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April 25 to May 1, 2005
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio,
web
browser, and records video...
Training wheels, rethought: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TRIKE_BIKE?SITE=AP
web
&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
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...
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted
web
applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
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 cause worry except for the fact that the virus i...
Here's the lightest, smallest portable sound system any world traveler could want...
April 4 to 10, 2005
President Bush's approval rating is the lowest ever for a 2nd-term president. J-Walk provides a nice graph: http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/
web
log/bush_approval_chart...
Best Buy arrests a man for using $2 bills. The police said "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world." I didn't know that terrorists paid for their nuclear weapons using $...
Art made via electromagnetic fields: http://
web
.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/weird.htm...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
For
web
developers - this new simple PHP Bayesian filter allows one to develop spam filters, categorization tools, and technology that learns by example...
It's 2005 now, but the state's
web
site is still a bit drab...
All the great hackers are switching to Macs, again mirroring the early growth of the
web
(which was developed on an ancestor of today's Mac, the NeXT). We'll just see what happens...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Macs are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the
web
got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
March 14 to 20, 2005
For
web
developers: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Safari though)...
More and more young kids want cell phones these days: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CELLULAR_KIDS?SITE=AP
web
&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Trashing Hawaii http://www.hawaiian
web
master.com/aerialphotos/oahu01.jp...
20% of kids 8 to 18 can surf the
web
from their bedrooms. 26% say they can "multitask" different media streams at once...
Here's how to turn your
web
cam into an infrared camera...
A salmon may be the "first genetically enhanced animal sold for consumption in the United States": http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MODIFIED_SALMON?SITE=AP
web
&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
Book Art http://lib
web
5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.htm...
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...
Make interactive
web
apps with the SAJAX PHP toolkit...
There are now at least 50 million
web
sites on the net...
Ira Rennert's house 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...
What a cell phone bomb trigger looks like: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
web
log/?entry=14925&only=ye...
"A man who recently had received radiation treatment... set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for ...
"Dolphin Beaching Came After Sub Exercise" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STRANDED_DOLPHINS?SITE=AP
web
&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
HIV/AIDS' impact on life expectancy in Africa - the big picture: http://
web
.acsalaska.net/~benmuse/blog/2005_02_01_archive.html#11093136429414417...
Bubba, the 22-pound lobster: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LEVIATHAN_LOBSTER?SITE=AP
web
&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://www.tamethe
web
.com/ttwblog/archives/000977.htm...
New RSS feeds from the Associated Press: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/RSS_FEEDS?SITE=AP
web
&SECTION=HOM...
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 very funny online vide...
Top tennis stars Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play on the world's highest tennis court in Dubai, about 1,000 feet up...
Stuff For
web
Developer...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Grafik Dynamo assembles random words and images from the
web
into strangely compelling and surreal comic strips...
Jazz composer Maric Schneider is likely the first artist ever to win a Grammy for an album that was solely distributed on the
web
...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is actually a pretty good open-source cross-platform WYSIWYG
web
designing tool...
Today's
web
designers should learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to build highly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
Allan Schiffman offers a few quick numbers on federal debt, spending, etc.: http://
web
pages.charter.net/allanms/2005/02/lets-play-whats-real-problem.htm...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Yet even more bad album covers - here's a top ten list: http://www.zonic
web
.net/badalbmcvrs/badalbumcoverstopten/toptenbadalbumcovers10.ht...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Or how about emulating the business model of San Francisco's Brainwash, a successful cafe-and-laundromat that also sells t-shirts and hosts local musicians as well as comedy nights? They've got a We...
Tag graphing allows people to see relationships between topically-sorted content on the
web
...
The 101 dumbest moments in business. Number three: the chairman of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson was forced to resign after it was discovered that he spent 15 years in prison for a string of arme...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Life is pretty hardy. Already there are signs of it around the tsunami-devastated areas: http://
web
master.zattevrienden.be/doorgaan.ht...
The
web
and the Internet are enabling more direct soldier-to-family communications that ever before. Hopefully, this will make societies more aware of the real costs of war...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Organic printable electronics give rise to printable RFID tags that cost less than five cents each: http://www.tech
web
.com/wire/hardware/5530160...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The most hated advertising techniques on the
web
- background music causes "visceral reactions" in people...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Architects Are Really Poor
web
Designer...
Google suggest - check it out: http://www.google.com/
web
hp?complete=1&hl=e...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows
web
designers to convey large sets of information in a compact, useful way...
New old tech - Apple's selling refurbished Macs now, at discounts up to 1/3 off...
November 22 to 28, 2004
"A true love story that originated on a message board of a popular
web
site has been released in book form"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Remember, every public
web
page you make in your life is admissible as historical legal evidence...
"Meditation May Bolster Brain Activity": http://my.
web
md.com/content/article/96/103943.ht...
November 8 to 14, 2004
It's said that good fences make good neighbors. Screaming children, however, do not. A detailed
web
site describing a painful, protracted war with the neighbors. This makes a nice metaphor for th...
October 18 to 24, 2004
"Microsoft's Worst Nightmare" http://www.business2.com/b2/
web
/articles/0,17863,714129,00.htm...
"If Architects Had To Work Like
web
Designers......
