New e-mail forward: “Why oil prices are so high”
So I got this forward from someone this morning and I think it’s making rounds outside the car enthusiast community. First of all, the forward shows a custom MTM Audi A8 which was polished and NOT made out of silver as the forward claims. Secondly, gas prices are this high because of our own policies in the Middle East. However, I find it typical that some moron would try to blame gas price increases on a single vehicle that costs less than $200,000. If you get that forward, just go here for an explanation: MTM A8 D3.
2004 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
2004 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
More pictures and press release are below.
2006 Maserati Quattroporte Executive GT & Sport GT
I think everyone knows how much I like the new Maserati’s coming out of Italy these days. Ferrari has done quite a job bringing the company back from the dead in the United State. For those who don’t know, the Quattroporte is a 4-door car that is meant to compete in the same segment as the Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7-series. So what sets it apart? It’s Italian. It uses a Ferrari engine. It uses Ferrari’s true manual gearbox (without a clutch pedal) transmission. If those aren’t reasons enough, the boys on HBO’s Entourage drive one. Anyway, Maserati has come out with two new trims for the car. One is the Executive GT and the other is the Sport GT. There are more pictures and press releases below.
Quattroporte Executive GT:
2006 Lamborghini Gallardo SE
2006 Lamborghini Gallardo SE looks great. They changed the color combo and gave it newly designed wheels which add to an already brilliantly executed car.
(as usual, click to enlarge the photos)
More photos and press release are below.
Google: An Apology
Poking fun at google. Very funny indeed.
Google: An Apology
Leader
ZDNet UK
August 09, 2005, 14:55 BSTAs you may have read elsewhere, News.com — our sister publication in the US — recently published a story concerning Google and online personal privacy. In it staff writer Elinor Mills used Google itself to find out public information about Google chief executive Eric E. Schmidt, which she then published. In response, Google has decided not to talk to any reporter from News.com for a year.
We cannot speak for News.com, although we are proud to march under the same CNET banner. However, we cannot avoid responsibilities for our own actions. Acting under the mistaken impression that Google’s search engine was intended to help research public data, we have in the past enthusiastically abused the system to conduct exactly the kind of journalism that Google finds so objectionable.
Clearly, there is no place in modern reporting for this kind of unregulated, unprotected access to readily available facts, let alone in capriciously using them to illustrate areas of concern. We apologise unreservedly, and will cooperate fully in helping Google change people’s perceptions of its role just as soon as it feels capable of communicating to us how it wishes that role to be seen.
Unfortunately, we have been unable to ascertain this. Google UK has told us that we’ll have to talk to Google US to find out whether we too have fallen under the writ of excommunication. As we share all information with our American brethren it is hard to see how it could be any other way, but we humbly await news of our fate.
Google UK’s inability to explain the local implications of the decision could be read as the results of an angry, irrational action dictated in isolation from the top of a large and disparate organisation, an action whose ramifications were not fully taken into account.
We seek at once to distance ourselves from that perception, at odds as it is with Google’s name as a byword for enlightened, engaged wisdom, a new model of corporatism which seeks to do well by doing good. It is certainly something that would be impossible to square with the quality of management required to successfully run an $80bn multinational company.
And forgive us too for any effect Google’s righteous wrath will have on our coverage of issues affecting the company. Although we have plenty of other sources to help us report and analyse the many intriguing and important issues involved, Google’s voice may be absent. We can only encourage our readers to make up their own minds about what may really be going on inside the company — while abjuring them from using a search engine in their quest.
It’s wrong. Don’t do it. Google says so.
Alias Cast Changes *Spoilers*
There are some interesting cast changes coming up for Alias’ fifth season. Do not click the link below unless you want to read the spoilers.
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