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The Nurburgring is a popular race track that is open to the general public. Yes in the land of the Autobahn there are folks who still want to drive on a race track. A regular street going car does not handle high speed turns as well as a race car as these folks find out when the hit the Adenauer Forst chicane.

Roger Hammond thankfully made a full recovery from a horrific dragster crash. Luckily now he can laugh about it.

Can’t afford a Lamborghini? You can get some pretty good road going performance from what is essentially a rally car where you can put a baby seat in the back.

Top Gear gives you the comparison:

It looks like it could be fake, but I guess it is not. Take some bungiecords, tie them to each side. Use a four wheel ATV to pull the slingshottie and then let go. Wow, you won’t believe your eyes.

Using inkjet technology Chrysler Jeep has an amazing and almost hypnotic waterfall that they bring to the various auto shows. The Waterfall using 3,000 nozzles that fire much like an inkjet printer. The system uses about 20 gallons of water overall since the water that comes down is pumped back up to the top.

Checkout a list of Fifth Gear driving techniques with host Tiff Needle.

Handbrake Turn:

Here is the full list of driving techniques from Fifth Gear

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The Apprentice is one of the few TV shows that I have been watching. It was one of my guilty pleasures watching Mr. Trump have some successful reality show wannabes suck up to get a job with the Trump organization. When the show first came out it had some very good merits. It was a cheesy reality show, but it helped to teach a lesson. Each show would feature an insight into who would get fired when “The Donald” would do a quick 30 lesson on a business tip of the week. That tip was the one thing that would be the undoing of that week’s contestant.

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Odd EDS commercial for how they do business. Does the commercial convey that you will be running while half your system is built? Is this a good thing? They won’t meet the final specs fully so you will be running on half a product. Oh goodie, where do I sign up?

Just like any tech geek in the world I eagerly awaited the latest Steve Jobs Keynote speech at Mac World Expo. I do not presently own an Apple computer, but have been seriously thinking of getting a MacBookPro 17″ model. The only issue is the cost and the unknown future releases of a new MacBookPro or other machine that is much better.

The MacExpo Keynotes and other Apple surprise announcements are great for marketing Apple products. Jobs is a master at creating buzz about great Apple products. The only problem I have is that with all of the unknown it is tough for a regular guy as myself to justify getting the latest Apple gear year after year. I received an Apple IPod Mini in Silver two years ago for Christmas. A few months back my battery died. Instead of shelling out $60 for a replacement which would mean getting a different refurbished model from Apple, I decided to replace my own battery.

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Its been a while since I kept up on Transformers Movie images. Today I rediscovered tfw2005.com which has been hard at work getting leaked images from both the movie and the toys.

Here is Optimus Prime:

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