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December 20 to 31, 2005
A nice list of free Windows soft
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e that doesn't come with spy
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e, ad
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e, virii, or other nasty things...
Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star
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s: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You wasted quarters in this?...
At a peace rally in Oklahoma, a minister gave this damning and inspiring speech on morality,
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, and religion...
The RIAA and MPAA are intentionally putting ad
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e into Windows Media files to th
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t file sharing...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its soft
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e architecture for recording, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
...are made possible by a price
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between Taiwan and South Korea, which make 90% of the world's LCD monitors...
Canada once took in 50,000 Vietnam-era draft dodgers. But today it's denying political asylum to those who refuse to participate in the Iraq
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...
Anti-terror laws are resulting in sophisticated soft
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e that can track every financial transaction no matter how small...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700 million for abusing its near-monopoly in the soft
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e industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Here's the lightest, smallest portable sound system any world traveler could want: http://www.lifehacker.com/soft
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e/life-hacks/travel-sound-system-039360.ph...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Camping in the snow? Build a big,
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m igloo with this light, packable mathematically-correct device...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A couple of weeks ago I gave a three-hour deposition involving the Soverain Soft
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e vs. Amazon shopping cart patent case...
If you have an iPod, this well-designed guide to all things poddish - soft
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e, accessories, reviews - is a must-read...
Here's a slightly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fisheye views: http://www.research.att.com/areas/visualization/projects_soft
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e/topfish.htm...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Anti-
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Sentiment in Popular Culture
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 museums and affixed his anti-
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work to th...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" a
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d at the 2005 MTV Video Music A
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ds. 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...
I was not a
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e of the secret of bananas before going here...
Environment Hawaii, an independent, nonprofit, a
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d-winning publication that has been around for nearly 15 years may be going out of business due to lack of financial support. It's the last 100...
March 14 to 20, 2005
To
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ds tolerance - "Under armed guard, a woman broke with more than a thousand years of Islamic tradition to lead men and women in a prayer service yesterday in Manhattan"...
"Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global
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ming" - in case you needed visual proof...
March 7 to 13, 2005
A land sale of over 1,000 acres on Molokai by soft
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e millionaire John McAfee could mark the beginning of the end of the island's way of life...
Meanwhile, a group of tech CEOs went to Washington
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ning that "profound changes in the global economy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-point plan...
"The most comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a green home": http://www.buildingwitha
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eness.com/Movies2.htm...
There's lots of great interface ideas and art in the Flash Film Festival finalists: http://www.flashfor
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dconference.com/finalists/finalists_05sf.as...
The Colored Pencil Society of America's 2004 a
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d winners...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Ho
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d 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...
Send any application's audio to remote speakers connected to the Airport Express with this soft
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e...
Adobe open sources soft
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e that can be used to build systems with complex dependency graphs...
Here's a helpful list of resources to use for when your iPod battery dies: http://www.lifehacker.com/soft
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e/life-hacks/what-to-do-when-your-ipod-battery-dies-034486.ph...
Uh-oh - 6,200 Wells Fargo ATMs are now running Windows: http://www.computerworld.com/soft
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etopics/os/story/0,10801,100165,00.html?source=x1...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage soft
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e development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
February 14 to 20, 2005
New proof of manmade global
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ming, thanks to a study of ocean temperature over 40 years...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Big news for soft
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e developers - an open source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading networks, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging technologies...
Meanwhile, the average American remains clueless regarding GMOs - only half are a
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e they are sold, only a third realize they are eating them, and 70% don't think they're possible at all...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
This Week's Gloom and Doom http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050130/ap_on_sc/
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mer_world_...
January 17 to 23, 2005
It's been a long time since I've for
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ded anything by the Onion...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The Web and the Internet are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more a
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e of the real costs of
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...
"Babylon Wrecked by
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: US-Led Forces Leave a Trail of Destruction and Contamination in Architectural Site of World Importance"...
For geeks only-the makers of Mr. Potato Head have come up with "Darth Tater": http://www.star
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s.com/collecting/news/hasbro/img/20050113_1_bg.jp...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Organic printable electronics give rise to printable RFID tags that cost less than five cents each: http://www.techweb.com/wire/hard
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e/5530160...
