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December 20 to 31, 2005
Unsurprisingly, Apple crippled the iPod to prevent high-quality recording. Here's a hack to enable it, al
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it may only work on 3rd-gen iPods...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
China's got growing pains
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, thanks to unequal wealth distribution, corruption, and "environmental degradation"...
A beautiful woodpecker
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t to be extinct for 60 years is found...
Training wheels, re
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t...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The miniMate adds extra storage and ports to your Mac mini. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck
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April 11 to 17, 2005
If you file via Intuit or H&R Block
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, your online behavior will be secretly tracked...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This may promote the growth of more Earth graffiti
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, not to mention (ugh) advertisements. I can easily see ad campaigns making use of this...
The work of graphic spin-doctor Glenn Feron. In case you
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t those media images reflected reality...
March 14 to 20, 2005
For Web developers: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Safari
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Use this magnetic paint to make any surface sensitive to magnetism. No idea if it's eco-friendly
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February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they
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t were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
February 21 to 27, 2005
There will be no encryption on new U.S. e-passports, even
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they could be read stealthily from 30 feet away...
February 14 to 20, 2005
U.S. scientists have created a robot arm that can be manipulated by
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t alone...
Online creative guy zefrank made a nice movie of his Valentine's Day
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ts...
February 7 to 13, 2005
A new study shows that melatonin may have broader effects in the brain than previously
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t...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Only nine chlorine plants in the U.S. put eight tons of mercury into the environment each year, al
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some say 65 more tons are unaccounted for annually. This is mostly due to the use of obsolet...
January 10 to 16, 2005
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they
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t were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a good thing for our pill-popping society...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Honolulu's Chinatown is cultivating an "art chic". This article notes that "the state is currently gathering data on what it calls the creative economy in Hawai'i to assess its economic impact"...
Here's a selection of artful LP cover art, with
though
tful commentary...
December 13 to 19, 2004
There are so many brands now, they're ignored. Al
though
I design logos, I'm allergic to brands myself...
November 22 to 28, 2004
The Roman Catholic Church probably won't recognize it
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...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his
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ts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based online encyclopedia that passed 401,000 articles recently...
November 8 to 14, 2004
But al
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red states give more in proportion to income, they benefit more from federal spending funded by blue states. This appears to be an inverse relationship and warrants further study...
Controversial
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ts on energy alternatives. The point is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic - everything affects everything else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New gold CD-Rs are said to last 300 years: http://www.digitalmedia
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ts.com/index.php?action=expand,677...
There are some doubts
though
...
A series of funny,
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tful short films about people and technology...
October 18 to 24, 2004
UK Guardian readers write to undecided voters in Clark County, Ohio to persuade them not to vote for Bush. A slew of hilarious, vile, and
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tful letters return...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Could it all be a hoax
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October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, al
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now only offered in Europe, would be a perfect car for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Al
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over 80% of the public feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security experts feel that current e-voting systems are much less secure than traditional paper-base...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Are you glad your husband's an engineer? This 1956 ad made me laugh: http://www.
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tviper.com/inexob/images/1956/engineer.jp...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An article on those trying to get China to eat more vegetarian and less things like sparrow chicks, snake heads, and badgers. Old cultures are hard to change
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. "Asked why she eats domestic cats...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Al
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this is not new, SubEthaEdit is likely the best application for collaborative text editing. Imagine multiple people collaborating on meeting notes, screenplays, and class lectures! Sorry, Ma...
May 17 to 23, 2004
5) Things are tough enough. $45,000 is poverty level in Los Angeles: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=7&u=/latimests/20040518/ts_latimes/
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farfrompoorafamilystrugglesdail...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Al
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expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a look at the data...
Microsoft reports that 16 million PCs were affected by the recent MSBlast virus, ten times more than previously
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t...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Al
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this technology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
Al
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silly bills are introduced all the time, this one's a whopper: "To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Happy New Year! Slow news week
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...
December 8 to 14, 2003
A good interview showing his
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ts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
November 17 to 23, 2003
The epidemic is so bad that the U.S. government last week developed a 10-year plan to battle it. Now it is
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t to effect 6 of 1,000 kids: "Autism no longer considered a rare condition...
September 30, 2003
A Jurassic-age plant once
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t extinct has been discovered, cultivated, and commercialized...
September 8, 2003
According to "youth marketing experts", Apple is one of the coolest, popular brands among teenagers (even
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they're probably using Windows at school)...