I would settle for a road-going plane such as this:

Hey, my Dad had a Renault Dauphine in high school in the 1960's. He always remembered it fondly. Particularly the time he and my Mom’s Dad (before they were married- he owned the service station in town) rebuilt the engine on an old table in the garage. They just lifted the tiny little 845cc engine out by hand with no…

M . Torchensky is not the big risk here. A Renault Dauphin with full on Tesla underpinnings is.

It’s also a problem with how they’re being used in the US. In the rest of the world, it’s Chip+PIN, so you have to enter a four-digit PIN every time you make a transaction. In the US, it’s Chip and Sign, which is dumb as hell.

It bears repeating: DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS! We have smaller scale floods here and without fail people try to drive through them. In addition to putting yourself and your property in danger, you also now have to be rescued by someone who WASN'T stupid enough to think "I can make it." There is also the…

I know after having bought Sun Microsystems they technically are, but calling Oracle the maker of Java just doesn’t feel right to me.

You can’t be perpendicular to a sphere.*

Is this a metaphor for gawker’s bank account?

Paracelsus never stopped hating those Fuggers. Ultimately, he found out that Jacob’s mother contracted Syphilis; at first he felt vindicated, though in later years, he sympathized with that mother Fugger.