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December 20 to 31, 2005
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr! See on a U.S. map where recent photos were
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n...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Doonesbury's
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on file sharing...
April 18 to 24, 2005
An impressive photographic archive of mis
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s. Check out "lost my job" and "women live longer"...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mis
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nly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of research via paper...
Meanwhile, Swiss biotech firm Syngenta was fined for "mis
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nly" selling hundreds of tons of experimental GMO corn seed not yet approved for human consumption to the U.S. and Europe...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
What blows my mind is that many of the documents I examined and commented on came from the 1992 hypertext www-talk archives, which I helped archive in the first place, using software that I wrot...
March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly known for his quality graffiti work, snuck into New York's most famous museums and affixed his anti-war work to th...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "
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Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Hey America - India isn't going to
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the same kind of economic smackdown you gave Japan not so long ago...
How fast can mis
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s travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear test blast called "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
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a break to read the underrated poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, "the German language's greatest poet of the 20th century". His unique style of writing translates exceptionally well...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
This pill camera
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s 50,000 pictures of your insides over eight hours...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The late Hunter S. Thompson often visited Hawaii and wrote many infamous things there. Here's the best
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on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake...
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...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Now Roger Ebert gives his
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on two new documentaries that address the subject...
February 7 to 13, 2005
What's your political label?
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the world's smallest political quiz...
A quarter of the economy's growth is
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n up by healthcare spending...
The mushroom version of the Game of Life. Let's see more visualizations that
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time into account...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Ever been
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n by one of these? Here's the 25 hottest urban legends, with "tsunami photos" at number one...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The new vortex dehydration system turns trash into a fine dry powder and can reduce landfill volume by 90%. Those in Hawaii pondering the landfill problem should
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note...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Want to know where your package goes? This student mailed a disposable camera, encouraging all who handled it to
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a photo. An insightful look into the U.S. Postal Service...
December 13 to 19, 2004
An article on Web "design usability" that
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s up only 20% of the page, surrounded by grievous clutter...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The Straight Dope
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s on alternative burials...
The most influential piece of modern art. Much progress can be made when you don't
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yourself seriously...
November 22 to 28, 2004
New technology helps people from having their pictures
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n by unwanted photographers...
Only 1/3 of Americans believe that evolution is well supported by evidence. 45% say God created humans, and 1/3 say the Bible should be
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n literally word for word...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - a former respected international banker admits to helping the U.S. cheat poor countries out of trillions, allowing for economic
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over...
October 18 to 24, 2004
A living neural network
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n from a rat's brain interacts with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Tutorial D" looks like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL database language. I hope it
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s off...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Will solar-powered ISPs
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off...
September 20 to 26, 2004
It
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s a lot of energy and money to send Oahu's garbage to the mainland. Rather than spreading our trash around the planet, are there better alternatives...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Has your PC been
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n over by a spamming virus? Spammers are selling your "zombie PC" to others...
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 22 to 29, 2004
AI algorithms can
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a trail of where you've been and determine regular and irregular activities...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A core problem: religions
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themselves too seriously! They end up emphasizing symbols over ideas...
An analysis of files
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n from a hard drive used in Al-Qaeda's operations. Insightful...
August 2 to 8, 2004
See how a family changes, via similar photos
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n every year for 28 years...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls
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100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Iraq is trying to
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back its domain name (.iq) in a bid for net sovereignty...
June 21 to 27, 2004
...while the Verizon deal will likely go through, people in Hawaii should see the film and
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the opportunity to reflect how the war will soon be affecting their lives in a very direct way...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Gunner Palace - a civilian's
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on the war in Iraq...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The way the music died "What will it
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for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glidehouse", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
The "eBay economy" is growing. This is a great business idea - sell things on eBay for others. Mailbox places should
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this up as an additional service...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A new
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on an old art form? Nifty homemade "lava light" movies...
Technology has been developed that
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s images of old, damaged vinyl records and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
April 5 to 11, 2004
A good review of a new book that refuses to
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sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber industry in Northern California...
March 31, 2004
Let's face it folks -
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n as a whole, Hawaii architecture sucks. And the urban planning leaves a lot to be desired...
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
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a look at the data...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Lawrence Lessig released his latest book, and you can download and read it for free. If living in an open, free culture is important to you, or if you
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photos, draw, write, make music, or i...
"Ghost Town" - notes from the dead zone This was actually popular a month or two ago, but it was so popular the site was
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n down. A beautiful, epic pictorial essay from a Russian woman who report...
March 8 to 14, 2004
But I always enjoy the European
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on these news items - "Fat of the land is killing more Americans than cigarettes"...
And remember one of the core facts of human nature (now scientifically proved) - when people are presented with more, they will
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more, consciously or not...
Attached to your iPod, it will
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any of six different digital film media types and store the photos on your iPod so you can reuse the card. Now you can use your iPod as a bootable backup drive, ...
The most comprehensive picture even
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n from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
February 23 to 29, 2004
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mis
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nly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the fact that the correc...
January 12 to 18, 2004
An uplifting story of how a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before
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off by a laptop connected with Bluetooth to a cell phone connected to the Internet connected to her email...
January 5 to 11, 2004
One Sri Lankan's
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on globalism and its effect on world cultures (November 2003)...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to
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in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away...
October 20, 2003
Today's modern kids comment on vintage video games - Pong, Donkey Kong, Handheld Football, Tetris, Space Invaders, and more... Niko: Hey—Pong. My parents played this game. Brian: It
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s this whol...
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract photos
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n from the sides of boxcars...
October 6, 2003
"Mergers, acquisitions,
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over bids... that's the vocabulary as would-be wives
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a business approach to relationships...
September 30, 2003
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mis
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n identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
Michael Moore finally responds to all the criticism, and well, with out
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s from "Bowling from Columbine" and damning evidence against his detractors...
September 22, 2003
Some young teens attitudes towards file sharing. Good
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on the state of the next generation...
August 4, 2003
3) That good design
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s into account the inherent limitations of one's ability to process information Also, please forward this to people you know who increase the amount of mediocrity in th...