Fluid flow simulation soft
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e is now open source. Implications for cheaper environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
The top ten
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profiteers of 2004...
By the way, that $350 million the U.S. pledged for the tsunami effort equals 42.27 hours of the
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in Iraq...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Could methane burps result in runaway global
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ming...
Recording Academy members voting for the GRAMMY a
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ds will now be able to listen to all nominated songs in the "Record of the Year" category via iTunes...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the fact that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring
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over peace...
Big-time convergence - this new home entertainment PC looks like a Tivo on steroids: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/377/alien
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e_dhs_...
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how Google works - two PCs are expected to fail daily: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/insight/hard
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e/0,39020433,39175560,00.ht...
Arm wrestling over the Internet! Why can't we settle
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s this way? It's basically the same thing...
"Researchers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers": http://www2.
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wick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/NE1000000097300...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now working at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a soft
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e research lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
Connect your iPod photo to a projector and show PowerPoint presentations with it, thanks to this new soft
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e...
Experts say the health of the ocean is linked to Hawaii's economic health,
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n of problems...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power Plant near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not
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ranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
"To
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ds Alternative Cities, the Green-Friendly Way...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
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...
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detailed Web site describing a painful, protracted
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with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
BTW, this site ("MasaManiA") can be hilarious due to the punk attitude and broken English but is also sometimes highly politically incorrect and not worksafe. You've been
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ned...
A good counterproposal to Creationists that want
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ning stickers on biology textbooks: put
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ning stickers on the Bible...
Arundhati Roy's Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.zmag.org/content/sho
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ticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=659...
But although red states give more in proportion to income, they benefit more from federal spending funded by blue states. This appears to be an inverse relationship and
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rants further study...
A multimedia account of a trip to Tibet in April 2004: http://www.on
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dtibet.org/index.htm...
November 1 to 7, 2004
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same bacteria that was once considered so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-
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fare experiments...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Spy
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e is on 80% of PCs, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
"New report
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ns of pace of Arctic climate change"...
The rock band Marillion asked online fans to contribute money to
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ds new albums - and has raised almost $1 million so far...
October 18 to 24, 2004
After decades of continuous military bombing since World
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II, the freed island of Kahoolawe is re-established as a native navigational center and crossroads "connecting Hawaiians to the ancestra...
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m offices are linked to higher productivity...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Alarming trend in spy
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e could undermine IT industry...
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school... STE
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T: You need to go to one. Jon Ste
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t blasts big media on "Crossfire"...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Podcasting puts audio content you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast Ho
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d Stern from XM Radio...
"A senior U.S. military intelligence officer says that information obtained from prisoners at Guantanamo has proved useless in the
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on terror"...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Telcos' latest shot in the broadband
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- TV over phone lines...
"Daily Show" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly Factor" viewers: http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2004/09/27/so_who_are_the_stoned_slackers_watching_jon_ste
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t...
"What a Top Reporter in Baghdad Really Thinks About the
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"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Vintage
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posters modernized for today...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new radio modem is the size of a credit card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range: http://www.eeproductcenter.com/rf-micro/brief/sho
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ticle.jhtml?articleID=3000030...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Dates of public hearings on the sale of Verizon Hawaii to The Carlyle Group: http://www.michaelmoore.com/
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room/f911notes/index.php?id=1...
The basis for a new breed of soft
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e: "Exploring Social Networks with Pattern Discovery Algorithms"...
The popular bottle opener fridge magnet: http://www.else
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es.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=14...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The world's first movie recording on a preformatted holographic disc: http://www.opt
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e.co.jp/english/what_040823.ht...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country to
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ds alternative an...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing Apps http://informationweek.com/story/sho
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ticle.jhtml?articleID=2911657...
One thousands words on our era's
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crime image. Insightful...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the
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Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
Why dynamic languages (still) represent the future of computing (
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ning: tech-heavy)...
Are businesses starting to get the clue about global
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ming...
