My wife's IT manager offered her a Playbook when she asked for a new BB. When he explained to her that it didn't have email, calendar or contacts without tethering, she politely declined and got a new Curve instead.

This is silly. Everyone knows that only dbags ride scooters over here.

Once you figure that out it gets a lot easier though. The "ij" (which is also sometimes a "y") is a simple "eye" sound, so looks worse than it is. The random "je" on the end of words makes it diminutive, so a "ijsje" just means "little ice cream". Of course, they use the "je" on almost everything, even if it's not…

Living in the Netherlands, I think the last thing I'll try to do is learn German first. Dutch isn't really that hard, and it's the closest living relative to English, but with the pervasive use of English everywhere here it's taking much longer than it should to learn. You'd think that living in a country would be an…

Makes it a bitch to learn Dutch too. There's hardly anything besides children's shows that are actually broadcast in Dutch.

I have it on very good authority that he is actually consulting for Ferrari on color and trim choices (seriously). Fact is, the dude has a great eye for what douchey rich people (Ferrari customers) like.

I'm sorry, but this is a clearly wasted opportunity to bring back box flares in a big way. Disappointed.

The New Jersey traffic circle is the perfect example of why roundabouts haven't caught on the US. They are huge, confusing (with inconsistent yields), and largely used in places with too many lanes to be effective. They also have New Jersey drivers on them, which makes anything seem mildly insane.

I'm pretty sure you can assume it's a derivative heap of shit, like most everything Disney pushes out these days.

Already dug the Duster quite a bit, now I dig it A LOT. They're cheap and good looking compact SUVs with one of the most honest designs on the road today. Making a batshit crazy Pikes Peak version is an awesome coup by Dacia (Renault) in my book.

I think the fact is that most Mac users will like this very much and praise it (as they have, for the most part, with WP7's interface). The real argument against MS and Windows however, appears to still be present here - and that's a confused mess of styles and an overly complicated system.

Hot wife, and let's not forget the child he had with Heidi Klum too, eh?

Ironically, here in the Netherlands, the meat is usually free range and grass-fed, locally produced, and hormone-free. You can't even buy a steak here that's big enough to make the grade at 90% of American restaurants. So I imagine this research probably has more to do with long-term problems of providing sufficient…

I personally find that the giant oil smudge on the lens adds an air of authenticity and isn't distracting at all.

Completely agree. Bloat and busyness has replaced clean, elegant design in too many recent models. Damn shame.

Yuck. I think they've decided to show it at Shanghai because it's like a Chinese copy of the formerly nice looking Malibu.

Isn't this just an updated version of the already-existent XV with the new, uglier Impreza design that was leaked the other day?

Or "how to become the most popular girl in school, the hard way"...

I'm sorry, that Peugeot's just a remix of the Nissan Altima.-.-

And for a minute there I thought you were going to say he was pushing for Hollywood to stop greenlighting complete garbage aimed at lowest common denominator teens, and for his next movie Cameron was going to use a decent script and actors.