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  • Mike Cowgill is building an LCR meter. Looks like a really cool build!
  • Welcome to Adam Ward, who recently started a new site and gave us a nice plug. Good luck with the new projects!
  • Why did National Instruments do away with An Engineering Mind? We would have loved to see that continue and they wasted a good brand.
  • Friends don't let friends go into finance. An article about how engineers started coming back to design, but are trending towards trading garbage CDOs.
  • Dave has a bird problem, but doesn't like how Americans all want him to shoot the birds.
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMEAUXa3RAI
    • Listener Patrick York writes in about a great site showing off all of the old RadioShack catalogs! Awesome bit of nerd history.
    • Eduardo writes in about how HP open sourced one of their financial calculators. Dave already know about and talked about it way back in the fledgling days of EEVBlog.
    • Who needs a calculator? Endolith on Electronics StackExchange writes about how Wolfram Alpha can easily convert between units. And give you some awesome bonus calculations.
    • Hameg released a new scope weeks after the Agilent one Dave reviewed. Why do things seem to come out at the same time?
    • Touchstone Semi, a new analog chip company popped up on Twitter and is pushing new niche products.
    • Hackaday looking for a full time hacker, though not for much money! At least in California. Would equate to earning 9-12k in Cleveland.
      • MakerDino started a new site in response to show he'll do it for free: HackAWeek!
      • Design Contests:
        • The 555Contest is wrapping up this week (judging)
        • Dave is judging the Renesas Rx Design Contest. They only got 30 entries, but it's a different type of contest.
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