Energy-efficient traffic lights can’t melt snow – Yahoo! News.

Wary Book Publishers Are Fighting the Future – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.

Rodenator Pro® Pest Control Videos @ Rodenator.

Toyota Will Sell Plug-In Hybrid Prius in 2011, Urban Commuter Electric Car in 2012 : TreeHugger.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T.
Some rough language (as always with Fake Steve Jobs) but it’s a masterful piece of writing.

Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter | News | TechRadar UK.

YouTube – Pixel by Pixel by Outbreak & Darklite.
Interesting tile work.

Barnes & Noble Says New Nook Order Shipping Delayed (Update3) – Bloomberg.com.
I hope Dawn wasn’t expecting to get a Nook for Christmas.

Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps.

Review: Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M-B eSATA Storage Enclosure.
Turns out that the EX495 MediaSmart server supports port multiplication over the eSATA port and can see up to 5 drives. With this storage enclosure, I could add 10TB (using 2TB drives) to the new WHS over a fast eSATA connection. That should be enough to get me [...]

YouTube – Speaking Piano – Now with (somewhat decent) captions!.

Python Debugging Techniques | Ayman Hourieh’s Blog.
Just a pointer for Dawn for use in the future.

YouTube – Pyro System 2.2 Halloween.

I would have loved to have had this for Halloween. Or any time, for that matter. Very cool.

Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it’s merely safer to use because malware writers prefer to target the platform with the biggest install base, according to Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, co-authors of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook, which came out this spring.
“Apple [...]

YouTube – 3D morphable model face animation.

Wow. This is amazing stuff.