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

Fall sailing schedule starts sunday. We were at the dock today and picked up the quota list – here you go

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* “The Black Tower”:amazon by Louis Bayard. Very engaging tale of conspiracy set during the French Restoration. Excellent characters, nicely ambiguous ending. * “The Blue Star”:amazon by Tony Earley. Coming of age tale during the early days of WWII. Love, pride, prejudice, fear, death, hope. A great little human story. * “The Book Of Lies”:amazon by Brad Meltzer. Da Vinci Code-ish, a nice beginning of biblical conspiracy, the origin of the Superman character, and your standard life threatening events. The middle slows a little but a sweet ending.

Eleven Warriors » Thad in at End, Heyward Slides Over. – “For a group loaded with so many seniors, especially 5th-year guys, the starting 22 only features 8 of them” Some of the changes have been obvious (Pryor) but it is good to see the coaching staff responding to the underwhelming start of the season.

“Buffett once told me there are three ‘I’s in every cycle. The ‘innovator,’ that’s the first ‘I.’ After the innovator comes the ‘imitator.’ And after the imitator in the cycle comes the idiot.”

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Preview: Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod Flashlight. For the person who already has 37 flashlights and wants more.