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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...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Blue
too
th, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
Canada once
too
k 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 18 to 24, 2005
Another case of copyright law going
too
far - in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both...
Clothing made of bamboo is cheap and apparently feels pretty good
too
...
April 11 to 17, 2005
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can see how the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will make use of this new
too
l to help enforc...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Instant reusable whiteboard sheets are so cool. Useful for traveling workers, artists, and people without magnetic refrigerators: http://www.kk.org/cool
too
ls/archives/000700.ph...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
For Web developers - this new simple PHP Bayesian filter allows one to develop spam filters, categorization
too
ls, and technology that learns by example...
Here's a crab-cracking
too
l that's well-designed due to looking at the problem from a novel perspective...
March 21 to 27, 2005
"Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo's Brain": http://www.amp
too
ns.com/blog/archives/2005/03/20/regarding-the-cat-scan-of-terri-schiavos-brain...
March 7 to 13, 2005
too
busy to go to Kinko's? Try PrintFu...
Here's twenty ways to say "no". Sadly, there are probably fewer ways to say "yes": http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdvice
too
lboxTips.asp?tipsheet=1...
An interview with car
too
nist Robert Crumb, from his house in France...
Every U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think every American should,
too
...
Drawn! A new groovy blog about "illustration, art, car
too
ning and drawing"...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
But Honda's new hybrid scooter prototype is nice
too
...
Make interactive Web apps with the SAJAX PHP
too
lkit...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Forget ringtones. The smart money is in
too
thbrushing music! "Several recording artists" are in talks...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The DJammer, HP Labs' digital music scratching
too
l...
Chloroflourocarbon-free expanded polystyrene housing can withstand the worst earthquakes recorded and is energy-efficient
too
...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is actually a pretty good open-source cross-platform WYSIWYG Web designing
too
l...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, written by an industry insider -
too
many writers...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
One in three high school students think the First Amendment "goes
too
far" in the rights it guarantees...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Two strangers
too
k different halves of the same rainbow at the same time...
January 17 to 23, 2005
* I put the thing through some heavy stress tests (Logic, Pages, iPhoto) and it never got
too
hot or unbearably slow. Here's some benchmarks...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The genome of a pollution-eating bacterium has been decoded, leading to more efficient garbage-eating bio
too
ls...
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 ...
Handy Mac-based
too
ls for those recording audio interviews that need transcription...
In an area of SUV-dominated San Francisco, a car gets ticketed for being
too
small...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
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...
A new consumer surveillance
too
l allows people to view satellite images of the ground at a resolution of two feet...
November 15 to 21, 2004
New hybrid buses have started in Honolulu and wow the public. New smart card bus passes,
too
...
Make money with ad tat
too
s - are you brandable?...
SoHo's Apple Store is New York's hottest singles spot. Add a few bars
too
ls and I'd be there all day...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Wind power can cause climate change
too
...
November 1 to 7, 2004
too
many voting irregularities to be coincidence? You decide...
October 18 to 24, 2004
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault every time your PC crashes,
too
...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A great
too
l for moving - the shoulder dolly...
China's a new "hotbed of research"
too
...
Spreading political activism in Colombia via dynamic low-power radio networks on bikes...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How high-tech "fab labs" are training kids in impoverished countries to make needed
too
ls...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Are you an inefficient hypertasker? Workplace pressures, inadequate
too
ls cause stress. I say this is a technology problem, not a brain problem...
August 15 to 22, 2004
FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't test it
too
much, but it seems to work with Safari...
Art from 1920's Japanese children's books. Nice Web design here,
too
, despite tiny text...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A core problem: religions take themselves
too
seriously! They end up emphasizing symbols over ideas...
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively
too
k part in horrifying prisoner abuse". Examines the growing trend of the government to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
3D hologram technology becomes a "powerful
too
l" to detect forgeries...
August 2 to 8, 2004
New foot pon
too
ns actually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water testing, workouts, and tourism...
Portable
too
th wipes...
