A universal charging standard.

What does the post office do when you bring them mail?

They send it.

I love the “infotainment” system in my VW. It has:

Headlights that turn on when the wipers are on. My 1999 Grand Cherokee had this feature and no cars I've owned since, though newer and nicer, have offered it. It's idiot proof.

somewhat of a feature?

Taxes are inherently good. They are a check on oligarchy, aristocracy, and power. The fact that, over the past 50 year’s taxes have gone down and income differentials have gone up is no coincidence, it’s causation.

tilian is an excellent singer, but I’m an especially big fan of the guest vocalist on this track, andrew wells. his band, eidola, is a favorite of mine and an easy rec for folks who are into DGD

lots of different musical tastes at kotaku! think I’m the only one who likes DGD-type stuff around here, though. it’s a lonely life, but at least it has a good soundtrack

Didn’t expect to see Dance Gavin Dance on Kotaku, but I’m really liking this album. Tilian’s voice is awesome.

Track: Evaporate | Artist: Dance Gavin Dance | Album: Artificial Selection

My best friend and I dressed up as Burt and Ernie for halloween about 8 years ago. Went out and got pretty hammered at the bars, and then I see down the street, Cookie Monster, just standing there. Well I thought it was a good idea to jump on his back, we both fell to the ground, and that’s when I feel a shot to the…

One of the best, and probably most honest reviews, of the game I saw on Steam was “came for the thighs, stayed for the cries.”

What’s stupid is that car makers are fully capable of meeting the efficiency standards. Engines have become vastly more efficient over the decades. But instead of that translating to gains in mpg, it translates to gains in horsepower while mpg remains stagnant. Instead of stuffing another 100hp into a Ford family…

If you read anything today, read this. (Read it before you read anything else here, frankly.)

I think the methodology for determining whether it’s a hobby or a sickness is the Tracy Scale? You take the number of non-running vehicles you have, times it by ten, and add the total number of vehicles you possess on top (example below). Compare this to David Tracy’s number, using the same formula. The closer to his…

The OG Dodge Viper ignited my love of cars. We were in a Dodge dealer in 1995, my parents were buying my older brother a Neon and I noticed this oval bulbous thing in the middle of the showroom. I looked at it and wondered why there were speakers on the hood (I was young.) The lines, the power, the sheer will of the…

1993 Dodge Stealth (stop laughing)

I really really want to believe that Ryan Gosling drives that dusty Jeep for some reason.