It has been especially foggy here this past week, and yesterday I was out on the roads and for the most part everyone was driving at completely normal speeds (100kph here in my part of NL). Saw one dickhead in a 5 series driving about 130 without his headlights on though.

The Pacific is a big, big place. It seems to me that if they stay clear of major shipping lanes there's little risk.

Just for the record, a lot of those "unpadlocked" wifi networks are not free or open, they simply require you to log on through your browser before connecting. I frequently see airports, hotels, or restaurants that appear to have "free" wifi, but in fact have some kind of browser-based paywall.

Not trolling, not liking.

So they've stripped away every bit of production bodywork and it still looks crap? Does not bode well for production...

Or it may have to do with the fact that much of the design community (product and transportation design especially) is taught to sketch with a biro, so they went with what they thought their early-adopting customer base would use.

Looks like they may have plucked some of those "aesthetic statements" directly from this armored vehicle I designed for MotorStorm: Apocalypse.

or, you know, a big violin.

What I'm saying is that ugly AWD cars is a small niche, and if that's all they want to play in, I think they're going to have trouble surviving this economy.

It really says something about Subaru that a car this blatantly ugly, awkward, and downright offensive to the eyes could be considered an improvement over the previous generation. It looks like someone made a paper airplane out of a sketch of a decent hatchback and then built the folded version.

I think you will agree that I clearly said I thought the restaurant should talk to the bartender first, and that I also said (in my reply) that without knowing what was said on the telephone call that I wasn't taking sides. My point is simply that this probably wasn't good for PR and could have almost surely been…

If you're going to bitch about a place, it always makes sense to @ the restaurant so they can see if other people are having similar problems, etc.. Assuming the customer is the problem and throwing her out without addressing a potential douchebag employee is bad business. Wouldn't you @ Comcast if you were tweeting…

Maybe the restaurant should have spoken to the bartender and asked him to be less of a douche first? Well, I'm sure that all of the great publicity they're getting from this will affirm the restaurant's decision.

That is what the marshall was doing, but I doubt it had anything to do with the explosion since it's an electronic button, as far as I know. Just coincidence.

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.