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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...
Are you a PC
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r who bought an iPod? With rumors of a sub-$500 Mac, many are thinking of switching...
There are now over 100,000 Windows vir
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s...
"Prescription Drug
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at Record High for Americans"...
The winner of the second Dwell eco-prefab ho
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contest...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for recording, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
"The Wal-Mart 'Foundation' is nothing more than a front group for Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated, and should not be conf
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d for a real charitable non-profit"...
Canada once took in 50,000 Vietnam-era draft dodgers. But today it's denying political asylum to those who ref
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to participate in the Iraq war...
I recently revisited AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released last year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-
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, powerful panorama maker I've eve...
Here's an am
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ment park...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you have a
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d mobile phone, you could try shipping it to this non-profit...
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two microphones with your Mac with this cheap $16 gadget...
Verizon and Movielink announced a movie download service for broadband
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rs...
Just beca
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you're a penguin doesn't mean that you're not a terrorist...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of activists. Some
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the latest technology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to make their voices heard, an...
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
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of this new tool to help enforc...
The addictive ADD drug Adderall is becoming popular among college students, who
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it to concentrate and stay awake for long periods at a time...
If case you're wondering why I'm so concerned about this topic, that's beca
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I work for an RFID startup and know full well the problems this can ca
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...
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not ca
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worry except for the fact that the virus i...
I highly recommend the Oyster Dock for laptop
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rs...
The Mother Jones graphic expose on the modern ho
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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...
This may promote the growth of more Earth graffiti though, not to mention (ugh) advertisements. I can easily see ad campaigns making
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of this...
Instant reusable whiteboard sheets are so cool.
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ful for traveling workers, artists, and people without magnetic refrigerators...
China spends three times the world average on energy to produce $1 of gross domestic product - and 70% of its energy comes from coal. Beca
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the U.S. isn't in the Kyoto accord, imported Chines...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly every 62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical ca
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s. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
Hey developers!
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Ecoglo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency lighting systems...
The new Breezeho
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, a modern prefab home designed for "casual indoor-outdoor living"...
New artistic ways to compose music: http://www.moomu.com/kontent/
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r-site/v2/archives/2005/03/our_friend_pela.htm...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
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your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long lines...
Today's college students are getting
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d to downloading high-speed movies and music on demand from their computers...
Derren Brown
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s basic psychological principles to perform amazing "mind-reading" and mass hypnotism tricks...
Homeland Security is now calling its RFID chips in U.S. passports "contactless chips" beca
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it sounds safer. Unfortunately, without encryption they'll make it easier than ever for terrorists to fin...
1,360 scientists from 95 countries say that two-thirds of the world's resources are "
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d up" in a four-year $24 million U.N.-sponsored survey...
Things to
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when clean water gets scarce - the AquaPak costs a dollar to make, runs on solar, and can purify up to four gallons of water a day...
The site for the prefab Flatpak ho
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has been revised and is better than ever, with lots of nice pictures...
March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly known for his quality graffiti work, snuck into New York's most famous m
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ums and affixed his anti-war work to th...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It
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s high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Contact lenses are being
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d for all sort of things these days. Here's some fashion glitter contacts that look pretty sexy...
A blogged picture of a procession in Spain demonstrates the rising
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of cell phone cameras to capture major events...
Also,
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your persistent vegetative state to be "cynically manipulated for the ca
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of your choice"...
If the U.S. Constitution were written like an End-
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r License Agreement...
Los Alamos National Lab scientists find a way to detect fingerprints via their chemical residue: http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php?f
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action=home.story&story_id=234...
March 14 to 20, 2005
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this magnetic paint to make any surface sensitive to magnetism. No idea if it's eco-friendly though...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be
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d to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
On a related eco-friendly note, there sure is a lot of un
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d roof real estate in downtown Honolulu...
New input devices are challenging the status quo! Here's the rollermo
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for stressless mousing...
Power to the people? For the first time a blogger is given access to a White Ho
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press briefing...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and online personality after you die? This article
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s the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
An interview with cartoonist Robert Crumb, from his ho
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in France...
Half of the world's 6,000 languages will disappear in less than a century, leading to "grave consequences for biodiversity" says the U.N.. Most people
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one of only 8 languages...
Let's see Starbucks
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these new paper coffee cups that are decomposable and biodegradable. The U.S. Navy's ordered 20 million of them...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Adobe open sources software that can be
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d to build systems with complex dependency graphs...
