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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical over
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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...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Partly thanks to its sale of hybrid cars, Toyota expects to see its best first quarter in 48 years. GM expects to lose $850 million that same quarter due to short term bets on "cheap" and "plentiful...
April 11 to 17, 2005
I get some traffic to this site from people looking for information on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's over
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of "freak folk", with information on artists, albums, influences, and musi...
"Confessions of an EBay opium addict" http://www.newsre
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.com/issues/Sacto/2005-03-31/cover.as...
And the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 reports your document-
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ing activities to third parties without your knowledge...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A better over
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of perpendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
Inter
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s with over 300 people who live in mountainous regions around the world, with their perspectives on change and development...
An inter
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with the CEO of the last pinball machine manufacturer on Earth...
A more balanced, scenario-laden
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of the U.N.-backed Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, mentioned last week...
Did you know that in 2000, EPA-banned GMO corn was found in Taco Bell tacos, which could produce anaphylactic shock? Here's more on how corporations are surreptitiously introducing GMO into th...
The found footage festival consists of movies retrieved from trash bins all over the U.S. Check out the pre
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trailer...
The neo-psychedelic art of Shawn Wolfe: http://www.shawnwolfe.com/gallery/
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March 28 to April 3, 2005
If you have an iPod, this well-designed guide to all things poddish - software, accessories, re
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s - is a must-read...
Here's a slightly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fisheye
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This new book provides a visual guide to sprawl: http://www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/book-re
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An inter
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with the most influential woman in rock, Patti Smith...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Anti-War Sentiment in Popular Culture http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/nyc-fockers0324,0,4148572.story?coll=ny-moviere
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Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Their $6,000 video, which tells the story of what happens when a student representing the U.S. in a mock United Nations gets a little overzealous, is absolutely hilarious, professionally done, and i...
Another great historical over
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from Mobile PC magazine. This time, they examine the evolution of the notebook computer...
A new newspaper column only re
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s cars that do better than 30 mpg. Let's see more columns like this...
A compliment to last week's inter
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with Robert Crumb, an inter
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with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, his wife...
March 14 to 20, 2005
And here's photos of all those wildflowers that have been blooming in Death Valley lately: http://news.bostonherald.com/national/
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Cropless circles, made on sand: http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_albumName=2005&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=
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March 7 to 13, 2005
An inter
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with cartoonist Robert Crumb, from his house in France...
Every U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think every American should, too: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/03/05/weekinre
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Did you know that the U.S. is one of only 11 democratic nations in the world that does not give its citizens a Constitutional right to vote? http://www.commondreams.org/
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the U.S. dollar's secret markings that can only be seen in infrared...
February 21 to 27, 2005
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
This design concept shows a great way to recycle water bottles: http://www.designboom.com/contest/
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February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
A re
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of the latest homemade flight simulators from the last few years...
It's true, the International Monetary Fund bankrupts the Third World, as noted by a former banker in this article mentioned last year: http://www.commondreams.org/
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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
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ers, who found it strangely addicting. You can bu...
Podcasting is getting more media attention, along with front page space in USA Today. Here's a good over
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of the state of podcasting right now...
A quarter of the economy's growth is taken up by healthcare spending: http://www.commondreams.org/
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all of the 2005 Super Bowl ads here, including the rejected and/or censored ones...
A transcript of Gene Simmon's very funny inter
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with Terry Gross on NPR, which was replayed last week...
Lawrence Lessig writes on why Wilco represents the future of music: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/
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.html?pg=...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
One in three high school students think the First Amendment "goes too far" in the rights it guarantees: http://www.commondreams.org/
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Brian Dear wrote a funny re
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of a Laurie Anderson concert he went to recently, in the form of a Laurie Anderson monologue...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Incredible before-and-after comparisons of the faces of meth users: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/photos/gallery.ssf?cgi-bin/
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The top 100 soundtracks of all time: http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_
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?list_id=5399&show=50&start=...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain
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, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
"Bush Gets Positive Rating In Three Countries" http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=
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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 mouse for $500...
