Not much today, I’m afraid… Great photoblog here. Some really nice landscape shots. Cool online magazine called Make which is dedicated to hardware hacks, digital projects, and DIY inspiration. Excellent! Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Kong, has been named to run the production of the Halo movie.

This website offers some inexpensive and attractive solutions for faux painting. I’m planning on ordering a kit to try it out. Really big Ziploc bags. Really, big. This bridge is very high. Good pictures here. Crazy French people. Not quite so stunning without furniture but this house in Hollywood Hills has some amazing walls. This little device adds a bit of clutter but frees up space on your power strip.

Not sure if this is worth $23.5 million but it sure is a gorgeous house. My dad has been looking for a Mark Twain bust for quite awhile. Thought it would be cool to have a company that makes busts from digital photo scans. Abracadabra! Here it is! This is a great idea, really. Am thinking about making one for myself. Did you know that you can search in Google with synonyms?

Backup your Flickr photos here. Just in time…I was wondering how I might get my camera phone pictures off of Flickr. Kind of creepy but apparently you can search through millions of cemetery records online at FindAGrave.com. Now if only I had $7.5 million… This film site is probably one of the reasons I like BMW so much. I would really much rather work in an environment that looks like this.

Ahu and I went on the 2nd Annual Chicago Luxury Home Tour on September 17th. The Tour is sort of like a mass open house for new luxury homes. A number of builders in the Chicago area open up various homes to the general public. The homes are typically over 5,000 square feet in size and priced over $1 million. The Tour is, for many people, the only way to see first-hand inside the homes of the very wealthy.

Giant squids exist. Hope you never get in this guy’s way. DIY flooring. Nice. Fast track yourself. How to manage your upwardly mobile career. Not that this applies to those of us who own the company they work for. Excellent website statistics from StatCounter.com. ForkBender uses this - only $9 per month. How to beat procrastination with a “dash”. Robot finds largest treasure hoard ever.

ForkBender.com now has a new search box! The Narrative CMS now has search capabilities and ForkBender.com is the beta test site. When you type in a word like “powerlifting” or “golf” in the search box at the top of the right-hand column and press ENTER or click “Search”, a search results page will appear. This functionality will be changing (read: improving) a lot in the next few weeks. Let me know if you run into any issues.

Mike Davidson discusses the class act that is Jet Blue. Interesting Flash website showing pictures of food with little people…navigate to the “Gourmandaise” link… Want your very own pirolette? Top 10 Things to Do in September The Not To Do List Discardia Don’t buy a Nano right now. Wait until the defects are fixed. Ideally, this is the house I’d live in.

I like writing on the train, as mentioned in this previous post. However, it’s nice to take a break and do other things sometimes. Here’s a list of the other ways I pass time on the train. Playing video games. The Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) that I have is great for passing time. Each game comes on a little UMD disc and so I can easily carry a library of games with me.

This article was sent to me by email. It’s quite interesting when you consider the way things are today versus the way things used to be. To All the Kids Who Surived the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.