Marginal Revolution: No More Making Fun of Canadian Money. Wow. The world has voted on the US economy and government policies.

quick scan of google results – * Westinghouse 5 Channel Wireless Home Intercom System with Doorbell * Radio shack unit with telephony interface * Westinghouse or on amazon (savage customer reviews) * Doorbell fon units – telephony integrated solution * a list of units at nextag * … and at smarthome

* MoCo Loco: Finding Cheska – awesome looking placesettings. * Ice cream scoops that in theory stay warm and thus scoop better * Wine ratchet. OK opening wine bottles is not that big a problem but still.

For all my Ohio friends, some links to get you ready for the game this weekend:

Should be fun!

May build a little mausoleum for this halloween. Some motivating pictures:

* Palm_Cemetery_in_Winter_Park,_FL_-_Creepy_Mausoleum.jpg (JPEG Image, 1797x1188 pixels) - Scaled (60%) * Stengel * Buhne * Hierapolis * Collier Crypt

Oh and here someone else built one – Someone else’s halloween crypt

And sloppy basketball at that. NCAA Football Team Stats - CBSSports.com – almost 1300 yards of offense between the teams. and 5 fumbles, 2 ints in the game. 28 penalties and 328 penalty yards. Sloppy! I can’t believe in Louisville as a top 10 team with this kind of play.

Not sure why Vista decided it needed to tell me this, but this forum provides tips on fixing – Microsoft Windows Search Indexer stopped working and was closed - Tech Support Forum – basically you have to manually delete all the temporary working files for search. You’d think Vista could do that for you. Possibly related to the fact that my reliability index is 1.97 and I am getting multiple blue screens a day – thanks BioShock.

A new field for me – .:: Attosecond Spectroscopy ::. – introduced to by a recent review article in Science magazine. Fascinating – spectroscopy at the electron level, the ability to see electron changes as atoms bond, etc.

* Real Time Collaboration in Google Spreadsheets Rocks at Starting Up by Rahul Pathak – Rahul points out the collab features, very nice * And look at the new online data integration features – google sets integration, xpaths/xml, html import, rss integration. the google sets thing is awesome

* Marginal Revolution: Underrated novels – good lists of books to consider * Martin tries out dailylit – another good way to read classics

* Awesome Local Deals Content in Seattle & Atlanta at Starting Up by Rahul Pathak – Rahul talks about latest Judy’s Book release – the content is starting to vastly improve… * Phil’s Blackberry app gets some good press coverage\ * The opportunity for Network Magic – home networks are just way too frickin’ complicated * Marine forecasts for the San Juans – thanks Rich * Rich also on how to read charts … I learned all this as a kid on Georgian Bay but a good refresher * Brett finds the best guide to the west coast trail – good luck brett!

Marginal Revolution: How many books should you start? – economists discussing rational behaviour concerning reading. I am somewhat irrational, I hate to give up on a book.

I don’t know what R-67 is, but I’ve seen this group – Consumers Against Higher Insurance Rates – running numerous inflammatory ads against it. Google reveals that one of these “consumers” is State Farm, who has given $284K to the campaign. Another is Professional Insurance Agents of Washington. Here’s the whole list – note that it is free for individuals to join, and they have a damn small list. And I wonder how many of these are employees/members of the insurance industry companies/groups?

The duplicity of this campaign pretty much convinces me to vote for R-67, whatever it is.

UPDATE: OK I don’t know why this ticks me off so much, something about these monied interests wrapping themselves in the cloak of consumerism. You can browse all the group’s filings here – you will quickly see that real washington consumers have donated maybe $300 while insurance companies (mostly out of state) have donated millions and millions of dollars to this campaign. The group founders are not consumers but come from this tort reform group. Here’s some Seattle news coverage about the media buying from earlier this summer.

Coaches Hot Seat 2007 – great site, love the detailed stats. Grammar and spelling aren’t always tops but still a great resource. Michigan better start shopping…

Misting Fans and Outdoor Misting Systems – probably too wet but another fog system