Eleven Warriors » Boom Rising. – for the opener.  Man there is a lot of defensive talent on this team.

• [Heathkit Virtual Museum

  A Tribute to Heathkits](http://www.heathkit-museum.com/).  Loved this stuff as a kid tho I was an incompetent welder/assembler.  But I drooled over the catalog.  via Make

• Shapeways.  Pretty cool personal 3D fab site.  The creator app is awesome

* “Watchmen”:amazon by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Wow, excellent. Better as a graphic novel than it could have been as a book, the use of text and font and images to intertwine multiple stories works very well. You have to think as you read. * “Where Are The Customer’s Yachts?”:amazon by Fred Schwed Jr. Timeless classic, its crtiticism of the financial services industry and customers’ foolishness is still dead on. * “Broken Angels”:amazon By Richard K Morgan. Another Kovacs novel, this one wasn’t a home run for me. With all the morally ambiguous factions, I could never quite get Kovacs’ motivations. And his drawn out death postponed by one miracle drug after another quit working for me. The whole thing felt a little choppy and unmotivated. * “Biomechanics of the Gastrointestinal Tract”:amazon by Hans Gregersen. Interesting reference on the GI tract, treating it as a mechanical device and analyzing behaviour from that view. Useful to help you build up a complete picture.

Nissan’s ECO Pedal pushes back during acceleration » Coolest Gadgets.  Love the idea of embedding behaviour into everyday objects.  I want my light switches to give me feedback about energy consumption.  My wallet to give me feedback about my spending.

Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within:

• Every time I plunge into a game, I inevitably choose the most Cro-Magnon, “Hulk smash, Hulk destroy” strategy possible.
• But what happens if the second self you create inside videogames turns out to be a total dick?

I can relate.

Stuff Rich has posted that I find useful

• [Advertising Opt Out

  Tongfamily.com](http://www.tongfamily.com/2008/08/advertising-opt-out/).  Done, not sure it will really make a difference

• Attaching sigs to PDFs.  Good stuff.
• URL shortcuts on iphone – hugely helpful
• ANd more iphone tips – Sleep+Home to take a screen shot
• Adeona.  Installed

My buddy Tim runs a little pickem content and the first week slate is out:

* August 28 North Carolina State vs. South Carolina. I don’t think NC State is there yet * August 29 Temple vs. Army. ugh. Army i guess * August 30 Utah vs. Michigan. I think Michigan will have a lot of emotion and will win this * Syracuse vs. Northwestern. Northwestern. Never take Syracuse * Virginia Tech vs. East Carolina. VT * Michigan State vs. California. Hmm, MSU is the favorite darkhorse in the big10 this year. But hard to win on the west coast. * Hawaii vs. Florida. Florida * Alabama vs. Clemson. Oh damn, Clemson is a trendy pick, but I have never won picking Clemson * Missouri at Illinois. Mizzou. Illinois strugges to repeat last year’s breakthru * Washington vs. Oregon. Hmm, Oregon is confused at QB, UW is not. * August 31 Kentucky vs. Louisville. Ugh, no respect for these teams. Probably take Louisville * Sept 1 Fresno State vs. Rutgers. Take Rutgers at home * Tennessee vs. UCLA. UCLA not ready for primetime yet

* Pizza pizza. - Core77 - awesome looking pizza maker. I make pizzas at home about once a decade so probably not a smart buy, would end up in the countertop appliance graveyard along with the breadmaker etc. * pick chair folds flat and hangs on wall, looks awesome. Hopefully it actually works as a chair too. * ExpandOS packing material. Hate styrofoam peanuts, love recyclable packing materials * Miracle tablets turn sour tastes sweet. This just seems wrong * Robopong table tennis opponent. Kind of a sad statement. * Weight-sensitive floor lights up. Awesome, in the age of green awareness, now we can embed all kinds of computational power and lights into our flooring. * A $1200 moosehead wall lamp. I’m surprised I don’t have one already.

Via Strange Maps, dynamic map/timeline of Olympic Medals by country up at the NYT. Very nice.

Office 2007 for Windows has some really cool features. I love the table formatting in XL, a totally obvious and good feature. And the fact that it is only in the Windows version and not in the Mac version has driven me batty, and has pissed me off so much, that I have finally converted all my XLs into Google Docs spreadsheets and dumped them into the cloud. Yes I lost some cool features. But I never have to install office software again, I don’t need to worry if the latest version is installed on the machine that I happen to be using today, I don’t have to worry about the fact that the last version of that spreadsheet is in my home office machine and not here at work, etc. I am immediately happier. I will miss table formatting, but not that much.

CrunchGear » Archive » Canadian movie theaters rent screen time to gamers – not sure this will ever pencil out or how it would even work, but the idea of playing Halo or COD4 on a giant movie screen is pretty awesome.

A guy walks into a bar in Ann Arbor wearing a Michigan jersey. And carrying a cat that also has a Michigan jersey on with a little Wolverine helmet on his head, too.

The guy says to the bartender, “Can my cat and I watch the Michigan game here? My TV at home broke down and my cat and I always watch the game together”.

The bartender replies, “Normally, cats wouldn’t be allowed in the bar, but it’s not very busy in here right now, so you and the cat can have a seat at the end of the bar. But, if there’s any trouble with you or the cat, I’ll have to ask you to leave.”

The guy agrees, and he and his cat start watching the game. Pretty soon Michigan manages to kick a field goal and the excited cat jumps up on the bar, walks all the way down and gives everyone a high five.

The bartender says, “Hey, that’s pretty cool! What does he do for a touchdown?”

The guy answers, “I don’t know, I’ve only had him for 2 years.”

• Trojans have a little problem - Los Angeles Times.  Apparently jock itch running rampant thru the Trojan camp.
• Detroit sucks so much that even the dead are leaving.  Wow.

cfbstats.com - College Football Statistics.  Excellent resource