Yearly Archives: 2012

Yet another reason to avoid the Olympics 6

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The International Olympic Committee is not about sports, it's about making as much money as possible and athletics is just a side effect. 

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London's trying to ban 3G access points from the Olympics…

London bans wireless access points, joy, kittens from the Olympics
If you thought the list of banned items at the Olympic Games couldn’t get any longer, now the IOC is gunning for that


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+Audi International has revealed the refreshed 2013 R8 and along with the subtle… 2

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+Audi International has revealed the refreshed 2013 R8 and along with the subtle styling changes, they have finally ditched the wretched R-Tronic automated gearbox.

Both the V8 and V10 engines are now available with either the existing 6-speed manual with its beautifully slick shift action or the new 7-speed S-Tronic. S-Tronic is Audi's nomenclature for a dual-clutch automatic gearbox.

While the R-Tronic worked well when driving hard on the track, it was absolutely ridiculous on the street at anything less than 9/10. If the R8's S-Tronic is anything like the unit in the S5 http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/2010-audi-s5-cabriolet-review/ it should be a dream in this machine.

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Read it all the way through before you get too outraged

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Read it all the way through before you get too outraged

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Once again +Matthew Inman says it like only he can. I think  +Kevin Smith would be proud 🙂

How to suck at your religion – The Oatmeal
A map showing the density of Starbucks retail stores in the U.S. · Why I didn’t like riding the bus as a kid · The Terrible C-Word · Cat vs Internet · Dear public toilets of the world · Why I love and…

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This is just so wrong

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I hope the jury in this case sees sense and tosses all of the claims on both sides of this fight.
#boycottapple  

Apple demands $2.02, plus $3.10… equals a total of $2.5 billion in Samsung damages
How big is $2.525 billion when you’re Apple? It won’t affect living standards in Cupertino, that’s for sure, but it’s evidently enough to be worth hauling a rival through the US courts. The figure is revealed in Apple’s damages claim, submitted in the run-up to its battle with Samsung in California, and is quite separate to other claims in Europe and Australia. If you’re not already sick and tired of this feud, then the sums behind that big amorp…

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My first quick drive of the precursor to the new +Ford Motor Company C-Max Energi… 10

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My first quick drive of the precursor to the new +Ford Motor Company C-Max Energi back at the 2008 New York Auto Show. At the time then chief engineer Greg Frenette projected that a full production PHEV could be on sale within five years and Ford has beat that by nearly a year. 

New York 2008: Autoblog drives the Escape Plug-In
New York 2008: Autoblog drives the Escape Plug-In Hybrid II

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Ford's first production plug-in hybrid, the 2013 C-Max Energi now has an official…

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Ford's first production plug-in hybrid, the 2013 C-Max Energi now has an official price tag $33,745. Thanks to the larger lithium ion battery found in the C-Max, the Ford is eligible for an increased $3,750 federal tax credit allowing the final cost to undercut the Prius PHV with an effective price of $29,995 making it the least expensive plug-in hybrid in America. 

The debut of the C-Max Energi comes more than 4 years after Ford first began testing a fleet of plug-in Escapes. I had a chance to drive one of those prototypes way back in March 2008 http://green.autoblog.com/2008/03/26/abg-first-impression-ford-escape-plug-in-hybrid-w-video/

2013 Ford C-Max Energi Priced at $33,745, Cheaper Than Prius Plug-In
It’s official: not only does the 2013 Ford C-Max Energi Plug-in hybrid travel further in all-electric mode than the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in hybrid, but it will cost less too. As Ford detailed last n…

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What a concept, requiring broadcast news to tell the truth 2

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What a concept, requiring broadcast news to tell the truth

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[Fox News banned in Canada because, unlike in America, it's illegal to lie on broadcast news.]

(More on that here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103765013042311928518/posts/EfyQCJ9NfUt)

How in the world lying on the news is still legal here in the US is beyond me.  I can't see any rational reason for it. Can someone explain?

#politics  

Fox News Banned From Canada – Law Forbids Lying On Broadcast News. | Skeptic Money
America’s middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades – against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox News – fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice c…


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More than a decade after Bob Lutz took control of the product development efforts… 9

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More than a decade after Bob Lutz took control of the product development efforts at +General Motors, Cadillac seems to have produced the car that he probably wanted to build from day one.

As an aside, reviewer Scott Evans demonstrates yet again that Newton's laws of motion still take precedence over fancy electronics. 

2013 Cadillac ATS First Test – Motor Trend
The 2013 Cadillac ATS was presented as a true BMW 3 Series competitor, and was benchmarked against what Cadillac says is the best 3 Series ever, the E46. Read on to learn more about the 2013 Cadillac …

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A critically important part of business leadership is breeding the next generation…

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A critically important part of business leadership is breeding the next generation of leaders and +Marissa Mayer may well be able to recruit some of the best that she has mentored over the years to help reinvent Yahoo.

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In all the +Marissa Mayer coverage, there has been surprisingly little said about one of the most significant achievements in her tenure at Google — the success of the Associate Product Manager program she conceived and ran.  According to the Yahoo press release over 300 highly coveted CS grads with potential CEO skills came into Google through this initiative, and Mayer set out to mentor all of them.  It's not too much of a leap to expect some of them (many of whom are post-Google already) to take jobs at Yahoo. 

Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon | Wired Business | Wired.com
Marissa Mayer invented something called the Associate Product Manager program at Google, for the best and brightest new recruits. It was a key part of her tenure at Google. And now she may reap some b…

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