When Gran Turismo 5 Prologue launches, it won't let you create private races for just you and your buddies. Nor will it let you indulge in a spot of in-game voice chat. But don't despair, because that stuff's coming later, with these two features (and, most likely, more) to be added to the game in future updates. Certainly sets a new benchmark for those who think games these days are shipping unfinished, but then adding features late is better than never adding them at all. I guess. Ferrari F2007: GT5 Prologue's "God Mode" [PlayStation.Blog]
In an op-ed this morning in the New York Times professor of environmental design Robert Goodman demonstrates how much bad advice is being given to the automobile industry or those who’d like to contro... 查看全文
I have no opinion whatever on the merits of the Treaty of Lisbon, which treaty’s rejection by the Republic of Ireland’s voters has thrown plans for greater European governmental consolidation into a c... 查看全文
Consider this genuinely interesting map of which cities have more single men than single women and vice versa. All other things being equal you’d expect a small surplus of single women practically eve... 查看全文
(Franchise Pick) LA Weight Loss centers continue to close without a word to the press or communication with their customers. The website Weight Loss Complaints compiles a list of recent and upcoming... 查看全文
With the high price of oil in recent months, dropping now as economic activity slows and demand with it, energy policy has been a hot topic for both candidates.Im mostly in disagreement with both of t... 查看全文
King Parrot by Boron Homewood, from our Second Life Intentional Community's art gallery.It took about 30 hours' work, but I finally got my blogroll updated, with 170 broken links fixed and defunct blo... 查看全文
One of the things that bugs me most about the various professional pundits (from the Hindi, payndit, a learned man) nowadays is how little life experience they seem to have. For example, take the post... 查看全文
Question:when is an “anti-Afghan militant” not an anti-Afghan militant?Answer:when he’s a Pakistani paramilitary.ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan released footage Thursday o... 查看全文
In a good post on the limits of what could be expected from opening the ANWR to oil exploration Dyre42 notes:The one real benefit of drilling in ANWR would be significantly decreasing the amount of fo... 查看全文
It look to me as though a decent compromise solution for GM and, possibly, the Detroit automakers generally is emerging. In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Michael Levine makes an argument similar... 查看全文