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December 20 to 31, 2005
Unsurprisingly, Apple crippled the iPod to prevent high-quality recording. Here's a hack to enable it, although it may only
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on 3rd-gen iPods...
This is a
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ing graphic design of a computer, the first I've seen. Have there been other designs like this, either recently or in the ancient past? I envision a lot of interactive modern art in thi...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Ecologically responsible hostels can be efficient and beautiful (and a source of income and
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ers for organic farms)...
A clever re
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ing of the umbrella...
April 11 to 17, 2005
If case you're wondering why I'm so concerned about this topic, that's because I
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for an RFID startup and know full well the problems this can cause...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A page on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
Low-power FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio net
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s, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
Instant reusable whiteboard sheets are so cool. Useful for traveling
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ers, artists, and people without magnetic refrigerators...
Outsourcing is giving rise to over
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ed employees in call centers in India. Rigid English linguistic training is making employees question their cultural identity...
The
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of graphic spin-doctor Glenn Feron. In case you thought those media images reflected reality...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly known for his quality graffiti
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, snuck into New York's most famous museums and affixed his anti-war
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to th...
The out-of-the-canvas art
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of Paul Critchley...
March 14 to 20, 2005
For Web developers: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't
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in Safari though)...
Here's a nice summary of how your hard drive
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s...
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank building in L.A. from over a mile away...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Hawaii's developing a strong, growing net
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of organic farms. How about introducing mobile organic produce stores, like this successful one in West Oakland...
The jet engine is one of civilization's greatest achievements. This animation provides some insights into its
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ings...
It's likely that Axl Rose's next album, which has been in the
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s for 10 years at a cost of over $13 million, is the most expensive album ever made...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their systems allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer information, including people's data from their Sidekicks...
Telcos are using legislation to prevent large-scale free public wireless net
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s...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Boston resident Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His site got 4 million hits, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in international newspaper...
Wal-Mart flew in a team of labor experts to counter 21 year-old employee Joshua Noble and 17 others who tried to form a union. Despite international attention, the effort failed. "It's just a bunch o...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The Grafik Dynamo assembles random words and images from the Web into strangely compelling and surreal comic strips: http://turbulence.org/
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s/dynamo/index.htm...
This is not new, but I must have forgotten to mention it here last year - the elegantly designed Toro(tm) tissue ring! http://scottdesign
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s.com/portfolio_toro.htm...
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
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(well) in Safari quite yet...
Big news for software developers - an open source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading net
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s, P2P frame
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s, and instant messaging technologies...
A conservative pro-Bush anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfettered" access to the White House and CIA documents was revealed as
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ing under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Microsoft is mad about all the Apple iPods that employees are buying and using at
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January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
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
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ing in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
eXeem, the new distributed P2P BitTorrent client, is now in public beta and it
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s quite well. Sorry, it's only available for Windows right now...
January 10 to 16, 2005
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started
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ing on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
Google link net
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visualizations...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his
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as "junk science". Not a good thing for our pill-popping society...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
How to get your house off the grid: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/net
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/2004/12/03/grid.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how Google
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s - two PCs are expected to fail daily...
Here's an inspirational program on Kaua'i that recycles used glass into
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s of art...
Art
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that comes with its own URL - the URL has become a
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of art in itself...
The LED art
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of James Clar...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I'm now
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ing at zLab, the CommerceNet "center for decentralization" in Mountain View, California. It's been a while since anyone started a software research lab in the area - let's see what we whi...
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "blog revolution" in China. "...the information flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
New algorithms purport to tell real art
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from fakes...
November 15 to 21, 2004
An overview of current
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on Natural Language Programming...
Young tech
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ers can't afford to live in Silicon Valley anymore, a concern for years...
Bob Dylan-singin' liberals are going to have to wear mirrored hats to peace rallies now that the Army's got a new airborne pain ray in the
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s...
U.S. pressure to try to ban international
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in stem-cell research may mean its end...
November 8 to 14, 2004
This was really popular all over the net this week, perhaps because people need to be reminded of the perils of over
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ing...
The life of Chinese toy factory
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ers, in pictures...
Unemployment among IT
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ers is higher than the overall jobless rate for the first time in over 30 years...
November 1 to 7, 2004
"10 things the Chinese do far better than we do" http://aolnetscape.
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opolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20041023/CHINATEN23?section=Technolog...
Stem cell manipulation induces the birth of new neurons. This
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may lead to Alzheimer's and spinal cord injury cures...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The First Net
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ed Open Source Community...
"Technology used to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the
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place"...
October 18 to 24, 2004
After decades of continuous military bombing since World War II, the freed island of Kahoolawe is re-established as a native navigational center and crossroads "connecting Hawaiians to the ancestra...
A living neural net
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taken from a rat's brain interacts with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator...
Researchers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that
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s "with a 95% accuracy rate"...
"If Architects Had To
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Like Web Designers......
October 11 to 17, 2004
More on Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids -
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ers told to hide archaeological relics they found...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Cancel your phone and cable TV - start a wireless neighborhood net
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September 13 to 19, 2004
One show he
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ed on - here you can learn about all the toxic items around your house that leech into your bloodstream...
Spreading political activism in Colombia via dynamic low-power radio net
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s on bikes...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Gex-X
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ers will be badly in demand in the Hawaii of tomorrow as the baby boomer generation ages. What will attract them? Mixed-use "stroll districts". Live music. Bike paths. Greenery. Sounds goo...