Here's a helpful list of resources to
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for when your iPod battery dies...
Ira Rennert's ho
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was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
HIV/AIDS' impact on life expectancy in Africa - the big picture: http://web.acsalaska.net/~benm
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/blog/2005_02_01_archive.html#11093136429414417...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
Boston resident Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His site got 4 million hits, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in international newspaper...
Tommy Chong is the star of "The Marijuana-Logues", a very funny and critically acclaimed pot-centric parody of the "The Vagina Monologues", which started this month. Beca
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of parole restriction...
Visa will be using the same technology for its credit cards, but with multiple layers of encryption and fraud detection. Beca
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in the U.S., money is far more important than your identity...
New super-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into ho
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tops. Let's see these around town...
A Londoner's ho
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is full of wall-to-wall collections...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The mating scent of the German cockroach has been found - here's the clever methods scientists
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d...
Bush and Kerry - a visual comparison: http://www.livejournal.com/
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rs/zete_tic/329.htm...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Today's Web designers should learn how to
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the XMLHttpRequest object to build highly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
GPS technology is killing lightho
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s. What will happen if GPS fails...
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfettered" access to the White Ho
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and CIA documents was revealed as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
If you want to do it yourself,
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this...
Here's the same effect,
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d in a recent music video...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Wacky
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s for things...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It's time for Hawaii to promote innovate mixed-
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businesses that foster community development. Mentioned last week was the concept of "bike stations", which could be placed next to mas...
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who
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d to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
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...
Only nine chlorine plants in the U.S. put eight tons of mercury into the environment each year, although some say 65 more tons are unaccounted for annually. This is mostly due to the
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of obsolet...
Thanks to rampant over-prescription of antibiotics for over half of U.S. patients, antibiotics may be
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less in 50 years...
Incredible before-and-after comparisons of the faces of meth
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rs...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995
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d to be Swain's Ho
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of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumored that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
A new cheap DVD recorder (sold at Wal-Mart for $140) may make the VCR obsolete: http://www.syrac
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.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1104918939312170.xm...
Cornell researchers figure out how to make plastic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to
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petroleum to make plastics...
"Bush Gets Positive Rating In Three Countries" http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?f
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action=viewItem&itemID=565...
Need thermal or acoustic insulation?
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eco-friendly itch-free insulation products...
Ecological pole ho
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s. And the company is Hawaii-based...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mo
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for $500...
A new book, "Collapse", explores the reasons behind the fall of once-great civilizations. It outlines five ca
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s: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, an...
Unfortunately, it looks like the GM power train in Hawaii's new hybrid b
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s is not quite as fuel efficient as promised...
* Estimated average amount of textiles thrown out by each U.S. ho
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hold in 2001, in pounds: 6...
The "HangOut", a very cool spherical treeho
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for 21st-century living...
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eco-friendly Dr. Bronner's products instead. They're cheap, organic, effective, and smell great...
The public domain USGS digital data image archives. Nice, quick stock imagery for all kinds of
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s...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to every sound that humans
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to communicate...
This series explores some nicely designed homes, including the famous tree ho
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in Waipio Valley on the Big Island...
Dana Countryman's Virtual M
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um of Unusual LP Cover Art...
The M
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um of Food Anomalies. Ick...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's BusLink system is the first
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of smart card technology in a bus-only mass transit system in America. How about making a smart-card based SuperFerry pass...
Precast concrete walls that
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recycled material and are up to 50% more energy efficient than regular walls...
100% corn-based packaging now in
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The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music ca
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s "visceral reactions" in people...
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 ...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of information in a compact,
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ful way...
Restaurants are installing fake phone booths for
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by cell phone
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rs to minimize noise pollution...
"Film
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fading like an old photo...
"Democrats on the U.S. Ho
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Judiciary Committee have asked Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to answer for a host of voting irregularities they say occurred in Ohio Nov. 2."...
How to get your ho
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off the grid...
The shrinking turtle ho
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...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The most inclusive church ad I've seen is ref
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d by TV stations due to controversy - the ad depicts the church allowing blacks, the disabled, and gays...
The ten most persistent design bugs, from UI expert Bruce Tognazzini: http://www.asktog.com/Bugho
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/10MostPersistentBugs.htm...
Here's an inspirational program on Kaua'i that recycles
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d glass into works of art...
However, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy. Note that old computer monitors make better
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d TVs than TVs...