The new 555-seat Airbus A380 is the world's biggest airliner ever built. And it's more fuel efficient than your car: http://news.airwise.com/story/
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Here's a great collection of census trend charts, maps, and rankings,
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able by category and location...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Professor Francis Boyle, an expert on international law from the U. of Illinois, recently gave an informative talk on the restoration of the independent nation state of Hawaii under international law...
Here's a humongous chart showing exactly where your tax dollar goes: http://www.deviantart.com/
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For the ultra-sustainable lifestyle, refer to http://www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/book-re
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December 13 to 19, 2004
Could methane burps result in runaway global warming? http://www.commondreams.org/
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The most hated advertising techniques on the Web - background music causes "visceral reactions" in people: http://www.devarticles.com/index.php?option=content&task=
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Clever design by necessity - prisoners' inventions: http://www.temporaryservices.org/pi_over
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.htm...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Handy Mac-based tools for those recording audio inter
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s that need transcription...
Aligned nanotubes improve artificial joints: http://www.technologyre
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.com/articles/04/12/rnb_120904.as...
Place a remote camera on an eagle and this is what you get. See an eagle dogfight from the eagle's point of
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An essay on dysfunction in popular music. What did you expect from kids who were products of the highest divorce rates in history? http://www.policyre
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.org/dec04/eberstadt.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
"Anti-evolution teachings gain foothold in U.S. schools": http://www.commondreams.org/
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Here's an over
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of the current tech jobs in demand...
A new consumer surveillance tool allows people to
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satellite images of the ground at a resolution of two feet...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain
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, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software research lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
Lost your key in the car? Knock a code on your window to open it: http://aggeggi.com/?action=
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&id=67197...
The chief economist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming facts"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An over
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of current work on Natural Language Programming...
The silent PC power supply. Stop PC noise pollution! http://www.legitre
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s.com/article.php?aid=12...
An inter
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with the ex-Chief Interrogator Israel's security service...
"A New Vision for Nuclear Waste": http://www.technologyre
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.com/articles/04/12/wald1204.asp?p=...
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, they've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening inter
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Elvis Costello inter
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s Joni Mitchell...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Eat less, breathe more - the physics of gluttony: http://www.technologyre
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.com/articles/04/11/wo_muller111204.asp?trk=n...
An interesting inter
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with a man that has collected over 900,000 mp3 files online, for posterity's sake...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Everybody's Got an Opinion http://www.commondreams.org/
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Let's Move... Or Not http://www.commondreams.org/
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From a Fallujah assault eyewitness, all the ways the U.S. is violating the Geneva Convention: http://www.commondreams.org/
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October 25 to 31, 2004
Ready for the election? "Tight race turns world spotlight on Hawaii": http://www.commondreams.org/
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New 4GB flash SD cards: http://www.dpre
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.com/news/0410/04102702sandisk_highcapcards.as...
About Clear
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, the new clearer, usable typeface that will be used on all Federal road signage. Ask your state to adopt it...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Once the Yucca Mountain 40,000-year nuclear waste repository opens in 2010, it will be 1/3 smaller than needed to store all the accumulated waste by then...
October 11 to 17, 2004
The first waterless dishwater uses supercritical carbon dioxide: http://www.pprc.org/pubs/techre
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A great inter
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with Steve Jobs on true innovation...
19-year-old Derek's "King George" sticker on his Grand Am got him a date with the Secret Service: http://www.commondreams.org/
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"Poll reveals world anger at Bush": http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/
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How Nobel-prize winner Wangari Maathai overcame beatings and jail to empower women to plant trees in Kenya. 30 million trees later, here is her story: http://www.commondreams.org/
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More on Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids - workers told to hide archaeological relics they found: http://www.commondreams.org/
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October 4 to 10, 2004
The RadioSHARK does for radio what ReplayTV and Tivo did for television. Here's a rave re
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September 27 to October 3, 2004
"Daily Show"
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ers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly Factor"
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"Something Bad Has Begun" http://www.commondreams.org/
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RNC mass mailings suggest that Democrats would ban the Bible: http://www.commondreams.org/
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September 20 to 26, 2004
The popular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's nothing wrong with more bus lines, but now there's less character, no open-air transportation with wide
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s, and less fun for tourist...
