Ironically, it's probably less damaging to the environment to have a beached RAM hanging out in salt water than it is for this guys' Prius with the Coexist and "WHO RESCUED WHO?" sticker.

I apologize for the shoutiness of the following rant.

Flying through the air at 500mph is a pretty good perk. Journeys that used to take weeks, months, or years now take hours. Yet, we still find reasons to complain about the time.

In Japan, they make everything. Buildings. Boats. Elevators. Toilet seat warmers. Nuclear power. Insurance. Beer. etc.

If the positions were switched, and China had a mature car industry while the US had several fledgling, struggling companies...I'd probably applaud the person who tried to steal secrets. National pride and all that noise.

"Ironically, GM's hybrid technology data consisted solely of plans to plant an engineer at Toyota Motor Corporation to steal hybrid technology data."

I've never seen a gas station in the US that wasn't pre-pay. Gas doesn't come out until you put your card in or give cash to the attendant.

Good to see that the city of Boston is back to business as usual - getting shitfaced and acting like assholes.

I don't understand any of this but it sounds awesome.

Mythbusters actually did try the drama thing in the first couple of seasons. It was always awkward and forced. "Adam's mad at Jamie because of x!"

I've spent almost the past 20 years being called a fag on the internet by anonymous people I've never interacted with and will never interact with again. Who cares? It doesn't impact anything.

I do standard with a slight wrinkle: My right elbow HAS to be resting on the arm of a chair. I'm absolutely useless in any first person shooter without that.

Things made specifically for 3D (like the 3DS or movies like Avatar) aren't gimmicky, it's Lion King or Jurassic Park in 3D that's gimmicky.

I almost bought a Focus last year and MFT/Sync was one of the things that pushed me away (didn't really like the automated manual transmission or the B pillar placement either)

Almost every subcompact looks better as a hatch. I've never understood the sedan Fiesta, Yaris, Accent, etc.

If this is an average Portland driver, it probably happened while stopped at a 4-way stop trying to wave everyone else through first, or while trying to merge onto the freeway going 30mph.

I know this is a big part of US (especially NYC's) history, but are they really going to demolish two buildings just to retrieve the landing gear? Isn't that a little wasteful? It made it there with the buildings in tact, why not the other way around?

Instead of having a cool kart track/arcade/batting cage, we will now have.....the Portland metro area's first CarMax. Hooray.

Malibu Raceway in Beaverton, OR is great but it's closing at the end of the month. It's been around for decades. If anyone is interested, they're selling all of their equipment, there's a pdf on their website with a list of equipment and prices.

Interesting. I played it several times on the SNES on a CRT TV and always remember seeing the passages easily. I've played on emulators too (PCs, laptops, and a PSP) and I don't remember seeing one where the passages were completely invisible, but I do remember some viewing methods made them easier to see.