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Guestpost #81: Josef Addleman – Ten things I've learned from …

During the 2008 Olympics, the government restricted car traffic by 50% in order to reduce traffic and air pollution. They did this based on the last number on a given car's license plate: on Mondays, only cars with an even numbered plate could drive, and on Tuesday only odd numbers. Sea Cucumber intestines are weird, but not as disgusting as one might imagine. Sea urchin is still pretty nasty, though. I didn't get a chance to try deep-fried scorpions on sticks. There's

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Sales of over-ambitious electric cars stall, but weird Twizy might …

Sales of battery-only electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf barely register on either side of the Atlantic as car buyers blanche at the prices — around twice as much as a similar-sized regular powered car — and the iffy and unimpressive range. At the Frankfurt Auto Show last year, mainstream manufacturers like VW's Audi and GM Europe's Opel-Vauxhall also showed off electric motorbike-like enclosed commuter concept vehicles that looked futuristic or odd,

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Political bombshell of the day: Rich man to build big house « Hot Air

The “scoop” is that the house will have a car elevator, which isn't that interesting — it's a way to store multiple vehicles in a tighter space — but can be usefully demagogued by class warriors on the left as a plutocratic extravagance. “Romney's so rich that It is not unusual for homeowners to hire lobbyists to petition local California boards for large home renovation projects, San Diego officials said. ….. There is always a wise guy that leaves a real funny one. laughed

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Ridge Racer Unbounded Review • Reviews • Eurogamer.net

By drifting, drafting and smashing through scenery, you fill a Power meter, which you can then deploy to either create shortcuts through smashable walls, set off explosives, or crash into other cars directly to “frag” them – Unbounded's Unlike classic Ridge Racer, where even the slightest brush of the brake sends you gliding through sharp corners in a wonderfully impossible lateral slide, here you're expected to haul your car bodily around corners at low speeds in an

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