How to never miss a TV episode with BitTorrent and RSS. Note that the comments include several alternative ways to implement a system to get the same results. [via PVR Blog]

MyPublisher Deluxe: Create oversized full color hardcover books for $2.99 a page filled with your own photos. [via Garret]

Microsoft alum Nathan Myhrvold runs a firm that doesn’t make anything, but it’s hoarding the key to a new business age: intellectual property. “Myhrvold won’t comment on these activities, but sources say he has already purchased about 1,000 patents.” In one year. [via /.]

Later: Myrhvold will be Charlie Rose’s guest tonight on the PBS talker.