November 22 to 28, 2004
PC, which can be run from solar panels,
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s only 10 watts...
The worldwide effects of the sinking dollar, now at a nine-year low: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1122/p01s01-
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c.htm...
How the government
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s laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document.
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a blue LED light to se...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Why doesn't someone in Hawaii go into the LIDAR 3D mapping business? Hollywood pays millions for LIDAR 3D models for
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in movies, and to date there are no models of the islands...
New hybrid b
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s have started in Honolulu and wow the public. New smart card bus passes, too...
New businesses are sprouting up to meet demand for the new Firefox browser, now
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d by 19% of
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rs according to some...
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
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d by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
The world's smallest PC/keyboard/mo
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net connection combo...
This was really popular all over the net this week, perhaps beca
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people need to be reminded of the perils of overworking...
"White collar slavery" in the video game industry: http://www.livejournal.com/
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rs/ea_spo
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...
This Dutch film ca
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d the murder of its director on November 2. The Netherlands is now experiencing attacks on Islamic mosques, churches, and schools. Can fundamentalism ever coexist with worl...
"Living Outside Inside" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
Wind power can ca
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climate change too...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Yes, those same Hart voting machines
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d in Hawaii ca
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d a few problems in Texas. But here's what gets me... the article's last sentence reads "Election officials say eSlate machines are reliabl...
"Cell Phones Increasingly
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d to Snap the News...
Beca
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of a clash with federal law, legislation protecting whales from high-speed boats in the Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary has been overturned. This may lead to the end of offshor...
Vitamin-inf
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d shirts...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Yes, the same Hart eSlate voting machines
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d in Hawaii ca
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d Democratic votes to turn into Republican ones in Austin, Texas...
Spyware is on 80% of PCs, vir
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s on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
"Technology
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d to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the workplace"...
About Clearview, the new clearer, usable typeface that will be
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d on all Federal road signage. Ask your state to adopt it...
Planning a Critical Mass bike ride? Here's strategies you can
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to help stop police harrassment...
October 18 to 24, 2004
"KEEP YOUR F**KIN' LIMEY HANDS OFF OUR ELECTION" http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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lections2004/story/0,13918,1329858,00.htm...
The median net worth of white ho
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holds: $88,651. That of African-Americans: $5,988...
October 11 to 17, 2004
The first waterless dishwater
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s supercritical carbon dioxide...
"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public
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" - TV down, net up, averaging 12.5 hrs/week...
"Poll reveals world anger at Bush": http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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lections2004/viewsofamerica/story/0,15221,1327568,00.htm...
The average mpg of a 40-foot Gillig Phantom bus,
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d in Honolulu: about 4. The average mpg of a hybrid-diesel bus
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d in Seattle: 7.5...
An astute reader points out that hyaluronic acid, which has been touted as an "anti-aging remedy", is found in taro (
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d for poi, the Hawaiian food staple). Here's the connection to a long-live...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Finally, a startup
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s BitTorrent-like tech for online movies...
"A senior U.S. military intelligence officer says that information obtained from prisoners at Guantanamo has proved
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less in the war on terror"...
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Windows and make a name for yourself! Regarding last week's item "Microsoft server crash nearly ca
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s 800-plan pile-up"...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter written by a former Hart technician wh...
Suburbia is a health hazard - a new study has found that not only are people less healthy due to overdependence on cars, but from a community design perspective, it's a very inefficient way to live...
A Microsoft server crash almost ca
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s a 800-plane pile-up...
Ever wanted to live on a ho
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boat? Here's some from Sausalito, CA, one of the best and oldest ho
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boat communities...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The first dental chair to
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bone-conducting speakers, preventing patients from drill noises...
The first half of 2004 saw 5,000 new Windows vir
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s...
Jimmy Swaggart talks about killing gays, drawing "laughter and appla
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" from the congregation...
Option, a new mini enviro-friendly prefab ho
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...
September 13 to 19, 2004
China's a new "hotbed of research" too: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/technology/13china.html?ex=1252728000&en=c97bdebfc8ebba94&ei=5090&partner=rss
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rlan...
One show he worked on - here you can learn about all the toxic items around your ho
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that leech into your bloodstream...
About the horrible pollution and cancer-causing rivers in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/international/asia/12china.html?ex=1252641600&en=195e0c8a98b98708&ei=5090&partner=rss
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rlan...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Gex-X workers will be badly in demand in the Hawaii of tomorrow as the baby boomer generation ages. What will attract them? Mixed-
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"stroll districts". Live music. Bike paths. Greenery. Sounds goo...
