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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many things for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
The Google library project is named as one of the "
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most important emerging technologies". I agree...
The "gallery of computation" has got
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both larger and more varied over the last year or so. Great stuff...
The RIAA and MPAA are in
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tionally putting adware into Windows Media files to thwart file sharing...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
"U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism - State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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t//article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.htm...
Aluminum beer bottles have started to show up in the islands. The advantages over glass bottles - they can keep con
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ts colder an hour longer, they're less breakable, and they have more desig...
Photo Stitching http://www.newyorker.com/fact/con
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t/articles/050411fa_fac...
April 18 to 24, 2005
ClearChannel will be tagging its music with color codes that reflect "indecent" con
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t. Blue songs are OK, while orange songs can only be played after 10pm...
Power utilities can fund the migration to greener technologies by selling "green power", like the
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nessee Valley Authority is doing...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Christopher Swain swims through miles of polluted sewage to bring at
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tion to clean water issues...
How and why Asian countries are keeping the U.S. dollar from collapsing: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/con
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t/articles/050418ta_talk_surowieck...
The number one buyer of rice in the U.S. threa
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s a boycott if GMO crops are grown...
A reader poll reveals the ugliest cars of 2005. I definitely agree with the top four: http://cartalk.com/con
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t/features/uglycar/winners.htm...
Con
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ders in the Rubik's Cube World Championships...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Low-power FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio networks, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball machine manufacturer on Earth...
New artistic ways to compose music: http://www.moomu.com/kon
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t/user-site/v2/archives/2005/03/our_friend_pela.htm...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
History, Pa
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ts, and You
Need to sleep? Lis
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to the sleepbot environmental broadcast. They should license this service to hotels...
If you have an iPod, this well-designed guide to all things poddish - software, accessories, reviews - is a must-read: http://ipodlounge.com/si
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ews_comments.php?id=6799_0_2_0_...
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, main
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ance, and long lines...
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough information to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
A new solar-powered street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can hold
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times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take 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...
And here's a review of the album that "Sixteen Military Wives" appears on. I'm continually impressed by the quality of reviews at Pitchfork, clearly writ
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by people that know and love music...
Here's a cool new food trend - food balls! They can be very healthy, can be dipped, they're easy to pack and store, make good snacks, and require no u
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sils to eat...
Also, use your persis
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t vegetative state to be "cynically manipulated for the cause of your choice"...
If the U.S. Constitution were writ
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like an End-User License Agreement...
At last, "rising gas prices threa
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viability of biggest SUV sales". Note that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them farther to boot...
The beneficial powers of darkness and lis
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ing to one's body clock...
March 14 to 20, 2005
The first RFID reader/writer in SD card format: http://www.mobilemag.com/con
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t/100/104/C3859...
For the first time, people can visualize the characters in most of the writ
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languages of the world at once...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Philips says we're getting paper-like displays in 2007: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/con
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t.asp?Con
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tId=416...
Andrew Sullivan observes how the iPod is isolating society. Well, how about allowing others to lis
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to your iPod wirelessly, Apple? Unite the world with music...
Lis
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to Dr. Demento shows online...
For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live con
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t online - 2.6GB worth...
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...
More TV shows should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while lis
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ing to this podcast with show commentary at the same time...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
The late Hunter S. Thompson of
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visited Hawaii and wrote many infamous things there. Here's the best take on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake...
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...
Top
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nis stars Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play on the world's highest
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nis court in Dubai, about 1,000 feet up...
This was rumored to have been writ
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by John Cleese, but whether it's true or not, it's still very funny...
T-Mobile simply says, "change passwords of
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"...
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite international at
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tion, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
February 14 to 20, 2005
This is not new, but I must have forgot
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to mention it here last year - the elegantly designed Toro(tm) tissue ring...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Podcasting is getting more media at
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tion, along with front page space in USA Today. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting right now...
A pretty good study of the con
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ts of the Red Bull energy drink, recently approved for sale in Canada...
Consumer Reports offers a report on condom effectiveness: http://www.consumerreports.org/main/con
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t/display_report.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=551075&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=333141&bmUID=110783165299...
