Automobile
New Fiat Grande Punto Photos
Autoblog.it have some new photos of the Fiat Grande Punto. Nuove foto della Fiat Grande Punto - www.autoblog.it
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Automobile
Top Gear Road test the Alfa Romeo 159
Top Gear give the Alfa Romeo 159 a good first impression drive review. I still think Alfa should have stuck with the hidden rear door handles. Screw the concerns about “attract[ing] people out of Mercs and Audis”. Everything else looks fantastic although I’d skip the “vomit-beige dash”
Automobile
Fiat Punto Grande website prepares for launch
The Fiat Punto Grande website is waking up ready for the September 7th World Preview. Fiat Punto Grande Website - http://www.fiatpunto.com/
Cool Hardware
Engadget 1985 - The memories
Engadget celebrate their 20th birthday with a look back to 1985’s latest gadgets. I still have the Sony D50 CD player shown (a mk1) in regular use, still working perfectly. God I feel old… Engadget 1985 - Engadget - www.engadget.com WELCOME TO THE ENGADGET BBS August 22, 1985 | 12:
Music
Robert Moog RIP
Electronic music pioneer Robert Moog, RIP. Bob's Body Leaves Us :::::: MOOG MUSIC ::::::
Metheny
Pat Metheny at Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005
A review of Pat Metheny Group’s outdoor performance of The Way Up at the Montreal Jazz Festival. It was filmed, hopefully there will be a DVD of this. Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 11, July 10, 2005
Religion
John Safran’s Podcast
If you like John Safran’s C4 show, you can listen to his radio show via the website or subscribe to his podcast feed. sunday night safran on triple j website John Safran and guests talk religion, politics and hoochies on-line sunday night safran podcast feed Sign up for
Skeptic
Pastafarians challenge Intelligent Design
Pastafarianism is spreading fast… Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $750K)
Graphics
Adobe Blogs
Adobe released a bunch of blogs recently. You can access them all via the home-page but each also has it’s own home-page and feed. * Adobe Blogs Home-page * Adobe Blogs Index Via Scoble
Automobile
"Big Dog" on Fiat
A Just-Auto rant on Fiat that’s worth a read! Insider Opinion: Big Dog: ‘What’s in a name?’ : www.just-auto.com …But if you view Ford as a possible example of nepotism gone mad, then there is surely one company that might be about to make it
ActiveWords
ActiveWords and Wikipedia....
Buzz posted a cool script which allows rapid searching of Wikipedia. It uses ActiveWords to enter the search term into the Wikipedia search engine for immediate results. buzznovation: ActiveWords and Wikipedia.... The fastest way to find out what a smoot is….
Approximately a Smoot
I was using Google Earth the other day and noticed in addition to the usual Kilometers, Miles, Feet there was the unit “Smoots”. What is a Smoot? According to Wikipedia the Smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. In 1958 Oliver R.