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December 20 to 31, 2005
Amazing full-color
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-of-the-century Russian photos...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Mathematicians
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an Escher drawing into a trippy interactive experience. Check out the movies...
April 11 to 17, 2005
A request for proposals to
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health fitness centers and gyms into power plants...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Most streets in the U.S. named after Martin Luther King have
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ed out to be dead-end low-income crack alleys...
Here's a package for
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ing empty roofs into green ones...
Kits
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Subaru vans into VW microbus imitations and more...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Is Hawaii
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ing into a consumption-addicted haven for the wealthy at the expense of long-time residents and native familes? The state's only international cargo shipping terminal is near capacity...
Here's how to
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your webcam into an infrared camera...
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s out the human mind can't process more than four interdependent variables at once. Our planet is doomed...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
A "brain pacemaker"
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ed previously untreatable "beyond suicidal" people into antique dealers and PTA members. Ever seen "The Terminal Man"...
February 21 to 27, 2005
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s out Google Maps isn't that new. Here's its predecessor, an amazing zooming map of Switzerland...
February 7 to 13, 2005
An Ikea store opening in London
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s into a riot, leaving 20 with heat exhaustion and five in the hospital...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Make your own fires in the coming apocalypse with this gadget: http://news.com.com/Sensors+drafted+to+
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+off+lights+nationwide/2100-1008_3-5563775.html?part=rss&tag=5563775&subj=news.1008.2...
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your Mac into a streaming music station with Nicecast...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Scientists have succeeded in
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ing stem cells into nerve cells. This may allow cures for those with nervous system injuries and diseases...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The new vortex dehydration system
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s trash into a fine dry powder and can reduce landfill volume by 90%. Those in Hawaii pondering the landfill problem should take note...
January 1 to 9, 2005
An architecture firm is
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ing the considerable amount of waste from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office buildings and groovy-looking modern housing...
Vintage
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-of-the-century postcard images of Tokyo...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Famous sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin on how the Sci-Fi Channel
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ed her Earthsea trilogy into racist dreck...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Things That Re
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To Bite U...
Because of a clash with federal law, legislation protecting whales from high-speed boats in the Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary has been over
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ed. This may lead to the end of offshor...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Ready for the election? "Tight race
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s world spotlight on Hawaii"...
Yes, the same Hart eSlate voting machines used in Hawaii caused Democratic votes to
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into Republican ones in Austin, Texas...
Burt Lum has a great post regarding his trip to Kaho`olawe - people from the other islands gather at Kaho`olawe's highest peak to contribute offerings - "what you give you will receive in re
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, 1...
October 18 to 24, 2004
USB flash drives with a thumbprint reader: http://news.com.com/Memory+stick+
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s+fingerprints+into+passwords/2110-1041_3-5421645.html?tag=prntf...
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 thoughtful letters re
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s out humans have less than 25,000 genes, "about the same as a mustard green"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
If you
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off JavaScript you don't have to register...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"Bacteria
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Toxins Into Plastic"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Dopamine blockers
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slackers into workaholics...
A great business model for online publishing - "fast
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around e-books"...
E-commerce
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s 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The state will be left with no other mid-sized downtown venue for locals with a stage layout that can pull in 300 to 500 (restaurants don't count), meaning that small local acts and events won't b...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
How to
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your iPod into a universal remote...
"How government protects big media - and shuts out upstarts like me." By Ted
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er...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A reflection on the Walkman, which
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ed 25 last month...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
The first(?) application for
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ing your cellphone into a universal remote control...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Remember the photo diary of that Russian motorcyclist touring around Chernobyl? It
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s out that it was a fake...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new open-source software kit
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s batches of old, obsolete PCs into wireless community networks...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Due to a budget crisis in California, the U.C. college system is
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ing away eligible students for the first time in over 40 years...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Remember, April 19 to 25 is "TV
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off Week"! A survey finds that people watch less TV after letting go of the boob tube for a week...
There's a lot of participatory art going on around the net these days. Here's the surreal result at the midpoint of one photoshop-fest: http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/my
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February 16 to 22, 2004
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of
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ing Kalihi into a high-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's got ...
January 19 to 25, 2004
This Star Wars fan
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ed his Honda into an "H-Wing" fighter. It's the best car-to-starship conversion I've ever seen...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military hardware
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ed into spamming machine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official operating system for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
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 17 to 23, 2003
We now re
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you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
Aging Baby Boomers are
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ing to human growth hormone...
October 14, 2003
The world's first motorized surfboard This is quite a revolutionary device - it's to surfing what snowboards are to skiing. This August it won approval for U.S. distribution after a 16-yea...