Larry Nelson sent me a pointer to a site where you can download free PDF generators for a great many different kinds of graph paper, including some very odd stuff (for Americans, at least) like penmanship guide paper for Chinese ideograms. Music staffs, ledger sheets, guitar fretboard diagrams, and lots more. Brilliant stuff. All he lacks is "do-it" list paper. I'll request it; surely that's as important as Palmer Method for Genkoyushi!
Bill Higgins attended the Rocket Belt Convention in Niagara Falls earlier this month, and wrote brilliantly about it in his blog. I have doubts about rocket belts as a real-world concept, but of course they're what almost all geeks dream about. Read Bill's blog starting on September 23 and on for the next few days. (He actually got to try on-if not fly-the original Bell rocket belt!) Also check out his convention photos on Flickr. Also do read his reposted 1992 essay about rocket belts and other unlikely flying machines.
Related to the above is an exhibit of the work of Ky Michaelson, whom Bill Higgins characterizes as someone as close to a grown-up Tom Swift as humanity is likely to produce. Get lost in the site for awhile and see if you don't agree. A rocket-powered wheelchair! Yee-hah!
Sandisk has announced 12 GB and 16 GB Compact Flash memory cards, which should be available by the first of the year. This market is being driven by very high resolution professional digital photography, but if you really really need to be able to take 16,000 snapshots on your Kodak pocket camera before dumping to disk, well, here's your ticket.
Although the Wi-Fi business has been a little sleepy since Wireless-G finally happened a couple of years ago, I'm seeing an occasional flash of brilliance in terms of new niche products. One interesting approach is to build a USB Wi-Fi client adapter right into a fat vertical gain antenna, as is done in the WaveRV system from Radiolabs. Although positioned for RVs (which is how I ran across it, through chatter on the Yahoo Groups RV Communications group) it would work just as well in a car. There's no microwave cable loss between the client and the antenna, as all signal is carried between the WaveRV unit and the computer through a USB cable.