I don't know what y'all are complaining about. I think that's perfectly attractive for a modern car. If you hadn't noticed, modern cars pretty much suck. We knew it wasn't gonna look as good as the R8, but it's certainly better looking than most of the competition. I do think Nissan did better with this one than… Read more

@Mr. Black: $116 is the general educational discount price, but most .edu institutions have a volume licensing agreement with Apple so faculty/staff/students at those institutions will pay whatever price their school has negotiated. If you're at an .edu you should be buying your software through your University's… Read more

How about reasons you're not looking forward to Leopard, like the demise of InputManagers in Cocoa? Read more

@Murilee Martin: I'm a fan of the slant six myself. I gotta say though, if I were in the middle of a desert somewhere with nothing but what I had in the car to get me home, I think I'd prefer an aircooled motor. Fewer cooling system parts to go wrong - no blown radiators, hoses, gaskets, etc. And I wouldn't have to… Read more

I haven't spent enough time in a 2nd Gen F-body to have a good feel for the right theme song for that vehicle. I gotta say though, if you want to go for a Ford product from the Malaise era, it's hard to beat the Mercury Cougar reference in Clem Snide's Joan Jett of Arc. Read more

Cool cars, but he's from Cali and he couldn't find a better beat? I don't mean to hate, but dude's beat is seriously weak. It's a fun song otherwise. Read more

Transcontinental road racing is my favorite kind of racing, but only when it's sanctioned and roads are closed to facilitate it. There are plenty of legal opportunities to get your kicks, though sadly none on Route 66. You can race in La Carrera Panamericana, Targa Newfoundland, etc. This is the right way to go… Read more

Sure, you could say something bad about this engine, but it might hear you and the next time you're stranded two hours from home and the main oil seal blows out you won't by some miracle make it all the way home with no oil pressure at all, stopping every dozen miles to pour more oil in the case, and find no real… Read more

@Triborough: The freight industry agrees that they'd like to send more freight by rail and they've got America's freight rail carriers at or above capacity right now and they're all scrambling to get more rolling stock active. For a shipping company the cheapest option will always win, and for a long time trucking… Read more

@infmom: I'm a big Adium fan but I'm not at all a fan of the default look and feel. To me it's too bulky, like a lot of Mac apps. I very quickly figured out how to slim down the interface to occupy the least amount of screen real estate. Maybe a Show Us Your IM Client contest is in order. Read more

@Murilee Martin: I don't know, I sure see a lot of them on hot rods. I think the hot rod guys say that as long as you have the right oblong-shaped washers on them they're perfectly safe assuming all 5 lugs are properly torqued. I think the best rule of thumb is that driving on a cheap wheel with 40% of its lugs… Read more

3, 4, 5 lug, it's all the same. I'm sure he just overtorqued the remaining 3 lugs to compensate, so those are probably a few inch-pounds away from completely letting go. When you've riding with the devil, even your wheels are living on the edge. Read more

Vdubs and Porsches all had these same style of jacking points with beauty covers over them. It's an awesome system provided you happen to be on flat, level ground when you're jacking the car up. If not, well, it's a bit wonky. Anyone who owns a car this old anymore has a real hydraulic floor jack in the boot… Read more

People hacking up a whole interior to get at one little part is one of my junkyard pet peeves. They've inevitably ruined whatever I'm coming back behind them looking for. Is it so hard to actually use your tools to take the dash apart? People do the same to engines too. Cut every hose going to the engine, rip the… Read more

Like a lot of people, it's all about video chat for me. I'm an Adium fan and have never liked Trillian's cluttered UI. But at this point I would take almost any non-iChat AIM client for OS X that supported iChat AV video conferencing. I use Adium daily but I keep a seperate AIM login so that when I need to video… Read more

If they had left a little bit more room for a bed you could have parked The Cogolin in the bed. Read more

El Caminos all the way. One concours quality restoration, one with a clearcoat right over the patina and inevitable welds where new steel had to be added and a crazy ass Duramax, and the third as some kind of bastard "American shooting brake" with a Vista Cruiser / Safari style roof welded in over the bed and a 454… Read more

@Mad_Science: True, true. I had forgotten about the dual lever t-case. Even better for pretending you're in a Tonka truck! Read more

@Triborough: That's a thing of beauty. Love that color on it and the Willys logo on the tailgate and bent radio antenna FTW. Read more

@Bumblebee: In my defense I didn't have the $1k at the time, and I have no children to sell. Read more