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It’s rare that adding two negatives gives you a positive, but as someone I know always says, ugly parents make beautiful babies.  In this case, you have the lovechild of a 1970 Oldsmobile Piece-of-Poo and the good ol’ American RV.

Yes, it’s a bit difficult to look at, but screw that–this just may be one of the coolest cars of all time!  This baby rides looooow, has a front-wheel-drive, small-block Chevy drivetrain, and a cabin in the rear so big that you could practically live in it full-time.

As of this post, it sits on eBay Motors with a But It Now price of only $15,000.  That’s not bad for a roomy 2-seat interior, plus  sleeping for 4, a full bathroom with shower, kitchen with stove, and two A/C units.  Not to mention it’s more rare than many Ferraris…  there’s only the one!

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I’ve seen Back to the Future about a hundred times, and I never once noticed this.  Props to whoever figured it out.

I saw this hanging on a mostly-duct-taped-together Ford Aerostar minivan in a Wal-Mart parking lot.  The guy has a good point, but needs to work on not appearing like a whack job.

This beauty was seen on a stop sign near MU campus on 9th St.  Dubya would be proud.

While I was in NYC, I went to the top of Rockefeller Plaza to take photos over the city.  I had my Fuji S5200 with me, with it’s 10x optical zoom.  It doesn’t sound like much, considering you can get as much as 26x now with some point-and-shoots, but it’s still pretty decent.

The following photos were taken pointed in the very same direction, looking South over Mid-town.  The first is without the use of zoom, the second is at full 10x.  You’ll have to look closely at the first one to make out the building that’s in the second.

I’d love to go back with a 26x Nikon Coolpix P100 sometime, although I doubt I’d be able to hold it as stable as the Fuji at 10x.

I spent a week in Manhattan last April visiting my sister and riding my bike all through the city.  One evening, my brother-in-law and I headed over the George Washington bridge to New Jersey on our bikes, then South to Liberty Park, to get photos of the Statue of Liberty.

The next morning, I decided I wanted photos from the front, but being cheap, and not wanting to stand in line for hours to take the ferry to Liberty Island, I opted for a free ride on the Staten Island Ferry.  My Fuji S5200 has a 10x optical zoom, so I was able to get a few good pics, even in rough waters.

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I’m hoping to go back there again next year, and I think I’ll spring for tickets to Liberty Island, and maybe check out Ellis Island while I’m at it.

Absolutely genius.

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Derek lays down his inspirational thoughts as to why drugs should be legle… er, legal.  Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, Derek; it just makes it that much easier for the rest of us to stay ahead of the game.

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Speeding tickets are, more or less, total crap.  Most of us have gotten one at some point or another, by a cop trying to meet department quotas.  Well, one guy–a computer network designer–in Bluff City, TN, jumped on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stick it right back to The Man after getting hit with a $90 speeding ticket from a traffic camera.

Sometime after getting the ticket, the guy noticed the police department’s website URL had expired, so he did what any wronged geek would do… he bought the rights to it.  It turns out the cop who was in charge of the website was on leave at the time, and all the other cops were too busy eating donuts or busting people for arbitrary crimes, to notice.

Under new ownership, the site has obviously changed somewhat:  http://www.bluffcitypd.com/

Congrats to Brian McCrary, the happy new owner.  And to the police department who lost their URL, take note:  treat citizens as your bosses, serve them, and protect your city from real criminals, and maybe people won’t be so quick to seek vengeance on you later.  Traffic cameras be damned.

Autoblog via The Associated Press