Archive for September, 2008

Halloween Links

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MAKE: Blog: Creepy crawling skeleton. Big Daddy Costume. if you have played bioshock you get this Skeleton Disco Ball. Read more..

September Madness

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Bracket up at techcrunch. Awesomeness. My money is on Berkshire Hathaway Read more..

House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Google Mac Developer Playground

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Google Mac Developer Playground - Google Code — fun mac stuff here from google Read more..

Is Somebody Out To Get Us?

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

» 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 ... Read more..

coconutBattery

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

coconut-flavour.com - [coconutBattery 2.6.3]. - nice battery life/capacity monitor for the mac Read more..

Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Bag Monsters

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Bag Monsters ⦠- Acts of Volition. These are awesome and a great Halloween idea. Read more..

Tesla in Seattle

Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

— good crowd looking at the Tesla this AM. Read more..

Latest Polls

Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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.  ... Read more..

Harsh words for the government and wall street

Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Canon 5D Mark II preorders

Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Canon 5D Mark II | Tongfamily.com. — apparently already sold out at some sites. Read more..

Halloween stuff from MAKE — snakes, vortex cannons, taxidermy

Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MAKE: Blog: Creepy Halloween snakes. MAKE: vortex cannons MAKE: taxidermy supplies Read more..

Lopez to Anacortes Ferry Quotas — Fall 2008

Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Fall sailing schedule starts sunday. We were at the dock today and picked up the quota list — here you go Sailing TimeQuota640AM52740AM391100AM22135PM150455PM46 (16 Sunday)535PM20 (70 Sunday)840PM46115PMNo Quota. Saturday Only Read more..

Recent books

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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. ... Read more..

Rich’s quick summary of all the cameras you want

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Canon EOD 5D Mark II, Sigma DP2 and Olympus Micro 4/3rds | Tongfamily.com. These all look awesome. Read more..

The flashlight jumps the shark

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Preview: Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod Flashlight. For the person who already has 37 flashlights and wants more. Read more..

Economists on the bailout

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

The quiet makeover of the Buckeyes

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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” ... Read more..

HDMI cable length limits

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Molecular programming

Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Caltech researchers awarded $10M for molecular programming project. UW involved as well.  More info at the Molecular Programming Project: …we will develop new computer science principles for programming information-bearing molecules like ... Read more..

Live from the Shoe: Pass, punt, defense (Blogging the Buckeyes)

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Thank god the Pryor era started. And punting game was good. I can’t say the defense was awesome, a couple guys stood out, but a lot of open field and ... Read more..

Maghound Offers NetFlix-Style Magazine Subscriptions

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Magazines: Maghound Offers NetFlix-Style Magazine Subscriptions. If I could get these all delivered electronically to the Kindle I might consider. Read more..

Microsoft Vision Statement on the Decline

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Tough observations from a MSFT insider: Now we have this godawful concoction about experiences, be they compelling, seamless, or plain vanilla. It suffers all the flaws of the second vision, in ... Read more..

Your share of the bailouts

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

On the today show, the figure $900B was thrown around as the total cost of bailouts so far (Bear, Fannie and Freddie, AIG). That is about $3,000 for every ... Read more..