Yearly Archives: 2012

This is exactly why Hollywood doesn't deserve any extra protection from enhanced…

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This is exactly why Hollywood doesn't deserve any extra protection from enhanced copyright enforcement.

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Oh, Hollywood accounting….

Hollywood Accounting: How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million… And Still Isn’t Profitable | Techdirt
We’ve written about the wonders of Hollywood accounting before. It’s a series of tricks pulled by Hollywood studios to make most of their movies look unprofitable, even when they’re making a ton of m…


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Four hours into the 10 hour-long Petit Le Mans, the +Nissan DeltaWing is again proving…

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Four hours into the 10 hour-long Petit Le Mans, the +Nissan DeltaWing is again proving its worth with Gunnar Jeannette currently running in fifth position overall behind a pair of LMP1 and 2 LMP2 cars. Hopefully we'll see several of these machines on the track in 2013 with a variety of powerplants. #petitlemans   #deltawing  

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Getting the oil changed and the guy shows me the dipstick and says the oil is dirty…. 10

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Getting the oil changed and the guy shows me the dipstick and says the oil is dirty. Of course it's dirty I've been driving it for 5,000 miles. If it was still pristine it wouldn't need changing!

The oil condition is exactly as it should be, not sludge and still lubricating. A little dirty is normal

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Imagine carrying around a bunch of shrapnel in your leg for nearly 70 years 4

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Imagine carrying around a bunch of shrapnel in your leg for nearly 70 years

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"Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit on his knee because of the pain it caused. But when he died last week aged 94 his family had him cremated and were stunned when staff handed them back a big bag of shrapnel."

Weighty memento: war veteran’s secret revealed after his death – Telegraph
The family of a war hero only discovered the full weight of his bravery after his death when his cremation left behind a huge pile of shrapnel.

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I could live with this as a next generation +Ford Motor Company  Mustang 12

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I could live with this as a next generation +Ford Motor Company  Mustang

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2015 Ford Mustang revealed (maybe)! We have details and renderings of Ford's next pony: http://cardrive.co/6038pDIG

Spy photos: http://cardrive.co/6039pDIH

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And the DeltaWing is ready to rock the Petit Le Mans

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 For the second time 4 years, the Highcroft Racing crew has had to work round the clock to rebuild a car from scratch following a practice crash.  Check out the time lapse!  Here's the 2009 version http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/27/patron-highcroft-team-builds-new-acura-prototype-in-just-over-20/

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Here's an old Eastern Airlines commercial for their then-new Boeing 727 that… 6

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Here's an old Eastern Airlines commercial for their then-new Boeing 727 that touts it's quietness. 

I had the unfortunate experience of flying on Northwest’s 727s between Detroit and Phoenix a few times in the early 90s before they were retired. Quiet is not a word I would use to describe the 727, especially the time that I was unfortunately relegated to the very last row in coach, right between the three engines. That many well have been the longest 4 hours of my life.

via http://www.airlinereporter.com/2012/10/classic-eastern-air-lines-boeing-727-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-115113


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+Tim O'Reilly gets it exactly right and +Leo Laporte has been saying this for… 8

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+Tim O'Reilly gets it exactly right and +Leo Laporte has been saying this for years as well. All the hand-wringing about Google, Facebook and even advertising tracking cookies completely misses the real potential problem.  The ones we should be worried about are the internet service providers which today is almost exclusively our cable and phone companies. Even if you disable all cookies, use private browsing and erase everything after you're done with a session, every single page request you make goes through your ISP's server. 

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"We're able to view just everything that they do," Verizon Wireless exec has boasted.  This is why all the government focus on privacy issues at Google and Facebook seems so wrong-headed.  There are a lot of companies that have just as much data or more about what people are doing, and who  are exploiting the hell out of it while getting a free pass from regulators.

Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits
‘We’re able to view just everything that they do,’ Verizon Wireless exec has boasted. Privacy groups say initiative — including linking databases showing whether customers own pets — may violate wir…

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+Phil Nickinson adds a little context and perspective to this morning's earnings…

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+Phil Nickinson adds a little context and perspective to this morning's earnings announcement from +Verizon Wireless 

A little perspective … | Android Central
It’s a big, big world out there. Let’s put Verizon’s Q3 activations into perspective.

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