Thrill of the (book and stair) case – cool

Good summary of this report – Clean Energy Future by Arno Harris: GreenTech’s PPA Report – Key Insight on Leased Buildings:

* In 2009, PPAs will be established as the standard way that American businesses pay for on-site green power, bringing solar to commercial rooftops of mainstream America with yearly additional growth of 30-50%. * In 2008 the clear majority of new commercial installations will be third-party managed, with 65-75% of the market. * In 2007, of the national commercial and institutional solar market, an estimated 50% was developed under PPAs, up from 10% in 2006. * The PPA segment has not only outstripped conventional commercial PV sales, it has also expanded the market — acquiring new customers that would not have purchased solar hardware. * PPA companies will continue to drive down costs with innovations across the entire value chain.

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize-Judges – cool, our own Brian Curtis is a judge! Interested to see the entries.

* Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Arbortech Power Chisel – who doesn’t need one? Awesome for Halloween sculpting. Of course my sculpting skills suck, and adding power to them is not likely to help. * Salubrion Enso Clock – because it looks cool * More SSD options available…tipping point coming…going to be stupid to buy rotating hard disks soon… * Temporary todo list tatoo for your hand – I don’t think I’ve written my todo list on my hand since about 9th grade, but the day may come again * Kaossilator – I’m a fool for small music devices * Gadget gas station. To charge up the cell phone, kaossilator, kindle, ds, ipod, and every other piece of crap i travel with now

Kinesis Photo Gear homepage [Built for People – On the Move]™ - recommended to me by my smart photo friends

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