Some amazing blue
too
th hacking - address book contents can be stolen from up to a mile away! Or run a sneaky blue
too
th content-grabbing program from your PDA and walk around unnoticed...
About 22 year-old Ryan Pitlak, a marketing student who may have made hundreds of thousands from spam, coming from hundreds of shell companies he set up...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
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...
Lawrence Lessig on the "This Land Is Your Land" lawsuit threat. This action goes against everything Woody Guthrie s
too
d for...
July 12 to 18, 2004
"Seed Balls: A New
too
l For Revegetation"...
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...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Not a product yet, but a concept: this Blue
too
th wireless device attaches to your luggage and blinks when you are near it at the baggage carousel. Other neat ideas here...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Some of my friends are interested in biodiesel - here's a recent primer: http://www.kk.org/cool
too
ls/archives/000456.ph...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
A man
too
k a photo of himself every day for a year and made this movie...
May 24 to 30, 2004
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the abuse of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area
too
...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More architecture! Architect Michelle Kaufmann is an American hero. She's the first person to finally begin to fulfill Frank Lloyd Wright's dream of cheap quality homes, a goa...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Funny lists from a publisher on sci-fi and horror plots that are submitted
too
often...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Like the razor and the
too
thbrush, the yo-yo is getting more and more seriously high-tech...
Gone are the days of the fix-it-yourselfer - new cars are getting
too
complicated to fix...
RIAA Radar has been around for a while now, but their
too
ls are getting better - support non-RIAA labels and check out their top 100 lists - there's some great music here...
April 12 to 18, 2004
This is the logical progression of hampsterdance.com, which
too
k the net by storm five years ago, gathering over 60 million visitors worldwide...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be hitting the market - they have a wider and smoother frequency response than conventional speaker technology. Here's the story of how this breakthrough was achieved afte...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Nude women have been on the menu at The Sutler for years, but the Nashville pub covered up the 19th-century Victorian photos after being warned they might be
too
racy for state law....
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous business practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A portable, cordless soldering
too
l that runs on 4 AA batteries, heats in one second, and cools in two...
March 8 to 14, 2004
These fake tat
too
sleeves look pretty cool - would be great for Halloween, parties, or fitting in at the local biker bar...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written 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
too
k one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized knowledge o...
At a French car
too
n festival kids draw pictures of obese Americans and Bush next to Hitler...
February 16 to 22, 2004
"Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common household devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according t...
And get a flat panel display
too
! They're more environmentally friendly... Flat panels to outpace CRTs in 200...
February 9 to 15, 2004
"Drink Honu Beer - and save a turtle,
too
...
January 12 to 18, 2004
An uplifting story of how a frantic woman at an airport is saved minutes before takeoff by a laptop connected with Blue
too
th to a cell phone connected to the Internet connected to her email...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Burger King customers told: 'You are
too
fat to have a Whopper...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Or just check out the "free" section at Craigslist Honolulu - pick up a free HP color inkjet (good model
too
) and fax machine...
December 8 to 14, 2003
This Chinese video has been wildly popular this week: A great "new" way to fold your shirts (it's true, I learned
too
) the way professionals do in retail stores. You may be able to download it her...
And now, in complete contrast to the above... the Mushroom House, a beautiful handcrafted wooden house in Canada that
too
k 22 years to make...
October 27, 2003
Morgan has provided this link to Reverend Billy and his hilarious nonviolent protest against Wal-Mart (and a good idea
too
)...
October 20, 2003
"Is Wal-Mart
too
Powerful?...
October 6, 2003
But the main reason I mention this is because they show some of Alex Gray's art in the show. This feels almost exactly like a mushroom trip I
too
k...
September 22, 2003
Spam! This is the best visual representation I've seen... http://www.pritchettcar
too
ns.com/car
too
ns/spam.jp...
August 12, 2003
This has been popular lately
too
... check it out...
...then I predict that it won't be
too
long before we start seeing phones that notify you when a potential "best match" for you is close by...
August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.cd933.com/big%20radio/images/car
too
ns/MegaFlick_1.jp...