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December 20 to 31, 2005
What can one say about over 100,000 lives being extinguished so quickly? Too many
thing
s for words. "You are the music while the music lasts", said T.S. Elliot. Larry Geller of the Hawaii Coalitio...
A nice list of free Windows software that doesn't come with spyware, adware, virii, or other nasty
thing
s...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Super-strong flip flops, developed by surfers: http://www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/clo
thing
/splaff-flopps.htm...
"The Wal-Mart 'Foundation' is no
thing
more than a front group for Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated, and should not be confused for a real charitable non-profit"...
April 18 to 24, 2005
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually every
thing
our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
Clo
thing
made of bamboo is cheap and apparently feels pretty good too...
Rethinking The Everyday
thing
s
The sandal-combination-bottle opener! Perfect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
April 11 to 17, 2005
There's some
thing
about the TV/DVD player/beer fridge that is strangely compelling...
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using no
thing
but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
If you have an iPod, this well-designed guide to all
thing
s poddish - software, accessories, reviews - is a must-read...
This clip shows how you can steal any
thing
from anybody if you distract them in just the right way...
thing
s to use when clean water gets scarce - the AquaPak costs a dollar to make, runs on solar, and can purify up to four gallons of water a day...
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...
Their $6,000 video, which tells the story of what happens when a student representing the U.S. in a mock United Nations gets a little overzealous, is absolutely hilarious, professionally done, and i...
Contact lenses are being used for all sort of
thing
s these days. Here's some fashion glitter contacts that look pretty sexy...
This movie just continues to amaze me. Those
thing
s are smart...
Transparent screens - I want some
thing
that changes with the amount of ambient light...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A nice quote from the Molokai land flap mentioned last week: "The controversy is hard to explain from the Western perspective that land is some
thing
to be bought, owned and sold to make profit.....
Only in Hawaii - people made corned beef sushi with green rice for St. Patrick's day. I think it should be a symbol of world unity or some
thing
. Note that this type of sushi (musubi) is usually mad...
A tiny HDTV tuner on a USB stick: http://www.every
thing
usb.com/compro_videomate_dvb-t_stick.htm...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Yet another Google
thing
- Google weather...
Shark skin inspires a new type of ship coating that no
thing
biological can keep a grip on...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The late Hunter S. Thompson often visited Hawaii and wrote many infamous
thing
s there. Here's the best take on him, by Honolulu-based writer William Moake...
The way
thing
s are going, the world's population will be 9.1 billion by 2050...
The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years, every
thing
you do will be recorded...
February 14 to 20, 2005
If no
thing
's done, acid seas will kill off coral in 70 years...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Want to make some
thing
that can help others? Consult 43
thing
s first to see what people want to do...
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...
Wacky uses for
thing
s...
January 24 to 30, 2005
All about the new spacesuit of the future, now under development at MIT. It looks no
thing
like those suits in "2001"...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening 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...
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995 used to be Swain's House of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumored that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
It's been a long time since I've forwarded any
thing
by the Onion...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Or are you a slavish Apple devotee that will buy any
thing
they make...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a good
thing
for our pill-popping society...
* Average number of clo
thing
items an adult American acquired in 2002: 5...
January 1 to 9, 2005
No
thing
lasts - Buddhist monks who have meditated on corpses find themselves well-suited to help with cremating thousands of tsunami victims. "We just sort of live in denial of the fact that we hav...
Of all
thing
s, Olestra may actually remove toxins, including dioxins, from your body...
December 13 to 19, 2004
New pliable solar cells means solar tents, clo
thing
, etc....
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do no
thing
but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for social systems...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The same author believes renewable energy could be Silicon Valley's Next Big
thing
...
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...
What do you want to do with your life? More popular answers are larger: http://twinkler.43
thing
s.com/twinkler...
Arm wrestling over the Internet! Why can't we settle wars this way? It's basically the same
thing
...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I just finished watching "The End of Suburbia", a great and disturbing DVD I mentioned here previously. You can watch one of the included bonus movies "In the Suburbs" for free at the Prelinge...
November 15 to 21, 2004
New yarns made of carbon nanotubes leads to smart clo
thing
...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show 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...
Controversial thoughts on energy alternatives. The point is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic - every
thing
affects every
thing
else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
November 1 to 7, 2004
We can explain a few
thing
s with visuals... here's a U.S. election map with county detail.
thing
s aren't so red vs. blue now. Note how the rural areas tend to be the most red...
"10
thing
s the Chinese do far better than we do...
thing
s That Return To Bite U...
Healthy Clothin...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Dead
thing
s are a core part of the ecosystem. But many forests are in trouble due to excessive dead wood removal...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Most visitors to Hawaii come in twos and stay on one island. Why not provide an alternative to space-hogging rental cars in Waikiki? And you could fit a lot more of these
thing
s on the upcomin...
A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck powered on no
thing
but sunlight and water...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"Some
thing
Bad Has Begun...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The popular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's no
thing
wrong with more bus lines, but now there's less character, no open-air transportation with wide views, and less fun for tourist...
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A visual history of spam and virus email: http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnew
thing
/archive/2004/09/16/230388.asp...
Is this movie no
thing
more than a shameless ad for an obscure cult...
September 5 to 12, 2004
You can read the whole
thing
online...