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ing personal jet-powered wings are now for real...
"A
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of breathtaking scholarship and encyclopedic scope....
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered
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s that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Disney creates a revolution in fire
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s by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fire
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s are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched higher. How about using thi...
The basis for a new breed of software: "Exploring Social Net
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s with Pattern Discovery Algorithms"...
Are you an inefficient hypertasker?
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place pressures, inadequate tools cause stress. I say this is a technology problem, not a brain problem...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new p2p net
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allows hospitals to share patient information...
The plight of the minimum-wage dairy
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er...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are
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ing, and those
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ing spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't test it too much, but it seems to
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with Safari...
"Broadband users a majority in U.S." http://www.nwfusion.com/net.
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er/news/2004/0818netrabroad.html?net&code=nlnetflash52...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Dopamine blockers turn slackers into
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aholics...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure online Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Net
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, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse". Examines the growing trend of the government to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty
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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
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August 2 to 8, 2004
2) Encourage smaller mixed-use artist loft/
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ing exhibition spaces...
New foot pontoons actually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water testing,
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outs, and tourism...
"Stealth wallpaper" can prevent insecure wireless net
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s from being hijacked...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
The first true city-wide wireless net
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...
Kona Brewing Co. in Hawaii Kai is now a free wireless net
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hotspot! I'm spending more time there...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless net
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- get online anywhere in the U.S....
An inside look at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit because he had no confidence it would be popular. He
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s for Microsoft now...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing net
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s...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Thousands of truckers, bus drivers and rest-stop
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ers are being enlisted to spot terrorists"...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
Following AT&T and BT, giant telco SBC Communications is moving to an all-IP net
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More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for net
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s, cell phones, radios, more...
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 net
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s". Meaning...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the latest tech fad of creating personal social net
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s - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies net
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and think smarter...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Following in the footsteps of AT&T, telephone giant BT is transforming its entire phone net
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to using IP (Internet) protocol...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"BBN Tech Unveils World's First Quantum Cryptography Net
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"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...
May 17 to 23, 2004
How iTunes sharing is creating music- based social net
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s in colleges...
May 10 to 16, 2004
A study finds that people who don't
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for their money are less satisfied than those who do...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* Government net
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s in Hong Kong and Taiwa...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new open-source software kit turns batches of old, obsolete PCs into wireless community net
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s...
As an experiment, every 5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is getting a laptop with digital versions of textbooks and 2,000
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s of literature...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-tech, and make a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AT&T's new music identification service seems to
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pretty well...
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 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 overview of China's recent massive architectural
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s: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"Falsifying
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ers' hours held to be common management trick to pare down expenses...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical records and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective
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throug...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Office
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ers are exposed to more germs from phones and keyboards than toilet seats...
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
Beautiful, free, colored 19th-century art
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of biological forms...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new sonic "construction set" has been released freely online which contains clips art and samples and breaks from the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. This allows people to create their own albums based o...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school systems and other organizations are building their own DIY fiber net
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s and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
A net
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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
The cat's out of the bag: the first decent mainstream article on the brilliant BitTorrent, the file sharing net
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that "makes trading movies a breeze". As well as gigabytes of other stuff as well...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI
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ing at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
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
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
"Wireless Cable TV In The
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January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Net
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Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these machines went down...
January 12 to 18, 2004
Finally, Verizon announces that it will convert its entire nationwide telecommunications net
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to packet switching, "the protocol on which the Internet runs". This, over 40 years after AT&...
A new joystick combination fitness machine gives you a real
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out.....
Talking about
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outs, the Powerball wrist exerciser now has a little RPM counter on it, making it even more addicting...
Controversy over Wal-Mart's practice of locking in
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ers at night, despite medical emergencies and hurricanes. In some cases
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ers end their shifts early and must wait it out for hours before th...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-tech
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ers than Silicon Valley...
A great two-piece story on a man trapped in a dead-end job at a customer service call center. "The Phones Don't Stop...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Will a new high-tech fund in Hawaii
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? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a starter foundation for business before VCs can step in. Local VCs have neve...
December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher
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ing with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
* October 8: Reported at an international
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shop in Wisconsin...
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...
December 1 to 7, 2003
The "best of" CNN art
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Low-wage life is getting much worse for Americans: "Myths and Realities About Low-Wage Jobs": http://www.thebetrayalof
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.org/facts.ht...
November 17 to 23, 2003
A
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ing nano-transistor has been self-assembled using biology for the first time. A first step to building self-assembling molecular computers...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bigotry is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among net
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ed college students). It "tell...
October 27, 2003
Are you a natural net
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er? Some people are natural "connectors" - in social net
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s, the important people aren't necessarily who you know, but who you vaguely know...
October 20, 2003
* The average Wal-Mart
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er lives under California's poverty line...
October 14, 2003
A great, great explanation of how this nation's electrical grid
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s, why more large-scale blackouts are predicted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
October 6, 2003
"
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ing on the go has become standard operating procedure in the music industry...
September 15, 2003
Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a Mac and wrote two articles about the experience... "It just
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s... an option that'...
August 25, 2003
* Bowling Green City schools net
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, Kentucky (shut down, closing computer classes...
August 4, 2003
This week's theme: techniques for separating the wheat from the chaff and the signal from the noise. Much confusion arises from people not being able to see the difference between the theory o...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone net
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s throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what net
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wires t...