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December 20 to 31, 2005
A lot of people are eating Splenda, the la
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sugar substitute...
The winner of the second Dwell eco-prefab house con
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The grea
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opening song lines...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
There was a lot of news this week, but the big news was the release of Apple's new system upgrade, called "Tiger". I've
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ed the heck out of it and it seems stable and faster...
Finally, French dance sensation Vitalic's "My Friend Dario" is one of the la
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examples of electroclash, which mashes up New Wave, disco, glam rock, and cyberpunk...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of activists. Some use the la
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technology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to make their voices heard, an...
It's official - all the grea
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new technology will be here in five years...
Here's the ligh
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, smallest portable sound system any world traveler could want...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The life of a Verizon wireless
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man, who drives over 3,000 miles a month...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A military recruiter tells a young pothead prospect how to get around the mandatory drug
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Need an industrial solution? Use new biological filters that mimic the natural decomposition of debris. In a successful
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the sewage from 25 homes was used to irrigate a golf course...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving pro
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music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's information-cynical world...
March 14 to 20, 2005
How fast can mistakes travel in this digital age? Thanks to a transcriptionist's typo, a 1962 nuclear
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blast called "Project Sedan" was renamed "Project Sudan", causing an international inciden...
Take a break to read the underrated poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, "the German language's grea
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poet of the 20th century". His unique style of writing translates exceptionally well...
March 7 to 13, 2005
The jet engine is one of civilization's grea
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achievements. This animation provides some insights into its workings...
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...
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 la
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subjects - a very funny online vide...
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
This quality photoshop con
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shows real life, cubed...
This design concept shows a great way to recycle water bottles: http://www.designboom.com/con
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/view.php?con
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_pk=6&item_pk=1807&p=...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Here's the la
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in digital paper prototypes...
A review of the la
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homemade flight simulators from the last few years...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A new digital animation technique - making people dance in a robotic pop-lock style. Here's an amazing remix of Gene Kelly in "Singing In The Rain"...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Make your own fires in the coming apocalypse with this gadget: http://www.la
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buy.com.au/firesteel_gadget.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Ever been taken by one of these? Here's the 25 hot
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urban legends, with "tsunami photos" at number one...
This Target ad is a clever look into how design shapes our culture and environment: http://targetflash.si
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ream.com/TargetCommercials/dsa/dsa.htm...
January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress
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s (Logic, Pages, iPhoto) and it never got too hot or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
January 10 to 16, 2005
* Number of the 20 fas
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-growing U.S. counties that are coastal: 1...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The story of 21 year-old Matt Leto, possibly the grea
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video-game player ever. He likely holds over 800 world records and is set to make six digits in competitions this year...
The results of the second holiday champagne chair con
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, in which designers made chairs using only the material from one champagne bottle...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Here's the la
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on the $150 million high-tech University of Hawai'i medical school being built in Kaka'ako...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new blog is created every 5.8 seconds - here's the la
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statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The la
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developments regarding the potential 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...
SoHo's Apple Store is New York's hot
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singles spot. Add a few barstools and I'd be there all day...
The la
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design proposals for the la
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high-tech Antarctica research station...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's la
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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...
Ever need to do a little research yourself on the la
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trends? Just go to Google News and search for a few key phrases, sorted by date. Here are four: "international survey", "scientifi...
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a large-scale
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of Internet over power lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
The story behind the five-year development of Half-Life 2, which could be one of the grea
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PC videogames of all time and make over $700 million in revenues worldwide...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Most of the mainstream media's reporting of the la
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bin Laden video is pretty narrow. Here's the full transcript...
October 25 to 31, 2004
A new prototype medical robot that's supposed to crawl through your in
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ines? Seems a little hard to swallow...
A new singing con
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in Korea has entrants auditioning using their cell phones. I hope entries are well-received...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Telcos' la
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shot in the broadband war - TV over phone lines...
"Would You, as a Human Being, be Willing to Shake Hands with a Jew?": http://www.memri.org/bin/la
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news.cgi?ID=SD7910...
The la
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, grea
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singer/songwriters play the Hotel Cafe. Check out the CD...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Design Web sites? These eyetracking
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results can help you make a more effective site...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Pro
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ers use texting, microradio, and other technologies now...
August 15 to 22, 2004
FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't
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it too much, but it seems to work with Safari...
August 2 to 8, 2004
New foot pontoons actually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water
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ing, workouts, and tourism...
Students in India and China commit suicide (and spark riots in the process) due to their inability to pay tuition/
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ing fees...
