Miscellany
Leave it to a bunch of Brits to play football with automobiles. In this case, a small fleet of Toyota's Aygos. There was plenty of rubbin' going on, and as we all know, "Rubbin's racin'." [Via Autoblog, video requires Windows Media Player.]
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When you go to see X3, sit through the credits.
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It is amazingly quiet in my study when my wife's Windows PC is powered off. My iMac Core Duo, PowerBook, external hard drive, and HP OfficeJet AIO (when it's not actually printing) are all near-silent. When I walked in a moment ago, and registered the quiet, being so used to the fans of the PC, I had a momentary thought of "What's wrong?"