Besides designing cars, Mike Mate is an automotive artist of great renown:

OMG that's awesome. I had a friend (in the 6th grade or so) who had an at-the-time rare and expensive VCR (VHS movies cost like $75). He had the Buck Rogers movie and I remember a few of us, in the middle of the night during a sleepover, watching that opening over and over and over, marveling at Erin Gray's…

Oh, he'd have wanted it, alright. If it put a nickel in his pocket, he'd have been just fine with it.

I read once that he offered this to VW as the 2nd-Gen Scirocco, and they said no thanks, and that's how it ended up with Isuzu.

When I try to start it up, it tells me it won't. WTF?

Parallels 7 won't run on Mountain Lion, just so you know.

Cantore probably has something in his contract that says he can't wear one of his favorite International Male shirts unless it's a hurricane. That's the only reason he cares.

OMG, the autostick. The Beetle for people who thought Beetles were overpowered.

Glad we could help!

My high-school girlfriend's brother got in a car accident once, and when he came to in the hospital (about 30 minutes later), the first thing his father said to him was, "Tom, you've been in a coma for eight years." The poor guy's face, as he struggled to wrap his head around it...

Thing is, why wouldn't the dealer WANT to do the work? The get paid for it by Ford, don't they?

I was going to post a long list of the reasons Coloradans who aren't either nutball Christians or trapped in a perpetual guns-and-monster-trucks-fixated adolescence think CS is about the most moronic, reactionary hellhole in the state; then I realized that your did it for me, er, "punnisher."

Exactly!

News about Gen X? Maybe Time should have FAXed this story to 1994, when somebody would have cared.

It's the Department of Homeland Security that runs the Secret Service, Erin, not the Department of Defense.

Little-known fact: Bob Woodward also was wearing pink socks when he got his Pulitzer. And a matching bustier.

I realize that for the people who frequent this site it's mostly about the penguins, but did Jezebel just break the news that Ron Paul's dropped out, which I can find NOWHERE else?

Just this past weekend, my GF and I did her headlights with the kit from Sylvania, $20 on Amazon. It was amazing, pretty easy (took about an hour to do both lenses), and I heartily recommend it. Consumer Reports liked it, too. No idea how long it lasts, though.

Somebody posted this in Gawker crosstalk. Nicely put.

Right? And yet— too thin for a piece.