THIS CAR RUNS ON SUNSHINE

I get press releases.

Sometimes they contain photos of solar-powered race cars.



That’s the Quantum, a car built by the University of Michigan’s UMSolar team to race in the 2011 World Solar Challenge in October – the object of which is to race across Australia from Darwin to Adelaide in a car running on nothing but solar power.

Practical? No idea. But I’d love to drive it around the neighborhood.

Blue skies and green lights,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #116: DANCES WITH LIGHTSABERS

If there’s one thing I love about the Star Wars pop-culture phenomenon, it’s disco cash-ins.

If they’re by Meco, at least.

Also, there’s this one, which is a cut above the rest in the sense that it’s probably the only SF-themed disco single produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic.

So there’s yr hip cred right there.

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