* CrunchGear » Archive » XBMC for Mac OS X continues to mature, gives Front Row much needed competition – I have an idle mac mini… * cloudprint – i occasionally want to print at home while at work, and vice versa, this might be the way… * Dashboard for google docs * Eagle circuit layout software * NES games in the browser – like i need more time wasters * Copy Handler – tho i don’t do that much windows copying any more…

Talking Business - Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby - NYTimes.com – agree with all of this, very glad I am not a yahoo stockholder –

Besides, even if the deal does win federal approval, you’ve chosen to become a pawn of the most dominant company on the Internet. How exactly is that going to lead to a brighter future for Yahoo?

And here is some tough love for MSFT –

As a stock, MSFT is done - stick a fork in it. And not just past and present, which has seen the terrible performance mentioned and is the reason, for example, that the QQQQ underweights MSFT in favor of overweighting AAPL and others (despite its mandate to track the index). I mean moving forward. If you want dividends, there are far better plays. And if want equity appreciation instead, make a list of MSFT’s top competitors, throw a dart at it, and invest in whoever you hit.

Lots of interesting views in there. Getting past the GOOG obsession is probably the most important one.

Phil Howard - Organic Industry – nice charts, the industry is way more consolidated than I realized. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

GreenPDF has a ton of info about the carbon costs of paper, fun to read. i am not sure why they commingle the message with PDF adoption, that seems strange, but the numbers are fun. we’ve invested in a couple companies that combat the use of paper – Docusign, Earth Class Mail – so I feel kind of good that we are helping to fight the good fight

Dark Roasted Blend: Geoducks Are Strange

-- some great pictures of a Northwest classic. Always fun to find a geoduck at the market.

Seattle Startup Index here – thanks Marcelo – some good Ignition portfolio representation but kind of sad we missed out on Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

PC Magazine coverage and ehomeupgrade coverage of latest Network Magic releases – love playing around with SpeedMeter Pro…congrats guys

Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock (howto) – here is one way, lets you have blank separators on the dock. free and looks reasonably good.

Great article about Troy here via The Silver Bullet. Great to see Troy getting some traction at the next level, the guy is one of the greatest Buckeyes ever

* BrandDoozie: Marketing Materials in Minutes. Nice looking tools but still requires a lot of design decision making on your part. * Convert any image into an icon – useful * Sync AB with Google contacts – nice but I wish I could make the exchange sync work * ical dupe deleter – thanks rich * plugin to filter and sort web tables – cool

Maualuga Ranked Scariest Defender - TrojanWire – it will be fun in September to see this guy against Beanie Wells, the top-rated RB entering the fall. Beanie vs Ray, Tressel vs Carroll, there are some great stories around the next Game of the Century.

* Automate Your Home - Wired How-To Wiki – some solutions to try here, some mac solutions * home automation app for the iphone coming…

Marginal Revolution: Who should be bounced from The Great Books series? – another useful list of potential books to read. Sadly I was required to take exactly 2 humanities courses as an undergrad so my liberal arts education is painfully thin, lots of good grist for the mill in this list

CrunchGear » Archive » D-Link’s ethernet-to-coaxial adapter kit: useful but expensive – ha, you can buy old ethernet coax cards for pennies on various websites. of course they need ISA slots. I think my partners Jon and Rich may still have windows for workgroups net cards in their basements…