More? Here's developer Martin Wat
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berg's full portfolio...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, writ
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by an industry insider - too many writers...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
Yet even more bad album covers - here's a top
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list...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Tag graphing allows people to see relationships between topically-sorted con
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t on the Web...
The 2005 Lunar Wheel calendar: http://www.fluffykit
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s.com...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of lis
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ing to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
* The mini is for all in
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ts and purposes completely silent. If there was a fan in there I couldn't hear it in the store...
Frequent traveler and ace writer Cory Doctorow was questioned at the airport by American Airlines personnel and asked for a writ
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list of his friends' addresses. Here's his story...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking down on movie pirates, Monsanto is cracking down on farmers that save their pa
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ted GM seeds from year to year...
"Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage". Apparently this includes Head and Shoulders, Suave, Clairol and Pan
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e Hair Conditioner...
A few months since its launch, allofmp3.com seems to be gaining credibility and customers. Tracks are one-
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th the cost of those in the iTunes music store and are offered in a variety of qualitie...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can lis
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to every sound that humans use to communicate...
The top
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war profiteers of 2004...
December 13 to 19, 2004
New pliable solar cells means solar
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ts, clothing, etc....
"When dot-com pa
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ts go bad...
Play twenty questions against this program. You may be surprised at how of
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it wins...
Grisly images of caring for the wounded in Iraq: http://con
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t.nejm.org/cgi/con
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t/full/351/24/247...
An Alabama judge wears the
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Commandments on his robe...
The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music causes "visceral reactions" in people: http://www.devarticles.com/index.php?option=con
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t&task=view&id=861&Itemid=...
The
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most accurately rated artists in rock music history...
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to lis
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to all nominated songs in the "Record of the Year" category via iTunes...
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 sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for con
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t on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
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 writ
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. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
The debut of Wikinews, a free con
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t news source that people around the world can contribute to...
Mexican labor is getting too expensive for the U.S. - jobs are now moving to China. You can now buy Mexican trinkets in the U.S. that were made in China...
The
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most persis
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t design bugs, from UI expert Bruce Tognazzini...
The anti-consumer revolution, in pictures: http://cen
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nialsociety.com/mallpgone.ht...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Brilliant! Blog Torrent, writ
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in PHP, enables one to serve large files from their servers using BitTorrent...
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 taken literally word for word...
A
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-year-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear the image of Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay...
The story of Mr. Wu, a farmer in Tongzhou, China, who invents robots made with metal, duct tape, and second-hand batteries: http://www.china-pictorial.com/chpic/htdocs/English/con
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t/200405/7-2.ht...
Here's an excerpt from "Checkpoint", a documentary on the West Bank/Gaza Strip checkpoints that was readapted by the Israeli military for training purposes. This clip highlights the everyday
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sio...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the po
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tial 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...
An overview of current work on Natural Language Programming: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Con
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t&pa=showpage&pid=22...
"Meditation May Bolster Brain Activity": http://my.webmd.com/con
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t/article/96/103943.ht...
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, they've done it with their second. Here's an enligh
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ing interview...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/con
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t/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=659...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Election Hangover http://www.news8austin.com/con
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t/headlines/?ArID=122743&SecID=...
We can explain a few things with visuals... here's a U.S. election map with county detail. Things aren't so red vs. blue now. Note how the rural areas
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d to be the most red...
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Reasons Not to Move to Canada...
"10 things the Chinese do far better than we do" http://aolnetscape.workopolis.com/servlet/Con
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t/fasttrack/20041023/CHINA
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23?section=Technolog...
Students in Kolkata, India made a jacket that gives a shock to po
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tial molesters. 99% of Kolkata women surveyed want one...
And an exotic grass once planted by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 70's now threa
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s to overrun the San Francisco Bay...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums: http://www.gnn.tv/con
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t/eminem_mosh.htm...
October 18 to 24, 2004
New printable RFID labels meet Wal-Mart requirements: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/con
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t.asp?Con
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tId=352...
An HDTV PCMCIA card, with folding an
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na...
"The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates" http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/con
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t/04_43/b3905109_mz063.ht...
ASCAP seals a huge deal to "let stations legally stream their on-air con
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t over the "Internet"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use" - TV down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
"Alarming trend in spyware could undermine IT industry" http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?con
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t_id=7166...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Podcasting puts audio con
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t you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast Howard Stern from XM Radio...
