Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Horse VS Porsche 911 Cup Car
Now, in this set of lunacy, Hanook tires wanted to get a bit of exposure with their key demographic. What did the marketeers come up with? none other than a race with 3yr old ‘Sam I Am’ around the track. Now, at first glance this looks like market-death.
Here is the saving grace, ITS NOT […]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Mechanic wrecks clients Bugatti EB110
So, Emile Ratelband - some northern european modern thinker, who happens to have one of the coolest cars ever made, had to take it in for a checkup. He did, and promptly left the keys with the oh-so-happy mechanic who then decided not only to do the work, overcharge, and take 3 times longer than […]
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Women doesnt get cheeseburger - calls police
So, to sum up this story, this woman goes to a burger king in san clemente, she orders a western bacon cheeseburger. However the staff for some reason or another doesn’t make it correctly. She goes through this like 5 times. She wiggs out and calls the police, below is the mp3 recorded.
Be warned […]
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Dominatrix Mini Cooper CA Website
Okay, so I am not really into this sort of thing. I am just in shock / awe that this sort of thing got through corporate filters and is actually on a big corporate website, i mean good god. I feel bad for watching it, alone in my living room right now. And I have […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Mitsubishi Evolution X 2008
So, the new evo, planned to be released in 2007 as an ‘08 model year. Major updates include a new 2.0L turbo 4, an updated awd system…. and, are you ready for this? a manumatic paddle shifting gearbox! When I read this my stomach churnned. This could be a killing blow to a rally legacy, […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Ferrari F430 to be Banned from US
Edmunds has a story detailing how the Ferrari F430 does not meet all US crash saftey requirements and is under a pannel now to ban all cars produced after Sept 1,2006. According to the NHTSA, the F430 provides inadequate crash protection for small children and some women. Who in their right mind would have carseats […]
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
goatse site statistics
through elite ninja powers (not really) i webalizered some stats on the goatse.cx domain before it got shut down, some interesting statistics about Aug 2003-Jan 2004:
#1 refferer (5% of traffic) was from:
http://flatface.net/~micahhsu/quicktimealt122.exe
7,339,904 hits between Aug 2003 and Jan 2004 when it was shut down
113 GB served in the above period! thats about 600mb per day!
Second […]
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
Kite powered tent crosses antarctic tundra
so, these adventure-junkies have constructed what they call a “catamaran”, but is essentially two giant wooden skis under a tent. This thing is powered by giant drag-parachutes that pull it across the tundra, faster so even than modern means. They have an excuse for this madness, they are picking up ice-core samples along their trans-antarctic […]
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
Women at auto shows
It is long and historic, pre-programmed into all males. Fast cars and women. Everyone knows this, car marketeers included. To help encourage sales, car makers will hire “product specialists” to tell people about the cars. Indeed, entranced by a woman can make you do silly things, like purchase a $200,000 car - or make the […]
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
Banned xbox 360 commercial
i know what you’r thinking:
“why in the world is an xbox360 here?”
well, let me first explain that i don’t own an xbox360, nor an xbox nor a playstation, i have a (lousy) tv, and don’t pay for cable service and just mess around in blockbuster. that said let me also say that i hate the […]