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the largest m
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um of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
U.S. broadband triples in three years. 75%
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cable, only 15%
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DSL...
The story of an architect who battled breast cancer to remake a minimalist home for $50,000: http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2004/09/09/a_ho
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_built_with_steel?pg=ful...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
...yet links between the indiscriminate
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of military sonar and mass whale beachings continue to appear...
Are you an inefficient hypertasker? Workplace pressures, inadequate tools ca
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stress. I say this is a technology problem, not a brain problem...
Protesters
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texting, microradio, and other technologies now...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new Windows worm has the ability to spy on
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rs with webcams and microphones...
Microsoft's Spanish version of Windows XP translated "woman" as "bitch".
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rs unam
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Enterprise housing - creating affordable, sustainable housing in urban, mixed-
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environments...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Bruce Sterling gives another great, funny speech about the future of products - Blobjects! Are you a Gizmo
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r, or a Spime Wrangler...
"Broadband
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rs a majority in U.S....
Cell phone
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rs are using their cameras in store to copy textbooks...
This ho
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was transformed from a 3rd-gen gang ho
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to a "tropical paradise". Why not do it in Hawaii...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's conf
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d 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-
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development...
The first(?) chip to
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ultrawideband technology...
Fearful of vir
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s, hospitals running Windows-based medical systems are applying security patches, which themselves may lead to life-threatening situations...
An analysis of files taken from a hard drive
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d in Al-Qaeda's operations. Insightful...
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner ab
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". Examines the growing trend of the government to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
Some of the most untranslatable words in the world: http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.php/f
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action/home.content/page/pres...
August 2 to 8, 2004
2) Encourage smaller mixed-
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artist loft/working exhibition spaces...
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to
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lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
The story behind the Internet Movie Database, one of the most popular,
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ful Web sites ever made...
The Hooch: the bamboo tree ho
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...
As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to improper
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. Could the
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of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
Semi-transparent solar panels can be
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d as a new building material and video projection surface, and they generate 3.8 watts per square foot...
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...
Hawaii is getting crowded, a symptom of short-term thinking in development. Where's the mixed-
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, decentralized, community-centered projects? "What I see happening is horrible," said Maui Realto...
What the U.S. can learn from South Korea, where broadband is cheap, over 10 times faster, and is transforming government and society with telemedicine to the ho
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, video on demand, and a lucrativ...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A fuel cell breakthrough leads to cooler, smaller cells - one the size of two soda cans could power your entire ho
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hold...
The latest thinking in dualmode transports - a truck that runs on wheels and rails. Why not
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one to transport people from Honolulu to Kapolei instead of building a second level...
An inside look at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit beca
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he had no confidence it would be popular. He works for Microsoft now...
A photo tour of the N521DB, the luxury liner
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d to transport the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after 9/11. It was also
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d by Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones...
A modern, self-sustaining off-the-grid ho
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in Toronto...
The two-story Glideho
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2, now in production...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Hawaii has lots of red clay. Why not make native seed balls and
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them to quickly repopulate areas with native plants...
The Flatpak Ho
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- cheap, modular, and evolvable over time...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Not a product yet, but a concept: this Bluetooth wireless device attaches to your luggage and blinks when you are near it at the baggage caro
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l. Other neat ideas here...
Here's Doug Englebart's infamous 1968 demo, which originated the concept and also introduced the world to the mo
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, word processing, hyperlinks, outline editing, graphics editing, and more...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Finally, the U.S. government is "pleading"
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rs to stop using Internet Explorer...
Instead,
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the faster, better Firefox browser...
All about the latest Rainbow Gathering, which attracted 10,000 and ca
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d the Forest Service to allocate nearly $1 million for management...
This device allows you to swap out your car CD changer for an iPod and
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it like a huge CD changer, with your existing controls...
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...
...while the Verizon deal will likely go through, people in Hawaii should see the film and take the opportunity to reflect how the war will soon be affecting their lives in a very direct way...
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and really malicious. And
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rs are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Alien species have ca
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d the ecological collapse of the Great Lakes...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Most email spam (80%) is now ca
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d by Windows PCs hijacked by virii...
The box ho
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- off-the-grid modern architecture for $70,000...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
Hebrew U. researchers have devised a method that allows people to
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a type of password that they don't have to consciously remember...