PC Magazine and Time give the new G5 iMac top ratings and re
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s, named "Gadget of the Week"...
A part of the brain that removes fear has been found: http://www.healthday.com/
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September 13 to 19, 2004
A new travel survey "found Hawaii consistently fell below most competitor destinations in offering good value for the money and unspoiled beauty. Also, Japanese visitors did not
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the islands a...
Bill Moyers, three months away from retirement, reflects on a revolutionary life in journalism: http://www.commondreams.org/
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Get the original inter
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footage for the movie "Outfoxed" here...
September 5 to 12, 2004
-- Adam Robinson, Co-founder, The Princeton Revie...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Scientists are learning how to harness photosynthetic bacteria in solar cells: http://www.technologyre
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.com/articles/04/08/rnb_083104.as...
The world's first detailed
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(and reconstruction) of an Egyptian mummy's face, without disturbing the wrappings, thanks to multidetector computed tomography...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The world's smallest optical zoom digital camera, using the new ceramic lens technology: http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/re
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August 15 to 22, 2004
Me and my friends recently switched from T-Mobile due to lousy service. Here's another sad customer: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/tmobile-sidekick-ii-re
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"If the US Wants to Restore Confidence in Its Voting System It Must Learn Lessons from the Recent Elections in Venezuela": http://www.commondreams.org/
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August 8 to 14, 2004
This was popular last week - beautiful aerial photography: http://blog.naver.com/post/post
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August 2 to 8, 2004
Check out the incredible satellite images you can
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on this baby...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The two-story Glidehouse 2, now in production: http://www.livemodern.com/Members/Marshall/newsitems/gh2sneakpeek/vie...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Golden Apples of the Sun http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-re
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July 5 to 11, 2004
Of all people, William F. Buckley writes about the need for marijuana law reform: http://www.nationalre
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With this Mac application you can
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the current top ten most purchased tracks from the iTunes Music Store in your menubar...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Holographic technology is leading to pocket- sized video projectors: http://www.technologyre
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.com/articles/rnb_063004.asp?trk=rn...
This device allows you to swap out your car CD changer for an iPod and use it like a huge CD changer, with your existing controls...
Radio 1 in the UK will now be broadcasting a chart of the top (legally) downloaded tracks: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/re
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June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
Apple's pre
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of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Now with high-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with PowerBooks from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer: http://www.hothardware.com/
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June 14 to 20, 2004
Theme of the week: Humanity I just finished watching "The Corporation", an amazing film that traces the roots, rights, and wrongs of the corporate entity. It ties together politics, global issues...
A re
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of the coolest palmtop computer. Sorry, available in Japan only...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"The Organic Foods Movement - Led by Heinz Corporation or We the People?" http://www.commondreams.org/
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May 24 to 30, 2004
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special,
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it online...
May 17 to 23, 2004
2) We should pay more for gas anyway. http://www.commondreams.org/
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$20 biodegradable cardboard speakers pack flat and actually sound decent: http://www.t3.co.uk/re
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May 10 to 16, 2004
Here's how to ask questions that actually produce information: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_
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"Cold Turkey" http://www.commondreams.org/
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May 3 to 9, 2004
G.I.s in Iraq are getting sick from depleted uranium: http://www.commondreams.org/
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The Star Trek apartment: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
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50 moments that helped shaped music history: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/re
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/story/0,6903,1207579,00.htm...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
More news about the amazing Toyota Volta (the first hybrid sports car) which looks great, goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and gets 40 mpg: http://www.auto123.com/en/info/news/news,
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The Bose L1 is a revolutionary new PA system that points the way to new amplification technology - it eliminates poles, monitors, and bulky equipment, and is causing a stir in the music industry...
