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Don Knotts, a classic comedic actor, passed away Friday night. My favorites include The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

ASP has been the battle cry of the innovative and nible for years. If you feel you’ve figured it out, better prep for some more learnin’! Now SaaS is the way. There’s even some startup plumbers to help you get started through the commercialization process.

GiddieUp! Sony will be throwing this our way in April! The $1700 USD HDR-HC3E high-definition camcorder even does 2.3MP stills! Peeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssseeeeeeeee, Momma, can I have one?

First the water heater went, now the furnace is starting to fade. While the Nyle Cold Climate Heat Pump looked promising, the patent holder has killed the relationship with their sole manufacturer. Next most interesting bet is a geothermal heat pump. With any luck, we’re sitting on a water source here on the Piedmont fault [...]

Here’s a good read on hacking sleep (later roundup). Of course there’s a pharma-fix too (maybe even generic)…

LispWorks has an excellent cross-platform IDE for hacking Common Lisp is the the data, its the program, its… Download and rekindle (spark here here here (wiki here here) (search-help here))…

Here’s hoping in 2008 — a hybrid Celica!

Greasemonkey to the rescue (again) — its a 1-liner, thanks G… Follow-up: This has now been “fixed” by Google — you can turn it off! 

Ford is buiding one — the rags say 300% more efficient than the Prius … “the greatest innovation since the internal combustion engine”! Sounds amazing!!! Turns out that the EPA actually holds the patent on the hydraulic hybrid. You gotta read up on this… Or is it a non-issue with the new electric hybrid batteries [...]

Slim Devices Squeezebox wins with 802.11g and a RJ45 jack! Plus, starting next week it will sport fee-based Pandora (e.g. music genome project). These devices are still coming in at around $250 USD.