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Autoblog gets schooled by Alfa Romeo in Italy {Autoblog}
Jul 26th 2008 4:59AM You guys seem to have had a great European holiday. Are you ready to concede that ours is the better continent? :P
First Drive: Maserati Quattroporte S in Europe {Autoblog}
Jul 26th 2008 4:57AM "You might recognize Salzburg as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but not since the composer's passing has the city heard such splendid music as the note emitted from the pipe organs of the Quattroporte S."
I knew a Mozart reference was coming as soon as I read you were in Salzburg, but something this corny still surprised me.
Great review otherwise :)
Swingtown moving to Fridays {TV Squad}
Jul 23rd 2008 6:55AM Swingtown has its shortfalls but it's downright embarrassing that it's less popular than a generic piece of c like Flashpoint.
Audi system detects stop lights, tells drivers to floor it {Autoblog}
Jul 23rd 2008 3:21AM Sounds great in theory. In practice, the following would happen: You're driving along in your Audi at 20 mph because that's what the system told you to do. Behind you there is a queue of ten impatient drivers who want to drive at or slightly above the speed limit, because, let's be honest, the thinking-ahead capacity of the average driver is almost non-existant. So you're pottering along while they beep, flash and eventually bully you into accelerating. This repeats after every stop.
Tony Soprano's bloody costume auctioned for charity {TV Squad}
Jun 29th 2008 7:47AM How about some of Adriana's costumes? :)
The tables turn at the Bahrain Grand Prix (SPOILER ALERT) {Autoblog}
Apr 7th 2008 3:31PM And what about Hamilton's behavour, waving his fists at anyone who didn't let him pass as though he were lapping them?
It's the same thing whenever the British have a (potentially) successful sportsman -- the press exaggerates everything so much that the rest of the world ends up hating said sportsman. And in Lewis' case, all the publicity seems to have affected him, and not in a good way.
It's the same thing with Andy Murray.
Asus and Lamborghini to release iPhone rival {Autoblog}
Feb 28th 2008 6:48AM In fact, Porsche Design already makes kitchens. And pipes.
CES 2008: Cobra Nav One 5000 keeps Baby Boomers on track, ticket free {Autoblog}
Jan 6th 2008 1:19PM A car-mounted GPS device geared towards the visually impaired sounds about as reasonable as a solar-powered flashlight. If you can't see properly, you shouldn't be behind the steering wheel.
Heroes: The Line {TV Squad}
Oct 30th 2007 9:04AM If memory serves me right, last week Noah and the Haitian were in Moscow (The Red Square), but events in this week's episode take place in Odessa (Ukraine).
I feel this programme would be ten times better if they got rid of all the unnecessary characters that only detract from the storyline, and focused on the few central ones. Personally, I'd be happy if we only had Noah as the unscrupulous guy who does what needs to be done, Peter as the holier than Jesus good guy, Sylar as the likable bad guy and a shady organisation that they all end up fighting in the end. That, plus Hiro for some light fun, would make Heroes the best mainstream show this season. But with all the characters I don't really care about it gets boring to watch every episode.
Of course, in the real world the producers would be crazy to give up the crowds that ex-Star Trek actors draw in, and especially Hayden Pentierre, with her newly acquired tabloid fame -- just the other day I saw pictures of her shopping for underwear, and apparently enough people will pay to look at them in a pulp magazine.
And I really don't know how American high schools work (from a social standpoint that is), but I find it hard to believe it's really as banal, trivial and downright ugly as some movies and series would like us to believe.
Raikonen's F1 title questioned, then confirmed; McLaren to appeal {Autoblog}
Oct 22nd 2007 3:40PM The lenghts to which you McLaren fanboys are able to go to while defending your team are amazing. You do, however, need some perspective. McLaren was caught with almost a thousand pages of Ferrari documentation, and for that, they were stripped of one year's worth of constructors' points. They weren't banned, so sponsors' decals were still on TV, hence the cash flow remained uninterrupted. Granted, they will have earned a little less money than they would have if it hadn't been for the whole scandal, but nevertheless, in future seasons they won't suffer from lack of funding. In my book, this is very mild punishment for a very flagrant foul. They didn't mess with fuel temperatures or fiddle with aerodynamics; they went out and stole their main rival's technical documents. And their defense was, frankly, invented by three-year-olds: We didn't use it! We are supposed to believe that, although they had 700 pages of Ferrari papers, they didn't take so much as a peek? Right, I bet they only photocopied all that because someone needed a really big stack of papers to put under their washing machine to stop it rattling. Right.
