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April 4 to 10, 2005
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
works
, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Here's a nice summary of how your hard drive
works
...
March 7 to 13, 2005
It's likely that Axl Rose's next album, which has been in the
works
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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...
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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/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
works
.com/portfolio_toro.htm...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Big news for software developers - an open source enterprise-class message queuing technology is being made. Implications for trading net
works
, P2P frame
works
, and instant messaging technologies...
January 17 to 23, 2005
eXeem, the new distributed P2P BitTorrent client, is now in public beta and it
works
quite well. Sorry, it's only available for Windows right now...
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 ...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how Google
works
- two PCs are expected to fail daily...
Here's an inspirational program on Kaua'i that recycles used glass into
works
of art...
November 15 to 21, 2004
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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...
November 8 to 14, 2004
BTW, this site ("MasaManiA") can be hilarious due to the punk attitude and broken English but is also sometimes highly politically incorrect and not
works
afe. You've been warned...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Researchers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that
works
"with a 95% accuracy rate"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Spreading political activism in Colombia via dynamic low-power radio net
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on bikes...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered
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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
works
by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fire
works
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
works
with Pattern Discovery Algorithms"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
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
"Stealth wallpaper" can prevent insecure wireless net
works
from being hijacked...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An inside look at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit because he had no confidence it would be popular. He
works
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
works
...
June 21 to 27, 2004
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for net
works
, 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
works
". Meaning...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the latest tech fad of creating personal social net
works
- what continues to be needed is software that helps societies network and think smarter...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
The next generation of secure net
works
, over which eavesdropping is always detectable...
May 17 to 23, 2004
How iTunes sharing is creating music- based social net
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in colleges...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* Government net
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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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...
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
works
of literature...
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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: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school systems and other organizations are building their own DIY fiber net
works
and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"Wireless Cable TV In The
works
"...
December 15 to 21, 2003
* October 8: Reported at an international
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hop in Wisconsin...
October 27, 2003
Are you a natural networker? Some people are natural "connectors" - in social net
works
, the important people aren't necessarily who you know, but who you vaguely know...
October 14, 2003
A great, great explanation of how this nation's electrical grid
works
, why more large-scale blackouts are predicted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
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
works
... an option that'...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone net
works
throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...