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

* Remember the Googley Milk – major hole on iphone is lack of a todo list. this is my current favorite replacement. Nice PC UI. * Flot javascript graphing library. or there is what looks to be a server-side google alternative. Now I am embarrassed I have never put a graph on my site. * Price Advance. don’t know how well it works but seems worthy of a trial * Crossloop. Remote screen control plus a peer to peer service to help others. I like the business model thinking. * Resize any window. Sad that I even understand why I need this. * Single file defrag. I bet I will need this someday * Senuti iPod backup * Ebay Desktop. Kind of nice tho late and really why is this an app and not just a better website? * Mac disk usage utilities

Reversing Everything: Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system – minesweeper! photo viewer! screencap! easter egg! all kinds of great stuff here.

* Q-Chord – looks like a blast * Self-tuning guitar – I think I actually need a self-playing guitar

* The Quest for a New Class of Superconductors – exploration of materials for higher temp superconductivity – basically trying to find materials that conduct without involving phonons * Silicon nanowire battery with much greater energy density. One example of how messing with the nanostructure of materials can have remarkable impacts * Materials with no thermal expansion * Nanorods as measurement devices – measuring cell ph * extra strong metallic foams – another instance of how messing with nano structure can have remarkable macro effects * Turning diamonds into conducters * High performance carbon nanotube fibers.

Will Johnston’s Puzzle Pointers via JimH, thanks

makezine.com: Looking at the Low End – good primer in make (sub required). just ordered the filters I need.

…I do at the same time respect them. Florida, I just hate. MGoBlog says it well – mgoblog: Joyous Wrong. Congrats wolverines.

* The “Kindle”:amazon is awesome. The awesomeness is due to the wireless delivery of books. And the fact that I can browse Amazon at my PC and direct books to my Kindle with one click. (Similarly, the Unbox/Tivo integration is awesome for the same reason – Amazon is silently building a great asset here). The book selection is soooo much broader than that for the Sony Reader. * Call of Duty 4 is awesome. the ranking/challenge system keeps you engaged. Haven’t cracked the UT box yet, so entranced with COD4 – must get to 5-star general. * Stupid little RC helicopters that we got are fun. Available from lots of vendors. Pretty uncontrollable, watch out lamps!

Everything else is awesome too! I will blog it all in the fullness of time.

* Video Demonstration: The Rules of Photography Composition. good 2 minute primer * Liquid lenses. I think we are still in the infancy of digital photography. Our ability to control lens behaviour is still so finite. * Photo software essentials. Must get all of these. Oh and should try this tho I am largely moving to the Mac for things photographic. * And must try out Picnik * Not sure I want this bag but I do like Crumpler bags

Excellent data up here – Eleven Warriors ? Blog Archive ? Ali Baba And The 40 (Time) Thieves. Perchance the Buckeyes will be able to at least stay within 3-4 scores.