Whispering Windows - Welcome – OK I need to get a bunch of these for next Halloween. I would LOVE to have every window in our house whispering or sending out a sound. At $1500 a pair I may have to wait for a price drop but how cool.

If I go HD I think I will need a new video/audio amp/switch – this Yamaha looks way cool – tons of inputs – Designtechnica Forums - Yamaha Debuts the RX-Z9: 9.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver

Home : Carnegie Mellon business school - MSCF – wow, how degree programs have evolved since I went to school. Who would have predicted degree programs in Computational Finance? What degree programs will exist in another 30 years?

Between Rich’s posts and the incessant promos for Comcast HD during morning drive time on KJR, I am starting to lust for HDTV. Some questions I have – when will DirecTV HD availability catch up to Comcast? When can I get HDTV Tivo? Are there such things as HDTV-encoded DVDs (I am aware this is a somewhat mangled expression of the idea) and where do I get them and what players play them?

I missed this one – Ohio News Network - All Ohio. All The Time.

BTW, if you haven’t upgraded your power drill in a while, you really have to get a quick change drill bit set like Bosch CC2130 Clic-Change 27-Piece Chuck, Drill Bit & Driver Set – I have a ryobi set personally, it has changed my life. Getting rid of the key a few years back was great, but being able to just click in new bits or drivers is so great.

PlanetGriff Home – this may be the answer

Tong Family Blog: PC Buying Guide for Fall 2004 – great job rich. Especially my thanks for decoding the Shuttle product line, which I always find so confusing on their site. It ought to be simple “Here’s a good Shuttle, here’s a better Shuttle, here’s the best Shuttle”.

Note for next year’s halloween – you can build a really simple coffin thumper by talking an old electric drill and attaching an armature to the end which will whack against your coffin wall. wire the trigger closed, attach to a dimmer, and place in a coffin or box. if i had a drill lying around today i’d try it.

Halloween – the four bar simulator looks like the most useful toy.

EKI - Product Information - recommended by a couple people. Might be underpowered tho – the specs say 250W per channel for a total of 1000W, that may not be enough for my lightning effects.

10 Reasons Why Elliott Smith Was Cool

Deep Green Crystals: Found the place to buy performance stuff for Avalanche – Martin has found some cool stuff.

Scott Loftesness: Too Much Information…

Moore’s Lore: new technology. Computing, connectivity, mobile, convergence, communications, software, etc. – ouch, equates HP of today with Novell at the beginning of the Frankenberg era. Not a good place to be.