The World’s Creepiest Places in Parties Holidays on Concierge.com – look like my kind of vacations

* Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Save Your Rear With LifeHammer – OK I actually got sucked into buying one of these…will I remember where it is when my car goes off the floating bridge?? * Heated Shop Floor Mat – handy when doing Halloween prep. Maybe I could combine it with this idea and it could be self-powered… * Zibra tool to open vacuum formed plastics – OK I got one of these too and it is pretty awesome * Hammer Stapler – not sure I do that much stapling but maybe I’d do more with this * Sideways drill bit – OK I really can’t picture how this works, but it seems like an obviously good thing

Marcello is running this Seattle Startup Index – 200 Seattle Startups - November SSI – kind of cool

World’s First Nanoradio Could Lead to Subcellular Remote-Control Interfaces – now this seems totally awesome. Being able to radio control nanoscale devices seems incredibly useful.

Home Owners Club – wonder if this is worth joining

Another great Halloween. Hundreds and hundreds of visitors. Awesome weather.

A few notes for myself:

* Pneumatics failed. Compressed died. Why? I don’t think it was just an untimely compressor failure. I think there was some overload condition created by my load. * I placed one skeleton over a blue yard uplight just randomly. It looked awesome! I should uplight all skeletons in blue next year. * More i-zombie lightning controllers! Lightning is always popular * More fcgs! I have a couple windows that would be great. Also Kurt recommended illuminating with a moving blacklight on a panning fan base.

Bug Labs – not sure what i would use this for but a cool concept.

From last week. Over at SMQ: Sunday Morning Quarterback :: MEET YOUR FRONTRUNNER: OHIO STATE – a nice analysis of the Buckeyes. Warms the heart.

And at Buckeye Commentary, an analysis I hadn’t seen of OSU’s historical failures against SEC teams. The record is not good. A hypothesis is that OSU has generally been playing against higher rated opponents in bowls as OSU fans travel well. Some reasonable data. Doesn’t explain the debacle in the desert last year tho.

Free Music Now! Lala.com’s Plan to Give Songs Away Could Upend the Industry

How to Troubleshoot your Network ~ Chris Pirillo recommends Axence Nettools. He’s also a fan of OpenDNS which I admit seems cool, but the neat shortcutting thing won’t work obviously when I am on some other network.

Then there is Lanroamer if you need to operate at a lower level.

Of course there is Network Magic which in my not unbiased view, just gets more and more robust and more and more useful. Now on version 4.5. Mac support now available which is one of the best things I find, since Mac/PC networking is still way too hard (though I haven’t tried Leopard yet and it seems to have a lot of new features in this area).

* Eye-Fi ? Home – awesome, wifi bundled with a memory card. auto photo auploading * Rich on various things including camera bags * Still need a great basketball lens - some ideas from rich, some more ideas from rich for low light * Polarizing filter * Fotoflexor for seam carving resizing of photos * Scancafe for bulk photo scanning

* Inappropriate baby Halloween costumes, volume one – I suspect someone will call Child Protective Services on your child’s behalf. * Unless you are going as a loser, I would pass on the NFL Helment Cap

A Sack of Seattle: Emotions of winding down a company – a very open and honest post about the tough times Andy and JB are going through.

Too late for this year but maybe next – Eric recommends this – Laser Widow laser light show is battery powered and lights up the room with a cool home laser light show. - Disco Dj Party Lights Lasers – his notes: “These projectors usually come with preset or sound-triggered patterns (stars / circles / lissajous, etc.) which they generate by bouncing the beam off of two tiny, rapidly spinning mirrors. I turn the sound activation off, then fiddle with the controls until I get a fixed- or pulsating-diameter oval. I mount the projector about five feet above the ground and aim it down our long driveway. With even a moderate bit of fog I get a great looking oval tunnel that’s at least 50 feet long – as victims approach via the driveway, their heads are right in the middle of the tunnel for quite a distance. (Getting the beam in someone’s eyes is not really a concern since it’s moving so rapidly.) The effect of the fog being “cross-sectioned” by the beam is quite something.”

Latest BCS standings – 7385660_37_1.pdf (application/pdf Object) – the voters are pretty much behind the Buckeyes. The computer polls are a little squirrelly – I’ll accept LSU ahead of OSU in computer polls, they have played some quality teams.

And maybe I can take BC, though this is debatable. Nonconf foes were Army, Mass, BGSU, and ND? Inconference was Wake, NC State, GT, VT. Is this really materially better than OSU’s record?

But Kansas? Who played Central Michigan, SE Louisiana, Toledo, Florida Intl nonconference? and K State, Baylor, Colorado and Texas A&M in conference, with narrow wins over most of those? Does Sagarin factor in the coach’s weight?