Tangle of Wires. – Scott has a blog now. Amazingly great Halloween constructor.

* “Down River”:amazon by John Hart. Wow wow. A real pip of a story. A young man returns to his bucolic hometown after a 5 year disgraced absence, and a whole shitstorm of family dysfunction, unresolved conflict, betrayal, assault, and murder explodes. Fun! * “Forgotten Continent: The Battle For Latin America’s Soul”:amazon by Michael Reid. Like many US citizens, my conception of South American history and politics is basically this: conquered by Spain, freed by Bolivar, a mess of revolutions ever since. That is pretty much what I remember from middle school. This was thus a great book for me, a little long and tough going in parts, but a pretty good walk through of these societies and politics over the last 100 years. Way too much to absorb but a great read.

Desks at Espasso : Design Milk. Awesome desks.

Amazon.com: Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home) Blue: Computers & PC Hardware. – supposed to have great battery life

Seven Must-Have Offline Apps For Your iPhone/iPod Touch - ReadWriteWeb. – MightyDocs is great if you are a google docs users.

* Twitchie robot kit. Looks like fun innards for a bunch of different props. * Great singing skull. * Haunted bookshelf. Don’t love the prop but really enjoy the cam mechanism, turning simple rotary motion into something more interesting.

Second time I’ve tried to post this. The WordPress PressThis bookmarklet is remarkably buggy.

• OHS - Places - Harding Home. Contains almost all the original furnishings of Harding.
• Harding Tomb – tho we always called it the Harding Memorial. When I was very very young I was skinny enough to slip thru the bars.
• Other Marion Museums – the Stengel-True Museum, Unuion Station, the Wyandot Popcorn Museum. Wyandot historically produced much of the popping corn in the country…
• Hence the annual Popcorn Festival
• The Palace Theatre, a shockingly nice theatre for this size town. Built during Marion’s heydays in the 1920s…
• Unfortunately there is nothing much to see from Marion’s industrial boom days, but from Wikipedia: “Products of the Marion Steam Shovel Company (later Marion Power Shovel) built the Panama Canal and in the 1960s, NASA contracted with Power Shovel to construct the crawler-transporters that moved the assembled Saturn V rockets, used by Project Apollo, to the launch pad. In 1911, 80% of the nation’s steam shovel and heavy duty earth moving equipment was manufactured in Marion, Ohio.” I worked 3 summers for the Shovel.
• Nearby towns – Waldo (Home of the G&R, famous for fried balogna sandwiches), LaRue (smallest town ever to have an NFL franchise)

Scout.com: Big Ten Roundup - Week 9 Standings & More. Sigh. A beautiful night and a hard fought effort by our guys, but we just made one mistake too many against a tough and disciplined opponent. Sigh. Was great to be back in Ohio Stadium for the first time in 20 years.

I’ve been to two games this year and both losses. I’m not feeling too lucky, I am bringing some of that bad Seattle sports mojo with me apparently.

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Melon brain. Awesome looking and simple

CreativeTechs Tips: Mac Halloween Screensavers. The first one is nice and free. The second is $5 and a bit of a porker to download.

I counted no fewer than five stiff-arms and his Beanie Hop was pure Buckeyegasm for the faithful – Eleven Warriors » Road Warriors.

Bring on the Nits!

Bottomless pit. Endless hallway effect turned on its side. Nice and not that hard.

• IPhone: Carry Your PC on Your iPhone or iPod Touch. I admire the hard work and ingenuity that has gone into this thing. Tho it seems like an awfully hard way to have access to all your docs wherever you go.
• iPhone headset shortcuts. I had no idea.
• Tricking your iphone to sue optimized pages