Home – a pretty inspiring list. We should all be working on one of these! I am glad to see that Ignition has companies working on health informatics, personalized learning, solar energy, and internet security.

Nanowire arrays think big - nanotechweb.org – bottoms up, “organic” assembly of nanowires. Some technique like this is going to be necessary for nanowire devices. And solving the general problem of bottoms up chip assembly seems pretty high value.

I’m trying to figure out the best way to watch AVCHD movies on the family room TV. I’m not excited about installing a media center pc or appletv. this little box might be useful – Consumer Camcorders - High Definition Camcorders - DVD Camcorders - Single Chip CCD Digital Camcorders - Digital Camcorder - DW100- Canon USA Consumer Products

Danny Glasser: The Road to HD: QAM to the rescue? – Danny is concocting the most complicated Rube Golbergian system possible to try to watch HD. Good luck! I might suggest just buying a TivoHD box and slipping a cablecard in it, you will have immediate HD football goodness.

I didn’t know about these guys – Island Express Charters, San Juan Islands, Washington. I’ve used Paraclete a lot. If you don’t need a car on the islands, way faster and more convenient than the WSF.

* Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? All Tied Up With Flat Twine – more useful than tape in a lot of cases * Nylon Pry Set – excellent idea * SATA to USB adapter – will save your bacon when you need it. This is the kind of thing I always hope I can find at Fry’s but is never actually in stock.

OK this is starting to get really annoying. 70+ sync errors today with the iphone. seems to be mostly with recurring calendar events. grr. i know have my dad’s birthday on my calendar like 8 times.

UPDATE: Oh fricking great. 1548 sync conflicts reported. What the hell am I supposed to do with that????

UPDATE: Oh double great. Now the Conflict Resolver is trying to sync an iCal event with a contact. Awesome. And trying to resolve a conflict between my mom’s birthday and a basketball game – “Select the correct Event information below”

The good news is now I can plausibly skip every meeting and say “gee it wasn’t on my calendar”

Lots of great energy stuff up at the DOE site – including Solid-State Lighting: Research Highlights which has their award winners for solid state lighting last year. I’ve tried some of the inexpensive commercially available LEDs and they suck. I’m going ty try out one of these more expensive can replacements

* Feature: Run Your Personal Wikipedia from a USB Stick – really cool, but I have to admit I can’t understand why you would jam all your valuable project and personal info onto a fragile, easily misplaceable piece of hardware. * IDE for powershell scripts – nice tho I am moving away from Windows machines * Assigning file types to programs – I’ve always found the shell interface for this to be hard to use, I can’t say yet if this is better * Back up to friend’s hard drives with Zoogmo – intriguing

Sunday Morning Quarterback :: Return of the Exploitation Index – great analysis of the economics around college football. Institutions and the adults involved continue to reap huge dollars off the backs of the players. Ridiculous that it is not shared in some fashion with the players.

Brett on Stuff ? Little Annapurna Day hike – what a great review, I wish all trail reviews had this level of detail! Sounds like an awesome hike

Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2008 - Produced by Core77 – some nice stuff here. I’d like to build one of these EnerJars.

What Anthropic Reasoning Can Really Tell Us – good study trying to debunk the anthropic arguments in cosmology.

I’ve had it with 1800flowers, with proflowers, with marthastewart’s site. In the past year I’ve ordered flowers from each and they have all resulted in various disasters – flowers never arrived, arrived damaged, or were pathetically bad.

From now on I am dealing with real human beings at local florists. Lindvall florist in Florida, Marion Flower Shop in Ohio.

This points out a large flaw in current SEO-crazed environment – pissing away a lot of money on SEO and SEM is pointless if you can’t back it up with a solid operation. You need to do something well, something of real value, before you start trying to slurp up traffic.

* digital voice changer kit – I already have a voice mod box that I use with a large prop, but this might be a nice one to use on my person as part of a costume. * Rotary Chisels – look great for carving tombstones etc.