Archive for May, 2008

Home automation software

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Automate Your Home - Wired How-To Wiki — some solutions to try here, some mac solutions home automation app for the iphone coming… Read more..

Maualuga Ranked Scariest Defender

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Maualuga Ranked Scariest Defender - TrojanWire — it will be fun in September to see this guy against Beanie Wells, the top-rated RB entering the fall. Beanie vs Ray, ... Read more..

Ethernet to Coax adapter

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

CrunchGear » Archive » D-Link’s ethernet-to-coaxial adapter kit: useful but expensive — ha, you can buy old ethernet coax cards for pennies on various websites. of course they need ... Read more..

Recently noted software/services

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BrandDoozie: Marketing Materials in Minutes. Nice looking tools but still requires a lot of design decision making on your part. Convert any image into an icon — useful Sync AB with Google ... Read more..

Charles attacks craplets

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Platformonomics - Sony and the Joy of Craplets — nice rant. The PC industry is so wrongheaded on this point. Read more..

Great Books series

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Marginal Revolution: Who should be bounced from The Great Books series? — another useful list of potential books to read. Sadly I was required to take exactly 2 humanities ... Read more..

Troy Smith’s journey

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Great article about Troy here via The Silver Bullet. Great to see Troy getting some traction at the next level, the guy is one of the greatest Buckeyes ever Read more..

Naveen is always entertaining

Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ankur Jain: “I Would Like To Address My Dad’s Character” Read more..

Adding your own pictures to the Kindle Screensaver

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Not So FAQs » Blog Archive » Adding your own pictures to the Kindle Screensaver — Cool, Ty pointed me towards this. The limited gray scale of the Kindle ... Read more..

Codec Hell

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK I’ve experienced codec hell on Windows, and while the Mac is much much better, as soon as you do something off the beaten path, well it gets complicated. ... Read more..

Trying to force textile to point to kindle editions

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I use textile to create all my book links in the blog. as a reader pointed out, this unfortunately doesn’t link very directly to the kindle edition of books. ... Read more..

Recent Nonfiction

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Story of French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau. Interesting to a casual student of language, the contrast between the active central management of French and the organic unmanaged nature ... Read more..

Flashback: 1975, USC vs. Ohio St - TrojanWire

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Flashback: 1975, USC vs. Ohio St - TrojanWire — ahh great pain relived. This is going to be a great game this fall. Read more..

Peak Water ?

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Big Picture | Peak Water ? — interesting graphics tho I am not sure I get it, are there huge fleets of tankers moving water from South America to ... Read more..

Giant microbes — I want to get the giardia model

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

GIANTmicrobes We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes—only a million times actual size! Read more..

Rusty Steampunk designs

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Slootweg’s design skills are a bit rusty (and that’s a good thing) — awesome looking furniture and accessories. Read more..

Green Made Simple

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

GreenMadeSimple: Find incentives, rebates and green business listings in your area — nice resource for finding discounts, rebates, etc for energy programs. Read more..

Energy reads

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

bcurtisBLOG » People are talking about water… — nice chart on where all our water goes. Only 13% for household use. A huge amount to thermoelectric power generation. Tom ... Read more..

Yamaha Tenori-ON

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

TENORI-ON - DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT- EACH — love interesting musical instruments, this one looks way cool. Pricey tho Read more..

Japanese Book Recos

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Over at Marginal Revolution. Unfortunately none of them have Kindle editions Read more..

Inside the F1 scandal

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Here at another racetrack this weekend, this is great reading about the F1 spying scandal last year. The amount of money in racing is phenomenal — and anytime you ... Read more..

Gocode plugin

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve always wanted to have my own implementation of tinyurl — gocodes seems to fit the bill. we’ll see how it goes… Read more..

Licorice extract to treat canker sores

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Hurray. I hate canker sores. Read more..

How to find new books to read

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A list of pointers — like I need more ideas. My Kindle is stuffed and i have a hundred physical books awaiting me… Read more..

Matsci stories — fuel cells, friction

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

50% greater fuel cell efficiency — basically by nanoscale engineering of the fuel cell elements. cool frictional duality — suggests that smart nanoscale fabrication might be able to affect friction Read more..