"Facing critical shortage of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the
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of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the player holds it to his lips....
May 24 to 30, 2004
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the ab
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of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
Some of the hippest mp3 blogs out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular beca
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of blogs like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I
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d to visi...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter makes
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of latent semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail...
LANL researchers have figured out how to
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nanotechnology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%...
The new Deck Ho
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(I want a Porch Ho
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)...
More pictures of the eco-prefab Glideho
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The New World Symphony
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s Internet2 videoconferencing for orchestra training...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glideho
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", making
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of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
"Thousands tour first Glideho
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at Sunset - Interest in affordable, 'green,' modern prefab runs high:...
Better than the Pringles can!
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$3 Chinese cooking vat scoops to create wireless connections spanning about 7 miles...
How about trying environmentally friendly anti-foul compounds
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d on ships? The six-year test is impressive...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home
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rs an...
Laser spectroscopy is now being
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d to detect suicide bombers in Israel. Why don't the lidar folks at UH get into this...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Laser-based retinal imaging technology is finally maturing, with over 100 such displays now in
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by the Army's Stryker Brigade...
Before you laugh, try a little thinking outside of the box: Hawaii needs low-cost housing solutions - how about using
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d shipping containers? Many well-designed structures have been made worldwide...
April 19 to 25, 2004
3) How about this for a cleanup-inducing pilot project? But
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the voices of well-known locals: Berlin's pilot program of talking trash cans that congratulate you when
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d have proven to be a hug...
4) Endorse the
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of lead-free computer systems, at least by government: The world's first lead-free motherboard (the main component in personal computers) has been developed...
5) Support sustainable architecture and treat architecture as part of the environment: "The McMansion Next Door - Why the American ho
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needs a makeover" (10/2003)...
The first fully-sustainable ho
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has been developed - it's powered by solar and runs entirely on hydrogen...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Ben & Jerry's is installing new freezers in their stores that
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sound waves instead of chemicals refrigerants for cooling. Commercial (domestic)
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of such technology is still 5 to 10 years away...
April 5 to 11, 2004
A good review of a new book that ref
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s to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber industry in Northern California...
"Easy-to-
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unit converts scrap wood to electricity...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
In the Bay Area, multiple offers over 10 are not uncommon. Ho
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s have gone for $300,000 over the asking price. Median home prices in San Francisco are $200,000 over that of Oahu and $100,000 ove...
The Dwell Ho
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- Modern Modula...
The Porch Hous...
The Glide Hous...
Hawaii construction and typical apartment developments
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a lot of concrete, a material that John Lautner considered "most desireable" for his needs. But these developments often end up being block...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
United Airlines announced that more than 2 million customers
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d their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern airline can survive without them. Actually, that could be a great business ...
Drug company GlaxoSmithKline
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d orphans as guinea pigs in potentially dangerous medical experiments...
A material widely
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d in nanotechnology research has been found to trigger organ damage in fish...
Here's a story by a woman who
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d a spreadsheet to tally all the things about her ex-lover...
Newsmap, an interesting way to visually show news. Not sure if it's
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ful, but it is kind of pretty...
March 15 to 21, 2004
There is NO exc
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not to buy a PC (non-laptop) larger than a shoebox any more. Anything larger is wasteful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based PC...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Attached to your iPod, it will take any of six different digital film media types and store the photos on your iPod so you can re
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the card. Now you can
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your iPod as a bootable backup drive, ...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in un
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d urban areas, mainly, roofs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
Heard of SCO, that company that's suing Linux
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rs? According to an acknowledged memo, Microsoft may be funding them to the tune of $86 million... but it is clear that Microsoft wishes to fund SC...
Someone's collecting all the election-related wire service stories on Yahoo that
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the phrase "The American People". See how politicians are using your name in vain...
1.8 tons of raw material are
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d to make your average desktop computer and monitor. Upgrading rather than replacing your computer saves more energy than recycling it...
Remember that photojournal on shipbreaking, one of the most toxic and dangerous jobs on earth? Here's a short summary of some new technologies (including a wash that neutralizes PCBs) being
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d i...
A network map of political books based on purchase patterns from major Web-based book retailers. It shows a great division in thinking... you could
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this same sort of analysis to visually stud...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet
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rs have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mo
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released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Exposure To Low-level Magnetic Fields Ca
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s DNA Damag...
Polaroid Warns Film
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rs Not to 'Shake It...
