Bob Lutz, GM Vice Chairman, is now blogging! Several articles there already and links to recent interviews, some on car design. Link: GM FastLane Blog. Welcome to FastLane The FastLane blog is your source for the latest, greatest musings of GM leaders on topics relevant to the company, the industry
MindManager
I haven't used MindManager on a Tablet PC yet but agree with The Tablet PCs Weblog's review. Link: Equation Tools - MindManager X5 Pro - The Tablet PCs Weblog - tabletpcs.weblogsinc.com. "There are less expensive and even free mind mapping tools available, but
Television
Do I care which High Density/Definition DVD format, Blu-ray or HD DVD, wins? Nope, although Blu-ray seems better due to capacity, but I know we don't need yet another format war. Lets hope one wins this fight soon before we have repeat of the whole Betamax/VHS
Science
"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" 120 answers, 60,000 words, all worth reading whether you agree or not. Link: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005.
Cool Hardware
Apple will be happy but can't image the folks at Sony Personal Audio are popping many champagne corks to celebrate their wins in 2004 Engadget Awards! Sony VAIO's did ok in a few categories but not my favourite: "U Series". Perhaps they need a
Web/Tech
I'm not an Apple user, so haven't ever used it, but the story of how the Graphing Calculator came to be is very cool: Link: The Graphing Calculator Story. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.
CAD and BIM General
This is neat. A impressive demo application for 3d sketching on a Tablet PC developed by Cornell University Link: Cornell CCSL: 3D Journal. A long-standing dream in computer-aided design is the possibility of using freehand sketching as the language for interactive design. 3-D Journal Project is a demonstration of live
This would be good to see! Stupid Auckland City throws out V8's (and speedway) while Melbourne has Formula One in the Park and City... Link: Pledge steers F1 cars closer to city - National - www.theage.com.au. Pledge steers F1 cars closer to city By Royce
Weblogs
Not many compared to some but the blog crept over the 40,000 visit mark today! Total number of hits to Blog: 40146 Total Posts: 300 (301 now)
Design and Art
Perhaps those that think we need more shopping malls in New Zealand are behind the times. Malls require all that tedious walking when all you really want is more stuff fast... Could Drive-through Supercenters be the future? Perhaps but I think they have missed two important features of shopping: * It&
Do we need a much retail/person as Australia? Link: STUFF : BUSINESS - STORY : 'We need more shopping malls'. A report finds New Zealand is under-shopped compared with Australia...
Weblogs
Nominate your favorite blogs for the 5th annual web log awards "Bloggies". The finalists will be announced January 20th 2005 and then you can vote on the finalists. Lets get some CAD related blogs in the final bloggies awards this year! http://2005.bloggies.com/ Via: Between the