The Everyman Photo Con
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- great amateur photography...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
"Support scarce for la
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UH logo ideas...
Water molecules can now be moved with light, allowing the rapid
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ing of blood and other liquids...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The la
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thinking in dualmode transports - a truck that runs on wheels and rails. Why not use one to transport people from Honolulu to Kapolei instead of building a second level...
The la
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Bulwer-Lytton con
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results...
Interesting comparisons between the la
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digital SLRs and film scans...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Don't forget to hear Molvania's entry into the Eurovision song con
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- "Elektronik Supersonik"...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Did military sonar
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ing drive 200 whales to the beach off Kaua'i last week...
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Operation Castle, the single worst fallout exposure in the U.S. atmospheric
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ing program. With heartbreaking
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imony from many veterans who were there...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
All about the la
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Rainbow Gathering, which attracted 10,000 and caused the Forest Service to allocate nearly $1 million for management...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the la
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tech fad of creating personal social networks - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies network and think smarter...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The la
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advances in animation as developed by the makers of Shrek 2...
May 10 to 16, 2004
How about trying environmentally friendly anti-foul compounds used on ships? The six-year
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is impressive...
April 19 to 25, 2004
The winners of the 2004 "Lyttle Lytton" con
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, for the worst opening line...
Some of the best entries in a Photoshop con
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. Theme: merge two animals...
April 12 to 18, 2004
An undercover report of sororities found plenty of the usual suspects - drinking, drugs, puking con
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s, racism, and rapes...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"NEC Develops Fas
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Rechargeable Battery...
"Scotts
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ing Genetically Modified Grass...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Lawrence Lessig released his la
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book, and you can download and read it for free. If living in an open, free culture is important to you, or if you take photos, draw, write, make music, or i...
Less is more A 3D art con
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, made with code no bigger than 256 characters...
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...
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The la
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in Salon'...
A surreal report of Arayanfest 2004, the la
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"international" gathering of white supremacists...
February 16 to 22, 2004
It's been
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ed 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 show...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The la
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in modernist prefabricated housing, where you can purchase a beautiful, open wooden contemporary house kit for $100,000...
January 12 to 18, 2004
The federal government plans to analyze employees' hair, sweat, and saliva as a part of new drug
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s...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Burger King customers told: 'You are too fat to have a Whopper' http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853744.html?menu=news.la
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headline...
The U.S. asks Australia's Qantas to ban bathroom lines on flights: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usla
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/story/0,1282,-3596229,00.htm...
December 22 to 28, 2003
While browsing the Be Good Tanyas site, I noticed that their la
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album was released with "Copy Control Technology" against their wishes...
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can make vehicles up to 50 percent more efficient and is being
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ed on a city bus in the Netherlands...
The National Park Service is altering footage of demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial, removing anti-war pro
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s and replacing them with pro-war and religious rallies that didn't even occur there...
November 24 to 30, 2003
A nonviolent pro
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er is "hogtied and abused" at Fort Benning...
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
Austism, its role in genius, and the la
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theories about the disorder...
November 10 to 16, 2003
An interview with Gore Vidal about his la
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book on the Founding Fathers and what they would have done to Bush...
A British reporter finds Bush pro
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ers are a diverse crowd...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Everything that Wired Magazine has called "a thing of the past": http://www.
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.org.uk/archives/001045.htm...
October 27, 2003
Morgan has provided this link to Reverend Billy and his hilarious nonviolent pro
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against Wal-Mart (and a good idea too)...
PDA screens are getting pretty high-resolution these days (picture)... http://www.pdafrance.com/img/
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produit_pocketpc/e800/DSCN4226.JP...
October 14, 2003
Spread of AIDS among Young ‘A Global Catastrophe’: http://www.news.scotsman.com/la
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.cfm?id=202879...
Bill Moyers on the la
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big media mergers and the FCC's la
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waivers to monopolies...
September 8, 2003
"Not Just Warmer: It's the Hot
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for 2,000 Years...
California candidates are given the Voight-Kampff
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from Blade Runner, to see which ones are replicants. This is hilarious...
August 25, 2003
The winners in nerve.com's pickup line con
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, successfully used lines, and miserable failures...
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
July 28, 2003
The la
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in the Kealakekua fight, in which protected trails are being erased, kupuna burial sites are being bulldozed, and dirt runoff is killing coral in order to keep a development for th...
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...
Also, the 2003 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Con
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, which celebrates the world's worst writing:...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's la
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tech wizardry makes voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...