BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Ohio State football results. – nice new service from the Dispatch.  9-11-1 against USC all time, 0-5 in last 5 games.  Let’s hope Tressel can reverse this trend as he has reversed others

• Yamaha Muro Sensor.  Love funky musical instruments.  These are kind of a 21st century bell choir.
• Estes Hydrogen Fuel Rocket.  Love model rockets, used to spend way too much time with them.  Almost blew up the garage once (oops Dad, I never told you about that did I?)  Thanks rich
• Utilikey.  I always have my key chain with me, love the idea of adding utility to it
• Atmos clock – runs for years powered by tempereature changes

Countdown to camp: Big dates on USC’s schedule - USC - OCRegister.com. – SoCal papers are already highlighting the Sept 13 game against OSU.

I forgot to point out that I guest-posted over on Jim’s blog this week – Jim runs an amazing crossword reference site at XWordInfo. Jim is a great and smart guy with a set of interests that sometimes intersects minge (crosswords) and sometimes is oh so different – “I have a theory that nobody loves both Fellini and Bergman. You have to pick one and that determines much about your life.”

Sanchez remembers Jim Tressel sitting behind his desk in the Buckeyes’ football office, delivering his pitch: “Mark, you know the two most important people in the state of Ohio are the governor and the quarterback for Ohio State.”

Tressel then paused before adding, “And the quarterback for Ohio State is No. 1

» “The Most Important Person In Ohio Is The Quarterback of The Ohio State University” Dotting The “I”: The Student Perspective on The Ohio State University Athletics.

Go Bucks, Beat USC!

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - Logitech Harmony One Remote Control Review. – Nice review of this remote.  It is a pretty good universal remote and I am also pretty happy with.  The one huge problem is lack of bluetooth support to control a PS3 as a DVD player.  But overall a pretty good experience.

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.