Hack the Bracket - Statistics and analysis to help you pick your bracket. – found via SI, a really quality matchup-by-matchup analysis. The buckeyes look pretty safe in round 1.

* Tong Family Blog: Camcorder Recommendations – rich does a nice job of reviewing high end video cameras. for the 27 minutes of filming i do a year, i don’t need any of these, but… * A projector with an ipod dock! Who doesn’t need one of these. * The USB flute. And to the writer who sneers at “rocking out (with a flute?)” – go dust off your Jethro Tull LPs. * Etymotic earcord winder. OK I might actually need this. * MoGo mouse. This looked very cool when I saw rich with it. * Super Paper Mario for the Wii. Mario. Wii. * A chumby of course * The Vectrix 3-wheeler because it is just awesome. * The Callaway FT-i, this is all that separates me from Tiger Woods. (I kick myself that I’ve never invested in a golf enthusiast company, because golfers will buy anything). * The MSR Reactor because you never know when you need to cook in gale force winds.

WhoseTube? Viacom Sues Google Over Video Clips - New York Times – one has to wonder why this is limited to video material. If I am the owner of say the “Ford Mustang” copyright, or “The Who” copyright, or the “Nike” copyright, why do I let Google profit off the search results for these terms? Shouldn’t I demand complete control over the results page and any revenues associated with it? If it was my copyright and I had worked hard to market it, I don’t think I’d understand why Google was allowed to make money off of it.

A TeleNav! app was slammed on my blackberry today. I didn’t ever install it, it just showed up on the homescreen. Basically a kind of spam from cingular I assume.

Anyway i tried it. It wasn’t terrible, but I can’t see why anyone would bother, the google maps app is so much better. The telenav app is a bit of size/speed pig, it doesn’t show traffic data, no satellite views, no white/yellow pages lookup, an annoying upsell ad on the front page. I deleted it.

NCAA Tournament Schedule - Deadspin – thursday 4:10 pm PDT for the buckeyes

I’m in like 10 different pools, my view on various pool managers:

* PicksPal Bracket 2007 - NCAA Tournament - March Madness – easy to enter, a lot of ad content but not annoyingly so. Entire bracket on one page which is nice. * Sportsline. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fact that they show you consensus pick info dynamically as you pick teams – this is freaking awesome. OK the math is sometimes bizarrely wrong but still. My favorite. * Yahoo. A fine choice. Not fancy but works well. * ESPN. The worst. Abusive ad content – in tooltips popups, in between regions as you fill in your bracket. I won’t bother to fill in anymore at this site and i would certainly never host one here.

From Dave, Wide Open Baja – 4-7 day tours of Baja in off road cars.

* File Sharing from Windows Vista to OS X ~ Chris Pirillo * Powershell scripts in a hidden window * PUSHD with UNC paths automagically maps network drives

Dead on – this would make my vista experience about 1000x better – Windows Vista Help ~ Chris Pirillo “VMWare is an amazingly robust virtualization tool - and it’s the only one that supports USB 2.0 device passthroughs. Virtual USB device support *ALONE* is makes it possible to run your XP-happy hardware on Windows Vista.”

Just when I thought I had the ultimate water-cooled machine, now we have water cooled ram – OCZ Releases Water-Cooled RAM – and I am behind once again.

* A portable photo background in a briefcase * 60 second beercan chiller * Tripper for photo storage * Scrolling LED license plate frame. This seems like a good way to get shot. * Able planet noise cancelling headphones * Best Indie games. These are quite fun * Phone/remote combo.

Lieber Research Group – excellent source of info on semiconductor nanowires. A great archive of technical papers.

I really like this observation – Brand Autopsy: A Vital Jack Welch Quote

“Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.”

* Andy’s working on losing weight. Good luck man! He’s also invested in Shelfari – i am a sucker for book sites * Mpire launches shopping visualizer * Phil plays around with google co-op. Oh and he has renamed beyond411 to avoid lawyers – still the blackberry app you must download * Rich updates me on the upcoming subnotebook mac portable – as soon as this is out, I am replacing my notebook.

MAKE: Blog: Octopart - search engine for electronic parts… – also has links to various other electronics search engines.