- USA Today's list of the most influential fictional luminaries:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-10-16-influential-people-list_x.htm

- Three emerging technologies that will someday have a profound effect on your life:
http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=631&page=1

- 29 Things to do when your internet connection is down. I am adding one to the list...work on my Jim Tressel voodoo doll.
http://www.keepersoflists.org/index.php?lid=6094

- The life of a trivia junkie:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/10/24/jennings.jeopardy/index.html?eref=rss_showbiz

- Another NBA season starts in a few days. The only thing new on the Laker's bench is Phil Jackson's artificial hip. I doubt the Lakers will make the playoffs. My predictions for the season:

Eastern Conference finals: Chicago over Miami in 6.
Western Conference finals: Phoenix over Dallas in 6.
NBA Finals: Phoenix over Chicago in 5.

Here are the ESPN power-rankings for the new season:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/powerranking?season=2007&week=-1

Since I am doing predictions, let me give you my predictions for the elections a week from Tuesday. I give the democrats a 55% of winning the house, and a 40% chance of winning the senate. I think the democrats pick up 20 seats in the house, and 4 in the senate. One of the best political writers in the country, Michael Barone, writes about how things might actually shake-out on November 7th:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/the_story_behind_the_polls.html