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Thus proving that Smart Cars, though cool in theory, and cool in execution, will never, ever, look cool. These things look like Penny Racers!
In trying to “go green,” it seems that one of the biggest obstacles is an attempt to duplicate a design that appeals to those accustomed to the artifacts of a gasoline (petrol?) age. In this case, trying to make a Smart Car look like a Porsche only, by some sort of hilarious error, makes the driver seem like a toy specifically designed for a children’s toy car.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) these are not real. This is all photoshopped. You can not have one of these.
However, I do wonder if these sort of body kits might tap into a completely different market: those who like comedically-sized objects. Though, due to the price of these tiny little cars, I think your normal fetishist of such objects would just opt for White Castle instead.
So, it seems that, again, innovation and “fairtrade,” “green” living are only fit for insane millionaires, whom, I would add, should probably spend their money engineering a car made out of Nerf instead.
<Editorial: I am horrified to learn, upon reading the Wikipedia Article about Nerf, that it was Ray Romano who first suggested that cars should be constructed with Nerf. I am ashamed.>
Via Core77
I recognize that I have not posted in this blog for quite some time. I understand that there is likely not even anyone left to read the blog, but I have decided to take up writing the blog again for reasons related to why I stopped writing in the first place.
Now, in the beginning stages of new media graduate study at the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Modern Thought research center, I decided that I wanted a place in which I could practice some sort of disciplinary action on my own writing. This blog will be a venue in which I will sometimes write merely for the sake of writing. It will also be, hopefully, not only a dynamic record of my research and a sounding board for (sometimes) personal, unacademic writing, but also a forum in which to allow some of my friends to comment on and criticize my research and conclusions. This is to say, I have decided that I will subject myself, insofar as it is within my power (and insofar as anyone cares), to intellectual transparency.
In doing this, I am also attempting to define an internet presence for myself. To do this, I will use my blog and possibly a couple of other technology-related projects to subject myself to certain kinds of transparency, perhaps more and more as I become more comfortable with the idea. I believe that the storage capacity of both the free space allotted to us on the internet and the very inexpensive space allotted to us in terms of personal storage should be leveraged for archival purposes. With the proliferation of archival space, though, we begin to problematize the private/public, the value of the remembered/forgotten, and the even the overlap of each individual’s private information/data, like some sort of a venn diagram. Though this is a weak first step in that direction, I hope it can be a useful one that becomes part of a larger project.
That being said, I also want to write about music, sometimes politics, and sometimes sports. This blog will be personal as well as academic. It may not rise to the grand occasion that I have set for it, but it will still act as both an attempt and a record of my attempt to work out some of the issues within the technological discourse that trouble me. I hope it will serve as the nerve center of my own experimentation with technology and the personal archive.
