Assign USB Drives to a Folder – great tip

Where to Find Open Data on the Web - ReadWriteWeb – useful stuff here

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Weed-A-Pocalyspe! – I think I’ve blogged this before, this one looks even more streamlined. I have to get one of these. Probably a terrible idea to buy one, there are just so many ways this can go wrong.

Rules governing up at NWA, Hawaiian Air, UPS. Not that complicated as long as you stay under 2 kilos of dry ice. And you want some sort of insulated box, Washington Packaging has one type of box.

MAKE: Blog: National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest 2008 – oh would this have been a blast to go to. Mousetrap had to be my all-time favorite game as a kid.

2 to check out – Amahi Linux Home Server, NASLite-2. Amahi is a full featured thing with shared calendars, websites, etc. NASLite is just a file share.

I’ve said this before – A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way » Blog Archive » Advice for College Admissions Counselors – please please please put yourself in your customer’s shoes and go sit through admissions presentations and tours at a half dozen competitive colleges. Most of what gets presented is so repetitive and undifferentiated. On a week or even a couple days of college tours, it is mind-numbing.

Amazon.com: Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us by Robert Buckman. Fun book about the vast number of helpful, benign, and dangerous critters that live on and in our bodies. You really get the sense that you are a walking bag of bugs. The pictures of eyebrow mites are awesome! Not a kindle book, pictures matter a lot to the narrative.

* “The Geography of Bliss”:amazon by Eric Weiner. A solid book exploring the nature of happiness; community, sharing, connections, a sense of a greater purpose, and a laid back approach to life all seem to be key. * “The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead”:amazon by David Shields. Reflections on mortality. I don’t really get it, he seems to be yelling at his readers and his father “don’t you get it? How can you be so carefree? We are all going to die” and my response is so what? How would I live differently? Am I supposed to be more dour and depressed, and how would that make things better? * “An Army At Dawn”:amazon by Rick Atkinson. The story of the US Army at dawn of WWII in North Africa – disorganized, soft, bickering, self-centered. All this was blasted away as the army learned how to fight and as the men ill-suited to war were rendered casualties. At the start, we viewed this as someone else’s war. By the end of the North African campaign, the war was deeply personal to the army with resultant changes in behaviour. * “Silver Spoon Kids”:amazon by Gallo, Gallo, Gallo. Trite examples, middle school vocab, shallow thinking. If you have no moral compass whatsoever and can’t bring yourself to engage in deep thought or true acts of compassion, I guess this book is for you. I’d personally recommend almost any classic or autobiography or meaningful nonfiction (any of the other books mentioned) as a better way to develop morality, and of course real engagement with real people in your community.

Comcast HD Quality Reduction: Details, Screenshots - AVS Forum – wow, comcast cheating on HD. add this to their “traffic shaping” and gosh they don’t seem super customer friendly

C-jump will teach your kids how to program » Coolest Gadgets

Dark Roasted Blend: Disturbing Wiring, Part 4 – we have 5 miles of Cat5 in our house, I can relate