July 2004

Computerising The Body

by Haitham Sabbah July 6, 2004

Microsoft wins patent to exploit network potential of skin. Fact or fiction – carrying a keyboard on your arm. Call it the ultimate wireless network. From the ends of your fingers to the tips of your toes, the human body is a moving, throbbing collection of tubes and tunnels, filled with salty water and all [...]

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Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Blind, Or A Coward?

by Haitham Sabbah July 4, 2004

One of the first things I did when I got back from vacation was to go see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s a brilliant piece of propaganda, entertaining and funny, and it skewers the president deliciously. But am I the only one to notice that in one critically important way, it entirely misses the boat [...]

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WTC Official Start of Construction

by Haitham Sabbah July 3, 2004

STAR-SPANGLED START FOR WTC. Nearly three years after the Twin Towers fell, a 20-ton block of granite will be set in place tomorrow to mark the official start of construction on the 1,776-foot tower that will rise on the site of the World Trade Center. The cornerstone-laying is “an incredible step for the rebuilding of [...]

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Flavored Bananas

by Haitham Sabbah July 1, 2004

Chiquita plans costlier, tastier bananas. It seems that every time I pick up some sort of fruit juice these days it’s one of these funky “mixes”: banana-apple-kiwi or pineapple-cranberry-rambutan or whatever. I’m not exactly sure what the excitement is about mixing fruits, but apparently it’s leaving the drink space and moving into the actual fruit. [...]

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