Wrapup, Textish Edition
April 14th, 2008
- Dean’s back. A man, with witt and character to be reckoned.
- Joe has a nice set of Captioning Sucks! banners up on flickr.
- I can now create a google on top of google – if I wanted to. Related, “cloud computing” is really popping onto the radar.
- BMW 520d Beats a Prius in Efficiency:
“…on a 545-mile London-Geneva run, when a diesel-powered BMW 5-series posted better MPG stats than a petrol-based Toyota Prius hybrid. The BMW 520d with a 2.0-liter diesel engine and regenerative braking posted an impressive 41.9 mpg - about 0.9 mpg better than a full hybrid Prius. The difference may not seem huge. But given that the Prius weighs about 500 lb less, BMW’s fuel economy lead was significant enough to raise new questions about which drivetrain technologies are more envir [via motoringfile]
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Japan sings Turkey’s national anthem:
