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Archive for August, 2008
College Football Links
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
15 must-haves for the 2008 college football season! : Fanblogs College Football Blog. — very helpful list of sites for stats, results, injury reports, etc etc etc Read more..The Black Swan
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Black Swan by Nassim Nichoias Taleb. Been on the shelf for a while, finally read it at the urging of one of my smartest friends. A quirky ... Read more..OSU 43, Youngstown State 0
Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A solid opening for the season, though just reinforced that we should never ever schedule FCS opponents, there is just no upside. My pregame pick was 44-0 so not ... Read more..Stuff I want but don’t need — design edition
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Fluidforms :: Individual Design. — awesome topographical bowls and other objects. Drippable adhesives as sculpting medium. There are some cool Halloween designs hiding in this idea Fire fighting gun. Makes you want ... Read more..Halloween Haunt 101 — tombstones
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
OK I don’t know that I am going to pull off our regular Halloween setup this year. But if you want to set up a haunt in the neighborhood, ... Read more..OnyX 1.9.6
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
OnyX 1.9.6 - MacUpdate. — useful utility. Spotlight indices were exploding on me and consuming my whole hard disk, this tool made it easy to whack Spotlight. Read more..For your Halloween consideration: The Flying Skull
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Flying Skull chomps like a flying Pac-man » Coolest Gadgets. 30 or 40 of these flying around the yard would be awesomely cheesy. Read more..Marginal Revolution: The Return of the Zombie
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Marginal Revolution: The Return of the Zombie: “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there is only a 7% probability that someone born in 2000 will receive their Social Security benefits ... Read more..Buckeye Starting Lineup
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Eleven Warriors » Boom Rising. — for the opener. Man there is a lot of defensive talent on this team. Read more..Recent books — Watchmen, Customer’s Yachts, Broken Angels, GI Biomechanics
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Wow, excellent. Better as a graphic novel than it could have been as a book, the use of text and ... Read more..Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within: Every time I plunge into a game, I inevitably choose the most Cro-Magnon, “Hulk smash, Hulk destroy” strategy possible. But what ... Read more..Best of Rich Tong — iphone, software, pdfs
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Stuff Rich has posted that I find useful Advertising Opt Out | Tongfamily.com. Done, not sure it will really make a difference Attaching sigs to PDFs. Good stuff. URL shortcuts on iphone — ... Read more..Nissan’s ECO Pedal pushes back during acceleration » Coolest Gadgets
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Nissan’s ECO Pedal pushes back during acceleration » Coolest Gadgets. Love the idea of embedding behaviour into everyday objects. I want my light switches to give me feedback about energy ... Read more..Stuff that appeals to my homebrew side
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Heathkit Virtual Museum | A Tribute to Heathkits. Loved this stuff as a kid tho I was an incompetent welder/assembler. But I drooled over the catalog. via Make Shapeways. Pretty cool ... Read more..College Football Week One Picks
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
My buddy Tim runs a little pickem content and the first week slate is out: August 28 North Carolina State vs. South Carolina. I don’t think NC State is there ... Read more..Stuff I Want But Don’t Need — unlikely to buy any of these
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Pizza pizza. - Core77 - awesome looking pizza maker. I make pizzas at home about once a decade so probably not a smart buy, would end up in the ... Read more..Canadian movie theaters rent screen time to gamers
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
CrunchGear » Archive » Canadian movie theaters rent screen time to gamers — not sure this will ever pencil out or how it would even work, but the idea of ... Read more..The Big Picture | Bob Farrell’s 10 Rules for Investing
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Great list up at The Big Picture | Bob Farrell’s 10 Rules for Investing — these three really resonate with me: 3. There are no new eras — excesses are never ... Read more..Olympic Medals Map (2004)
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Via Strange Maps, dynamic map/timeline of Olympic Medals by country up at the NYT. Very nice. Read more..Amazing trained Michigan cat
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A guy walks into a bar in Ann Arbor wearing a Michigan jersey. And carrying a cat that also has a Michigan jersey on with a little Wolverine helmet ... Read more..Deleting Office from all my machines
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Office 2007 for Windows has some really cool features. I love the table formatting in XL, a totally obvious and good feature. And the fact that it is ... Read more..Today’s abuse of OSU foes
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Trojans have a little problem - Los Angeles Times. Apparently jock itch running rampant thru the Trojan camp. Detroit sucks so much that even the dead are leaving. Wow. Read more..cfbstats.com - College Football Statistics
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
cfbstats.com - College Football Statistics. Excellent resource Read more..Recent Books — An American Tragedy, Beginner’s Greek, Big Russ and Me
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. A compelling story of overreaching ambition, lust, and tragedy. But oh my gosh could it have used an editor — needs ... Read more..Edison PC Power Management Software
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Edison PC Power Management Software | Edison — tried on my home machine but had to uninstall. It is lipstick on a chicken — a nicer UI than the ... Read more..