Even if you don't like the con
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t, the quote at the end is the best...
JibJab's new "Good to be in DC!" short: http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/con
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t/goodtobeindc/frameset.html?track=0&ratingBar=of...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter writ
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by a former Hart technician wh...
"What a Top Reporter in Baghdad Really Thinks About the War": http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_con
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t_id=100065055...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Surprise of the week - the rich get richer: http://moneycentral.msn.com/con
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t/invest/forbes/P61243.asp?GT1=510...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new travel survey "found Hawaii consis
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tly fell below most competitor destinations in offering good value for the money and unspoiled beauty. Also, Japanese visitors did not view the islands a...
September 5 to 12, 2004
New applications of P2P technology are helping people to register to vote and search: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/090804/Simple_search_ligh
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s_Net_load_090804.htm...
Pictures and personal accounts of arrests and the de
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tion area at the Republican National Convention...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
"Despite a strong state economy, the homeless rate in Hawaii has nearly doubled over the past four years, and the majority of the new homeless are native Hawaiians and those with some Hawaiia...
For Web developers-
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CSS tricks you may not know...
August 22 to 29, 2004
New efforts in developing flying cars: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con
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t/aug2004/tc20040825_4462_tc119.ht...
Thanks to automatic bill-paying, a man lay dead in his bed for two years before being discovered...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
"Modern-Day Slavery" http://www.palmbeachpost.com/hp/con
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t/moderndayslavery/index.htm...
Fearful of viruses, hospitals running Windows-based medical systems are applying security patches, which themselves may lead to life-threa
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ing situations...
Are businesses starting to get the clue about global warming? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/con
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t/04_33/b3896001_mz001.ht...
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.con
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t/page/pres...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Some amazing bluetooth hacking - address book con
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ts can be stolen from up to a mile away! Or run a sneaky bluetooth con
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t-grabbing program from your PDA and walk around unnoticed...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone seems 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...
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightEx
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sion/publicdomain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 12 to 18, 2004
An enligh
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ing visit with sensei Masanobu Fukuoka...
Recent progress in 3D visualization technology allows "virtual excavation", in this case, the ability to completely examine the con
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ts of a 3,000 year-old mummy without touching it...
Lis
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to the entire album here...
July 5 to 11, 2004
With this Mac application you can view the current top
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most purchased tracks from the iTunes Music Store in your menubar...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
This device allows you to swap out your car CD changer for an iPod and use it like a huge CD changer, with your existing controls...
The heartwarming story of independent, garage-based SomaFM, which broadcasts worldwide to 8,000 lis
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ers a day...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persis
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t, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of an
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na. Implications for networks, cell phones, radios, more...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This has been popular, but I love the quote: "[Defense] firms are about to pitch "a frigh
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ing new breed of stun gun" to police in America and Europe that has left human rights groups appalled abou...
BusinessWeek reports that privacy battles are being won over RFID: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con
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t/mar2004/tc2004035_8506_tc073.ht...
CD Origami http://www.sci.fi/~
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u/diag/2CD.gi...
June 7 to 13, 2004
New, smaller an
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nas can reach 100% efficiency...
The
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best Internet fads...
For the Euro 2004 soccer championships, English fans are encouraged to smoke dope instead of drink alcohol in order to minimize po
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tial riots...
"Declining respect for American cultural values exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq is having a po
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tially disastrous effect on the image of US brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
An article on Kyle Cooper, who's made the art-in
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sive opening and closing credits of such movies as Spiderman, Se7en, Sphere, Twister, and Mission: Impossible...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A legend in urban design, octogenarian Jane Jacobs has writ
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a new book analyzing North American culture called "Dark Ages Ahead"...
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecon
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t?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.yamano-music.com/docs/hard/handroll_piano.htm...
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 17 to 23, 2004
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter makes use of la
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t semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail...
Attract
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ants with wireless...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a cellular phone, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
Here's how to ask questions that actually produce information: http://www.poynter.org/con
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t/con
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t_view.asp?id=507...
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...
Your computer's security may be compromised just by lis
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ing to it (acoustic cryptanalysis)...
Current chip design is overkill, of
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applying more precision to tasks when needed. By making chips that guess results when needed, one may be able to reduce power usage by a factor of 1,000...
