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The other morning, during an especially zippy bike ride to work, we wondered how fast we were going; surely a bicycle speedometer can’t be that expensive. This go us to thinking that perhaps it would be more interesting to gauge our morning commute using some other unit of measurement – cars overtaken, red lights ignored, [...]

Predominantly a feature of hideously disposable and generic suburban and highway architecture, gas stations are rarely much to look at. This dependable lack of visual appeal, strangely, makes them a popular challenge for photographers, doing their best to make something ugly look pretty or interesting.
Fortunately, every so often someone designs an innovative gas station to [...]

We’re really digging the new visual flair that digital technology is opening up to the advertising world. Now that blockbuster visual effects don’t have blockbuster price tags, one-minute and 30-second spots can afford to swing for the bleachers. This week’s edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is entirely devoted to imaginative mini-world-making, as showcased in [...]

As you’ve likely heard, between enforced mergers, massive layoffs and its interim CEO Frederick A. Henderson saying this morning that bankruptcy was “probable,” General Motors is in some mighty hot water. And though we’re scared by the idea of the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country losing one of its biggest companies, [...]

Yesterday was National Hot Dog Day, and we were so busy stuffing our faces that we forgot to mention it. This morning a prompt memo arrived in our inbox from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (hereafter referred to as the NHDSC), who organized the celebration, notifying us of this tragic oversight. To make [...]

In that fantastic way that movies do, characters’ entire personalities and physiques can often be gleaned by looking at their car. This is just another way that art imitates life, of course, and much has been made of how our cars reveal certain things we may or may not want to be broadcasting to fellow [...]

Every time there’s a major auto show in town or cool new future epic at the multiplex, we get a little carried away fantasizing about transportation for the future. Like those cool Lexus pods from Minority Report. Turns out that snappy concept cars and the like have existed since at least 1938, when the Buick [...]

An interesting New York Times piece yesterday explained that one of the few sectors whose numbers are rising as the recession deepens is the candy industry. The logic behind this trend is fairly self-explanatory: in bitter times, people want to eat sweet (and cheap) things. We’d like to see the candy industry seize upon this [...]

We had a fantasy when we were 4 of having so many pets that we wouldn’t need a bed, we could just sleep on the collective mass of our sleeping pets. Of course, our parents weren’t so into the idea, and when we finally managed to execute our pet bed plan late last year, well, [...]

We’ve been wearing a big smile since yesterday afternoon, when someone tipped us to the news that GM will either look to sell or discontinue their Hummer brand. Funnily enough, when we brainstormed some months ago possible positive outcomes of the New Depression, this was one of the events we predicted: the demise of pointlessly [...]