Download.com has quite a few, Koolmoves has been downloaded a ton and is reasonably priced. You can get the macromedia/adobe tool but even at educational pricing it is very expensive. COffeecup firestarter is another reasonably priced choice.

Via Techcrunch, TheFunded which tracks feedback on VCs by funded companies. This s awesome, more transparency and communication is always good. I note Bessemer is rated highly, I’m on a board with some Bessemer folks and I would have to agree, they are great. I hope all the Ignition portfolio companies rate us, and rate us honestly.

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.