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December 20 to 31, 2005
iPod Stuff http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB110373871528907298,00.html?mod=
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April 25 to May 1, 2005
The HD wildlife reel is stunning and played beautifully on my PowerBook G4 and should run fine on iMac G5s. The H.264 codec crushes the best codecs being used in movies distributed over file sharin...
Hawaii's High-Tech Successes,
today
Canada once took in 50,000 Vietnam-era draft dodgers. But
today
it's denying political asylum to those who refuse to participate in the Iraq war...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Laptop design is causing posture-related problems: http://www.usa
today
.com/news/health/2005-04-12-laptop-pain_x.htm?csp=3...
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...
today
's college students are getting used to downloading high-speed movies and music on demand from their computers...
All the great hackers are switching to Macs, again mirroring the early growth of the Web (which was developed on an ancestor of
today
's Mac, the NeXT). We'll just see what happens...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in
today
's information-cynical world...
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...
BTW there are plenty of online resources
today
for anti-SUV bumper stickers...
February 21 to 27, 2005
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 7 to 13, 2005
today
's Web designers should learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to build highly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
Podcasting is getting more media attention, along with front page space in USA
today
. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting right now...
Careful, identity thieves can masquerade as legitimate wireless hotspots: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usa
today
/20050207/bs_usa
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/identitythievescanlurkatwifispot...
Generation X now spends more on travel than baby boomers do: http://www.usa
today
.com/money/biztravel/2005-02-08-xtrav-usat_x.ht...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
The U.S. now has over 830,000 net phone subscribers: http://www.usa
today
.com/money/industries/technology/2005-01-26-managing-tech-usat_x.ht...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The government is accusing DuPont of hiding materials that suggest that a chemical in Teflon leads to cancer and birth defects. Not only that, the chemical's been found in people's bloodstreams. Afte...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Learn Disco! http://www.news
today
.com/_tpl/qbn/learn_disco.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
today
a new blog is created every 5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Is this the beginning of "jacking into cyberspace"? http://www.usa
today
.com/news/health/2004-10-10-braingate-cover_x.ht...
China faces an obesity epidemic: http://www.medicalnews
today
.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=1488...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercomputer at Virginia Tech (it's also powered by Mac OSX): http://www.usa
today
.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-09-03-kantor_x.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Vintage war posters modernized for
today
...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Has your PC been taken over by a spamming virus? Spammers are selling your "zombie PC" to others: http://www.usa
today
.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-09-08-zombieprice_x.ht...
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...
A good first step: lofts are allowed back in Chinatown! My grandmother was born in a Chinatown loft (which is now Soullenz Gallery) in 1917, above the old family store. Without mixed-use development...
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.
today
translations.com/index.php/fuseaction/home.content/page/pres...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
today
's laws basically make the folk music tradition illegal...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Where are the guitar heros of
today
? "Still searching for the next guitar hero"...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A how-to booklet from the 1940's. Remember, "how-to" books on
today
's technology will seem just as quaint in 2070...
May 17 to 23, 2004
One of my favorite movies, THX-1138 (George Lucas' first film) is being rereleased on DVD. Hope he doesn't screw it up like he did Star Wars...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The "eBay economy" is growing. This is a great business idea - sell things on eBay for others. Mailbox places should take this up as an additional service...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
When the island of Tuvalu sinks, it will be the only country to exist solely on the Internet: http://www.usa
today
.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2004-04-27-tuvalu_x.ht...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Study: "less soft drinks reduces obesity": http://www.usa
today
.com/news/health/2004-04-22-soft-drinks_x.ht...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A brawl involving 750 students that resulted in two arrests and eleven suspensions broke out during an anger management assembly at a suburban high school...
A nice summary of four up-and-coming wireless technologies - WiMax, 802.16e, 802.11n, and Ultrawideband: http://www.usa
today
.com/tech/wireless/data/2004-03-28-coming-tech_x.ht...
March 15 to 21, 2004
The swoosh of wind turbines makes locals report ghosts. Again, noise cancellation technology may alleviate that: http://www.yorkshire
today
.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=75691...
February 23 to 29, 2004
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 9 to 15, 2004
There was a little buzz around the net last week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the point at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently predicted to happen in 2015. Jo...
November 24 to 30, 2003
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving... In honor, here's an article about why
today
's mass-produced turkeys taste so bland.....
November 10 to 16, 2003
People will do anything to get into the U.S.... (From September 2001) http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/Customs
today
/2001/September/other/cus
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_bent.xm...
Some popular news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces): http://www.usa
today
.com/news/science/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.ht...
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 takes this whol...
September 22, 2003
All about the best slot machine cheater ever: http://www.usa
today
.com/tech/news/2003-08-11-slot-cheats_x.ht...
August 12, 2003
Slow news week. Most of the new good stuff popped up
today
. This week's theme: trends on the edge of culture...
July 21, 2003
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 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...