• [Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma

  Science Blog](http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/targeted-nanospheres-find-penetrate-then-fuel-burning-melanoma-18400.html).

• How Vision Sends Its Message To The Brain - the ability to record and study the reactions is what fascinates me
• Dynamic control of domain walls and Single Atom Quantum Dots - just a ton of innovation at the nano level as researchers try to come up with the next generation of logic elements

What’s New. Ordered.

* “Beat The Reaper”:amazon by Josh Bazell. Quite the thrill ride. The hero survives an incredible life intertwined with criminality to uncover and revenge the mysteries in his life. The final confrontation is original but nearly unreadable due to gruesomeness. * “Narrow Dog to Carcassone”:amazon by Terry Darlington. Humorous retelling of the author, wife, and dog’s trips through the canals and rivers of Britain and Europe. A trifle long but a fun read. * “The Little Book”:amazon by Selden Edwards. A very orignal tale of time travel, love, psychology, family. More about 1897 Vienna than you ever thought you wanted to know. Very well thought out. * “Never Tell a Lie”:amazon by Hallie Ephron. Eh. Compared to the other tales in this list, pretty pale. The entire story is telegraphed in the first 5 pages and nothing shocking really happens. It is not a bad thriller but nothing that interesting here.

Way to go “Trojans”:http://www.usclacrosse.com, season-opening win over Pepperdine!

* “Masters of Atlantis”:amazon by Charles Portis. Kept me engaged, but a lot of comic farce without a deeper meaning, and so ultimately forgettable. * “The Systems Bible”:amazon by John Gall. Recommended by a very smart guy, this is a great book on the foibles of designing and using large-scale systems, whether they be software, organizational, government, or whatever. Great book, wish I had read at age 25. * “Measuring the World”:amazon by Daniel Kehlmann. Two brilliant scientists struggle to make sense of the world and their lives, but never really figure out how to make human connections despite the efforts of so many around them. Very satisfying exploration of life’s meaning.

Dreambox to help Kindergartners learn math through games - TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source. Congrats Ben et al!

College Football Recruiting Prediction Model via ElevenWarriors. Awesome.

• Imm Living. Love these totem coffee cups.
• And this woodgrain pillow tho the color choices don’t work for us anywhere
• Brilliant little painting tool
• Corner clamp – looks positively frightening when not in use, like some medieval dentistry tool

The R Project for Statistical Computing. Must learn more about.

Warren Buffett: “We don’t know the perfect answers on it. What we do know is to stand by and do nothing is a terrible mistake…” via Marginal Revolution: The best argument I’ve read *for* the stimulus.

• Prezi.com - The zooming presentation editor. Certainly a lot more visually entertaining than your typical PPT
• Animoto is a whole different way to go on presentations
• favorite mac apps per Merlin Mann. Skitch and Path Finder seem useful
• htmlsql. not sure why I care, just seems cool.
• TinEye. Reverse image search.
• Free MSFT downloads. A ton
• Starbaron, a quality time waster.
• Adobe configurator. At least this guy loves it.

copper & concrete :::: lamps. interesting, particularly the ones that embed power outlets in the tower. i don’t need a lamp but a stylish power strip would be awesome.

Installed the Win7 Beta1. I think MSFT will sell a ton of this. It just seems faster and cleaner than Vista. I haven’t played with new features yet – early NYT review seems positive – but glad that it seems crisp and uncluttered.

Spent part of yesterday being deposed on a matter that I can’t talk about which happened during my tenure at MSFT. Hard to imagine that these issues are still dragging on, my remembrance of the events 10+ years in the past is pretty poor. It was kind of humorous to be reminded of issues that we fought like cats and dogs about – in retrospect none of them amounted to a hill of beans.

Doing my part to help Microsoft avoid more layoffs this week. Firstly, been working thru zune error code C00D12F5 - Google Search. Some DRM config problem and all the published KB articles and forum pointers failed. Finally contacted the Zune guys directly and they were super helpful, even took my machine into their labs for a while. Turns out that somehow I had mismatched DRM components, they aren’t sure why, but forcing them all to the same version worked. Hopefully they will write up a KB article on. Zune guys were great to work with, here’s hoping they have future success.