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December 20 to 31, 2005
Have a
very
happy New Year's, e
very
one. Thus ends the first full year of Kev's News...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
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flat, flexible speaker technology...
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated software that can track e
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financial transaction no matter how small...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Hope e
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one had a happy Earth Day. Not surprisingly, much news was devoted to how much high-tech junk is being generated and what to do about it...
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian government has just certified that virtually e
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thing our own government has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
Rethinking The E
very
day Things
April 11 to 17, 2005
SVG will radically change how the Web looks and feels. It will be making its debut in Web browsers
very
soon...
Portraits of normal, e
very
day people by Naomi Harris...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This was
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popular this week - I think there's a pent-up need to avoid Starbucks! The delocator will show you local alternatives to Starbucks...
With 99% confidence, researchers have found that planetary biodiversity comes and goes roughly e
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62 million years, and may be due to astrophysical causes. Looking at the graph, I think we're at ...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
very
cool drag-and-drop sortable lists with CSS and JavaScript. Let's see a music playlist interface...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Here's a cool new food trend - food balls! They can be
very
healthy, can be dipped, they're easy to pack and store, make good snacks, and require no utensils to eat...
March 14 to 20, 2005
A tiny HDTV tuner on a USB stick: http://www.e
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thingusb.com/compro_videomate_dvb-t_stick.htm...
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't e
very
LCD monitor have these features...
Here's the story of Simlish, the fictional language of the
very
popular video game "The Sims", and the people behind it...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
E
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U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think e
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American should, too...
The world's thinnest building, with a
very
colorful history...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock declines and poor business decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive reco
very
specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
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...
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
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funny online vide...
Tommy Chong is the star of "The Marijuana-Logues", a
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funny and critically acclaimed pot-centric parody of the "The Vagina Monologues", which started this month. Because of parole restriction...
This was rumored to have been written by John Cleese, but whether it's true or not, it's still
very
funny...
The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years, e
very
thing you do will be recorded...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Alongside the Super Bowl, the Disco
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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...
A transcript of Gene Simmon's
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funny interview with Terry Gross on NPR, which was replayed last week...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Mark Morford asks, why isn't e
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one on a Mac...
E
very
body learned that you no longer have the right to publish photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It appears that the
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healthy white tea is getting popular...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A new solar hot water heater is 30 to 40% more efficient than flat plate solar systems: http://www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/hot-water-systems/solar-tubes-
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-efficient-heating.htm...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The "HangOut", a
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cool spherical treehouse for 21st-century living...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can listen to e
very
sound that humans use to communicate...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating e
very
one else. Implications for social systems...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Place a remote camera on an eagle and this is what you get. See an eagle dogfight from the eagle's point of view! http://media.animal.disco
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.com/convergence/spyonthewild/birdtech/birdtech.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new blog is created e
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5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the blogosphere. Over 90% of bloggers are 13 to 29 years old...
Here's an excerpt from "Checkpoint", a documentary on the West Bank/Gaza Strip checkpoints that was readapted by the Israeli military for training purposes. This clip highlights the e
very
day tensio...
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on e
very
printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
E
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body reported on the dolphins that protected four New Zealand swimmers from sharks...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Remember, e
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public Web page you make in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
"White collar sla
very
" in the video game industry...
"sorrye
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body.com" spawns "werenotsorry.com" and "apologiesaccepted.com"...
Controversial thoughts on energy alternatives. The point is that major changes in energy sources cannot be monolithic - e
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thing affects e
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thing else: "Bio-Diesel: Salvation or Disaster?...
November 1 to 7, 2004
E
very
body's Got an Opinio...
Sorry, e
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body...
A picture of the corn-based biodegradeable 25GB DVD: http://dsc.disco
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.com/news/afp/20041101/corndisc.htm...
Need to hide from Homeland Security? Install a hidden door! However, this item was so popular, e
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one knows what they look like by now...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The world's first single atom-thick fabric: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/pressnews/disco
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oftwo-dimensionalfabric...
October 18 to 24, 2004
San Francisco sets the goal of providing e
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one in the city free wireless access...
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault e
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time your PC crashes, too...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
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...
