Tuesday, 1 June 2004

Are Sales Of Hummers Starting To Suck? In places like Colorado, where you would think that SUVs would not only be a status symbol but considered a practical necessity, sales are dropping across the board on SUVs. Even the American International Auto Dealers, who you would think would only put up rah-rah kinds of stories on its own website, has actuallyadmitted that full-size SUVs have taken a major dive. So if the SUV is on the ropes, what's the new champion now at the car lot? Hybrids are hot now, like the Toyota Prius, and the Honda Civic Hybrid. So hot, that people are putting their names on 3-6 month waiting lists for the vehicles. Even the international petroleum industry is taking notice. via [Plastic] See, there is good news out there....   11:01:57 AM  comment []   Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates Cormorant writes "It was reported in The Guardian that Warner Brothers has sent night vision goggles to cinemas across Britain for ushers to don and scan for ... [Slashdot] An official invitation to become a peeping tom?   10:49:51 AM  comment []   Comments Ah, should I turn the comments option back on and slow down the Diary, but have less mail clogging up my incoming mail folder...or should I keep it off and have the site load faster for those people who don't care for comments...hm, please don't answer that!   10:25:01 AM  comment []   Drivers Want Code to Their Cars Today's cars have 1,000 times more computing horsepower than the moon rocket. But automakers resist letting car owners access diagnostic tools. Why? Because dealers can charge $100 just to turn off the Check Engine light. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News] Give me a bluetooth interface to my car and let me access preferences and settings....   10:21:28 AM  comment []   Biodiesel Boom Well-Timed As the price of gas continues to climb, the appeal of an alternative domestic fuel is growing. Biodiesel fueling stations, new EPA emissions standards and a pending tax credit may help tip the balance toward renewable fuel. By John Gartner. [Wired News] People simply won't change unless they have to...now that they have to, they will.   10:21:10 AM  comment []   Airtexting: heckler's delight Joi Ito has a good blog entry about Nokia's new "Airtexting" feature in the 3220 handsets: a string of LEDs down the side of the phone spell out user-defined words when the phone is waved back and forth. Joi ponders the heckling applications: If they made an airtexting enabled BlackBerry, I wonder if they would allow them in Congress. With the massive penetration of BlackBerries, it would be like a chorus of Hecklebots. Anyway, I want one. Forget night clubs, imaging having one in the audience during talks. [BoingBoing] Soon every convention is going to look like a free throw in an NBA game...people waving their one-word messages in the air...   10:19:14 AM  comment []   Phone Cam Art Show These are Phonecam snapshots contributed to SENT by the public. Images taken by invited artists will be published at sentonline.com simultaneously with the gallery show launch on July 9, 2004. A bit like etch-a-sketch "Art", ain't it?   10:19:01 AM  comment []

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