On growing tomatoes

Good general information from Farm & Garden.
Excellent tomato FAQ from Texas A&M agriculture.

Warhammer 40k Painting & Modeling Tips

Useful, I thought, for general modeling, although there's not a lot of info. Where are the maniac tips that I need?

Crazy chess guy

There was an article on Wired News about Chess960. The modification to traditional chess is that the back row is randomized, subject to certain rules. Apparently the game was invented by Bobby Fischer, which he calls "Fischer Random Chess".

I had no idea that Bobby Fischer was such a nut. It seems he likes to shoot off at the mouth about various subjects, not the least of which is his anti-Semitic views and wild theories, and about how evil the U.S. is. (Let me clue you, Bobby boy, plenty of other countries are worse, namely China and North Korea. You wouldn't get a trial in those countries, you'd just quietly disappear, never to be seen again...the U.S. let you off easy.) Here's a bit about Fischer's "Yoko Ono", and the Wikipedia entry for Fischer.

Sandpaper 101

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about sandpaper but were afraid to ask. Or so they say. It's pretty interesting and useful information. But what about grits > 1000? I found some 4000 grit paper at Tokyu Hands. What do you use that for?!

Frank Sinatra called it "music for cretins"

An article on CNN describes the first hit rock 'n' roll single, "Rock Around the Clock" by Haley & the Comets, on its 50-year anniversary. Sinatra was being harsh, but hey, he was no longer the hottest act around, and getting kicked off the hill hurts. Coolness, is of course, a steady thing.

Audio-Related Electronics

Found this site while looking for information on voltage supply ripple rejection....

Cryptainer

Found a link to a free Blowfish-based encryption program. I'm not mindlessly surfing—honest! I was looking for single-ended Vpp for SATA (which is apparently 500mV). This link happened to be in an ad on the article page.

Furl

Hmm, this looks somewhat interesting: persistent online bookmarks. I don't know if it actually archives a copy of the page for you, which is what would be really cool.

2.5" SATA JBOD

There's a company called Rancho Technology selling a 5-port SATA-2 enclosure for 2.5" HDDs that fits in a 5.25" drive bay. That's crazy!! I mean, it's cool, but that'd generate an awful lot of heat in a tiny space. Especially if you were to use 7200 RPM drives. Seems like a couple 250GB drives would be cheaper, faster, and generate less heat. To each his own, I suppose....