The rise of suburban loft architecture: http://www.metropolismag.com/html/con
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t_0504/amr/index.htm...
Over
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years since the first Web survey mentioned women, marketers still have misconceptions about what women want online...
Funny lists from a publisher on sci-fi and horror plots that are submitted too of
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...
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...
April 19 to 25, 2004
And Intel plans to cut the lead con
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t of computer chips by 95%...
If you lis
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to a CD I give you, will you be busted? As part of a nationwide crackdown, the FBI raided Deer Valley High School...
April 12 to 18, 2004
An ex
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sive 20-year study of a baboon troop found a permanent, unprecedented cultural shift occurred when the most violent, dominant males died out from a tuberculosis outbreak...
Lis
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to it here...
Here's a project that removes toxins from mining sites with crops and makes a profit from gold harvested with the process: http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/0415/p17s02-s
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.htm...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Here's Wing (sorry, not Wings). For your own protection, limit yourself to one of any of the following songs: http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/lis
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.htm...
"The share of the economic pie going to wages and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and perhaps longer....
"Dodgy Pa
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ts Rile Tech Industry...
Kids can now pre
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d they're hunting shoe bombers with the Playmobil Security Check-In set...
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...
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
Hawaii construction and typical apartment developments use a lot of concrete, a material that John Lautner considered "most desireable" for his needs. But these developments of
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end up being block...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"How E-Voting Threa
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s Democracy...
Microsoft reports that 16 million PCs were affected by the recent MSBlast virus,
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times more than previously thought...
Drug company GlaxoSmithKline used orphans as guinea pigs in po
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tially dangerous medical experiments...
A material widely used in nanotechnology research has been found to trigger organ damage in fish: http://www.theregister.co.uk/con
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t/73/36628.htm...
Rapid Growth of "Dead Zones" in Oceans Threa
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s Planet...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Those who do not learn from history... The amazing Lawrence Lessig wrote a nice piece on how Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and the music industries were all born from con
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t piracy...
Hit Song Science (HSS) analyses music for its "hit" po
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tial, comparing a song's qualities to millions of others...
George Michael will offer his songs freely online from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first car designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto Show, with emphasis on comfort, storage, and low main
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ance...
The first music video ever to be entirely shot using a cell phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web
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years ago - in another
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directors may be viewing dailies on their phones...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a con
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t provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, writ
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comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of reality simulation: where 20 years ago a shoot-'em-up game took one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized knowledge o...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Mac? Hallelujah! http://businessweek.com/magazine/con
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t/04_08/b3871084.ht...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
January 26 to February 1, 2004
China Tigh
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s Web Contro...
The real story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (international) conference on next-generation Internet technology - it's the fact that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"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 5 to 11, 2004
"I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threa
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World Economy...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
"The fish that threa
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ed national security"...
December 22 to 28, 2003
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controversial ads that won't be seen in the U.S....
December 15 to 21, 2003
* August 18: Reported in the Honolulu Advertiser by Jan
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Bruggencate, the Advertiser Science Writer...
December 8 to 14, 2003
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 shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Why frivolous software pa
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ts suck - here's all the pa
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ts you're violating now by setting up an online store...
November 10 to 16, 2003
A study of the Web sites of the
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presidential candidates found that most violated speed and accessibility guidelines. The worst offender with the most code-bloated, inefficient, inaccessible We...
November 3 to 9, 2003
A few medical breakthroughs last week you may have read about... "Liquid drano for arteries": http://my.webmd.com/con
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t/article/76/89946.htm?z=3734_00000_1000_ts_0...
October 20, 2003
This week was Marriage Protection Week! In honor, here's an article about how only 50.7% of America is actually married: "Unmarried America...
October 14, 2003
Here's a good article on the engineering and development of the Powerski: http://www.memagazine.org/con
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October 6, 2003
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September 15, 2003
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General Tso's chicken? Well, here's everything you wanted to know about General Tso and his dish...
September 8, 2003
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...
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August 12, 2003
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July 28, 2003
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due to an inability to manage agreement than manage conflict - read about the Abilene Paradox...
July 21, 2003
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ted Americans Consider Canada...
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 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest tech wizardry makes voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...