In what may be a first,
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ner Brothers encourages the distribution of online album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they starting to get a clue...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Last year's "Most Discussed" a
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d winner...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
SecuritySpy - This Mac-based soft
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e allows one to install a cheap multi-cam security system for many thousands less than traditional systems...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An LED research breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years: http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/sho
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ticle.jhtml?articleID=2560014...
Apple has released soft
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e for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
July 12 to 18, 2004
Computer visionary Alan Kay "decries the state of computing". He's right: http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastfor
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d/0,15704,661671,00.htm...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Ghulam Sediq
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dak, Afghanistan's most famous inventor. He's made a solar-powered VW and over 300 other inventions...
With this Mac application you can view the current top ten most purchased tracks from the iTunes Music Store in your menubar: http://www.wonder
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p.com/ninefigures...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"US Government
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ns against Internet Explorer...
Here's a glowing piece on Firefox from Slate: "Are the Browser
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s Back?...
The heart
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ming story of independent, garage-based SomaFM, which broadcasts worldwide to 8,000 listeners a day...
June 21 to 27, 2004
...while the Verizon deal will likely go through, people in Hawaii should see the film and take the opportunity to reflect how the
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will soon be affecting their lives in a very direct way...
Spy
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e is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer: http://www.hothard
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e.com/vie
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ticle.cfm?articleid=541&cid=...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A section of the film explores the need for corporations to be more democratic. How about introducing soft
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e that enables companies to make better group decisions? This isn't polling and it isn'...
Japanese balloons and the importance of uncensored
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time news...
Gunner Palace - a civilian's take on the
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in Iraq...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political web
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e I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Need a good, free antivirus app for Windows? Here's the 46 best free
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e utilities for PCs...
"U.S. demands
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crimes immunity"...
One of my favorite movies, THX-1138 (George Lucas' first film) is being rereleased on DVD. Hope he doesn't screw it up like he did Star
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s...
May 3 to 9, 2004
...and experts
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n of worse to come. Now why banks, airlines, and stock exchanges would open themselves up to being so vulnerable by using unpatched, networked Windows systems is completely beyon...
Will all communities become Wal-Marted, SUVed, McMansioned deserts? McMansions are invading this suburb in Washington, D.C..
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ning: graphic architectural carnage...
Climate change is killing off forests across the West at an "unprecedented rate": http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/04/the
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ming.west.ap/index.htm...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new open-source soft
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e kit turns batches of old, obsolete PCs into wireless community networks...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AAGH! Tax time! A study shows that taxes are getting more complex, thanks to the rising popularity of sophisticated tax preparation soft
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e...
A study finds that the average (Windows) PC has 28 spy
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e programs on it, each of which may send your private information to other parties without your knowledge...
The youngest writer ever to win an Agatha A
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d for a mystery novel collaborated with his uncle using Apple's new videoconferencing technology - this may be the first a
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d-winning book ever mad...
April 5 to 11, 2004
A good review of a new book that refuses to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the
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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...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Nude women have been on the menu at The Sutler for years, but the Nashville pub covered up the 19th-century Victorian photos after being
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ned they might be too racy for state law....
United Airlines announced that more than 2 million customers used their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern airline can survive without them. Actually, that could be a great business ...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Books on how having more choices makes you unhealthy and unhappy: http://www.s
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thmore.edu/news/text/sch
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tz3.htm...
The swoosh of wind turbines makes locals report ghosts. Again, noise cancellation technology may alleviate that: http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/Vie
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ticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=75691...
"Make Global
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ming an Issue", by Walter Cronkite...
March 8 to 14, 2004
There's an interesting architectural trend to
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ds "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Heard of SCO, that company that's suing Linux users? 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...
Sparklines - a great way of compressing information, from Ed
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d Tufte's upcoming book Beautiful Evidence...
February 23 to 29, 2004
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
Hoo boy, lots of news this week. You heard it here first, folks! Leaked Pentagon report
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ns climate change may bring famine,
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"LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon
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ns tha...
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great soft
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e tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
Polaroid
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ns Film Users Not to 'Shake It...
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 A
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d for Emotional Truth" at the Florida Film Festival as well a...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Yet another serious flaw in Microsoft soft
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e that may not even be fixable...
