Severed Fingers. Great a sale on severed fingers…. A little too gory for my halloween purposes but isn’t the internet great!

RSS on PocketPC. Steve Makofsky turned me onto his PocketFeed RSS aggregator for the PocketPC. Wow this is great! The web has been nearly useless on my toshiba wifi pocketpc but this makes a huge difference. I haven’t been a huge fan of RSS but it provides me a ton of utility on my small screen device. I use Radio to create my list of sources and then import the OPML from Radio into the Pocketfeed app. Way cool!

Microcontrollers 101. Also from the MOM group, a set of documents courtesy of parallax that intro the entire concept of microcontrollers – Stamps in Class Curriculum. (A real headache inducing background bitmap on this site)

Torvalds on Patents. Couldn’t agree more – LWN: Re: large page patch. I refuse to look at patent material when startups try to present their patent portfolio to us. In fact, any startup that leads their presentation to us with “we have this bank of patents” I view with great suspicion – I suspect they are simply seeding the world with info about their patent so that they can claim knowing infringement later.

Servo Control Software. Lots of good discussion on the MOM site about servo control software. Robo-Ware Robotics Servo Control Software is recommended, supports downloads to basic stamps. Visual Servo Automation - Overview - The Solution for Mini-SSC Servo Control Software gets a lot of recommendations too but no download to basic stamps, you need to keep the PC in the picture.

OSU beats Texas Tech. A good first outing – Recap - Texas Tech at Ohio State - 08/24/2002. Great running game – linework, Maurice Clarett, way to go! A passing game that wasn’t a drawback tho there could be a lot of improvement. Signs of defensive strength tho they let too many points get on the board. On to Kent State!

Scroll Rage. First seen on Gary Turner’s Weblog. I forwarded on to Jon Devaan…

Van De Graaf. To go along with the tesla coils mentioned earlier – at edmunds scientific

UCF. Go Golden Knights! – UCF: The University of Central Florida. Hope you are having fun Annie.

Cool PocketPC utils. definitely need the ceipconfig program as i am having dhcp problems – The Furrygoat Experience - Programming

8/22 NY Times Circuit section. Lots of good stuff in here today. Googlemail. Jaguar review – after 14 years away, I may have to buy a Mac. Single number services – Kall8, Simulring, Linxcom -- i need to get one of these someday.

Tesla Coils and other great stuff. Nice plans in here for Tesla Coils including the 6’ tall 1 million volt version – Information Unlimited. Man I would love to have one of these on top of the house at Halloween.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Hilarious. Best movie I’ve seen in months.

Layoffs. They suck. Sometimes unavoidable in today’s capital markets but I am renewing my commitment to work like crazy to avoid them. The best way to avoid them is to keep headcount down down down early.

Just Six Numbers. I like this book a lot – fairly straightforward read about cosmology. I particularly like, in the discussion of dark matter, his analogy of the sea – dark matter as the bulk of the undersurface water that we never see, “bright” matter as the small layer of frothy stuff on top we can see. A very humbling view of our position in the universe.

And the Woody Allen quote is great – “Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.”