Willingham by the numbers - UW Dawg Pound – wow a crushing analysis of UW recruiting. This pretty much lays out exactly why there will be a coaching change.

StorageMojo » Our changing file workloads Interesting study results. Some of the things that fascinate me:

* Files rarely re-opened. Over 66% are re-opened once and 95% fewer than 5 times. Over 60% of file re-opens are within a minute of the first open. * over 90% of the active storage was untouched during the study

hmm, providing a backup service has to be profitable given this info.

Ohio State deserves to lose to USC? - USC - OCRegister.com – the OC Register columnists and bloggers are pretty inflamatory. Here’s hoping they are crying in their beers Saturday night. On this particular point, Ohio State supports 35 varsity sports. USC supports 19. The revenue from the cupcake games is what provides the funding for the incremental 16 sports. No one is excited about the games, but you have to give Ohio State some credit for the use of the funds

MAKE: Blog: Non-circular gears in motion – nice video. I’ve got a great set of books – “Ingenious Mechanisms”:amazon – that show how to turn one form of motion into any other form using gears, cogs, etc. Amazing what you can do

MAKE: Blog: Hot glue for expressive LED diffusion – nice looking effects. Has to be some Halloween potential

I don’t think anyone in the family is confused about this but just in case – The Congressional Budget Office estimates that there is only a 7% probability that someone born in 2000 will receive their Social Security benefits as promised today.

From Marginal Revolution: The Return of the Zombie.

MAKE: Blog: ‘Big Bang’ experiment starts well. Whew.

StubHub: Ohio State at USC Tickets - TrojanWire. Nice Stubhub data on this weekend’s game. Best-selling game of this season, 3rd best selling college game in stubhub history. Nice to see that OSU is involved with 4 of the top 5 selling events ever.

Why not save the schadenfreude for Michigan? The obvious answer, understood by anyone who was around during the 1970s, is that USC broke more OSU hearts than anyone not named Schembechler. Three times during that decade, Ohio State lost a piece of the national championship by losing to the Trojans in the Rose Bowl. The less obvious but still accurate answer is that while OSU vs. Michigan is a border dispute, OSU vs. USC is a clash of cultures.

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Rob Oller commentary: OSU-USC rivalry goes deeper than football.

Nice writeup.  No less than the future of the free world is at stake.

Tickets arrived today.  Section 10 row 60.  Hot dog!

• Fan note: ESPN Gameday is coming - USC - OCRegister.com.  7am, not sure I am going to make it there
• Your guide to discussing the game with friends
• Oops – Small fires up the Trojans
• Beanie expected to play tho it seems a little iffy

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Details.  Pretty interesting price point.  If i was starting a company, why wouldn’t I equip everyone with these and ask them to use google docs and other cloud services?  Massive cost savings relative to the old way of doing things.

Technology Review: Does the U.S. Need a CTO?.  Interesting proposition.  What is the reason not to have one?  You can debate how active the CTO should be and how much the CTO should leave to market mechanisms, but wouldn’t it be reasonable to at least have someone leading the discussion of strategy?

• Plex Media Center for OS X.  Very nice looking and I always get sucked into the idea of media center software…but at the end of the day I don’t think I would use it
• Rich on Fission
• Rich on how to see invisible files
• Transmit.  Not sure it will displace filezilla for me

And then the 5d Mark II is supposed to be coming out.

Now it looks like maybe RED is going to try to turn the market on its ear? Wow.  Good time to be a customer.

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