I’m totally doing this with whatever new car we wind up buying, and definitely with the Scout: How To Turn Your Car's Ashtray Into A Smartphone Dock.
→ This is a syndicated post from my Scout weblog. More info here.
This just popped up on my radar today: The Rodder’s Journal Vintage Speed & Custom Revival, being held at Pimlico on September 28-30. I think I need to bring a camera.
This should be required reading for anyone stepping into a polling station: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. (via longreads)
MMMM. Where two of my favorite subjects meet: beer and design.
File this under When I Get Some Play Money: CD Changer Interfaces and Conversion Kits for Jukeboxes and Wallboxes. The installation instructions look remarkably easy.
Another Buckaroo Banzai post on Metafilter. Because it’s awesome.
From my father via email: Is this really the best beer in America? There are lots of good brews to sample here. I must go find my debit card.
I was a Piers Anthony fan in Junior High School, so I found this episode of This American Life fascinating: a 15 year old fan traveled 1,000 miles, alone, to meet his hero, who didn’t know he was coming.
Eeep! This is teh awesome: MAN Fire Truck to Expedition Truck Conversion.
For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump.
The average life span rarely exceeds 80 years, piano technicians say. That’s a lot of pianos now reaching the end of the line.
I didn’t know this; I thought pianos–good pianos–lasted longer than that. I’d like to have a piano in our house for Finn and I to learn how to play; maybe now is the time.