If you've ever seen the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the director has a new film in the works

If you've ever seen the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the director has a new film in the works

Director David Gelb's new project is titled "A Faster Horse* about the gestation of the new sixth generation Ford Mustang. Gelb and his crew have been following Mustang chief engineer Dave Pericak around for the past year as development work proceeds on the new Mustang. 

The film title is probably a reference to the famous quote attributed to Henry Ford "“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” ?

Ford Mustang Documentary at the Starting Line for White Horse

Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s newly minted White Horse Pictures is launching with Ford Mustang documentary “A Faster Horse.” Shooting has started with David Gelb (“Jiro Dreams of Sushi”) directing….

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+Car and Driver Magazine EiC Eddie Alterman is not fond of the idea of autonomous cars

What about you??

5 Reasons You Should Fear the Google Autonomous Car

Call me a Luddite or worse, but the Google Car, a prototype of which was just unveiled to great fanfare among those who hate to drive—who might even hate to live!—is a thing to be feared. How ironic that those too timid for the dust and heat of the open highway have finally created the […]

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It's time to either disband the Olympics or pick a permanent home and leave it there

It's time to either disband the Olympics or pick a permanent home and leave it there

It's long been clear that the only people that benefit from hosting the Olympics are corrupt politicians and their contractor cronies that collect the tax money for building facilities that often quickly fall into disrepair after everyone goes home. Do it once and be done with it or don't do it at all?

Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics

The next Olympics to be awarded, a little more than a year from now, will be the 2022 Winter Games. Rather than going to the strongest bid, the games may end up going to the last city standing–a long list of potential hosts have given up on their Olympic dreams because the whole thing is one huge, useless waste of money.

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Memorial day at Murray Lake

Memorial day at Murray Lake

Not sure when they added it to the +Android G+ app, but when you open a photosphere now, there is a little compass icon in the lower left. Tap it and then rotate around as you hold the phone and the image moves with it just like in Sky Maps?

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The appeals court for the federal circuit has been completely devoid of all logic for years, and probably should be disbanded

The appeals court for the federal circuit has been completely devoid of all logic for years, and probably should be disbanded

This is the same court that recently overruled a lower court, saying that Oracle could claim copyright on the names of its application programming interfaces in their case against Google. ?

Ethics fail by top judge gives Congress new reason to close patent court — Tech News and Analysis

Summary: The appeals court responsible for America’s troubled patent system already has a poor reputation. News that its top judge is endorsing lawyers won’t improve that. The controversy suggests it’s time to close the court.

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