- MAKE: Blog: Creepy crawling skeleton.
- Big Daddy Costume. if you have played bioshock you get this
- Skeleton Disco Ball.
Archive for September 23, 2008
Halloween Links
September Madness
Bracket up at techcrunch. Awesomeness. My money is on Berkshire Hathaway
House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge
House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge – NYTimes.com — wow. going to get uglier. i think main street wants to see people going to jail, i don’t think constituents are going to turn around and support this until some of the folks who got incredibly wealthy are brought down.
Google Mac Developer Playground
Google Mac Developer Playground – Google Code — fun mac stuff here from google
Is Somebody Out To Get Us?
» Is Somebody Out To Get Us? Dotting The âIâ: The Student Perspective on The Ohio State University Athletics. The short answer: yes. The voters are not going to put OSU into the title game after three straight national stage face plants. The only way a 1-loss OSU gets there is if nearly everybody else has two losses. Realistically OSU’s best outcome this season is the Rose Bowl or a BCS at-large pick. In that game they will have the opportunity to set the table for next year.
coconutBattery
coconut-flavour.com – [coconutBattery 2.6.3]. – nice battery life/capacity monitor for the mac
Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters
Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Bag Monsters ⦠– Acts of Volition. These are awesome and a great Halloween idea.
Tesla in Seattle
— good crowd looking at the Tesla this AM.
Latest Polls
ESPN - NCAA College Football Polls, College Football Rankings, NCAA Football Poll. — OSU up to 12 in USAToday, SC and Georgia are other 1-loss teams in front of them. Hard to argue with that, they both fought back after getting blown out in first halves. Big game next weekend at Wisconsin, a chance to impress voters with the new-look Buckeye offense
Harsh words for the government and wall street
The Big Picture | A Memo Found in the Street. Icahn is harsh too and advocates clawbacks. Gross willing to manage the assets for free so hopefully we don’t pay anyone a lot for this work. The longer this thing runs out, the less sympathetic I am to the bailout. And it appears Congress is not a pushover either so I guess that is good.
Canon 5D Mark II preorders
Canon 5D Mark II | Tongfamily.com. — apparently already sold out at some sites.
Lopez to Anacortes Ferry Quotas — Fall 2008
Fall sailing schedule starts sunday. We were at the dock today and picked up the quota list — here you go
| Sailing Time | Quota |
| 640AM | 52 |
| 740AM | 39 |
| 1100AM | 22 |
| 135PM | 150 |
| 455PM | 46 (16 Sunday) |
| 535PM | 20 (70 Sunday) |
| 840PM | 46 |
| 115PM | No Quota. Saturday Only |
Recent books
- The Black Tower by Louis Bayard. Very engaging tale of conspiracy set during the French Restoration. Excellent characters, nicely ambiguous ending.
- The Blue Star by Tony Earley. Coming of age tale during the early days of WWII. Love, pride, prejudice, fear, death, hope. A great little human story.
- The Book Of Lies by Brad Meltzer. Da Vinci Code-ish, a nice beginning of biblical conspiracy, the origin of the Superman character, and your standard life threatening events. The middle slows a little but a sweet ending.
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Rich's quick summary of all the cameras you want
Canon EOD 5D Mark II, Sigma DP2 and Olympus Micro 4/3rds | Tongfamily.com. These all look awesome.
The flashlight jumps the shark
Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Preview: Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod Flashlight. For the person who already has 37 flashlights and wants more.
Economists on the bailout
From Marginal Revolution: Economists Speak:
As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis. We are well aware of the difficulty of the current financial situation and we agree with the need for bold action to ensure that the financial system continues to function. We see three fatal pitfalls in the currently proposed plan:1) Its fairness. The plan is a subsidy to investors at taxpayersâ expense. Investors who took risks to earn profits must also bear the losses. Not every business failure carries systemic risk. The government can ensure a well-functioning financial industry, able to make new loans to creditworthy borrowers, without bailing out particular investors and institutions whose choices proved unwise.
2) Its ambiguity. Neither the mission of the new agency nor its oversight are clear. If taxpayers are to buy illiquid and opaque assets from troubled sellers, the terms, occasions, and methods of such purchases must be crystal clear ahead of time and carefully monitored afterwards.
3) Its long-term effects. If the plan is enacted, its effects will be with us for a generation. For all their recent troubles, Americas dynamic and innovative private capital markets have brought the nation unparalleled prosperity. Fundamentally weakening those markets in order to calm short-run disruptions is desperately short-sighted.
For these reasons we ask Congress not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action, and to wisely determine the future of the financial industry and the U.S. economy for years to come.
Hear hear.
The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot
From The Big Picture | The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot:
“Buffett once told me there are three ‘I’s in every cycle. The ‘innovator,’ that’s the first ‘I.’ After the innovator comes the ‘imitator.’ And after the imitator in the cycle comes the idiot.”
The quiet makeover of the Buckeyes
Eleven Warriors » Thad in at End, Heyward Slides Over. — “For a group loaded with so many seniors, especially 5th-year guys, the starting 22 only features 8 of them” Some of the changes have been obvious (Pryor) but it is good to see the coaching staff responding to the underwhelming start of the season.
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HDMI cable length limits
Sound & Vision Magazine – Ask The Expert: Cable Length Limits. Here is one article that suggests 6M is the max usable without getting funky. Trying to do a media room config and need to know this stuff. No obvious answer I can find for displayport but I bet it is similar.