Word of the day: fissiparous. Prone to break apart, fractious. Great word, never saw it before. Per “xwordinfo”:xwordinfo.com, never been in the times crossword as an answer or clue.

Whew. TP looked like all-world at some points, and like a freshman at others. Beanie looked awesome. The receiving corps seems to be struggling to figure out how to work with Pryor and vice versa. Hard-hitting game, I think I counted 4 guys out with concussions or near concussions.

And now look how the next 3 weeks set up in the conference. Penn State, MSU, and OSU are atop the conference with 2-0 records. Penn State is at Wisconsin, then hosts Michigan, then at Ohio State. Michigan State is at Northwestern (who is 4th in the standings), then hosts Ohio State, then to Michigan. Ohio State hosts Purdue, then at Michigan State, then hosts Penn State. The race will probably be a lot clearer by the end of the month.

* Clickjacking. Pretty ugly form of attack. * Self-powered wireless light switches. Pretty cool, instead of running line voltage to every lightswitch, they harness ambient power and send wireless signals to outlets. Now if you just combine this with… * …Dirt-powered lamps! Or bacteria powered lamps. Way cool * Rich’s guide to your basic canon lens set, if you are willing to spend $4-5K on lenses * Charging station designs to hide cables. Hate dangling cables. * Combo phone/keyfob. Damn I wish this problem would get solved for real. * Probably too little too late, but a nice home phone base station with web/wifi functionality.

For your discussions with UM elitists:

* Detroit swears in new mayor, necessary since the last one is going to jail * He will preside over a city in population and school enrollment free fall * Auto sales are tanking * The wolverine has pretty much given up

Go Bucks.

* “Coalescent”:amazon by Stephen Baxter. Historical speculative fiction about a sub-species of humanity which has developed hidden alongside us. In the hands of Stephen King at his prime, this would have been a killer tale. Still a fine tale but not overwhelming. * “Chasing Darkness”:amazon by Robert Crais. Solid detective tale tho not particularly novel. LA ex-cop PI gets pulled into a police case. Some of his old colleagues hate him, some help him. Pretty standard themes.

Great advice from Brad Feld. Valuable in these troubled times.

Bracket up at techcrunch. Awesomeness. My money is on Berkshire Hathaway

• MAKE: Blog: Creepy crawling skeleton.
• Big Daddy Costume. if you have played bioshock you get this
• Skeleton Disco Ball.

Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Bag Monsters … - Acts of Volition. These are awesome and a great Halloween idea.

» Is Somebody Out To Get Us? Dotting The “I”: The Student Perspective on The Ohio State University Athletics. The short answer: yes. The voters are not going to put OSU into the title game after three straight national stage face plants. The only way a 1-loss OSU gets there is if nearly everybody else has two losses. Realistically OSU’s best outcome this season is the Rose Bowl or a BCS at-large pick. In that game they will have the opportunity to set the table for next year.

House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge - NYTimes.com – wow. going to get uglier. i think main street wants to see people going to jail, i don’t think constituents are going to turn around and support this until some of the folks who got incredibly wealthy are brought down.

Google Mac Developer Playground - Google Code – fun mac stuff here from google

coconut-flavour.com - [coconutBattery 2.6.3]. - nice battery life/capacity monitor for the mac

– good crowd looking at the Tesla this AM.

ESPN - NCAA College Football Polls, College Football Rankings, NCAA Football Poll. – OSU up to 12 in USAToday, SC and Georgia are other 1-loss teams in front of them.  Hard to argue with that, they both fought back after getting blown out in first halves.  Big game next weekend at Wisconsin, a chance to impress voters with the new-look Buckeye offense