Five Amazing Color Palette Generators - ReadWriteWeb. – I don’t know why but I love color palette generators.  They have grown up a lot.

• Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need.  Ok not really every cable but USB, Firewire, eSATA, HDMI, DVI, and Displayport variants.  Useful as far as it goes
• The cordwrap – another simple cable organizer
• Color codes for PC sound ports – I always need this reference

Brett on Stuff » Chia Seed for Backpacking.  Brett is an amazing resource.  I have no idea if I will ever need this piece of information in my life, but now I know how to prepare and eat Chia seeds.

Not sure why, the Mac Airbook SSD was reporting full.  Tried to delete a bunch of apps, nothing seemed to help.  I kind of wonder if it isn’t a time machine problem. I don’t have great OSX intuition and so an examination of the directory structure and process list didn’t really mean much to me.

Decided to just reinstall the OS.  40G free again.  we’ll see what happens.  Rennie pointed me towards The Omni Group - OmniDiskSweeper - Download or Tinkertool as decent utilities to use if it happens again.

Eleven Warriors » Troy Smith in Position to Win the Ravens Job.  Always cheering for Buckeye alums

• Flexible CNT circuits move on - nanotechweb.org.  Just one of many efforts to implant circuits onto papers, plastics, etc.  We are going to have processing power embedded in pretty much everything.
• Work on nanonet circuits – ok this stuff is all a long way from commercialization, they can only create circuits with 100 elements, but still cool

• Google Docs: Google Docs Template Gallery Launches.  Awesomeness
• Gmail Superstars.  Not as useful as tags but still kind of cool
• Open It Online.  Send docs straight to google docs
• Cookiepie.  Log into multiple gmail accounts at once.  Haven’t tried yet but seems awesome for admin personnel
• Example of GoogleFinance formula in a google spreadsheet
• Interesting ways to use google chart API
• Adding page numbers to google docs

Is the A-11 Pluto the spread offense of the future? : Fanblogs College Football Blog. – interesting discussion of a very spread offense.

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - Make your Website Mobile and iPhone Friendly - Add Home Screen iPhone Icons and Adjust the ViewPort. Nice, the icon tip is really good, my icon is pretty bitchin’.  The viewport thing didnt do quite as expected, i probably need to understand better what this tag is doing and think about wrt my layout.

* My Experience at IndyMac: Fraud, Corruption, Criminality. Wow. * The 6 Laws of Customer Experience – nice, clear, succinct read about how to orient towards customers.

MAKE: Blog: Pinewood derby designs of excellence.  Love the pinewood derby, still remember coming in 2nd and winning the pen and pencil set so many years ago, one of my finest moments.  These examples are clearly adult-assisted but cool.  Your kid’s car should look nothing like these – mine looked like a block of wood painted gold.

Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Pure Networks: Financial News - Yahoo Finance.  Congrats to Pure Networks team, to Pure alums, Pure investors, and Cisco for getting a great asset.  Good luck guys!

* Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Bending Over Is For Chumps – actually I totally need this! Ordering today. * Waspknife. For the sharks in Lake Washington. * Jawbone 2. Rich loves it but I refuse to go bluetooth until they look less dorky. I have my pride. * LED Candelabra for Halloween. Stupid expensive. * Hex-pro wrenches. * Gum Magnets. Gross. But cool. * Picksets. awesome. * Extruded Aluminum Dominoes. Neato.

• onOne Software - Developers of Award Winning Plug-Ins for Adobe Photoshop.  Need to try out.
• Phantasmagoria – free effects software to try out
• Rich explains F/Stops to me again.  Goofy.
• Sony CP1 Canvas picture frame.  Looks cool, doesn’t seem to really exist yet.