It's good to know that some people keep
thing
s secret (and sacred). Here's the popular article and its followup...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Isn't it funny that the Superferry sports an array of high-tech gadgets - and two human observers - to do no
thing
but ensure that whales are avoided at all costs.....
August 22 to 29, 2004
It costs the U.S. Government $6.5 billion a year just to keep
thing
s secret. 90% of those
thing
s shouldn't be...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Every
thing
you wanted to know about the Natatorium fiasco...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A few of the really stupid
thing
s Jack Valenti (outgoing head of the MPAA) has said about new media technologies and intellectual property...
The FCC, by the way, would like to prohibit you from recording any
thing
from the Internet...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
In the meantime, check it out. I've got searching, archives, topic filters, and an RSS feed for syndication. You can search for
thing
s like "nytimes 2003 tech", which searches for all technology item...
Lawrence Lessig on the "This Land Is Your Land" lawsuit threat. This action goes against every
thing
Woody Guthrie stood for...
July 12 to 18, 2004
One of my favorite sci-fi authors, Bruce Sterling, gives a hilarious, philosophical, and insightful talk about the "singularity", the point at which the pace of technology becomes too fast t...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An article on those trying to get China to eat more vegetarian and less
thing
s like sparrow chicks, snake heads, and badgers. Old cultures are hard to change though. "Asked why she eats domestic cats...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Mentioned the other week as the key ingredient to self-cleaning windows, titanium dioxide is now being incorporated into clo
thing
to make them self-cleaning...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire
thing
commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Remember the photo diary of that Russian motorcyclist touring around Chernobyl? It turns out that it was a fake: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/05/fraud-exposed-and-true-
thing
.as...
May 17 to 23, 2004
5)
thing
s are tough enough. $45,000 is poverty level in Los Angeles...
May 3 to 9, 2004
People see only what they what to see. "Scientists have gathered remarkable evidence which shows that it is possible to see some
thing
without observing it". Did you see the gorilla...
The "eBay economy" is growing. This is a great business idea - sell
thing
s on eBay for others. Mailbox places should take this up as an additional service...
Will false teeth be a
thing
of the past? Successful experiments have regrown teeth from stem cells...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get
thing
s wet...
April 5 to 11, 2004
The Tao Te Ching - an updated translation for the 21st century. "If you can talk about it, it ain't Tao. If it has a name, it's just another
thing
....
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clo
thing
A new manufacturing method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
Here's a story by a woman who used a spreadsheet to tally all the
thing
s about her ex-lover...
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 take photos, draw, write, make music, or i...
March 15 to 21, 2004
There is NO excuse not to buy a PC (non-laptop) larger than a shoebox any more. Any
thing
larger is wasteful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based PC...
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that
thing
s generally jus...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is suing the FCC on "overbroad regulation of next-generation televisions and related devices". Left unchallenged, any
thing
you watch on TV or computers in th...
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase every
thing
on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
January 19 to 25, 2004
A filmmaker decides to make a documentary - he'll eat no
thing
but McDonald's food 3 times a day for 30 days. The result? 25 more pounds, liver toxicity, high cholesterol, headaches, depression, an...
An aspiring filmmaker made a splash at Sundance with the first feature-length film ever made with no
thing
but iMovie. Total cost of the production: $218...
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account
thing
s such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson popular) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big
thing
in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Abercromie & Fitch got in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clo
thing
catalog. Their first sweater doesn't show up until page 122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason...
thing
s got a little heated in London...
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, the Next Big
thing
in display technology (a nice overview if you're not familiar)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
People will do any
thing
to get into the U.S.... (From September 2001...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Every
thing
that Wired Magazine has called "a
thing
of the past"...
Will noisy, hot computers be a
thing
of the past? Electricity leakage is why current microchips (and therefore your computer) runs hot, requires fans, and contributes to the entropy of the universe...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Quote of the week: "If voting could really change
thing
s, it would be illegal." -- Revolution Books, New York, NY Feel safe? Last week was "Protection From Pornography Week"...
October 6, 2003
I was thinking about replacing my old Devo costume for Halloween and decided to see what was out there on the Web. A store with a very good selection is Halloween Mart, with decent prices as well...
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
Ever eaten General Tso's chicken? Well, here's every
thing
you wanted to know about General Tso and his dish...
September 8, 2003
Whew, lots of interesting
thing
s this week popped up.....
In some developing countries counterfeits are of better quality than the real
thing
.....
August 25, 2003
I think this item ties in well with last week's item about the coral reefs dying. Aside from preserving beauty and diversity in the environment, there is great economic incentive to explore the
thing
...
August 12, 2003
thing
s like this are good to see every once in a while so you don't get so proud about being a human, having two arms and two legs and all...
August 4, 2003
This week's theme: techniques for separating the wheat from the chaff and the signal from the noise. Much confusion arises from people not being able to see the difference between the theory o...
July 28, 2003
When no
thing
gets done in groups the way people want that's perhaps more often due to an inability to manage agreement than manage conflict - read about the Abilene Paradox...
July 21, 2003
Reading the wrong
thing
in public gets man in trouble with the FBI...
Just released last month, Second Life is perhaps the closest
thing
to wide-scale cyberspace today. A journalist is covering its own culture as it evolves...
July 10, 2003
"The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking Every
thing
That Moves...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...
July 7, 2003
...I'm half Estonian, which I guess explains
thing
s...