Fisker Karma

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Fisker Automotive: Environmentally friendly, premium cars featuring plug-in hybrid technology >> Vehicles >> Features — J says we need to get one of these. Read more..

Car Stereo Fakeout

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Car stereo stock radio fake-out - Instructables - DIY, How To, ride, music - The Instructables Book Contest Entry — put your crap OEM stereo faceplace over your cool aftermarket ... Read more..

Wrap your car just like the big boys do

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Infectious Car Art — pretty cool stuff. Read more..

Energy reads

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

bcurtisBLOG » People are talking about water… — nice chart on where all our water goes. Only 13% for household use. A huge amount to thermoelectric power generation. Tom ... Read more..

Inside the F1 scandal

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Here at another racetrack this weekend, this is great reading about the F1 spying scandal last year. The amount of money in racing is phenomenal — and anytime you ... Read more..

Nick Parker of Cantrell Motorsports

Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Bumped into Nick in the pits, driving a car owned by Cantrell Motorsports of Kirkland with a Windows Live sponsorship. Nick was super gracious, let us get a picture ... Read more..

American LeMans at Miller Motorsports Park

Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My god what a facility — brand spanking new, huge, a variety of viewing from plain bleachers to delux clubhouse. Great views from all kinds of places. And the ... Read more..

HCCI engine technology

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Technology Review: A More Efficient Engine — J told me about this the other day at the Seattle Auto Show, high compression gas engines that don’t need a spark plug ... Read more..

Stuff I want but do not need — gear edition

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Fujifilm Professional Photography - Products - Cameras - Digital Cameras: Fujifilm IS Pro — UV and IR photography, awesome. Blaupunkt car stereo accepts flash media — this seems pretty cool. Infolink GE ... Read more..

Tires

Friday, August 17th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m not really a car guy, but need new tires and wanted good ones. J turned me onto Tire Rack — they do an awesome job of summarizing all ... Read more..

The Tesla is sexy but I think I’d rather have one of these

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

100% Electric SUV Recharges In 10 Minutes : MetaEfficient. Read more..

Formula D Saturday

Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Formula Drift - Professional Drifting Championship — great event. The sport is in its infancy here so you can easily get into the pits, up close to the track, ... Read more..

Headed to Formula D today

Saturday, July 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Formula Drift - Professional Drifting Championship Read more..

Formula Drift coming to Seattle area

Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Formula Drift - Professional Drifting Championship — this looks like fun. Way more exciting racing than what we typically see on broadcast TV. Read more..

Products I certainly don’t need, but still…

Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A portable photo background in a briefcase 60 second beercan chiller Tripper for photo storage Scrolling LED license plate frame. This seems like a good way to get shot. Able planet noise cancelling ... Read more..

Ford, GM, Mazda add ipod support

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ford, GM, Mazda add ipod support — about time. Is there any reason 5 years from now the entire entertainment center of a car won’t be replaced by an ... Read more..

Car shopping

Thursday, June 29th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Looking at some cars to add to the household — the sweet spot is the $32K sedan. The Volvo S60, Subaru Legacy, and vw passat all seem like great choices. ... Read more..

Imperium Renewables

Monday, June 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Martin came by and updated us on Imperium Renewables today (nee Seattle Biodiesel). Sounds like they are hitting on all cylinders, man I wish I’d been smart enough to ... Read more..

Cement that absorbs pollution

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Is this cool or what — It functions via a chemical process called photocatalysis, whereby sunlight triggers a chemical reaction when titanium dioxide on the surface of the cement comes ... Read more..

Diesels

Monday, May 1st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Martin is always a great read — latest diesels in europe, audi a8. man I wish these were available here. as he says the citroen is hot looking. Also a ... Read more..

Automotive Education

Thursday, September 1st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m doing some research on automotive engineering education for high school and undergrad students. Wonder if anyone has any tips. The things I’ve found so far: The SAE student ... Read more..