Luke ‘n’ Bill

Gadgetopia posted a while ago about the new KERS system that was being developed for F1. Granted, when I first heard about it, I was thinking the same thing that Deane was….probably the coolest thing ever for car racing.

Well, apparently the mechanics may disagree. There have been a couple cases so far including this latest one caught on video that demonstrate the danger of large amounts of energy held in the form of electricity and predominantly what happens when it goes bad.

Now kids, sharpen up those #2 pencils, grab your favorite college ruled note book from your transformers trapper keeper and lets learn about conductors and insulators. (here’s a hint mechanic=conductor)

video via YouTube/story via Auto-Blog

I went through this afternoon over lunch and updated the RSS feeds that I’m reading now.  They’re all pretty standard but one that you might want to take note on (especially if you enjoy traveling) is Dotting the Map.

This is a blog by one of my friends.  I’ve helped them out with a little bit of css/html work on the site and while I was there I read some of the posts and have decided to add it to my RSS feed.  The blog has only been around for about a month but the work is impressive.

News on another blogs, Carla Kay White has changed from random posts focusing more on web development tools and tricks to a theme of Health, Wealth & Happiness.

It is good to see that Australia is getting a taste of the good ol Americana in their mouth…primarily the take-over of those resource rich nations!

Actually, this was just a joke ad campaign made by some agency in Australia, but apparently New Zealand didn’t take it too well.  Oh, for the good old days where things were innocent enough to actually care about a joke like this.

Makes me wonder if America’s hat (Canada) would get all up in arms about a good joke like this…or even (as Ross puts it) America’s beard (Mexico).

This was something that Deane forwarded around the office, being that he’s from New Zealand.

Link to the Invade New Zealand site: http://www.invadenewzealand.com/

Link to the discussion on Tim’s site: http://www.schoffelman.com/2008/07/invade-new-zealand.html

So apparently the Russian Mig pilots aren’t so friendly when you take their picture as Top Gun would lead you to believe! This is a pretty crazy video that was supposedly taken from a Georgian unmanned UAV.

Yeah, it’s pretty freakin sweet.