October 11 to 17, 2004
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based tech company made big news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a MacOSX emulator for PCs, and their
web
site is getting slammed...
Adam Rifkin's great summary of the recent
web
2.0 conference...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A visual history of spam and virus email: http://
web
logs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.asp...
The Oprah car giveaway made a lot of money for GM. It's a sign of new types of promotions to come...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Topical picture of the week: http://www.
web
logsinc.com/common/images/1905781702491981.GIF?0.707218251789258...
Design
web
sites? These eyetracking test results can help you make a more effective site...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
For
web
developers-ten CSS tricks you may not know...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new Windows worm has the ability to spy on users with
web
cams and microphones...
The groovy
web
sites and photography of Sacha Dean Bryan...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Coming Soon: Trillion-Color TV http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/
web
ONLY/resource/aug04/0804ntv.htm...
New technologies ease the pain of (hospital) needles: http://
web
.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/sonoprep.htm...
FedEx Kinko's debuts
web
-based job uploads. I didn't test it too much, but it seems to work with Safari...
Cool monkey photos and great
web
site design...
Art from 1920's Japanese children's books. Nice
web
design here, too, despite tiny text...
August 8 to 14, 2004
"MIT study may hold key to boosting brainpower": http://
web
.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/sheng.htm...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online
web
-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
The daily adventures of Mixerman are back, the true diaries of a top audio producer in LA. Get the inside story of how the industry works...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
The story behind the Internet Movie Database, one of the most popular, useful
web
sites ever made...
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...
Prodded by the MPAA, the FBI pursues criminal charges against a Stargate SG1 fan
web
site, despite endorsement by the show's executive producer...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory
web
site registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and they can lead to identify theft. But how are sites to make money? Just go to BugMeNot to get around sit...
Google, circa 1960: http://fury.com/images/
web
log/google_circa_1960.jp...
The fascinating story of East Germany's most embarrassing defection - an intelligence officer, a 16 year-old, and his mother. Here's a taste of what it's like to grow up in an atmosphere of povert...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Have you read about the children at Abu Ghraib? http://www.thismodernworld.com/
web
log/mtarchives/week_2004_07_04.html#00163...
July 5 to 11, 2004
More about transparent videoconferencing, which has received a lot of press lately: http://
web
.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/engelbart_video.htm...
Spider-Man 2, done with legos: http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1277883&sdm=
web
&qtw=640&qth=40...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Facetop", a method of videoconferencing that's actually about 35 years old but may one day be popular: http://radio.
web
logs.com/0105910/2004/07/01.html#a89...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political
web
ware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A nifty comparison of
web
icons...
May 17 to 23, 2004
This is one of the best
web
-based data visualization apps I've seen! You could mine this public database for all manner of interesting purposes. Fundrace - see which of your neighbors contributed t...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"Thousands tour first Glidehouse at Sunset - Interest in affordable, 'green,' modern prefab runs high:" http://www.sunset.com/sunset/
web
/features/Glide0504/Glidehouse0504.htm...
"E-filing nears 50 percent mark" http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0510/
web
-efile-05-11-04.as...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Over ten years since the first
web
survey mentioned women, marketers still have misconceptions about what women want online...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A fellow dot-com veteran invents a new "Clip-n-Seal" product in hopes that it will finally get him out of
web
design...
April 12 to 18, 2004
I've seen a lot of
web
sites. This could be the worst-designed site ever made...
Ben & Jerry's is installing new freezers in their stores that use sound waves instead of chemicals refrigerants for cooling. Commercial (domestic) use of such technology is still 5 to 10 years away...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be hitting the market - they have a wider and smoother frequency response than conventional speaker technology. Here's the story of how this breakthrough was achieved afte...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Trixie, the baby with the most comprehensive
web
site in the world. With real-time sleep, bottle, and diaper telemetrics, a blog, gallery, forum, archives, and voting topic...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Well, this is really late but I've been busy developing the
web
site for Soullenz Gallery - check it out...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The Belkin iPod Media Reader http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/
web
Objects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=T7418LL/...
March 1 to 7, 2004
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 viewing dailies on their phones...
Ozone Depletion Three Times Worse Than Predicted: http://radio.
web
logs.com/0105910/2004/03/03.html#a76...
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 use 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 users have built
web
pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
February 16 to 22, 2004
A new cheap printer prints out prescription eyeglass lenses for $5 each, a boon for those in third-world areas: http://
web
.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-04SP.htm...
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 interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
China Tightens
web
Contro...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"Counterpoint: Downloading Isn’t Stealing" http://www.aaronsw.com/
web
log/00111...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Nature always wins. So far: http://www.arborsmith.com/bike2_
web
.jp...
November 17 to 23, 2003
For those designers out there: Real client quotes from
web
designers back at the height of the dot-com craze (yes, these stories are true)...
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...
November 3 to 9, 2003
A few medical breakthroughs last week you may have read about... "Liquid drano for arteries": http://my.
web
md.com/content/article/76/89946.htm?z=3734_00000_1000_ts_0...
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 very good selection is Halloween Mart, with decent prices as well...
September 8, 2003
"Don't Rely On Microsoft, Trade Group Urges Homeland Security" http://www.tech
web
.com/wire/story/TWB20030829S000...
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...