Rubénerd :)

This is why I still avidly read Slashdot :)

“A wind-powered car has been clocked in the US traveling downwind 2.85 times faster than the 13.5 mph wind. The definitive research by Rick Cavallaro of FasterThanTheWind.org is being funded by Google and Joby Energy.

And thoughtsatthemoment’s response:

Let me know when you have a solar powered car traveling faster than light.

This has nothing to do with computer science or software or anime, but when Alex Sadlier shared this in Google Reader I just had to comment on it.

I want the car culture to fall down tomorrow, and I no longer care who knows it. I want the end of single-occupant vehicles, and the end of suburbs that force us to drive 30 or 40 miles to get to a job.

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There’s seems to be a lot of controversy flying (sorry, that’s a bad pun even by my standards) around the grounding of most of Europe’s aircraft fleet following the eruption of an unpronounceable volcano. Sheesh.

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What I love about Twitter is the spontaneousness (is that a word?) of random discussions about virtually anything. Today @oliyoung, @chimpocalypse and I were responding to the South Aussie government’s ambitious road plans by taking about high speed rail and how Australia desperately needs it.

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I had a thought this afternoon. Should Chrysler sell Toyota the Dodge brand name, given people will be trying to when they see a Toyota uncontrollably accelerating towards them?

Well that joke sounded wittier in my head. Wait wait, I can make it better! Suppose if its a technical problem, perhaps Toyota could ask Chuck Peddle to help them! Get it? Chuck… PEDDLE? HA!

When I was a kid I dreamed of being a stand up comedian. For the sake of audiences around the world, it’s probably a good thing that never happened.

Have you ever walked down a street on a particular day of the week — any of them will do — and suddenly realised that you should be walking alongside the street not down it? Really, nobody should be walking down a street, unless its one of those pedestrian ones that are closed off to traffic, otherwise a car might come out of nowhere and clip you on a part of your body that had previously never been hit by a vechile before. Unless you’ve walked down a street before, which you may or may not have done.

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Well that’s just a tad bit worrying.

Delta chief executive Richard Anderson has reiterated his bullish view that the carrier’s large fleet of ageing Boeing MD-80s retain a cost advantage over newer Boeing 737-800s that is largely driven by lower ownership costs.

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I usually don’t read the Singapore Straits Times, but Stephanie Yeow’s graphic in their story about drink driving was just too well done to pass up.

I wish the Singapore Police luck in their efforts to curb drink driving with incentives instead of nagging which I’ve maintained never works because it attacks the symptoms and not the societal causes. For example, both Singapore and Australia have had countless anti-drink driving campaigns pitched through all forms of media and as far as I know they haven’t done anything.

Then there are 23 year old people like me who don’t even have a car licence and probably have one or two standard drinks a month, if that. Go figure.

Having already typed one pointless aviation related post, I figured one more before I head off to bed wouldn’t hurt. I call it "what a bit of paint can do!" The photos were both taken this year by Jan Ostrowski and Nils Baker respectively.

And you know I never did learn what those "nostrils" in the DC-8 nose were for. Were they for bleed air? Because if they were, one could say the DC-8 had a… nosebleed! Get it? Get it? I’m going to bed now.

Today’s favourite photo I found on the internets is the one included above for your convenience. Really, there’d be no point talking about a photo I’d found without showing you what it was, otherwise for all you know I could have been making it up. It’s an integrity thing.

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