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Today’s Links

• Plastic Engines – We Have the Technology – Is Anyone Interested? - Would be interesting of hybrids and scooters?
• Comic Book Character Costume - cool idea
• 10 Neat Facts About Ferrari
• My Favorite Ball Watches At JCK, Big And Lots Of Lume - I like the Ball Trainmasters
• Ars System Guide: October 2009 Edition
• Hodinkee Recommended Reading: Investing In Vintage & Neo-Vintage Watches - I agree, it isn't about flipping watches....
• Autonomous Robotic Race Car - I love the idea of racing them up Pikes Peak
• Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics
• Linux Kernel /etc/sysctl.conf Security Hardening
• Google's new Social Search surprisingly useful
• George Brown's famous 1000cc supercharged Vincent "Super Nero"
• Google Maps Navigation Brings Slick Turn-by-Turn GPS to Android
• Quantum gravity theories wiped out by a gamma ray burst
• Add Your Facebook Events to Google Calendar
• Grand National First Edition
• 1965 Norton Atlas 750 (Dunstall Dominator)
• Google Music Search Officially Launched

Today’s Links

• Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7
• Windows7 has a better sleep (power) utility
• Aerofoil Keeps Your Laptop's Battery Alive
• 1976 Lincoln Batmobile Replica
• First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform
• Switched-On Ringtones - more moog
• The Secret of a Successful Marriage: Trophy Wife! - I win! (not that my wife will read this...)
• Electricity-free (mini) table saw - cool but you won't be ripping sheets of plywood
• Amelia Earhart’s Final Resting Place Found?
• The Top Ten Ghost Ships
• Bringing a '20s radio back to life
• Cyberattacks: Espionage now, sabotage soon
• Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D - yeah, I got waved, don't have a use for it yet
• The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done?
• The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz
• Google Rolls Out New Custom Search Features, Including Wikipedia Integration
• Scientists 'unwarp' distorted fingerprints in seconds

Today’s Links

• Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is Listening to the Universe
• Great online Halloween haunt resource
• Star Wars Uncut Trailer Teases An Incredible Fan Production
• Lexus Shows Off First Supercar - V10 engine
• Yamaha XS650 - bling!
• Yamaha RD350 custom
• High Voltage Experiments by Kizmox
• The Complicated Physics of a Dribbling Teapot
• Air cooled Czechoslovakian Tatra 603 V8 motorcycle
• The Andreas Honda V12
• The first women to go from New York to California on motorcycles
• WhiteHouse.gov goes open source
• Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

Today’s Links

• QT Lite Frees You from QuickTime's Bloat
• 72 volts, based on a 1980 Suzuki GS 250b. 70mph
• Ducati Flat Track Racer
• 1969 Honda CL350
• Cutting-Edge Science Reveals: World Won’t End on December 21, 2012 - I'm shocked!
• Porsche 356 Speedster Replica gets electric power, lands on eBay
• Counting the hidden ($120 billion) cost of US energy economy
• Push-Pull Tube Amp Build
• 5K Volt Can Crusher with a 100uF Capacitor
• LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks
• How to Lock Down Your Facebook Account
• Get Your Copy of Vim 101 Hacks eBook
• Time lapse video shows Wiesmann build the GT MF4 live at Frankfurt
• DIY Segway shows impressive balance and ingenuity
• Canonical and IBM team up on Ubuntu-based Win 7 alternative
• Amazing fantasy armor leatherwork - wow
• The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome, 2009 Edition
• Orrery based on Ferguson's "mechanical paradox"
• Weighing the pros and cons of stratospheric geoengineering
• A Lesson in eCommerce from The World of Goo - I would pay $5-$10 for it

Today’s Links

Some great stuff today.

• ‘66 GTO Goes Green for Route 66 - natural gas conversion
• Fitbit Fitness and Sleep Tracker - looks cool but needs to be $50
• Gardening Coral in Fiji
• Is The NFL Protecting Big-Name Quarterbacks?
• The Big Picture: World Animal Day 2009
• Ancient Apology Form for Drunkeness
• Physical Challenge: Beer Run - Buhahhahaaaaa!
• 1929 Majestic - wow
• Energy-harvesting rocking chair - cool idea but that chair looks uncomfortable
• Even as Fares Creep Up, Airlines Tack On Fees, Too
• Harley didn't calculate savings before killing Buell, hopes business as usual leads to financial recovery - and they are getting some bailout money
• MIT helicopter uses lasers to navigate indoors
• Placebo Effect Caught on MRI
• Inventor Woody Norris TED Talk - That is very very cool
• TriBSA 750: ‘The Bitch’
• 1971 Norton Commando 850 Cafe Racer
• cafe racer shot - I wonder what it is
• Buell RW750
• Papercraft Rickshaw
• 'Magnetic electricity' discovered
• HSN teaches valuable lesson about Wii accessory safety
• When robots fall in love: Ars reviews Machinarium - needs wii port
• Lightning-fast robo-hands - ok, wow
• Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser
• Ilmor 5 Stroke Engine – 700cc Turbo 3 Cylinder – 130 bhp, Better Mileage, Less Weight
• The Big Picture: Saturn Equinox

Today’s Links

• Impressionist cake
• Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans
• Mouse Runs on Trackball Through Virtual Maze
• How to save the world from power vampires
• Train an army of crows to gather treasure for you
• Scientists Create Pocket-Sized Black Hole
• Will Linux be the dominant OS for consumer electronics?
• Carl Sagan Goes down-tempo Electronic With Cosmos Video

Today’s Links

• Hard Drive Camera Stabilizer
• SteriPEN Adventurer Opti - seems like a good idea
• 1941 Indian 741 Flathead racer- wow
• CALM Act plans to put loud TV commercials to sleep - yes please, this shouldn't need to be a law but an industry standard.....
• Beware: SOMC cute!
• 30 years of failure: the username/password combination - alternatives still not available....
• New da Vinci Discovered Thanks to Hunch and A Fingerprint
• Carrying a motorbike on the back of a scooter
• Was Marie Rogêt Murdered by Edgar Allan Poe?
• Vintage Motorsports Tees
• Harley-Davidson Shuts Down Buell, Plans To Sell MV Agusta
• New Mule XS 650 Project
• Judge: ringtones aren't performances, so no royalties - sensible....
• Vivaldi – Performed on an Accordion - wow