Archive for May 31, 2008

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Maualuga Ranked Scariest Defender

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, Tressel vs Carroll, there are some great stories around the next Game of the Century.

Ethernet to Coax adapter

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 ISA slots. I think my partners Jon and Rich may still have windows for workgroups net cards in their basements…

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Charles attacks craplets

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

Great Books series

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 courses as an undergrad so my liberal arts education is painfully thin, lots of good grist for the mill in this list

Troy Smith's journey

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

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