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It's great to see another iconic performance brand hit the track in the American…

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It's great to see another iconic performance brand hit the track in the American Le Mans Series as Lotus makes its debut this year. Alex Job Racing will move up from the GT Challenge class to return to full GT competition with a factory-backed Lotus Evora GTE.

Hopefully AJR will retain the classic Lotus black and gold livery even with its sponsorship from Battery Tender. Despite the color scheme having originated with a tobacco brand on the Lotus F1 cars of the 1970s, the combination just looks cooler than almost anything else on the track, especially on a GT machine like the Evora. Unfortunately, even the black and gold can't rescue the looks of a modern F1 car.

Hopefully, the Evora will have more success on the track the Jaguar XKRs have had for the past two years.
#alms #americanlemans #lotus #alexjobracing

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Lotus is joining the ranks of legendary manufacturers to compete in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. Lotus Motorsport and Alex Job Racing announced a partnership today that wil…

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Ricky Gervais has no clothes 3

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We just watched the first episode of Life's too short on HBO and it was truly atrocious. Gervais really hasn't done anything funny in years and everything since the UK Office has been a rehash of the same character.

It really feels like he's just having us on at this point to see how much crap he can spew out before the world says ENOUGH!

Well I'm saying enough and i won't waste any more time on his dreck
#rickygervais

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In the end, this is why the lame-brain executives at HBO and other channels will… 1

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In the end, this is why the lame-brain executives at HBO and other channels will either adapt to the new reality of how people want to watch TV or simply get left behind.
#cordcutting

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I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened – The Oatmeal
I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened. A big thanks to my friend Rebecca for coining the term "CuntHammer" when describing Queen Cersei. If you have issues with my usage…

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what total scumbags.

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what total scumbags.

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parislemon • Hollywood's Next Great Business Model: Praying That Stars Die
Hollywood's Next Great Business Model: Praying That Stars Die https://plus.google.com/102898672602346817738/posts/CLQyX6ZxnxT When asked why The Bodyguard was pulled from Netflix streaming following…..

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Very cool idea for repurposing a bit of archaic hardware.

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Very cool idea for repurposing a bit of archaic hardware.

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An architect in New York city is repuporsing phone booths into mini-libraries/book-drop-offs.

Makes perfect sense.

Repurposing antiquated equipment by letting it house other soon to be antiquated equipment. In 6 months, I imagine they'll put CD players in there too.

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part of his 'department of urban betterment' interventionist project, john locke transforms streetside phone booths into community libraries.

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According to Rick Santorum, the only reason to require insurance companies to provide… 2

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According to Rick Santorum, the only reason to require insurance companies to provide pregnant women with free prenatal care is too encourage more abortions.

"One of the things that you don't know about ObamaCare in one of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing," Santorum began telling about 400 people here. "Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That too is part of ObamaCare — another hidden message as to what president Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country."

The more words we hear from Mr Santorum, the scarier he gets, especially for women.

#politics #culturewar #indecision2012

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Santorum says Obama looks down on disabled, encouraging more abortions

Rick Santorum accused President Obama of requiring free prenatal testing in the health care plan he signed in 2010 because it would detect if children were disabled, encourage more abortions and save…

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A year ago this week, the third to last Space Shuttle mission, STS-133 finally launched… 1

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A year ago this week, the third to last Space Shuttle mission, STS-133 finally launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a delay of almost 4 months to address technical issues.

On board the shuttle was a crate containing a Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot co-developed by +NASA and engineers from +General Motors. What makes R2 different from other robots like Honda's Asimo is that it was designed to do actual work alongside humans both on the International Space Station and eventually in factories here on earth.

That means it is a lot stronger than Asimo which can do some fancy dance moves, but can't lift much weight.

In October 2010 when I was working on product and technology communications for GM, I went down to Florida to support some media events in conjunction with the original planned launch date. The second R2 prototype was being used to demonstrate the robot's capabilities. You can see most of the demo in this video with NASA engineer Nicholas Radford.

A few days ago, the crew on board the ISS finally powered up R2 and began the testing of its control systems in micro-gravity. http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2802290/nasa-robonaut-human-robot-handshake-iss

#robonaut2 #r2 #iss #nasa #generalmotors #gm

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Guess who made this statement: 1

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Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation, lead to governmental crises and deadlocks and stymie the compromises so often necessary to preserve the freedom and achieve progress.

Remarkably it describes the position our politics are in today to a T, thanks in large part to the continuing shift to the right of the Republican party over the past two decades. The quote can be found in a new biography of Mitt Romney http://amzn.to/wWO1Ux but it wasn't uttered by the man currently running for the GOP nomination.

In fact, those are the words of his father George Romney when in 1964 as governor of Michigan, he declined to endorse or campaign for his party's nominee Barry Goldwater. George Romney clearly a man who would not find a place in the 2012 GOP.

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Amazon.com: The Real Romney (9780062123275): Michael Kranish, Scott Helman: Books

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We just watched this week's episode of +Portlandia and one of the sketches features…

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We just watched this week's episode of +Portlandia and one of the sketches features Fred Armison's character riding on a three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder http://www.can-am.brp.com/ while his partner Carrie Brownstien is on a single-wheeled contraption.

I did a little searching around for motorized unicycles and discovered Ryno Motors. Like many of the people and places featured in the show, Ryno is based in Portland. The company is currently trying to line up a manufacturing partner to launch production of this self-balancing unicycle. Contrary to the sound-effects in the sketch, Ryno has actually developed its cycle as an electric vehicle with a top speed of about 25 mph and a 30 mile range.

Ryno is taking orders for a limited run of 50 pre-production units at $25,000 a pop which seems pretty steep for what this is. If the company can find a manufacturing partner the regular versions are expected to cost about $4,200 which while not cheap is a lot more realistic.

#rynomotors #ryno #portlandia #ev

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Move through the world in a completely different way: Slice through your neighborhood; Interact, engage and inspire; Maneuver easily through crowded streets; Keep your life in balance. Posted in I. Th…

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