Boing Boing: The eyes have it – and who doesn’t need an extra 20 or so eyeballs. A million and one uses at Halloween time. Thanks Shawn.

Phones as wallets, walljacks as access points. Fascinating. Seems like as Moore’s law drives the cost of including additional electronic functionality to zero, we are going to see all kinds of interesting combos. The premium is going to be on clear understanding of the scenarios and usage models, leading to useful integrations. Just because you can slam a camera into a vacuum cleaner doesn’t mean you should.

Site News - Fanblogs.com: Conventional Wisdom: Week One – I half expect to see, 5 or 10 years from now, a couple of PSU assistants holding up Paterno’s still employed corpse between them on the sidelines. We can call it “Weekend at JoPa’s”.

Seriously. This HAS to be a huge recruiting impediment for Penn State – every kid knows that Joe is leaving sometime, no one wants to sign up for a program where the coaching regime may change half way through.

Last night at the Key – just awesome.

over at fanblogs…Big 10 College Football - Fanblogs.com: Big 10 Opening Weekend Preview.

Nice coverage of the upcoming game at the Cincinnati Enquirer

bunch of control/animation links:

* tree – yet another fake tree project, this one with a simple cardboard core * auto talk controller – for synching an animation with a soundtrack * a lightning effect using a color organ – complete plans * Vibration/shock sensor * wiper motor tutorial. very handy. * quick and easy flicker controller.

as always, thanks to the mom forums.

JamPlug Miniature Guitar Amplifier

OK I originally had some problems with this – a little ludwig goes a long way: XP SP2 and Remote Desktop – but I was contacted by some very nice guys from MSFT and we walked thru config and usage. The problem seems to have gone away, could have been my misconfiguration, tho I have a niggling feeling not, but whatever, I am working now. Thanks guys.

Behind on posting…interesting tidbits:

* We have slid to dangerous depths of presidential hatred in this country – hear hear – let’s leave mudslinging to where it belongs: college football discussions. * Cuban on hard drives vs dvd. seems on target to me. * LarryO on the consequences of hiding true network behaviour from applications. this, it seems to me, is why high-level network programming abstractions like rpc and dcom never really caught on, and why very simple protocols like http did catch on. * Movalog -- all things MT. * Rich’s guide to debugging machine instability – the first link is really good, a set of tests for burn-in testing of a new machine. * What is the coolest thing you learned this year? Crap I need to come up with an answer to this soon. * Sony to put PS2 chips in TVs. And i bet MSFT wants to put chips in TVs, as well as a bunch of other companies. TV/tuner evolution is becoming interesting. * MSFT SP2 distribution – why not just a torrent? * The GMail filesystem. Cool. * Emachine shop. Custom fabrication of your parts over the internet.

The Seattle Times: State ferries to offer free Wi-Fi service

Barca review by PC Magazine – looks really nice. But barfs on the IMAP feed from the Ignition imap server, only downloads 3 of my 36 inbox items. Too bad.

Wait Times @ WSF Terminals, and the Ferrycam. Also Islandcam to see other cams on the islands.

Just finished reading this. Every US citizen should read it – or at least read the recommendation chapters (12 and 13) – available for download at National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

Reading it makes me feel much more activist about the problem. And much more realistic about the time it is going to take to overcome the terrorism problem – the book mentions that we should think in terms of decades.

OK I have a problem with XP SP2. All my remote desktop sessions have quit working. I’ve tweaked firewall settings on client and server side, making sure the “remote desktop” button was checked. But doesn’t seem to be working. Very bummer. No obvious threads on this problem that I can find on google or msdn – there is some discussion about extra work needed to permit remote desktop sessions as part of netmeeting, but these tips seem to be specific to netmeeting. Hmm.

Our phone line is out…The Qwest online trouble ticket page is telling us that it won’t be fixed until 8/29 ???

Wow my vonage line+comcast cable modem is better than this…

The really strange thing is that a spurious 911 call was generated on our line the morning it went out. Presumably related in some way.