Top Down - Miata MX-5 Blog

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Protect your precious Ben and Jerry's ice cream with this Pint Lock.

Toyota to sell robot help by 2010.

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Scary puppets synging hymns of love for children: The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show. Starring frightneting alien puppets, and Chip, the Black Boy.

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Just in time for Memorial Day...secrets to grilling a good hamburger.

School children write funny puns for Darth Tater. "Luke, I am your farmer."

How to own a Ferrari, the inexpensive way

Congratulations Rhode Island - your drivers are the dumbest in the nation. A shout out to Oregon, the state with the smartest drivers.

Neat story of the creation of the original THX "deep note" sound.

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Honda's engines and transmissions ranked first among those of six automakers included in an internal GM analysis of the latest J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study data.

Now's your chance to own a Chevy Blazer Mercedes Benz 4 wheel drive vehicle.

Flyin' Miata shows what a twin-screw supercharger would look like if you had x-ray vision.

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Das Keyboard - a keyboard with no inscriptions on the keys - for uber Geeks. Makes you type faster because your brain can no longer look at the keys when typing.

A helpful diagram on how to turn your hamster into a fighting machime.

Inside the Xbox 360: Procedural synthesis and dynamic worlds.

This Bud and this email is for you. Budweiser offers free email service.

Bad news: driving drunk. Worse news: driving drunk, and your drunk friend who was sticking his head out the window, gets decapitated. Even worse news: driving 10 miles back home, not aware your drunk friend has no head.

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Someone stumbld on a commercial or movie shoot involving 4 NC Miatas in downtown Vancouver, BC: pictures here, here, here, and here.

Neat...a human powered hydrofoil or a vehicle out of the latest Star Wars movie.

How to complain effectively.

When you're playing make beleive Jedis, fluorescent tubes filled with fuel does not make a good lightsaber.

Be afraid...a cybernetic parrot sausage. If you're handy you can make your own.

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Yum...Porsche revealed the first official images of their new sports car - the Cayman S, a coupe based on the Boxster series.

Bummer...a Volkswagen GTI catches on fire - a video taken by the passenger catches the whole thing.

The Japanese word for GM? Maybe "Mitsubishi" - Mitsubishi losses widened to $4.4 billion and sales tumbled 16 percent for the latest fiscal year.

Sightings of flying pigs? Apple Computer Inc. has been in talks that could lead to a decision soon to use Intel Corp. chips in its Macintosh computer line, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The report, citing two industry executives with knowledge of recent discussions between the companies, said Apple will agree to use Intel chips. Or is this another attempt to influence IBM who makes the current Macintosh processors?

Neat...GPS Visualizer is a free on-line utility that creates JPEG maps and profiles from GPS waypoints and track logs.

Why surfing on your pickup truck down a residential street is not a good idea.

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Shucks, looks like space billboards will not be in our future.

Another Iraqi prison abuse victim: Saddam shown in his underwear. The horror.

Microsoft has updated it's PowerToys for Windows XP.

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Neat...a repository of free PDF e-books.

To mark the premiere of Star Wars III today, a hilarious Star Wars photo shop contest. Or, how about the Star Wars Last Supper scene.

Chrysler is abandoning it's 7 year, 70,000 mile power train warranty, and reverting back to a 3 year, 36,000 mile warranty.

Neat...Californians now have our own 24 hour earthquake forecast map.

Very cool...a cheap gas finder via a Google Maps interface.

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Rods from God: hurling cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon. The Air Force seeks Bush's approval to weaponize space. Star Wars - here we come.

How to create a fake fingerprint.

"It swelled up...it ain't nothing you can do." an appropriate ending to a dry ice bomb video.

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Mazda began official production today of the NC Miata at their Ujima No. plant, in Hiroshima, Japan.

Video of storm chasers getting hit with softball sized hail.

Good golly miss molly...the Playstation 3 was introduced at the E3 conference yesterday afternoon. Coverage and videos at Gamespot.

Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith coming this week...read the script before watching the movie, and get all the trivia and background info you can shake a light saber at.

Darth Vader...meet Darth Vader Dog.

