Progressive TripSense: Hackable?

A few bloggers have commented on Progressive Insurance' TripSense program, which pays you a bribe in return for driving your car with a...

GM: More Salaried Job Cuts

The focus of today's GM announcement was the plant closings and approximately 30,000 hourly job cuts. However, during the Q&A sessio...

Pirelli's Calendar

Bella! Pirelli has a web site which has photos from its calendar going back to the 1960's. Some of these are artistic, and some are ju...

Just Google It [Politics]

Here's a fun game you can play, especially if you believe the Democrat braying about "Bushes lies": Just Google It (or, if you...

The Electric Shock Game

This is the perfect game to play with your out-of-town relatives on Thanksgiving! (Actually I find it kind of disturbing...)

TurboTap: High Flow Beer Dispenser

It is amazing what a bunch of fluid mechanics engineers can come up with when offered beer. The engineers at Laminar Technologies studied t...

Make Your Caravan A Viper!

The Vroombox is a digital audio player which is designed to make exciting car noises, like an engine revving or tires screeching. Says the...

Forbes' Turkey List

In time for Thanksgiving, Forbes has published its list of automotive turkeys: cars that are selling very poorly. These vehicles all have h...

Phaeton Finale

VW is going to stop importation into the U.S. of the Phaeton luxury sedan, according to Bloomberg News: Volkswagen will pull the Phaeton out...

Heh. [Politics]

Heh. From Dry Bones , a very good political cartoon from Israel.

Rep. Joe Schwarz, Selling Michigan Out

A Michigan Republican Congressman, Joe Schwarz, was a member of a group of "moderate" Republicans which managed to get the ANWR o...

PermaCap Revisited

I previously posted about my mishap with the Kleen Wheels PermaCap , a neat gadget (when it works) that replaces the fuel cap on some cars,...

The B Word

The Detroit Free Press, the liberal leaning sister paper of the Detroit News, published a page 1 story about GM today with the word "b...

Know Thy Enemy

Thanks to Jalopnik , we have in Blogger-ville an excellent example of a car hating greenie with socialist tendencies and a fetish for bicyc...

France on Fire [Politics]

The French have finally been forced to confront their non-assimilating Muslim immigrant underclass. Unfortunately, the forum is the streets ...

419 Scam Fun

You know those annoying scam emails you get from places like Nigeria or Ivory Coast, promising you millions of dollars if you can just help ...

Dell Refurbished: Highly Recommended

As mentioned in my previous post, I just bought a Dell laptop. I bought a refurbished machine from Dell's Outlet , and so far, I am thri...

WinXP + SBC DSL BSOD Bug Fix [Computers]

I am posting this so that other people can find it easily. I just bought a Dell laptop, running Windows XP SP2. After installing the SBC Ya...

Jalopnik on Csere

Unexpectedly, Jalopnik posts a piece of literary criticism, on Csaba Csere's review of the Veyron.