Someone on our street must be working for MB. Gotta find out who that is :-). At any rate, looks like they brought some work home over the Christmas break.

Happy Halloween everyone. #WorldBollardAssociation 👻

You can always call in well. “Sorry, boss, I just feel entirely too great to come into work today.”

Today has big friday energy. let's just not show up tomorrow.

Even though he's closely associated with the UK, most Queen fans don't realize Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar & went to school in India before his family fled to the UK during the revolution.

In today's Smith and Sniff, aside from reviewing the new Honda Prelude, Jonny and I talk about the time we were left alone in a room at Google's London HQ and got so bored we covered a whiteboard in made-up business toss. Just found my photo of that...

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/l...

Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem

Hacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs ian.sh/fia

we don’t talk often enough in our little corner of the universe about the time Giugiaro designed pasta, “lined for maximum sauce and flavour retention…designed to remain well ‘structured’ after boiling, and to be ‘displayed’ in nouvelle cuisine dishes” www.italdesign.it/en/project/m...

I just tossed a few bucks to the site that I use dozens of times a day. I should take the money I saved by canceling my WaPo subscription and make a monthly recurring donation in that amount.

Say nothing Andrew, say nothing......

tonoight on top gear, james gets vertigo and drives off a bridge richard breaks down in the middle of a channel gale and i try to establish a tax haven on one of the artificial islands

Folks... 1-Mika Hakkinen, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Jackie Stewart, Bernie Ecclestone, Lord March, Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve and Emmerson Fitipaldi. 2-Bob Bondurant John Fitch Phil Hill, Dick Gulstrand 3-Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Graham Hill 4-Steve McQueen, Jaquline Bisset

it’s later than you think it is

Watched E.T. today. The greatest movie adaption ever of a horrible video game.

this might seem controversial, but I think we should send everyone who identifies as a "tech youtuber" to a nice quiet farm somewhere littered with fake cameras, where they can run around like labrador retrievers without hurting other people with their performative stupidity

Happy to report the French spirit of rebellion is alive and well ;-)

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Guys, Trump said this in November of *2015*. If you read my Salon piece about The 'F' Word" from that month you will see that many *Republicans* were calling Trump out as a fascist. It's been obvious from the beginning. (And I don't want to hear about guardrails. They were made of jello.)

Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social! How well am I faking this? ;-)

The bill that was meant to protect US citizens from Chinese disinformation now being leveraged so that TikTok can be used for Trump-friendly disinformation.

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

"Around 75% of mothers of young children outside the labour force point to care duties as the main reason, compared to just 13% of fathers." Sigh. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

Will be rustling up an ad for the Rallye soon. Limited reach on here, but if anyone knows somebody who is after one of these, let me know.

What poster did you have hanging in your room as a kid?

mode confusion and insufficient driver attention management have been a factor in Autopilot-involved crashes going back to at least 2016

Same. People would spy on each other and turn each other in. Being part of the Solidarity movement early on was like being in a secret organization; you’d only talk to trusted people.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

Missed this when it came out. Good marketing and even for a grumpy old fool like myself, impossible to be cynical about. www.mazda.com/en/mazda-mir...

this is *easily* a dissertation topic if we were making new Phds in this country

This suggests the right historical industrial policy at the advent of the auto would have been to set the pace of that tech transition based on the capex requirements imposed on horse breeders. I doubt that strategy works. Can’t escape the 21st century. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

Mes amis ! C'est l'Orchestre Curieux qui ouvre le bal du ZEVENT 2025, accompagné d'Alice Duport-Percier et Lorien Testard (Clair Obscur : Expedition 33), ainsi que de Marianne et PV Nova ! Avec, qui sait, une apparition d'Esquie ? 👀

Les organisateurs en profitent pour confirmer l'exportation du concept Rétromobile aux États-Unis : la première édition new-yorkaise aura lieu en novembre 2026. ➡️ www.retromobile.us

Rétromobile fêtera l'an prochain ses 50 ans (déjà !) ainsi que les 50 ans des fameuses #ArtCars BMW. L'affiche met d'ailleurs en scène la 3.0 CSL habillée par Alexander #Calder (1975). 🧑‍🎨 Le salon aura lieu du 28 janvier au 1er février. 📅

After sharing this link with some trainees at work, happy to report their morals are in a worse place than mine :-D. www.electrive.com/2025/08/29/b...

2025.

"Lost in the archive" in this week's Autocar is a fun read, and given it's about how the UK car industry of the 1970s - which was turning out utter toss, believed Japan should buy more of its wares and sought restrictions on Japanese imports - has parallels with the current US situation too.

Go on, UK Government, how to try and spin this to the UK people?

This carbonium fibre stuff sounds like the future

Can't tell all crossovers apart even without camo, but guess this is a new Benz?

Well he *was* friends with Epst... ohhhhh wait, that's not what they were going for is it

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

Happy Taki Inoue getting clobbered by the safety car at the Hungarian Grand Prix day to all who celebrate