Opinion: Third title game will be charm for Buckeyes - College football- msnbc.com – yes people are seriously picking OSU to get back to the title game again next year. Me, well, I’m not so sure. Some serious offensive learning and development needs to take place. All the stupid penalty stuff can get fixed easily, and the effort was there.

Like the Columbus Dispatch dudes, I am starting to wonder if the current system is really good for OSU. The 50 day layoff seems to have been better used by LSU and Florida. I am starting to lean towards a gasp playoff, and a Big-10 schedule delayed a week (already happening), to get rid of the layoff and compress prep time for teams.

Had lunch with Andy yesterday, he pointed me towards Cooler Planet, nice! Lead generation for renewable installs. A quick wander around google suggests that the space is not well served today.

Headlines/opinions like this – Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org - ReadWriteWeb and This Day Will Be Remembered. Some company joining some random standards group is just not that important in the medium or long run. Geez Microsoft joined about 42 kabillion groups in my time there, and had a kajillion alliances with various vendors, and nobody remembers any of those days.

Yesterday was art from lightbulbs. Today a company that renders financial data into 3d sculptures – MoCo Loco: WRLDs System

Favorite FireFox Extensions ~ Chris Pirillo – good list. speed dial and flashblock were new to me.

U.S. To Phase Out Incandescent Light Bulbs : MetaEfficient – I’ve moved away from incandescents most places in home already. What will we do with all those old bulbs? Turn them into art and collectibles of course

Sigh. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger I guess. Will be interesting to see how Tressel dissects this one. LSU is a very good team and OSU would have needed to play at their best, which they did not.

* The undisciplined play by the team certainly was huge. The roughing the punter was a poor decision, and the other fouls were just stupid. * The coaching staff refused to put the game in Beanie’s hands. * And tried to put the game in Boeckman’s hands, which he was clearly not ready for. Yes he made some bad decisions but why was he in a position to even make these decisions? He should have been watching Beanie run the ball.

Oh well. It is a game. You learn more from failure than from success. The Buckeyes are piling up the learnings!

Sports - NOLA.com and The Advocate

some of these in nytimes this week.

* Cursor*10 (nekogames) – oh this thing is crazy * Excit. * Portal. 3d version is of course way more fun * Spot the Differences

First in a series – Sunday Morning Quarterback :: SMQ Bowl Blitz: Mythical Championship Breakdown, Part One – some minor factual nits addressed in the comments but overall a great read.

Chris discusses The Siren Song of Local Reviews as does Andy. Both these guys have a lot of hard-won scars from their experiences. It is a continually intriguing space.

Ponoko one-off manufacturing service (via Make mag). I can see using this someday.

Love the Kindle. Love love love the integration with Amazon.com and the wireless downloading.

Mine is stuffed with classics – they are generally cheap on Amazon. I am reading Siddhartha at the moment, with some Proust, de Maupassant, Tolstoy, Wilde lined up. I am also using it for textbooks – I have a differential equations text with me, WAY better than carrying it around. I’ve only used a fraction of the storage capacity so far.

What others are carrying:

* Scott Loftesness: Amazon Kindle - Update * Brad Feld