LeVar Burton was actually a good choice in that regard then. He’d hosted comedy skit shows, he’d hosted The Muppets, he’d hosted other GSN game shows, and one of his early jobs was doing interviews with kids for Rebop in the late ‘70s.

Cheap to film a shitton of them in one night. Spend seven hours filming on set and you’ve got twelve, maybe thirteen episodes worth of content. They can knock out an entire year’s worth of programming with three days of filming, re-using clips to pad the runtime, and replaying the sponsored section without having to…

If I remember the math correctly based on a report from 2014, the average Dollar General employs three employees per shift per location. Those being the primary retail clerk, stocker/secondary retail clerk, and the manager. Some less than scrupulous locations may combine those first and third positions. Meanwhile,…

I honestly believe a very simple solution to fix many of this ship’s problems would’ve been strakes along the side of the hull, similar to the rings on a dog toy:

The Dodge Dakota. Specifically the original, first generation Dakota. Here you had a mid-size truck that was designed to haul things a compact truck like a Ranger or Rampage couldn’t, but never actually could because the best engine you got was the V6. Which sucked, because the V6 didn’t have enough torque to haul…

As far as I know with their online sales, Carvana sort of screw you by not letting you actually experience the car with a test drive before you buy, and is one of the reasons I tell people to avoid them if they’ve never driven or rode in that car before. The vehicle might be weirdly sluggish on acceleration, or you…

I’ve not driven one of these yet so I don’t know, but does this engine have start-stop on it for fuel savings? Is that a thing we’re still doing?

But remember that’s a sliding scale. Slide the little bead too far in one direction, and to the statistically minded or obsessive it doesn’t make sense not to push it all the way to the end. Ford already gave in by sacrificing the Fiesta, Focus, Taurus, and Fusion for the Ecosport and Escape. Toyota’s giving signals…

1.) Volvo C30
2.) Nissan Maxima
3.) Uh...
4.) Ford Escape.

Top’s the front end of a ‘75 Dodge Monaco, while the side and rear are a mashup of a ‘80 Dodge Mirada with a ‘76 Mercury Monarch.

Bottom’s an ‘88 LTD Crown Victoria, with the front bumper of a U.S. market E30 BMW 328i that has the turn signals filled in. The sides and rear are actually a Volvo 760 sedan, but the…

Even if they can’t change the outside angle of the turn, would a netted barrier system work? One that traps the car instead letting it redirect its force and riccochet?  That brings its own risks with fire safety, but it might be a worthy tradeoff for that one turn.

Were they? Huh. I didn’t actually know. I guess I misremembered them being co-developed between ARCA and NASCAR’s sanctioning bodies.

That’s what I was wondering. Spa still uses the old ‘70s F1-style double layer rubber barriers, doesn’t it?

It could be due how the cars impact it. The entirety of a stock car tends to crumple inwards on itself, while LMS and F1 cars fracture apart, leaving the driver cell the only part that compresses inward to absorb…

Look at all these fake ultra rich people.

A true ultra rich person builds something like this for themselves and dedicates an entire deck to a recreation of the garden of Echo and Narcissus from the painting of the same name by John William Waterhouse. With real plants watered and manicured by tiny robot herons that…

I would gladly compete in gladitorial combat to get one of those in real life. It is very much worth the humiliation of standing in front of an audience wearing only a loincloth and a single pauldron.

The Crosley Hotshot would like to tell the Cruze to buzz off.

I’ve been looking for one to buy for years. Sadly every time I find one, the owner doesn’t seem to want to give it up. They instill a weirdly strong sense of loyalty.

Actually, yes. Britain employs giant rolling drums as inertial batteries for some power concerns. Scotland’s currently developing an even bigger version of it to use for their national power grid, instead of as a regional supplement:

It’s an odd thing you don’t really see anymore.

I’m hoping that with electrification coming so that aerodynamics aren’t as important that we can see odd and unique styling elements like this come back.

I remember back in the day you could get a used Suzuki 125 dirtbike for $350 and a brand new E-Ton Viper 120 ATV for $1,250. And that was in 2003. People used to trade Yamaha Blasters for next to nothing, and Honda Foremans could be traded for an afternoon of clearing somebody’s field.

Problem is, adults in the suburbs…