quickSub looks like a cool little widget to automate feed subscription, as well as this little yahoo widget. On my todo list for my site.

BeyondVC: Want to be your own long distance player? – Not clear that I want to be a LD provider, a crappy business (because of these economics), but interesting.

Another great utility from Rich – Tong Family Blog: SpeedFan – the guy has way too much time on his hands.

Adrian has kicked some serious butt and gotten up a weather station for the Lake Union Crew Club – Weather Page. He’s even created a wap page for the camera – http://www.theludwigs.com/smithsandbox/weather/test.wml – my gosh why doesn’t every webcam have this? Now I can walk around and look at Lake Union from my phone or bberry. Adrian is one handy guy.

Rich has dug up a lot of good stuff on power supplies – most interesting the correlation between power draw and pc stability – Tong Family Blog: Power Supply Checks… – I need to check my machines out!

Moved from yahoo groups to Methodz of Madness Forum – discussion of halloween prop building

OK it is not Hyperion but Ilium is a darn good book. I finished it in about 3 days, engrossing. I know absolutely no Proust, and not enough classic Greek literature or Shakespeare, but I still found this book engrossing and am dying for the follow-on volume. But if you have never read Simmons before, go read Hyperion first; the Shrike has stuck with me the way few characters (or whatever) have.

The Seattle Times: Sports – interesting look at the budgets of the Pac-10 athletic departments. UW at $45M, no one over $50M in the conference. Last I heard, Ohio State’s budget was on the order of $80M, and I am sure that a lot of other Big-10 and SEC schools are in this range, given stadium sizes at these schools (a primary driver of revenue). Over time it is going to be tough to keep up with programs that can substantially outspend you on facilities and staff.

Marginal Revolution: If you could only learn five things……an interesting question. Calculus is on my list. But I’d have to put Physics in, probably in place of statistics. I’d drop programming and put in an Arts choice – creative studio work, performing arts ok too. I’d probably just go with one piece of great literature, probably Shakespeare. And now I guess I’d add microeconomics as my fifth. Very tough to choose tho.

Danny has a blog and even if he never posts again, his two posts to date are worth the visit.

Beautiful Stuff: Ridiculously Large List of Silly Names – some good ones in here for tombstones next year – Dee Zaster, Harrison Fire, Mel N. Collie – you get the idea.

RSS Winterfest - Great RSS Tools via John Battelle

Very funny/insightful ppt slide deck at Argghhh!!! The Home of one of Jonah’s Military Guys?: Logistics and Reenlistment.

Nice pointer from John Battelle’s Searchblog to Findsounds – great for SFX.

I never new that F7 brought up a command buffer history – Rebecca’s Blog – very cool.