- Nice mention of Judy’s Book over on A VC — “…the brain child of Andy Sack and his partner Chris DeVore…Andy is a smart and scrappy entrepreneur…”
- Jobster live is way fun. And Jason continues to post an amazing amount of HR and Job stuff
- Martin is trying to kickstart Energy investing in the Northwest — I missed the first meeting but would like to make it to future events
- Alex Bosworth continues his stream of innovation with BozPages.
- Rich with a couple of date night restaurant recos
- Rich also recos Call of Duty2 — also a timewaster at our house. Along with FEAR.
- Rich on software — recovering PIDs, Shareware award winners
Archive for November 29, 2005
Ignition Blog Roundup 11/29
Still reveling in the OSU victory over Michigan
- Wolverines sue Big Ten over “Hostile Work Environment”. Hah.
- Nice posters of the Dispatch coverage of the victory — for the Buckeye fans on your Christmas list.
Software lens
I think I missed a huge opportunity a couple years ago when I blogged about software-defined lenses — I should have filed a bunch of provisional patents — here is a researcher starting to build out these devices.
Coloured Bubbles
Great article in popsci about the invention of coloured bubbles. The material science discussion is fascinating.
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Recent Books
- Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara. Great look at smalltown society — the machinations, the viciousness, the artificial stratifications. A much better book than The Great Gatsby, maybe because the setting maps better to my hometown.
- The Truth by Al Franken. Al has done more to move me towards a more liberal viewpoint than anyone. He cracks me up. His attacks on corrupt and two-faced politicians are truly hilarious. Delay and Frist take a beating. He does go in the ditch on social security funding — Al is not much of an economist or mathematician, the notion of “present value” completely escapes him. And somehow he thinks that there is a real fund backing social security — somehow it is ok with him that the social security “fund” is fully invested in US treasury securities; this is to me akin to the GM pension fund being 100% invested in GM stock, a practice which has been judged to be very bad. I actually agree with most of Al’s views on social security funding but he really botches his handling of this discussion. But when he sticks to character and integrity issues, he is generally dead on. And he throws in just enough humility and self-deprecating humour to make himself credible.
- The Wrong Side of Paris by Honore de Balzac. Outstanding book. A great break from American and British period fiction — the moral calculus of the characters is so different. You have to wonder why we are seeing the 97th remake of pride and prejudice in the theatres, why is no one dipping into this vein of literature. Ok I am ignorant about the french film making industry, maybe this story has been filmed 6 times.
- Oh and a list — the top 20 geek novels. I’ve read too many.
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Things to do to the blog
- Via Gadgetopia, 10 Killer Post Ideas. My posts are more of the model “Stuff John Wants to Remember” but these are good guidelines
- Micropersuasion with ten favorite blogging hacks.
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