For those of you on your computers now and not watching the live Barrett Jackson auction on Speed TV, you missed seeing a 1954 Oldsmobile F88 concept car go for $3,000,000. That’s $1,000,000 higher than their record sale in a prior auction. Prices this year are nuts.
January 2005
Just yesterday I posted the link to the lock picking championship and said that since mechanical locks were so vulnerable, electronic keys would be much more necessary. Today, we find out the code to those keys has been cracked. Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a system, using off the shelf [...]
Ever watch the movies where some guy sneaks up to a door at night and pulls out a small leather case filled with picks and opens a door in seconds? Well, this isn’t the movies, this is the Dutch Open Lock Picking Championship. These guys are the real deal. Your average suburban home with a [...]
By now, most of you have heard about the film Faster covering the MotoGP world. Well, now we have a film scheduled for release this summer of 2005 by the name of Hooligan. It’s all about riders of old British iron, cafe racers, the neat old machinery without the plastic or truckloads of chrome. These [...]
