Red Dirt

My first game wasn’t at home. I ran to center-field holding the yellow softball. My shoes still clean with no trace of dirt. I pull my socks up over my smooth, un-scarred knees. I tuck in my shirt and smile because it’s red. I’m nervous, my body is cold, but I do not sweat. It’s […]

Reasons why we should not ban horse slaugter

Click here if you’re interested in knowing why the United States should reject a ban on horse slaughter. A bill to ban the practice made it past the U.S. House of Representatives last September, and if the Senate manages to find some time for it this session, it has the potential to become law. The […]

What David Malo Means to Me

In the Future, every student will get to be David Malo for fifteen minutes. For the low price of admission, every pupil, regardless of race, culture, gender, and age, will climb through the portal into David Malo’s educated Hawai`ian brain. In the multi-cultural theme park called David Malo Land, you will spend your youth in […]

Pictures

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Aloha Ukumehame

Before I say anything else, I must first say that this development makes me extrememly sad. I have recently come across the web site for the new housing development at Ukumehame (between Lahaina and the Pali on the island of Maui). Growing up, I spent a lot of time camping out at Ukumehame, fishing with […]

"Tick"

“Tick” is a modern rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Written by Andrew Webb, directed by Mike Manning, produced by Amanda Redcloud, edited by Allen Giron, with cinemaphotoghrapher Azusa Shioya, “Tick” fixates on the neurotic behavior caused by guilt. The five minute short demonstrates the power of consciousness over rationality as the main […]

Kosmix

Conservative, Liberal, or Libertarian? Check it out with Kosmix.com New search engine Kosmix.com is taking a different approach to the typical Internet search by the way it categorizes its results. Rather then presenting search results in a standard list form that can be thousands of answers long, the results are organized and sorted into different […]

E3

Yesterday, I visited E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles which is the event for video games. Just as every other year, it was a full day of being herded through crowded exhibits all the while being in awe of the high end graphics displayed on the newest and most expensive screens run by the […]

New Story

This story was finally published with the Annenberg Online Journalism Review (www.ojr.org). It’s about StreetMessenger, an outdoor text-messaging based platform. The company, LocaModa got some props at the Demo 06 conference and they got another cool application that lets you use your cell phone like a remote control on computer screens in store fronts that […]

The Courts are the Way to Go

An appellate court in Hawaii just reversed the decision that granted Makila Land Co. ownership of lands in Kauaula Valley above Lahaina (See this article in the Maui News for more information). This is good news for both the Kapu ‘ohana (who claim rights to the land granted to their family with the Kuleana Act […]