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.

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.