Automobile
Fiat sale to GM shock!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Was the reaction when I saw this headline in my feedreader, then I saw the date. Phew, but why did it just show up today? Fiat set to axe...
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AutoCAD
AutoCAD 2009's Quick View Layout & Drawing feature
I was going to blog about AutoCAD 2009’s new Quick View Layout Drawing feature but now there is little point. Just click through to Donnie’s brilliant post and video to see these features in action:...
Cool Hardware
HD DVD is dead, the best format won!
It was compared to the VHS/Beta format war but in the case of HD DVD vs Blu-Ray Sony appear to have won! This time it also means consumers get the best format. It’s often said this will be a short liv...
CAD and BIM General
QuadriSpace gets ribboned
Yesterday a press release arrived in my inbox from QuadriSpace. I’m not familiar with their product but the tagline on their site “3D Publishing Software – It’s 3D, it’s a document” explains it all. T...
Science
Watch out Phil Plait...
This awesome video shows Wanderer has found the next Bad Astronomer !
Politics
Penn knows who'll be president...
From Crackle: Penn Says - Hillary Joke Predicts the Future
SolidWorks
"Matt Writes" on a new User Inteface
Given the focus of the latest AutoCAD release , a new UI, I found this recent blog post interesting reading: Matt Writes - dezignstuff.com/blog/ : “The 2008 interface is only the latest salvo in...
Television
Outnumbered, a family sitcom worth watching!
If you want to see the most natural child acting on TV have a look at Outnumbered (TVNZ One Friday). It’s a family sitcom which is distungushed by letting the children improvise a little. The result i...
ActiveWords
Buzz Bruggeman & Robert Scoble see something remarkable at Microsoft
If it impresses Buzz and Robert I can’t wait to see what it is... Microsoft researchers make me cry « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger It’s not often that I see software that really changes...
AutoCAD
Time flies, it’s Autodesk 2009!
Autodesk have announced their “2009” product releases including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture/MEP and Revit Architecture/MEP. While there is a lot to see in these products some of the announcements ma...
Automobile
Spend $37k, Create your own Fiat 500!
Having spec’ed a 500 I got to $36,990.Quite a lot of money for a little Fiat! Create your own Fiat 500! - Fiat NZ As you build your Fiat 500 your choices will be displayed along with the cost of...
Cool Hardware
The full featured Apple Macbook Air
Is a Sony Via planetsab