Jeremy Clarkson has always been an offensive blowhard, that’s his schtick. However, on last week’s episode of Top Gear, he and his sidekicks Richard Hammond and James May went too far. During the news segment of the show, they brought up the Mastretta MXT, a new sports car intended to be built in Mexico. [...]
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One of the highlights at the Maker Faire Detroit this past weekend was the life-size mousetrap. Mark Perez spent 15 years building this 50 ton life-size version of the board game. It’s a classic Rube Goldberg device on a huge scale. Check out the video. [...] By now you may have seen the commercials for the Snuggie which looks like some old monk’s robe but is actually a blanket with sleeves. Yes it’s a dopey premise, but it makes prime fodder for the talented team that creates “This Hour has 22 Minutes”. [...] Only an desperate idiot with dementia would even consider a domionist, theocratic nut-job like the current governor of Alaska for the second slot on the presidential election ticket. But since so many Americans seems willing to seriously consider the utterly unqualified Sarah Palin as a viable candidate to step into the White House if [...] One of the greatest truth-tellers of the 20th century died last night when George Carlin succumbed to heart failure. Carlin was perhaps of the funniest humorist of our time but he was much more than a comic. He held up a mirror to the world to expose the hypocracy and absurdity of modern life. [...] See more funny videos at CollegeHumor Tweet As we were leaving the media center the other day, I had the opportunity to finally meet the legendary Brenda Priddy in person. For those unfamiliar with her work, many of the photographs that appear in automotive magazines and newspapers of cars where bizzaro tape jobs or big clumps of black camouflage are the [...] Why is it that some people just have no sense of humor and insist on flauting that fact? Tesla Motors has a blog on their corporate site where staff put up posts talking about what’s going on at the EV manufacturer. A lot of the posts are about some the design decisions they’ve made [...] Warning! This tale may make you feel old. It’s not an uncommon phenomenon for more mature folks to get frustrated while trying to make sense of some of the new fangled high tech gear. Even I, uber-techno geek get frustrated at some of the unbelievably idiot user-interface decisions that are made by some equipment [...] Shrub has finally gotten his wish and been invited to the World League of Despots. You can read all the details at the Guardian. I would have to agree that between his insistence on torture, unsupervised spying, arbitrary detention without trial or legal counsel, abducting innocent people and sending them to third countries for [...] |
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