Michael Herf

If you have Wells Fargo Rewards points: convert to cash before end of year! You can still get 1.2c/point. After that, only 1c/point.

Windows 7 Upgrade: Network Backup painfully expensive - http://www.nerdblog.com/2009...

Santa Monica Williams Sonoma: Thomas Keller book signing line is 3 blocks long. Bailing!

Talking about replacing the 15 year old clock radio. Do any of the new ones make bacon?

7 Visualization Groups On Flickr to Find Inspiration | FlowingData - http://flowingdata.com/2009...

IMG_0273.JPG - http://picasaweb.google.com/herfolo...

Philips announces exciting new “feel good” lamp range, which makes people feel more alert, awake and energised. - http://www.lighting.philips.com/gl_en...

Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition -- Winners - http://www.ngldc.org/08...

Solid-State Lighting: CALiPER Summary Reports - http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildin...

LEDs Magazine - Cree demonstrates record-breaking LED lamp - http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news...

@mattpharr I suppose I'd need some pretty cool pixel shaders to do those spectral lookups, hmm. RGB LUT isn't enough!

LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...

RT @mattpharr: spectral light data http://ioannis.virtualcomposer... (+cool technique) Renders: http://ioannis.virtualcomposer... Raw data: http://src.luxrender.net/lux...

ZFS gets inline dedupe • The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...

Did someone give away a bunch of wheelchairs? Saw 3 Santa Monica homeless pushing them like shopping carts.

Kitchen appliances sound like drones to sing over today. Espresso shot gives you 30 seconds of melody.

Seems to be the week that all the email lists I've forgotten I subscribed to...remind me to unsubscribe.

"Oh you mean *Roland* D50, not Nikon? Nobody's said that in the last 8 years."

RT @ChefJoAnna yes: LA: would you pay $100 for a semi-private 5-hr cooking lesson if the proceeds went to charity? (I'm in LA 12/7 to 12/14)

The thing about starting a siphon is, you have to start by sucking.

Protip: leave wireless router plugged in at hotel. Invariably someone buys you free Internet for the day.

Candidate for best purchase of 2009: $5 timer that turns on espresso machine before I wake up.

@ChefJoAnna call AT&T (611) and have them reset it...couple clicks. they SMS the new one and the phone prompts for it. i did this last week.

Actually I'm not going to do this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us...

The "It's Done" Fallacy - http://www.nerdblog.com/2009...

Exclusive VIO™ High–Power White LED Knocks Down General Illumination Barriers : LED Lighting : Lighting : Press Releases : GE Consumer & Industrial Press Room - http://www.geconsumerproducts.com/pressro...

f.lux review: "Beyond that, God willing, browse sites without fear of radiation screen eye." Google Translate poetry at http://translate.google.com/transla...

The new "iDon't" ads have herky-jerky text animation with no motion blur. Apple don't do that, either.

My wife's website is #1 when you search for her name on Google. Except when *I* am logged in, where she's on the second page. Uh oh.