California mandates free cell phone recycling. E
very
state should pass such a bill...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Disco
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- morphine occurs naturally in the brain...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Disney creates a revolution in fireworks by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fireworks are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched higher. How about using thi...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time e
very
where (1 second is lost e
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300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
The basis for a new breed of software: "Exploring Social Networks with Pattern Disco
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Algorithms"...
The city of Philadelphia is considering providing free or cheap wireless Internet access to e
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body...
August 15 to 22, 2004
E
very
thing you wanted to know about the Natatorium fiasco...
August 8 to 14, 2004
"Modern-Day Sla
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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...
The E
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man Photo Contest - great amateur photography...
See how a family changes, via similar photos taken e
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year for 28 years...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since e
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one 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 e
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thing Woody Guthrie stood for...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A
very
cool design concept - the circular printer. It's efficient, fast, and small...
Mark Morford's
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funny pean to the iPod...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
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) Reco
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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...
Real-time file sharing music popularity results reside at BigChampagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue e
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body...
Now here's a secondary BigChampagne report that indicates that "artists receiving little or no radio play are still gaining
very
significant activity on file sharing networks". Meaning...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
A man took a photo of himself e
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day for a year and made this movie...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod e
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week. Now online groceries are coming back...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A
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technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
As an experiment, e
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5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is getting a laptop with digital versions of textbooks and 2,000 works of literature...
"One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on e
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car and driver that passes through....
April 12 to 18, 2004
It's the 10th anniversary of unsolicited commercial email, aka spam. Yay, not. On my servers I got about 1,500 spams daily until I installed a custom filtering system. Now it's down to about 20, bu...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Studies show that Guinness is actually
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healthy for you...
March 15 to 21, 2004
A Diebold (Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives e
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one free access...
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase e
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thing on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Windows PC? Be afraid. Be
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afraid. Thanks to the recent Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
February 9 to 15, 2004
20% of this beer's profits go to the non-profit World Turtle Trust, which is currently financing four international projects. I tried it recently and it's
very
good (and I am a beer snob)...
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...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The market for luxury cars (which cost up to $1 million) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people e
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day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is gettin...
Nanotech thinkers fear the "gray goo" syndrome, where a nanotech product may go haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into goo, the nanotech equivalent of a nuclear meltdown. One smart gu...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"Free Wireless E
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where...
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Did you have champagne over the holidays? Tiny bubbles are better - when picking champagne, look for more, smaller bubbles: http://dsc.disco
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.com/news/briefs/20031229/champagne.htm...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope e
very
one had a happy 2003! Kev's News is now six months old. (Obligatory holiday picture link below)...
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 17 to 23, 2003
Craigslist Honolulu is up and running! Tell e
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body to use it...
November 3 to 9, 2003
A
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promising cancer-fighting virus (the Reovirus) has received funding for studies...
E
very
thing that Wired Magazine has called "a thing of the past"...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
In honor, here is e
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Playboy centerfold averaged out over four decades...
Open Source E
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wher...
October 6, 2003
I was thinking about replacing my old Devo costume for Halloween and decided to see what was out there on the Web. A store with a
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good selection is Halloween Mart, with decent prices as well...
* It uses seven ultra-high-resolution video projectors and hundreds of speakers, two 24-channel digital audio players, and bass shakers under e
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seat...
"Disco
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may spur cheap solar power...
September 15, 2003
Ever eaten General Tso's chicken? Well, here's e
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thing you wanted to know about General Tso and his dish...
August 25, 2003
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-business view of one CEO who removed e
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bit of Microsoft software from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
August 12, 2003
Things like this are good to see e
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once in a while so you don't get so proud about being a human, having two arms and two legs and all...
Now that e
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one has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd never would have put together. Read the Salon article...
July 28, 2003
There are now over 2 million people in U.S. prisons, one for e
very
143 citizens...
Another case for biodiversity in e
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day life: "Tree-Eating Beetle Poses Threat In U.S....
July 21, 2003
However, note that e
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year since 1977 there have been more Canadians moving to the US than vice-versa...
July 10, 2003
"The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking E
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thing That Moves...
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...