Distance Calculator. A great homework helper – distance on the globe between any two spots – Distance Calculator

The Motherlode of College Football Rankings. Here is a great College Football Ranking Comparison, has every pollster known to man.

BCS 11/11. My projections were darn close to the actuals – Bowl Championship Series - Full Rankings Chart. I gave Miami more credit for improving schedule strength than they actually got. I had all the computer components right. We’ll see how I do next Saturday.

A pretty comprehensive site for single board computers and related products.

SCSI drives. A decent site for ebay auctions of scsi drives

Personal Streaming. Want to try out PeerCast and Streamer sometime…

Another one for my real Christmas wish list. Panasonic’s DMR-HS2 – another DVD/PVR combo.

My BCS Predicts – 11/10. OK trying my hand at my own predictions, we’ll see how I do tomorrow versus the professional pundits. Based on what I know right now – the AP and ESPN polls, a few of the computer polls – I predict OSU is still #1 tomorrow with 3.37 points, compared to Miami at 3.9. It is going to be very hard for Miami to overcome OSU’s quality win points from the WSU win.

A good source for LEDs.

If I was a kid. I’d want one of these for Christmas – french sloop model boat – I love any sort of boat model. And a chemistry set – tho in these days of extreme product safety the sets have been terribly neutered. When I was a kid I used to build models and promptly blow them up with firecrackers – combining these two great gifts into one merged orgy of creation and destruction. I am not really sure what this says about me but it is probably not good.

Other College Football Bloggers. Kevin is killing me with his Ohio State Escapes Again story. Chris Blanchard has a good cf blog. Here’s an Ohio-based blog with some minor buckeye entries but the guy owns buckeyeweekly.com.

ESPN – Inside the BCS. Brad Edwards agrees with my projection of OSU as #1, and he has the most methodical regular analysis of any professional pundit – ESPN.com: NCF - Inside The BCS

College Football Computer Rankings. This site has a good list of links to all the BCS components – Home – for those who want to do their own forecasting and analysis.

The Buckeyes Get No Respect. Also entitled Sportswriters can’t do math. Re: CBS.SportsLine.com - Third spot in BCS up for grabs

There is little doubt that Miami (9-0) and Ohio State (11-0) will be 1-2 in some order in the BCS after Oklahoma lost to Texas A&M. It’s most likely that Miami will be No. 1 in the BCS, because it is a virtual certainty that the Hurricanes will be No. 1 in both human polls.

Miami had a 1.5 point advantage on OSU in the BCS rankings last week, as OSU was rated 3rd in both polls and Miama averaged 1.5 (1 in one poll, 2 in the other). Despite this 1.5 point advantage, OSU was #1 in the BCS. This week the spread will drop to a 1 point advantage for Miami (as Miami and OSU are 1-2 in both polls), yet everyone is claiming OSU will drop to #2. Actually I believe OSU’s lead in the BCS will increase this week.

CNNSI is even worse: CNNSI.com - Game Central - College Football

Third-ranked Ohio State, which won in thrilling, comeback fashion at Purdue, will likely move up to No. 2 in the BCS standings.

I don’t think OSU will move up to #2 because THEY WERE ALREADY #2.

A good source for RF products – would be great to move to all wireless control at the house.