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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...
Did you know the keys on your GM van may open the doors on "a half-dozen other GM vans and pickups"? http://sympaticomsn.c
tv
.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/C
tv
News/1114698835400_6?hub=topstorie...
Distracting
tv
visuals make people forget, regardless of age...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The sandal-combination-bottle opener! Perfect to wear with the
tv
/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
April 11 to 17, 2005
New physics chips are taking reality simulation to the next level: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002237485_b
tv
ideophysics11.html?syndication=rs...
There's something about the
tv
/DVD player/beer fridge that is strangely compelling...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Low-power FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio networks, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Derren Brown uses basic psychological principles to perform amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks: http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/
tv
/microsites/M/mindcontrol/streaming/suggestion.ra...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 M
tv
Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A tiny HD
tv
tuner on a USB stick...
tv
shows for modern kids - this children's show features music by a hip roster of post-punk acts...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More
tv
shows should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while listening to this podcast with show commentary at the same time...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In related news, a man connects a Mac mini to a 60-inch
tv
and creates a spectacular-looking media center. It ends up being far more capable and much, much smaller than any of the other boxes attache...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The transparent
tv
, projected on holographic film...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Alongside the Super Bowl, the Discovery Channel ran the "Puppy Bowl", twelve hours of puppies playing on a football mat. It was a huge hit with viewers, who found it strangely addicting. You can bu...
This surreal 1980's Estonian
tv
commercial for minced chicken meat has been making the rounds...
January 24 to 30, 2005
A man sold his forehead as advertising space for $37,375: http://www.wf
tv
.com/news/4126793/detail.htm...
January 17 to 23, 2005
"Study: Watching Fewer Than Four Hours Of
tv
A Day Impairs Ability To Ridicule Pop Culture...
January 1 to 9, 2005
"Extreme Homes of Exotic Islands" http://www.hg
tv
.com/hg
tv
/spcl_prsntn/episode/0,1806,HG
tv
_3909_12484,00.htm...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Watching
tv
"rewires" infant brains, causing behavioral disorders...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The most inclusive church ad I've seen is refused by
tv
stations due to controversy - the ad depicts the church allowing blacks, the disabled, and gays...
However, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy. Note that old computer monitors make better used
tv
s than
tv
s...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite
tv
footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
Transmit your own
tv
station via low-power
tv
broadcasting...
November 1 to 7, 2004
This was all over the news - Americans are getting heavier, leading to tons of extra weight and fuel for airlines. And 3.8 million more tons of carbon dioxide in the air...
McDonald's bans "fat" people from their new
tv
ads...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million albums: http://www.gnn.
tv
/content/eminem_mosh.htm...
Watch your local
tv
stations from anywhere in the world...
October 18 to 24, 2004
An HD
tv
PCMCIA card, with folding antenna...
The Air Force traces a distress signal to a faulty
tv
...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use" -
tv
down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The RadioSHARK does for radio what Replay
tv
and Tivo did for television. Here's a rave review...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Telcos' latest shot in the broadband war -
tv
over phone lines...
Cancel your phone and cable
tv
- start a wireless neighborhood network...
"Daily Show" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly Factor" viewers: http://www.boston.com/ae/
tv
/articles/2004/09/27/so_who_are_the_stoned_slackers_watching_jon_stewart...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Jimmy Swaggart talks about killing gays, drawing "laughter and applause" from the congregation: http://www.wsb
tv
.com/news/3752315/detail.htm...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"A new study shows that kids who watch lots of
tv
ads are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, stomachaches and other problems....
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Free, unedited, translated daily
tv
news programs from the Middle East...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Coming soon - wireless cable
tv
anywhere...
Coming Soon: Trillion-Color T...
People are buying more plasma
tv
s...
August 8 to 14, 2004
About the new online
tv
-show swapping culture...
Retro modern-day ads: http://www.worth1000.com/entries/108000/108066O
tv
S_w.jp...
This was popular last week - beautiful aerial photography: http://blog.naver.com/post/pos
tv
iew.jsp?blogId=haruma95&logNo=8000464151...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
The first debut of an entire
tv
show episode over the Internet...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Are you glad your husband's an engineer? This 1956 ad made me laugh: http://www.though
tv
iper.com/inexob/images/1956/engineer.jp...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
Here's a 48-minute show called "Exposed: The Carlyle Group", which aired on
tv
in the Netherlands...
The first HD
tv
tuner PC card is here - get HD
tv
signals for free and watch 'em on your computer...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
For when you really, really need a
tv
dinner, check out "The Single Man's Guide to
tv
Dinners"...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Remember, April 19 to 25 is "
tv
Turnoff Week"! A survey finds that people watch less
tv
after letting go of the boob tube for a week...
The Pixies played together in public for the first time in about 12 years: http://www.m
tv
.com/news/articles/1486354/20040414/story.jhtm...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Is this true? The radiation in Iraq (via depleted uranium bombs) is now equal to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs? http://www.dissiden
tv
oice.org/Mar04/Nichols0327.ht...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Do you not find it funny that nipples are also prohibited on
tv
, but charred bodies are OK...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Although this technology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
This was pretty popular - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld caught red-handed on
tv
lying about one of his statements regarding Iraq...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Those who do not learn from history... The amazing Lawrence Lessig wrote a nice piece on how Hollywood, radio, cable
tv
, and the music industries were all born from content piracy...
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is suing the FCC on "overbroad regulation of next-generation televisions and related devices". Left unchallenged, anything you watch on
tv
or computers in th...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"Wireless Cable
tv
In The Works"...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song album on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national
tv
shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
November 10 to 16, 2003
IBM created a (large) "
tv
-sized" supercomputer that's the 73rd most powerful supercomputer in the world...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"Why Those Young Men Aren’t Watching
tv
Anymore...
September 30, 2003
tv
so real that it provokes nausea and "gasps of astonishment"...