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A California company has developed super-oxygenated water that wipes out single-celled organisms, and which appears to speed healing of burns, wounds and diabetic ulcers. The solution looks, smells and tastes like water, but carries an ion imbalance that makes short work of bacteria, viruses and even hard-to-kill spores.

Toyota Prius blue screen of death? A software problem is causing some Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid cars to stall or shut down while driving at highway speeds, according to a published report.

This is not your father's bcycle: Cadillac Bicycles.

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Lesson #1: Don't put your iPod in a washing machine. Lesson #2: Don't repair iPod after it's been in the washing machine. Rip. Mix Burn Boom.

Cross that off the biology class agenda next year: a dissection of a live dog in a Utah biology class has outraged students and parents.

Is your child lonely? Don't fret...rent some friends! Get some girls from RentMyDaughter.com or boys from RentMySon.com.

Neat...the UltraTech PC Knowledge database.

Yowza...little girl frozen in time. Brooke Greenberg, a 12 year old Baltimore girl who looks and acts like an average 6 month old baby, weighs 3 pounds and is 27 inches long. Her syndrome remains undiagnosed and unnamed, and as far as doctors can tell, she is the only one in the world who has it.

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A European brochure for the NC Miata is now available.

Neat...NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed.

Jesus Dress Up.

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Serious Wheels reposts high resolution pictures of the LE NC Miata and the concept NC Spec Miata.

Where was this when I was in high school? Free downloadable graph / grid paper in PDF form.

A literal eye-popping stunt.

Red or Blue or in between? Take the Pew Research Center's typology survey to find out.

Virtual drums.

Another group of words I thought I'd never see put together: a Hassidic Jewish reggae singer: Matisyahu.

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Nice photos of Spec Miata racing at VIR.

Is the Force strong in this one? CBC reports that early reviews of the upcoming Star Wars film indicates it's not going to suck like #4 and #5, and that it might actually be good.

A driver of a small Smart vehicle was pushed two miles down a busy German autobahn - because the driver of a large truck did not realise that he had rear-ended the tiny city car, and that the two-seater had become attached to his front radiator grille.

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This is not the sand castles I made when I was young: pics and more pics.

Learn the ways of the Farm: Store Wars.

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Road & Ster magazine has pictures of the NC Miata engine: here, here, and here.

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Contact in spec Miata racing sometimes results in a nice long jump.

A red tomato and a red Miata.

Awesome...get a nice 1940s era handset for your tiny cell phone. Very chic.

Cool - make a bendable building with bendable concrete.

Very cool...Zenph studios has a computerized robotic system which can analyze recordings of long dead piano masters, and replay their exact performance on a real piano.

Woohoo...the DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals have struck down the Broadcast Flag, which the FCC wanted to impose to regulate what people do with TV shows after they've received them.

Another nify USB memory stick mod: the Barbie USB memory drive.

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The Phoenix Suns bench warmer & blogger, Paul Shirley, is back for the playoffs.

The number of the beast has been devalued by 7.5%. The old bad number, 666 is now 616. Satanists, update your forehead markings.

In the dual-core microprocessor wars, AMD is easily winning over Intel.

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Enter mx-5.com's contest to attend the Global Press Launch of the NC Miata in Hawaii.

The best of the web: the winners of the 9th annual Webby awards.

The punchline to the world's funniest joke? "OK, now what?"

*Very* cool: the cylinder head of the future? The Coates Spherical Rotary Valve Cylinderhead (CSRV) cylinder head.

Are those cars in the other lane really going faster?

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Miata driver hits amored truck, killing truck's driver.

Spec Miata racing at Laguna Seca.

Fascinating....Hitler's 93 year old nurse, present at the Berlin bunker when the Third Reich crumbled, speaks out about what happened in those final moments.

Mike points to a neat page describing how to read a vacuum gauge to diagnose engine problems.

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Mark has photos of the Hot Streak NC Miata tour stop in Irvine, CA (Mazda North America HQ).

An NC Miata engine reving.

All that you wanted to know about the USB standard.

Strange Japanese custom vehicles picture gallery with an annoying drifting video thrown in.

John Williams very cool "music video" featuring clips from the upcoming Episode III Star Wars.

Treat your minor cuts, scrapes and scratches with the incredible healing power of a fake bacon band aids.

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