.ht...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The groovy Web
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s and photography of Sacha Dean Bryan...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Hawaii lumber should be sustainable, especially these days when housing materials are in such demand! The HI Lumber Products Association launches a
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...
From a Southern California architectural tour: http://www.caboomfest.com/images/
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/exh/images/Jos-Studio.jp...
Cool monkey photos and great Web
site
design...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect): http://www.post.ch/
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OnLine/EN/Accueil/1,1727,18202,00.htm...
The story behind the Internet Movie Database, one of the most popular, useful Web
site
s ever made...
Clubbo Music, a fabulously detailed and funny
site
about a nonexistant record label...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Prodded by the MPAA, the FBI pursues criminal charges against a Stargate SG1 fan Web
site
, despite endorsement by the show's executive producer...
There's a "50% chance" of a major accident while cleaning up the U.S.'s dirtiest nuclear
site
. And there's not enough room for the waste at the large Yucca Mountain
site
...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory Web
site
registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and they can lead to identify theft. But how are
site
s to make money? Just go to BugMeNot to get around sit...
The two-story Glidehouse 2, now in production: http://www.livemodern.com/Members/Marshall/new
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ms/gh2sneakpeek/vie...
July 12 to 18, 2004
The Seed Ball
site
...
I'd mentioned this before, but the
site
has been getting better! "Molvania - A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry"...
What globetrotting Laurie Anderson is up to these days, NASA's first artist in residence: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5406042/
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/newsweek...
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...
May 24 to 30, 2004
"300 images from 1800
site
s...
This
site
was down for a week or two due to popularity - it's better than the last "infinite spiral" picture I mentioned a month or so ago...
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 3 to 9, 2004
Laser spectroscopy is now being used to detect suicide bombers in Israel. Why don't the lidar folks at UH get into this? http://www.abc.net.au/news/new
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ms/s1100567.ht...
April 19 to 25, 2004
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate
site
receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
April 12 to 18, 2004
I've seen a lot of Web
site
s. This could be the worst-designed
site
ever made...
Here's a project that removes toxins from mining
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s with crops and makes a profit from gold harvested with the process...
March 31, 2004
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...
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...
Trixie, the baby with the most comprehensive Web
site
in the world. With real-time sleep, bottle, and diaper telemetrics, a blog, gallery, forum, archives, and voting topic...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Well, this is really late but I've been busy developing the Web
site
for Soullenz Gallery - check it out...
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...
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 ...
Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that free wireless access is a factor in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Beautiful photographs of polluted industrial
site
s...
December 22 to 28, 2003
While browsing the Be Good Tanyas
site
, I noticed that their latest album was released with "Copy Control Technology" against their wishes...
November 17 to 23, 2003
This comes from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world's hotbeds of cutting-edge science. Folks from the Pentagon vi
site
d them just earlier this month...
November 10 to 16, 2003
A study of the Web
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s of the ten presidential candidates found that most violated speed and accessibility guidelines. The worst offender with the most code-bloated, inefficient, inaccessible We...
October 27, 2003
Morgan has provided this link to Reverend Billy and his hilarious nonviolent protest against Wal-Mart (and a good idea too): http://revbilly.com/rev
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/Writings/writings.ht...
October 6, 2003
"So you wanna fake being an indie rock expert?" http://www.soyouwanna.com/
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/syws/indierock/indierockFULL.htm...
July 28, 2003
The latest in the Kealakekua fight, in which protected trails are being erased, kupuna burial
site
s are being bulldozed, and dirt runoff is killing coral in order to keep a development for th...
July 8, 2003
I can't provide a link to this information since the
site
s in question are undergoing heavy traffic. So the text is below...