I'd say there is plenty of reason - It will still smoke any $300 camera out there. Even at $550 I would think it would make a dent in the sales of the Mk II

I am in the same boat as you - I love my Mk I but am just not seeing a compelling reason to upgrade yet. The performance of the original is so good I can't see wanting much more, and I am not sure the upgrades are going in the directions that matter to me. The brighter lens is nice and I completely understand the…

A slight tangent to the discussion but definitely related - does anybody have a good understanding of whether or not the testing and certification of the human-rated Dragon capsule could be accelerated if the government threw a bunch of money at SpaceX? I know they are hoping for a human test flight in early 2015…

But if it's in the air and it doesn't have a pilot, it must be a drone!

I will have to show this to my son, this is one of his favorite books.

I've actually never seen it where you HAD to launch off the lip, that entrance is usually there in some form, but that might simply be because I haven't been there after an epic dump. The one time I skied it, it was wide enough that I was able to do a quick speed check before the hook to the right (I'm pretty good,…

No doubt the dog has it easier than the skier. He has AWD, traction control and studded tires.

Makes more sense if you've ever skied Corbet's, and the video doesn't really do it justice. That's about a 50 degree slope. After you straightline that entrance, you hit the right turn at the bottom moving pretty fast then are immediately pointed at the opposite wall, towards which you are moving with great speed.…

Things that aren't supposed to be here:

These are beautiful. I've always loved iconic still frames from popular (or not) movies. Lucas did a book set "Star Wars: Frames" where he went though every frame of all six movies and pulled his choices for the best individual ones. The problem is that it ended up being a massive 20 lbs box set with thousands of…

I believe Atari was in Sunnyvale at the time so that would make sense if they were using a local ad agency.

"Ferrari, why are you such a mega bitch?"

Same here. We had a family membership when I was a kid and we got invited to a private opening for the Theater of Electricity when it opened in 1980. My son loves the place and we go there once every month or two.

We made that same drive every year too and my little sister and I would begin watching for the billboards around Baltimore. Our favorite was usually the motorized "Your sheep are all counted at South of the Boarder". We loved the place, but then we were kids. One year we actually badgered my mother enough to stay at…

What you saw was the planet Venus

Absolutely, I totally have to disagree with having the Contour on this list. It wasn't a 3-series, but it was a vast improvement over what came before it, better than it's competition and a decent driving car in its own right. I drove a rental version from Mammoth to Agoura Hills, CA in just over 4 hours, routinely…

Personal favorite - Exerlopers! Check out the rollerbladers struggling at 0:29.

Back in the 90s PJ O'Rourke wrote an article on this very topic for Automobile magazine, the general theme of which was to take a group of 5 or 6 of the least efficient, least politically correct cars on a road trip through Maine ("where every town, lake and stream is named after something from the LL Bean catalog" -…

Ohhh... GTV-6 at 2:27. I love this video!

I do a lot of backpacking and this is sort of like something I always thought would be good for search and rescue operations. Usually people get into trouble in areas without cell coverage. Have a drone with some sort of portable cell antenna that could fly over search areas enabling temporary cellular service to try…