walls of the city

So I will freely admit that the video quality is sub-par (which is what happens when I take the video after the sun goes down – duh), and that the audio is not exactly terrific either (which is more [...]

Your daily dose of all-too-real humor.

And, from the same source, I am not sure if it is the on-paper engineer in me, the repressed artist in me, the military buff in me, or just the [...]

Want.

And while we are mentioning it… [...]

Question: Can you make the track of a TCS-equipped Mustang depart radically from its heading?

Answer: Yes, yes you can.

And that is all I have to say about that. [...]

If it took Adam Savage 40+ hours of work over 6 years, us mere mortals are well and truly buggered.

For such a popular, sought-after, and iconic movie prop, there certainly is a shortage of replicas. [...]

Temperatures finally above 60 + evil daystar + BRG paint + black leather/plastic interior = coming up on time to tint the windows.

Oh well. Probably a good time to install a set of these while [...]

Made. Of. Win.

One hundred, thirty-seven years of Popular Science, at your fingertips, for free. While I see no readily apparent way to download issues from their Google Books repository, we are still looking at somewhere over [...]

Because everyone needs a little nonsensical humor in their lives, allow me to present quite possibly the second-most-awesome Rube Goldberg Machine I have ever seen.

It does nothing useful, and it destroys no less than one [...]

…And speaking of Atlas Shrugged, once I finish it (in a year or so, at the rate I am going…), I may not come up for air for a while.

And, yes, I have finished [...]

Despite being an unabashed and mostly-unapologetic muscle car / sports car / rubber-laying, Earth-frakking, gas-chugging monstrosity, my Bullitt can actually manage to hold four bathroom cabinets, one bathroom sink, one bathroom faucet, one cabinet stand, and an [...]

Would you actually buy a limited edition vacuum? [...]

I think a little piece of me just died.

Also, does the LCS class not have

In case you have been living under a rock for the past week, the Starcraft II Beta is live and running.

About gorramed time, really – they have only been working on this thing for

What with the whacky-assed weather we have been having recently, a big-screen view of it might be useful, especially if that view is fairly slick, seamless, and shiny.

(Courtesy of Lifehacker.) [...]

Personally, I find the modern incarnation of HUMMERs to be disappointing at best, and Tonka-truck-ish at worst… But, that said, I can almost see tooling around in this bad boy.

Actual off-road suspension + actual off-road [...]

I am not sure I would trust even my $700 DSLR to a $14 belt “holster”, but, why, for the love of God, would anyone ever need to openly carry a camera!

IWB people! Keep it [...]

So this is an interesting Mustang weather-related bug… As has been the case with (I think) every generation of the car, the 2008 Mustang has frameless door windows, in that when you open the door, the glass is completely [...]

What should you do if you are attacked by really short zombies?
Why, break out the minifigs, of course!
I do worry about the spent brass casings from that minigun obstructing the view of the [...]

Knoxville is still ironing out the details of allowing urban residents to raise chickens within city limits, and knowing the kinds of diseases that untended chickens can spread, I am not so sure about the idea myself, [...]

Spoon, fork, bottle opener, flat-head screwdriver, prybar, three sizes of hex wrenches, caribiner, and a last-ditch defense tool.
I want one.
And while I was less-than-impressed with their Neckolas, CRKT’s new FLUX modular multitool system looks vaguely [...]

Ok, now that some of the messes of various bodily fluids have been cleaned up from the tubes comprising the internet, I have been able to determine a few specifics concerning Apple’s new ZOMGITZGLORIOUSANDWONDERFULANDMAGICALANDZOMG product:
1. [...]

So the Bullitt has taken a little getting-used-to (especially with the doors – those are huge), but I have only been able to find one significant “problem” thus far – the shift knob. Unlike average Mustangs, the Bullitt’s knob [...]

So… anyone play Killing Floor? I have finally gotten a few abilities above “Hey, look, I am useless!” so I might die less [...]

Lotus engineers are crazy.
Geniuses, but crazy.
I can find no better explanation for a two-cycle, variable cylinder-size, variable-compression-ratio, side-valved engine capable of consuming any mixture of gasoline and alcohol, including all one or the [...]

The household income in my sleepy little town in Eastern Tennessee averages out to be about $40,000 a year, and yet the Nissan dealership right down the road from me has a two GT-Rs (a silver one and a [...]

As I mentioned earlier, my old 2006 Mazda 3 hatchback is for sale. At the time, I did not provide a whole lot of information in the post, but this time, I will go ahead and dump [...]

Win.

For the first time in 40 years, a Ford Motor Company product will be pacing the Daytona 500. Pacing the Great American Race will be the new 2011 Mustang GT Glass Roof Coupe with the all new 5.0L [...]

Controlled, intentional, powered oversteer is [...]

Chuck is back!
Or, rather, Chuck came back last night. If you missed yesterday’s episode, you might have to resort to other-than-cable alternatives to view it (TiVo does not indicate another showing of it in the near future), [...]

Better Half and I have been using FreeNAS for a little while now, and our one month report continues to hold true – it works, it works well, and it works transparently, and [...]

Maybe the pen really is mightier.
In this day and age of terrorists lighting their gonads on fire in order to bring down airliners, self-defense tools that are TSA-ignorable are indeed an burgeoning market, whether they are [...]

This should not be difficult for most of my readers, but I would strongly suggest against anyone dealing with Biggers Mazda in Elgin, Illinois. In the interests of disclosure, that is where my particular Bullitt [...]

I think it is safe to say that this is yet another installment of “people with far too much time on their hands“, but the end result is, once again, quite impressive.
Of course, I am [...]

For those who want to know more about the iconic car chase scene I spoke of earlier, Jalopnik pulled up a copy of the original script, which, honestly, does not tell you too much you [...]

So where did that $10,000,000 figure come from?
Well, if you go back and watch the chase scene from Bullitt (an honestly unimpressive movie, but a fantastic chase), you will notice that Frank’s [...]

I could probably be called a hypocrite for saying this, but some people have way too much spare time.
But good lord it is [...]

So Google supposedly has launched its own smartphone, the Nexus One, and it is, of course, running Google’s Android operating system.
Wait a second… Android… Nexus… That seems vaguely familiar.
Oh right. [...]

Now that I have finally seen the movie, and now that WizardPC figured it out, I can say, “Yes, yes I did.”



Oh, and [...]

Those computers you grew up watching? Yeah, not so much. (Big surprise, [...]

This video would have been a lot more impressive if the Rally Fighter was actually one of the cars tearing up the dirt, rather than simply sitting on the sidelines, having the dirt obsessively wiped off [...]

You know you want [...]

Welcome to the future.
What interesting times we live in… Burt Rutan had better hope he can make all the money he can, as quickly as he can, because once this takes off in the manner I [...]