To be completely accurate, Peak Oil won’t really happen when there’s Not One Drop of oil left - there will always be oil in the Earth, probably lots of it.

“As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.”

I always thought that it was because uneducated people want to feel smarter than educated people by pretending to know something that educated people don’t know.

Wait until next year when Toyota releases the Corolla Type S+ Ringaroundtherosie Edition.

“The car, according to Blue Ribbon News, was donated to the Genesis Center by a local resident battling cancer:

“Paint me like one of your French motorcyclists, Jack.”

I’ve done my share of domestic and international flights—both economy and business—on mostly American and Asian airlines. Domestic airlines in the U.S. have absolutely the worst customer service across the board. Continental and Delta are probably the best among the four (plus United and American), but that’s not…

Marquez won the championship on the Honda last year by stringing together the most consistent performances instead of risking everything for the win. because the governing body decided to give it to him on an unnecessary grid penalty to Rossi on the last race of the year, pretty much guaranteeing Marquez the title if…

I’d pay the ticket gladly.

“Sir, I pulled you over because the time-averaged derivative of your location measured by this laser interferometer has exceeded the specified local maximum.”

No, Legacy38, I’m not better than this. No engineer on earth would stand for this erroneous terminology.  

Obligatory:

Can’t we just adopt a charging standard first, please?

I wouldn’t say never. I financed my first bike because I lived in Fairbanks, AK and the second hand bike market wasn’t the best there. Most bikes were purchased by 18 year old military men and women, who lets face it, were just babies. Like you said, they ended up not liking two wheeled life. The bikes were dropped,…

Pulp Fiction was released in the fall of ‘94 after debuting at Cannes in May. After an amazingly long theatrical run it was finally released to VHS in September 1995.
So, a visitor to the 1994 NYAS would probably have no idea that some geek who wrote an indy film last year had a motion picture called Pulp Fiction in…

were you like... never a kid? i’m pretty sure every kid is legally required to know the fastest bird on the planet.

you can’t use the transbreak in NC

Okay, I get why this sucks from a gameplay perspective. But in a game where almost every single player is a thief and a murderer, where the actual game title is a crime, there’s something poetically appropriate about hackers stealing a bunch of in-game money from other players.

Or, if you fancy some close racing, there’s always MotoGP ;)