A very technical over
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of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A re
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of the first electronic paper- based reading device and its implications for libraries, books, and traditional reading habits...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Americans are increasingly resorting to stomach-shrinking surgery so much so that health experts and insurance companies are becoming alarmed": http://www.news-medical.net/
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Kids can now pretend they're hunting shoe bombers with the Playmobil Security Check-In set...
A good re
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of a new book that refuses to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber industry in Northern California...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
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...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an over
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of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Musician Kevin Shields created one of the most expensive, influential and highly praised albums of the last two decades - "Loveless". Here's his first inter
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in 12 years...
March 15 to 21, 2004
The swoosh of wind turbines makes locals report ghosts. Again, noise cancellation technology may alleviate that: http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/
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"Make Global Warming an Issue", by Walter Cronkite: http://www.commondreams.org/
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March 8 to 14, 2004
Writing a screenplay? Here's a catalog of "narrative tropes and idioms". Learn about character archtypes such as the Anti Hero, the Evil Twin, and the Green Skinned Space Babe...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Philips developed a "fluid lens" - a variable-focus lens system with no mechanical moving parts that mimics the human eye's focusing mechanism...
The first music video ever to be entirely shot using a cell phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years ago - in another ten directors may be
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ing dailies on their phones...
A great inter
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with Eugene Jarvis, the legendary creator of such video games as "Defender" and "Robotron"...
February 23 to 29, 2004
A nice over
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from Popular Science on current brain-machine interface research. "If you think about using superconducting magnets, maybe you could figure out how to make a helmet," says [forme...
Modern video games are on the cutting edge of reality simulation: where 20 years ago a shoot-'em-up game took one to four people, today's games require teams of 30+ and specialized knowledge o...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Killing the Music: by Don Henley http://www.commondreams.org/
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Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that free wireless access is a factor in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
February 9 to 15, 2004
A movie with four vignettes that explore what it means to be human in a world where robots are commonplace. It won the "Special Jury Award for Emotional Truth" at the Florida Film Festival as well a...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They inter
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the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The FBI gathered hotel guest list information on 270,000 in Las Vegas: http://www.re
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journal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Jan-07-Wed-2004/news/22934251.htm...
December 15 to 21, 2003
A good inter
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with the somewhat recently busted Tommy Chong, from Taft Correctional Institution...
* November 21: Published in the prestigious Physical Re
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Letters...
December 8 to 14, 2003
You should use Windows Media Player to
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this, available at...
A good inter
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showing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
Steve Jobs - the Rolling Stone Intervie...
The Justice Department wants to brand Greenpeace as a criminal operation: http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/
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Design reflects culture (or lack thereof). Here's proof... the Eyesore of the Month has been updated again.
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these pictures and weep for America, my friend...
November 24 to 30, 2003
A nonviolent protester is "hogtied and abused" at Fort Benning: http://www.commondreams.org/
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November 17 to 23, 2003
You can subscribe to calendars,
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monthly summaries, and more. Media organizations can pick up RSS news feeds at...
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, the Next Big Thing in display technology (a nice over
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if you're not familiar)...
November 10 to 16, 2003
A study of the Web sites of the ten presidential candidates found that most violated speed and accessibility guidelines. The worst offender with the most code-bloated, inefficient, inaccessible We...
Bill Moyer gave a passionate speech on media reform: http://www.commondreams.org/
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An inter
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with Gore Vidal about his latest book on the Founding Fathers and what they would have done to Bush...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
Obesity is THE worst killer in the U.S. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/health/
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"Arsonist Burns Peace Activists' Home" http://www.commondreams.org/
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The Day the Music Died http://www.commondreams.org/
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Why Forest Management Exacerbates Loss of Lives and Property http://www.commondreams.org/
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October 20, 2003
Some interesting facts about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "supercenters"...
October 14, 2003
"Answers Please, Mr Bush" http://www.commondreams.org/
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September 15, 2003
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the groovy Star-Trek like operations room...
September 2, 2003
"Farewell America" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world
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/story/0,11581,1028674,00.htm...
August 25, 2003
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-business
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of one CEO who removed every bit of Microsoft software from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...
The Austin Chronicle has a funny re
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