MAKE: Blog: More trees with eyes! – very nice.

FanDome - NCAA College Football - Ohio State Buckeyes Team Page – useful buckeye link page, lots o videos.

* “Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar”:amazon by Cathcart and Klein. Philosophy lite. A diverting bathroom book, no more. * “The Alchemist”:amazon by Paulo Coelho. A parable about being true to your dreams. Simplistic. And so kind of appealing but kind of ridiculous. A week later, hasn’t stuck with me. * “Crash Course: Gastrointestinal System”:amazon by Seidel and Long. A western medicine reference to the gastrointestinal system. adequate overview. all trees, no forest tho. * “The Enzyme Factor”:amazon by Hiromi Shinya. Excellent sensible book on health and diet. Based on his long long experience. Contrast with the prior text, very much a forest view. Some very sensible conclusions about diet and lifestyle. Some of the details may not be fully justified (coffee enemas on a regular basis, really??) but the overall discussion is very useful. * “One False Move”:amazon by Harlan Coben. Another myron bolitar tale. Snappy as always. Can’t go wrong with one of these on the beach or the plane. * “Devil May Care”:amazon by Sebastian Faulks. Eh. Pretty rote Bond story with a telegraphed twist. A fine screenplay but pretty tired as a story. Don’t understand the rave reviews this has gotten, there are like thousands of suspense and mystery books that are more interesting

Toward the end of the dentist drill? – I grew up with a great family dentist but since adulthood my experiences have not been as good, and I sure hope that technologies like this come to fruition. I hope a hundred years from now people look back at 20th century dentistry and shudder at the barbarism of it all.

This year’s must have Christmas item?

* Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog * Marginal Revolution: NFL Player IQ by Position Played * Locksmiths hate computer geeks… * Coaching Quotes

Fisker Automotive: Environmentally friendly, premium cars featuring plug-in hybrid technology » Vehicles » Features – J says we need to get one of these.

WordPress for iPhone…apparently not that far away

* Nanowire quantum dot counts electrons - nanotechweb.org – measuring current one electron at a time * Imaging using quantum-entangled photons – quantum entanglement stretches the brain. * Nanotube-coated pot boils water fast – the power of surface area. Maybe not great for cookware, but for water heaters?

Heading up later this week and needed a reminder – A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way » Blog Archive » Hiking on Lopez Island – the shark reef walk is still great and I want to hit Iceberg point again. This map provides some detail on finding the trails, but you really need the chamber handout. If I get one this week I will try to post a scanned copy of.

Core77 / design magazine + resource / post – I was an avid collector as a kid, these are just cool looking. Admire the innovation.

After activation woes, the experience has been pretty good. The things I like:

* The Exchange support. Wasn’t completely obvious how to enable. You have to delete your old imap/webdav email account info, and create a new Exchange account type, and turn on the cal and contact synching. It will wipe all your on-device cal and contact info so sync up first! Getting the entourage/ical sync disaster out of my config is a very good thing. * The App store. nice selection, a lot of good choices, and seems to work well. Apps I like so far: ** Urbanspoon. The interface is just cool ** GuitarToolkit. Chord reference and tuner, very nice ** Todo. Integrates nicely with RememberTheMilk for a complete app and website experience. Jott is great too with the nice voice interface but Todo wins for the rememberthemilk integration ** SmugShot. Replaces the iPhone camera and photo apps, and is integrated with SmugMug

Things that aren’t doing it for me:

* What is the new Contacts app for? Seems like a subset of the phone app * The Google app. Not really clear what value this adds beyond the existing search in Safari * Games. They look nice but the interface limitations of the device really hurt. I won’t get rid of my DS. * Still no cut and paste?? Am I missing this somewhere?

Car stereo stock radio fake-out - Instructables - DIY, How To, ride, music - The Instructables Book Contest Entry – put your crap OEM stereo faceplace over your cool aftermarket install. Awesome.