The Kindle has clearly helped me push my reading pace up. Particularly for classics which are cheap. I am at the point now where I look first for Kindle versions, and only occasionally buy non-Kindle books.

* “The Scarlet Pimpernel”:amazon. A rousing tale of adventure and deception and love. Great for all ages, wish I’d discovered when I was young. OK there are some misogynistic and racial threads in here that are clearly dated but still a good tale. * “Siddhartha”:amazon by Hesse. Something about Hesse’s voice really appeals to me. Perhaps it is just the eastern philosophy. Perhaps I needed some peace in the aftermath of the BCS championship game. But still this is a simple but deep book. Contrast this with most of the bestselling selfhelp and business dreck out there. * “The Importance of Being Earnest”:amazon by Oscar Wilde. Sure I’ve seen productions of, but this is still a very readable play. 10x better than most of the romantic comedy cruft that we see on film. * “Person of Interest”:amazon by Theresa Schwegel. Good story about an undercover cop and how his secrecy has pervaded and corroded his entire family. Eventually there is redemption but not without a lot of pain on the way. The first third drug on a little but helped to establish the mood of the latter parts of the book.

* my PC won’t boot with it attached – apparently there is some bios tweak i can do – yuck * and even when i can see it, the pc doesn’t recognize it as a drive

the hardware seems nice but this is too much trouble.

* Feature: Customize Your Mac with Leopard Power Tweaks. If nothing else I’d like the “Revert the blue dots to Tiger’s black triangles” tweak, those blue dots are just not very noticeable * iTunesFS – i know i will need this someday * Make custom rings with garageband

Camera Shy? Pentagon Builds a Portable Lens-Destroying Laser and also linked in this article, technology for automagically finding sniper scopes.

Printable, Flexible Carbon-Nanotube Transistors – on the road to processing power embedded in damn near everything – boxes, clothing, walls, desktops, paper, pretty much everything.

And here’s one application – objects invisible to sonar, and apparently emitting no sound – via a sound cloak

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