21 days ago
deusx : Speed Camera Pranks: The Muppet's Animal Caught Speeding, Driving Police Crazy - "Yes, the photo above is real: It is Animal—from The Muppets—driving a British Audi while speeding through a German road. The famous pink drummer is driving the police there absolutely crazy, because he keeps doing it again and again. Or better s
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Rod Begbie : ProClip Mounting System - Gadget holders for your car. They come in two parts: a mount specifically designed for your car's dashboard, and a holder designed for the gadget. I got and installed the 2001 Civic mount and the iPhone holder, and it's a big improvement over my previou #
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13 month ago
deusx : Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times - "There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
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22 month ago
deusx : Mercury Mariner Hybrid - This guy complains about various miscommunicated / wrong details on a vehicle he purchased, and sums it all up with: "NEVER NEVER NEVER Buy a vehicle without seeing/driving it first." HURRRR
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23 month ago
jkottke : Here's the 3129 character code you need to enter into a car's keyless entry pad in order to guess the 5-digit passcode - Here's the 3129 character code you need to enter into a car's keyless entry pad in order to guess the 5-digit passcode. It'll take you 20 minutes or less to enter it. (via j-walk) [via]
deusx : Weak security in our daily lives@Everything2.com - "Right now, I am going to give you a sequence of minimal length that, when you enter it into a car's numeric keypad, is guaranteed to unlock the doors of said car. It is exactly 3129 keypresses long, which should take you around 20 minutes to go through."
Matthew M. Boedicker : brute-forcing a car's keyless entry in under 20 minutes - (via kottke) [via]
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24 month ago
deusx : bits bytes pixels & sprites ? Archives ? BMW rips off N64 kid - "Think the kid got paid? Or did they just rip it off youtube and use it?"
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24 month ago
deusx : Peter Miller - Magnetic Yellow Card - "This magnet was tossed onto your car by a cyclist who felt that you might have been driving in a way that could have endangered their life."
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25 month ago
jkottke : Man tries to jump the mile-wide St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental - Man tries to jump the mile-wide St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. I don't want to spoil the result for you, but the concepts of gravity, force, and aerodynamics are fairly well established and understood, so why did anyone involv
joshua : rocket-powered lincoln continental
deusx : YouTube - Rocket Lincoln jump. - "Daredevil attempts to jump a rocket-assisted Lincoln over the St. Lawrence river."
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25 month ago
43folders : How to change a tire - Lifehacker - Yesterday, Lifehacker showed how to change a tire.
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31 month ago
deusx : LICENSE PLATE FLASH FRAME - "Scrolling License Plate Flash Frames are an incredible new accessory for any car!"
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32 month ago
deusx : KITT cogworks | MetaFilter - "These people are cool, they have the cars to prove it. So can you. And then go to the convention. One man's shadowy journey. Could Heat Vision be next?"
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33 month ago
jkottke : Unknown (relatively speaking) indie rock bands are turning down large sums of money from GM for licensing their music for Hummer ads - Unknown (relatively speaking) indie rock bands are turning down large sums of money from GM for licensing their music for Hummer ads. "It had to be the worst product you could give a song to. It was a really easy decision. How could we go on after soundtr [via]
deusx : Bah Hummer - Indie rockers reject big money from the king of gas guzzlers - "We figured it was almost like giving music to the Army, or Exxon" I'd be *more* likely to listen to a band after I heard they turned down Hummer.
Eric Meyer : Bah Hummer - My kinda folks. [via Scott Andrew] [via]
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33 month ago
deusx : YouTube - Volkswagen: Un-pimp Your Ride III
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34 month ago
deusx : nuxx.net - Honda Music Link iPod Adapter Review - "Unfortunately, my good experiences with the Honda Music Link iPod Adapter ended here."
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35 month ago
deusx : Dodge - Auto Show - One more RSS-powered auto show site
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35 month ago
deusx : Chrysler - Autoshow - "Aside from the exclusive details that you've come to expect from us, Chrysler.com will link you to the latest and greatest auto show coverage from respected automotive blogs and news websites."
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37 month ago
deusx : ClickOnDetroit.com - Automotive - Ford To Monitor, Time Employees' Potty Breaks - This sounds quite nutty. Hell, why don't they just make the bathrooms cost a buck a minute or so and recoup losses that way?
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38 month ago
deusx : TOM WALSH: State needs to face its reality - "Michigan is far more at risk than many other states because its manufacturing-dominated culture is addicted to an entitlement mentality that has long since disappeared in other regions and industrial sectors"
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41 month ago
deusx : How to shift an automobile marketing campaign into high gear using flash mobs: Corante > Corante New York > - "The Ford Fusion Web site is also building buzz with a collaborative photo-sharing page and a viral e-mail marketing campaign."
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42 month ago
deusx : BlogWrite for CEOs: How GM's Fastlane blog was born - "From an interview I did today with GM's Gary Grates, VP Communications for North America..."
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46 month ago
jimray : I Park Like An Idiot - You suck at parking! Let the world know it! - "Do NOT stick these on other people's cars"
Matthew M. Boedicker : "I Park Like an Idiot" stickers (I could use some of these)
deusx : I Park Like An Idiot - You suck at parking! Let the world know it! - Need to keep a supply of these in the glove box
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