The DeLorean DMC-12, one of the world’s most iconic cars, is making waves again, re-emerging as an all-electric vehicle.
The DeLorean Motor Company, now based in Texas, rolled out the proof-of-concept version of the eDeLorean to customers at its biannual DMC headquarters gathering in Houston over the weekend.
I want one.
Adam Gopnik wrote a piece in The New Yorker about The Phantom Tollbooth after 50 years.
We’re quickly introduced to the almost anonymous, and not very actively parented, Milo, a large-eyed boy in a dark shirt—a boy too bored to look up from the pavement as he walks home from school. Within paragraphs, a strange package has arrived in his room. It turns out to be a cardboard tollbooth, waiting to be assembled. Milo obediently sets it up, pays his fare (he has an enviable electric car already parked by his bed), and is rushed away to the Lands Beyond, a fantastical world of pure ideas. The book breaks the first rule of “good” children’s literature: we’re in the plot before we know the people.
Broken rules or not, my copy is on a bookshelf next to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Le Petit Prince, and others just waiting to be read by my child someday.
Me, I choose to use Apple products. Some of the time. When I’m not using other products, some of which might be more to Stallman and Raymond’s liking. I’m familiar with the pros and cons of my various options. I understand my needs. I think I’m as good a position as anyone to know what products will serve me well, or at least a better one than Stallman and Raymond.
I’m with Harry McCracken on this one. I choose to use Apple products when they meet my needs and requirements. I’ve never been more productive or creative than when I’ve used Apple products. In a distant second, my Microsoft Windows-based personal computers are my next most productive platform.
Open solutions and platforms? While I use them effectively in the enterprise, I have found that I spend more time searching for open solutions than finding and using them.
If my choices are “freedom” to spend time looking for solutions, or “jail” where I have everything I need to be creative and productive, then assign me a number and show me to my cell.
Bravo, Pittsburgh on securing a spot as the number 3 most mustache-friendly city. However, I believe that coming in third place was skewed by the methodology that the American Mustache Institute used for the research. After all, the white paper states,
Previous AMI research actually demonstrates that Pittsburgh has the highest number of Mustached Americans per capita outside of only Graz, Styria in Austria and Tijuana, Mexico.
Methinks I need to start growing a mustache…
A fascinating look at cultures around the world via photographs by James Mollison.
[via kottke.org]