Brian and I have been looking at, test driving, and overwhelming our wives with discussions about cars lately. In fact, Brian recently pulled the trigger and finally bought a new one. In light of our recent car obsessions and realizations that we still can't afford a Tesla, here are some links about car tech. - Calvin
Surprise mini-trash-fire GOGOGOGOGO! -Brian
Related: this is a really fun way to look at a way that Earth may have changed geologically over time. I'm not promoting any particular view of Earth's history, this is just neat and I spent an inordinate amount of time looking at it one night. - Calvin
The title and URL say it all. Do you love looking at dinosaur drawings and imagine meeting one? Go here. Do you want to win friends and influence people by randomly blurting out interesting dinosaur facts? Go here. You're welcome. - Calvin
Transport's favourite myth: why we will never own driverless cars
I love the driverless car debate because it has these two extreme diametrically opposed positions that both seem to be supported by the facts that either like next year all of our cars will be automatic or that we will never have automatic cars. I think that antimony is driven by the gap between a system that is all computer driven cars and the system we have today. How do we get from here to there? Who wants to be in a car they can't control when there are actual human drivers still on the road? I trust a fully managed system but do not trust a hybrid system and I cannot see how we bridge the gulf between the two. -Brian
Joe Thompson's Complete Guide To The Modern Era Of Watchmaking
Bookmark this and keep coming back, because there's no way you're going all the way down the rabbit hole the first time you visit. Brian might have, he's on really long flights sometimes. - Calvin
Deep-sea life on Earth gives us a clue to what aliens would be like
I would be a little disappointed if we do finally find alien life on another planet and it's just a bunch of tubeworms. Or, to quote Family Guy, a bunch of Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubemen. –Calvin
This Is What Commercial Airline First-Class Cabins Will Look Like in the Future
Being in the "front of the plane" turns very long (10 hour plus) air travel from something that is painful and needs to be endured into an experience that is fun and interesting that you want to do again and look forward to. Check out one vision of what that high end experience might look like as technology develops further. -Brian