One day in 1989, at a family gathering in Miami, Jacobson slipped his step-brother, Marvin Braun, a game piece worth $25,000. “I don’t know if I just wanted to show him I could do something, or bragging,” Jacobson later admitted, but he just needed “to see if I could do it...
The app still needs a word-count function, but overall it seems immensely improved from two years ago. Meanwhile, Evernote’s cross-platform competition hasn’t done as much to earn my business. OneNote still doesn’t have a built-in business-card-scanning feature–that requires a ...
Using one large clutch for odd gears and a smaller clutch for even gears, this form of transmission is renowned for quick, smooth changes and is now found in every supercar worth its salt, as well as many hot hatches and saloons. Used in automatic and semi-automatic setups, DCTs use ...
In some ways, not as much as you'd think. But it's the more intense focus on immersion, combined with the portals that become the entry gates, that feel new. Universal's marketing is all about wanting you to feel like you're teleporting into these places. (Also, the new rides are ...
But after spending a few million dollars, management decided there was no need for a compact in the booming postwar seller's market, especially as the Cadet would have cost as much to build as a standard Chevy. Ford reached the same conclusions at about the same time. Still, the Cadet i...
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cockpit of the bike is still too long and has you leaning forward much more than you’d like to, swap out the handlebars for the most swept-back set of cruiser bars you can find to get into a more upright riding position. Soma Fabrications is a great place to look for mustache bars....
The fact is, e-bikes expand access to the outdoors for a number of people who might not have gotten outside (or done it very much) in the past, for numerous reasons. That's a good thing, in my opinion. We all need to get outside, and we're generally happier and have a better...
Cat Island is fifty miles long with one road running from north to south. The settlements are at either end of the island with pretty much nothing in between. There is a small airport at New Bight in the south and Arthur’s Town in the north. The locals treat them as two separate isl...
In this review of DBAN I mention that it’s not the most user friendly product, but if you give it a couple stabs more often than not you’ll succeed. Keep in mind DBAN is open source and free. Commercial products often come with support where as open source, not so much. Now on...