The Salt Sings
Further to my last post… Ode to Salt – Speed Week 2010 from Josh Clason on Vimeo.
Salt time
That time of year again; Speed week comes and goes, but I am still not there. Like last year, I say, “maybe next year”.
Electric Car Thoughts
In an electric car, you require a functional stereo. As interested in electromechanical systems as I am, there is nothing tremendously interesting about the whirring of electric motors. Also, I do suffer from so-called “range-anxiety”.
Karmann work
New post on the Karmann Ghia buildlog http://www.cmdr-fire.co.uk/karmannghia/?p=53
Sasha
Consolidated Cupcake
I bought a new domain, but I’m not sure what to do with it. http://www.consolidatedcupcake.com/
Haddock, and related matters
I wrote the Captain Haddock Insult Generator way back in June of 2006 (it’s the Insult Generator’s fourth birthday today!). I just did a google search for Captain Haddock, out of interest… and it’s the second link after the Wikipedia entry! Not bad going for something left more or less untouched for four years. Someone [...]
U2
Jalopnik recently ran a couple of articles on the U2 spyplane which are worth reading. The first covered the U2 itself, a sublimely elegant aircraft that was concieved of in that strange time where jet power was becoming common but satellite surveillance still required a canister drop of film from orbit. There’s something ethereal about [...]
IC day
That little device which changed – and continues to change – everything was first introduced this day in 1952.
Moduhardindin
I can smell sulphur outside. Just a slight hint, that irritates the back of the throat. Moduhardindin means “the hardship of the fog”, and refers to the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki in 1783; a far more violent and devastating eruption than that of Eyjafjallajokull which is ongoing at the moment and causing massive [...]
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