Yearly Archives: 2013

Will we see 2 flywheel hybrid prototypes at Le Mans in 2014?

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Will we see 2 flywheel hybrid prototypes at Le Mans in 2014?

Porsche plans to win Le Mans with this car!
Porsche wants to win Le Mans. badly. And this is the car in which it plans to do so. The 2014 Porsche LMP1 made its first on-track appearance in Weissach, and now it’s officially on like Donkey Kong. Anything less than a win next year will be a disappoint

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If for no other reason than the Facebook app is a memory/battery hog, do yourself… 1

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If for no other reason than the Facebook app is a memory/battery hog, do yourself a favor and uninstall it, you'll feel better

Why your smartphone battery hates Twitter and Facebook
To paraphrase the saying about paranoia: just because you’re obsessed with battery life doesn’t mean that data-hungry apps aren’t out to drain you. In my case, I decided to put my foot down on the issue of having to charge my phone at 2 p.m. every, single, day. I looked into the services running on my Android phone (a Galaxy Nexus), and noticed that those using up the most memory, and probably demanding a data connection most often, were Facebo…

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It's remarkable to think about how easy it is to loose institutional knowled…

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It's remarkable to think about how easy it is to loose institutional knowledge

We lost the knowledge of concrete for the better part of a millenium after the fall of the Roman Empire and we've only recently begun to understand how the rockets that sent astronauts to the moon worked less than 50 years ago. 
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/

Secrets of ancient Roman concrete could make modern structures more durable, cut emissions
It’s no secret that the Romans were better at producing concrete than we are today. Modern concrete begins to deteriorate after 50 years or so of facing the elements, whereas structures engineered…

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I just stumbled across this in my +Pocket reading list

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I just stumbled across this in my +Pocket reading list

I've been around the auto industry for close to three decades now including my time as an engineering co-op student. Like Angus MacKenzie I've seen a great many weird things happen. Very early in my career I even played an ever so small part in the abbreviated life cycle of M100 Lotus Elan that Angus writes about. Hopefully someday I'll have the opportunity to tell some of these stories.

Modern Times: Secret Business – Motor Trend Blog
Modern Times: Secret Business from Angus MacKenzie on January 9, 2013 at Motor Trend Blog. One of the advantages of having now clocked almost three decades as an auto writer is that the designers and engineers who were starting their careers the …


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What is it about being online that makes people think they can spout of whatever… 3

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What is it about being online that makes people think they can spout of whatever ridiculous shit pops into their pea-brains

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Just a taste of what I deal with on a per-video basis~

Welcome to being a woman on the internet (especially if you make videos on YouTube). Guys get the same shit, too, but women get it way worse.

I'm not gonna enable comments, because I don't need people's sympathy — but I will say this:

Just be a decent human being. If you've ever considered posting something like this, don't. And if you see your friends pulling this shit, do not let them get away with it. Unfortunately, silence is often perceived as approval by people like this. 

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If you were hoping congress might do something about the NSA surveillance state,… 1

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If you were hoping congress might do something about the NSA surveillance state, think again

They clearly don't care as half of the senate decided to get an early start on the weekend instead of getting a special briefing on the program.

More than half of US senators skipped confidential briefing on NSA surveillance
As anger continues to foment over the US National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance programs, a confidential briefing on the topic held Thursday was attended by only 47 of 100 US…

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