The shear complexity of how it works makes it one of the cooler principles in science.

Time shifting your work hours can do wonders for your commute. I normally leave around 6:10am. Commute time is 20 minutes. This morning I left at 7:08am. Commute time was 50 minutes.

Those "truck cargo net" bungie-cord deals you can get at Wal-Mart are, sadly, pretty useless.

From one of the links you will find that small "local" farmers tend to create food loss by harvesting at the wrong time (usually too early). They also distinguish between waste at the farm and waste on the plate by calling the former food loss, the latter food waste.

Let me Google that for you:

Something smells fishy around here.

The amount of food left on the plate is minuscule compared to the amount of food that never makes it off the farm, through the production line, or past our borders. The obstacle course is complicated - contracts, labor shortages, and transportation shortages can lead to food never leaving the farm; "imperfect" fruits…

You should also think about what kind of car you are buying when making the new/used decision. Take, for example, the "lightly used" 6-month-old WRX I test drove - I discovered it was full of modifications such as a COBB tuner, aftermarket blow-off valve, after-market exhaust, etc. My guess was that it wasn't as…

Everyone should use this handy reference when needing to refer to the parts of a bicycle frame:

If you are fascinated by distance flights, you should look into the guys breaking distance records in hang gliders. They are starting in Zapata, TX and following the cloud streets to the northwest. Cloud streets are cumulus clouds that form up in lines from the thermal activity below. The record so far is ~475 miles.

I wish someone would model this so I could drive it....

The proportions remind me of the Funline Muscle Machines. Here's the most Jalopnik of them all:

Only if he flies it at night. The sun overwhelms IR controls. My son learned it first-hand just yesterday.

If you are car camping, you can save considerable cash by going with less costly items that weight significantly more. My queen-sized inflatable mattress provides almost the same comfort as my own bed at home. If I were trying to schlep it more than 100 yards away from the car (without the little wagon we use for…

Mazda B-series pickups

Not exactly a car, but one FANTASTIC record-breaking trike:

Moon boots were fantastic for keeping your feet warm, but where I grew up, wearing them in public was the fastest way to lose social status and be the recipient of brutal and endless taunting from your so-called "friends".

Definitely NOT a daisy-chain. The relative positions between the cameraman's glider and the one in front of him proves that.

And this is EXACTLY why hovercraft will never be used as a daily driver. Friction is required if you want to make a reasonably precise turn.

A friend of mine accidentally clobbered a teenage girl with the kevlar flight string of a performance kite when she wandered into the flight zone. We were thankful that the flight path was straight down at the time of the incident. We had been taking turns doing high-speed low passes. If it had happened during a pass,…