I love Top Gear. Offended by a fan having written in to complain that Top Gear doesn’t do proper car reviews anymore, Jeremy Clarkson takes the new Ford Fiesta on a ‘serious’ road test.
Category: Video
Why The Subtitles?
Because the guy can’t speak English…
This was apparently from an Aussie sketch show called Comedy Inc..
Making Of Music With Cars
You may or may not have seen this fairly impressive video:
But what’s far more interesting is how they did it.
The Building Is Possessed!
Can you imagine walking down the street and seeing something like this?
Too Bad They Missed
Justin Bieber has some pretty good reflexes and manages to avoid getting clobbered head-on by a water-bottle:
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- A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
- An interesting way to look at the world: Google Maps without the Maps.
- Need special paper (like line/graph paper) but don’t want to buy it? Print it up here or here.
- He was touting family values during the Clinton impeachment, but Newt Gingrinch likes to play around, too.
- More songs are covers than you might think.
- 40+ billionaires pledge to donate half of wealth via the Giving Pledge.
- Now this is stupid: Man who gives free rides home to drunks was arrested for operating a taxi service without a license (related: watching your neighbors’ kids before they go to school could get you fined for running an unauthorized day care).
- Want to generate a URL that will failover automatically to a mirror should the original site go down? I Can Has Mirror might be able to help.
- 10 free web UI kits and resources for designers.
- Everybody acts like photo tampering is a new thing, but it’s been around for over 100 years.
- A hilarious visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin.
- Want to be notified when a web site is sending data to Google? Here’s a nice obnoxious alarm for you (please note: many sites out there, including this one, will trip the alarm, because they use either Google Adsense for ads or Google Analytics for web stats).
- CCleaner Enhancer makes the best system cleaner even better.
- If you’re the exercising/fitness type, here are a bunch of great mobile fitness apps for your phone.
- That’s gratitude for you: The man who made iPhone 4 has been ousted at Apple.
- It’s amazing what you can do with 1KB of Javascript or 10KB and some libraries.
- A stupid-simple way to
hackchange a Windows XP password.
Portland Man Does Quarter-Mile in 10.4 Seconds — In An Electric Car
What’s even better is it’s a hideously ugly (but pimped out) Datsun:
Story over on Wired, with more details straight from the guy who did it. To put it in perspective, that’s super-car territory.
Who’s Joss Whedon’s Favorite Actor?
That was the question posed by a big fan of his:
There Are 35 Movies Here…
…do you recognize them all?
Read the comments here to see if you did. I’m not a film buff, so I missed quite a few, but I did get a bunch.
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Finally got a new LCD hinge for my laptop and got it installed (way more complicated than it should have been). I’ve been using the thing very gingerly lately so I didn’t put too much pressure on the other one and break it, too, which means not using it much after-hours (which means not using it much at home and blogging). Here’s making up for it…
- Central Oregon Cable Advertising changes name to Zolo Media. Personally, “Zolo” sounds like some sort of prescription medication with a whole host of side affects (either that, or Zorro’s drunken side-kick), but considering that COCA owns KBNZ, it makes sense to change the name.
- A glass of water a day can help keep your fuel consumption at bay.
- When grotesque war stories like this come out, it always makes me wonder how many more stories there are like this that we don’t know about.
- A humorous solution to your iPhone4 antenna issues.
- Quicksand is a pretty slick jQuery plugin to reorder and shuffle data around. Useful for staff pages, too (via).
- UO is waving the white-flag in Central Oregon, conceding to OSU, but there was a time when one of the schools could have been phased out of existence entirely.
- Meet the man that invented the vuvuzela.
- Sprint’s $10 “Premium Data Plan” that’s a requirement of the Evo is for “Shrimp and Crab.”
- Most of the health advice given on Oprah’s show is crap, which probably explains why Oprah is getting Jenny McCarthy a talk show — the woman who gained fame for being repeatedly, publicly wrong about an imaginary link between vaccines and autism, pretending that she’s cured her son’s autism with “mommy instincts”, and perhaps most laughably, that her son has superpowers. More links and more commentary here. Seriously, Jenny, go back to posing for Playboy, as you are utterly worthless otherwise.
- For the unemployed (or looking): 11 Websites to Make Your Job Interview Successful.
- I really need to get an Android phone: Android Development 101.
- Five Apps for Google Voice Greatness (I really need to take better advantage of my account — will do so when number portability becomes an option).
- I think I’ve linked to this before, but it’s been a while: Rainmeter is a beautiful, customizable resource meter.
- How a 15-year-old tricked Apple with a disguised iPhone tethering app.
- Speaking of teenagers doing cool stuff, this 17-year-old traded-up an old cell phone 14 times to end up with a Porsche (story from local paper).
- You have to love crime dramas when they cross over into technology. This CSI blip is hilarious enough that somebody made it happen.
- The Pirate Party is launching their own ISP.
- Somebody’s flippin’ out about the system requirements for a really old game.
- No, you can’t lock the gadget to the top of the sidebar.
- OpenStack launches open source cloud computing software.
- We have really high forests in the Pacific Northwest.
- Set up a fully automated, torrent-seeding media center.
- BP’s photos of their crisis command center were faked.
- Making a Facebook game about Facebook games.
- Kirby must be angry to come to America.
- Want to kills some time on YouTube, other than watching videos? Play some Snake.