Some of the funniest, most creative
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s of Photoshop I've seen in a long time.....
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can
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to squeeze th...
February 9 to 15, 2004
(from Jan 3) Now that Oahu only has two art-ho
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movie venues (with one whose fate is uncertain), will people be able to see movies like the ones below in the future? Or will we have to downloa...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The latest in modernist prefabricated housing, where you can purchase a beautiful, open wooden contemporary ho
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kit for $100,000...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Yet another serious flaw in Microsoft software that may not even be fixable: http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?f
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action=displaynews&NewsID=94...
January 12 to 18, 2004
I
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d to get about 500 to 1000 spams a day. Now it's down to about 100 now that I put tough anti-spam filters in.....
Cuba cracks down on Internet
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January 5 to 11, 2004
Here on Oahu, Wallace Theatres (at Restaurant Row) is abandoning its art ho
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movies (sigh)...
The New York Times ref
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d to run this article - the journalist posted it himself online instead. Here's a good idea to help offset online "sharing" - a $60 per year charge for broadband
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rs...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope everyone had a happy 2003! Kev's News is now six months old. (Obligatory holiday picture link below): http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/snowglobemo
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.jp...
"Fax - the technology that ref
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s to die...
December 15 to 21, 2003
A Texas ho
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wife is busted for selling a vibrator... she faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine...
December 8 to 14, 2003
4) Thanks to large-scale gerrymandering, voters are no longer choosing members to the Ho
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of "Representatives" and politics are becoming even more polarized...
You should
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Windows Media Player to view this, available at...
A new way to filter out toxins from the blood has been invented. It
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s magnetized nanoaparticles, and may revolutionize current dialysis techniques as well as eliminate certain classes of diseases...
And now, in complete contrast to the above... the Mushroom Ho
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, a beautiful handcrafted wooden ho
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in Canada that took 22 years to make...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Are you a "pack rat"? "Facing jail beca
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his ho
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is filled to the brim, a hoarder finds hope in a woman with a talent for organizing...
The ab
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of period typography in the movies...
"Public Libraries
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Internet to Sell Old Books, Help Budgets...
November 24 to 30, 2003
A nonviolent protester is "hogtied and ab
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d" at Fort Benning...
I didn't think Michael Jackson could look worse... (picture) http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/LAW/11/24/jackson.acc
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r/vert.mugshot.jp...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Those in Hawaii can now
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the Forward Foundation's calendar to publicize events related to the arts, culture, technology, and environment at...
Craigslist Honolulu is up and running! Tell everybody to
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it...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Quote of the week: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." -- Revolution Books, New York, NY Feel safe? Last week was "Protection From Pornography Week"...
October 20, 2003
* 82% of American ho
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holds made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart...
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...
The main point of this is that now a single computer can replace an entire cellular tower's worth of expensive equipment. This means smaller installations and better coverage to rural areas. Plus i...
Like
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d CDs? "The Top 50 Most Common
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d CDs" Also, if you like to stay on the cutting edge of music, Pitchfork Media is a good place to check out from time to time...
Finally, on a lighter note, a partial Latin translation of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back": "Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter....
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American M
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um of Natural History started a new sound and light show using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
"3G Mobile Signals Can Ca
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Na
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a, Headache...
September 30, 2003
TV so real that it provokes na
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a and "gasps of astonishment"...
September 15, 2003
The optical illusions page from Japan has been greatly expanded. WARNING: may ca
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headaches or discomfort...
September 8, 2003
Visionary architect Eugene Tsui Why generic "modernism" is a plague, and how to design a humane future: "Look at a box-shaped ho
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- it wastes so much space and so much material, it is structurall...
August 25, 2003
Disney is laying off its traditional 2D animators, opting instead to only do 3D (computer generated) animated films from now on. A passing of an era... http://www.mo
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planet.com/david/dk030814.ht...
The winners in nerve.com's pickup line contest, successfully
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d lines, and miserable failures...
Affected by the recent computer vir
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s? The solution: 1) Don't
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Outlook. 2) Don't
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Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows machine this week. In over 1...
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
August 12, 2003
Frankly, I could
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this...
August 4, 2003
We'll be seeing more good and bad
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s of cell phone cams in the future...
July 21, 2003
I'm sure you've seen this satire already: http://www.quatloos.com/cm-niger/nigerian_scam_letter_m
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um.ht...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: beca
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you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...