Archive for March 2nd, 2007

1 year, 6 months ago

Possibly the most fun you can have working. Ever.

Over in the UK there is a television show called Top Gear that concerns itself with cars primarily. Of course that would be an understatement when you realize the three men who make up the show review cars the likes of which start at merely high prices all the way up to insanely expensive supercars and hypercars. The shows format tends to be a review of one to three high end luxury cars followed by them getting some famous actor behind the wheel of a decently priced sedan to see which actor has the best lap time on the track. They also have a tendency to say a $500,000 car is “rubbish” and will speak their mind without fear of the repercussions.

Most importantly however these three guys know how to have a good fun laugh and will do segments in the show that are totally ridiculous or just plain nutters. Below are three video clips from different episodes during the ninth season of the as shown on BBC 4(I could be wrong on this).

Driving a Bugatti Veryon up to 253 mph


H.264 MPEG-4 Video 26MB

Turning a Reliant Robin into a reusable space shuttle

H.264 MPEG-4 Video 23MB

 

Giant Farm Tractor “Drag” Racing

H.264 MPEG-4 Video 7MB

 

You will need Quicktime 7.X or VLC to playback these videos. They are well worth the time to download and watch. Great stuff, and some more to come later today.




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Daniel Spisak

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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