January 19 to 25, 2004
This Star
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s fan turned his Honda into an "H-Wing" fighter. It's the best car-to-starship conversion I've ever seen...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"Please just tell the Americans to send the garbage closer to my home," pleaded Dishar Jaber, 56, squinting through the one eye he was left with after the Iran-Iraq
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. "Then I will be happy....
Yet another international study on global
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ming was released - 1/4 of all species could be extinct by 2050? "Global
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ming Imperils Species...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Be
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e! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
Note that this "Copy Control Technology" stuff is easy to circumvent if you have the right soft
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e...
The National Park Service is altering footage of demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial, removing anti-
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protests and replacing them with pro-
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and religious rallies that didn't even occur there...
An article about Apple's Jonathan Ives, who designed the iPod, iMac, PowerBook, and lots of other stuff. He just received one of the most prestigious a
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ds for industrial design...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military hard
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e turned into spamming machine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official operating system for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Have you ever seen a gigpixel image? http://www.tawba
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e.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.ht...
A great gallery of digital photography from Max Lyons: http://www.tawba
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e.com/maxlyons/index.htm...
Why frivolous soft
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e patents suck - here's all the patents you're violating now by setting up an online store...
In an effort to th
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t modern spam filters, spammers are now using excerpts of classic novels and poetry in their emails...
November 24 to 30, 2003
"FBI Scrutinizes Anti
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Rallies...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Those in Hawaii can now use the For
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d Foundation's calendar to publicize events related to the arts, culture, technology, and environment at...
November 10 to 16, 2003
"Terror Is A Triple Meat Pizza: Who needs
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and evildoers and a big nuclear holocaust? We've got a national obesity epidemic...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Unlike the U.S., Australians "do e-voting right" by opening up the soft
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e running their voting systems to public scrutiny...
October 27, 2003
More evidence that the Arctic region is
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ming up.....
October 20, 2003
"The Great Wal-Mart
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s...
October 14, 2003
Michael Moore asks seven straightfor
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d questions...
"Soft
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e Brings Cellular Capacity To Rural Communities...
October 6, 2003
* It's a $600k project, with $1 million in hard
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e donated by Sun Microsystems...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/sho
war
ticle.jhtml?articleID=1520028...
September 22, 2003
Ho
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d Levy, harmonica player extrordinaire...
"MP3s Are Not the Devil" http://www.ornery.org/essays/
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watch/2003-09-07-1.htm...
Some young teens attitudes to
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ds file sharing. Good take on the state of the next generation...
September 15, 2003
The importance of dreaming for the future Why are people retreating to past fantasy instead of thinking for
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d? Humanity's perception of the future indeed shapes its present. Recent Hugo a
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d winne...
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "share
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e". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
The optical illusions page from Japan has been greatly expanded.
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NING: may cause headaches or discomfort...
September 8, 2003
"Not Just
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mer: It's the Hottest for 2,000 Years...
September 2, 2003
An a
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d-winning British journalist leaves the US after six years but finds it again at a Patti Smith concert. Lots of nice little facts in this article.....
August 25, 2003
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-business view of one CEO who removed every bit of Microsoft soft
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e from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
Affected by the recent computer viruses? The solution: 1) Don't use Outlook. 2) Don't use Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows machine this week. In over 1...
* AOL Time
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ne...
August 12, 2003
Now that everyone has access to professional-class studio soft
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e, 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...
As people begin their life as a captured stream of digital documents, we'll be seeing more of this. A great idea would be to create soft
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e that allows people to create lifelong free-form digita...
August 4, 2003
3) That good design takes into account the inherent limitations of one's ability to process information Also, please for
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d this to people you know who increase the amount of mediocrity in th...
July 28, 2003
The Star
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s Kid's parents sue.....
July 21, 2003
Status report: there have been almost 7 million hits on the Star
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s Kid page, 38 cloned videos, and 3 more currently in the making. Hopefully people will scrape up enough to buy him an iBook (up t...
July 8, 2003
Despite the overwhelming evidence of negative consumer attitudes to
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d RFID technology revealed in its internal documents, the Auto-ID Center hopes that consumers will be "apathetic" and "resig...