Published May 1st, 2008
in Technology and Current News.
Well, not really, but with gas prices at ridiculous levels - I’ll try anything at this point.
Hypermiling is an attempt to stretch your gas milage by doing simple, everyday things like pumping up tires to the maximum rating on their sidewalls, which may be higher than levels recommended in car manuals; using engine oil of a low viscosity, and the controversial practice of drafting behind other vehicles on the highway to reduce aerodynamic drag — a practice begun a few years ago by truck drivers.
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Published March 15th, 2008
in Current News.
It’s tough to take a good picture of it all, I’ll get better ones.
TimVictim.
Published February 24th, 2008
in Rants and Current News.
Ralph Nader is, wait for it…running for president. Yawn.
Published December 4th, 2007
in Rants and Current News.
Socialism really knows no bounds in South America. In Argentina, the fugs want to tax the good looking! How insane is this…
“The beautiful people get all the breaks. Beauty is a natural advantage and (he wants) the good-lookers to be taxed to finance compensation for the ugly people.”
“And also a tax on companies that help us to think that way, that beauty is only aesthetics. So whoever is ugly or doesn’t fit into the social beauty parameters, suffers those invisible barriers imposed by society.”
BBC
Published December 3rd, 2007
in Art and Design and Current News.
Banksy has dropped some interesting pieces on the West Bank barrier, which runs beside Bethlehem.
In a world full of hot-air activists, THIS is how you do something effective. (To be fair, Banksy is already an art star so he’s going to garner visibility regardless.)
BBC
