2nd July 2009

The Citroen GT: Off the Game Screen to the Streets

This video of the Citroën GT is getting a lot of views lately on Youtube. 

Set to become one of the most expensive production cars sold today, this vehicle is a true scene stealer with its stylish exterior and drool worthy interior.  Originally designed for the game Gran Turismo, the car is set to be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show this coming September at a whopping $1.8 Million U.S. dollars.

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8th April 2009

10 Reasons to Not Watch the Leaked Wolverine DVD

I have just seen the leaked Wolverine DVD and I am afraid I have made a mistake of seeing the unfinished product and spoiling some of the surprises the plot has to offer.  I still did enjoy the movie and think that the final release on theaters on May 1 is worth seeing.  Here are ten reasons why you should NOT search for the leaked movie anymore and why you should wait and watch the official release when it comes out on May.

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1.     It is yet unfinished.
Marvel movies are effects movies and they won’t be complete nor would be as awesome without the eye popping computer generated effects in them.  The leaked movie still lacks a lot of the major effects and even shows unrendered 3D in gray on many of the scenes.  There are also parts of the movie where one will see the use of green screen and suspension wires.

 

NOTE:  Following are major spoilers to the plot.  If you don’t want to learn about the plot of the movie yet, please don’t read on.  If you think you are wise enough to predict how cliché Hollywood is, then go ahead.  You might just be right on your hunches.

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24th March 2009

Introducing the World’s Cheapest Car: The Tata Nano

This week, Tata Motors from India just released what a lot are saying is a breakthrough in motoring.  Priced at just $2000, the Tata Nano is now considered to be the world’s cheapest car.  For this reason, the Tata is now also dubbed as the People’s car.  The car currently has three variants with the basic not having air-conditioner, power steering, passenger side mirror nor an extra windscreen wiper.

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The Nano has already won the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Transportation category in a ceremony last October with the judges falling in love with its design.  According to Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Motors,, this car hopes to “revolutionize the lives of millions of Indians, most of whom live in rural areas many miles from the nearest bus stop. Even with its low price, the Nano is built to meet safety requirement, is fuel efficient and is low on emissions.  So far the car is compared to the Volkswagen Beetle which also was an icon in the German Motoring industry.

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18th March 2009

This is a car. Honest.

I have had my share of weird concepts that will surely never see the light of day in a thousand years.  I remember my YouTube video of concept cars for the year 2057 and how a lot of people are expressing disbelief that such cars will ever come into production, now or ever.

Today, I came into contact with an art concept for the BMW which just had me thinking a big WTF in my mind. (Yeah I had to keep the WTF as letters in my mind.) :)   This is an art work from artist Olaffur Eliasson which looks more like a dried beehive than a car to me.  I still think this artwork is gorgeous, though I clearly don’t see why its base should be a car.  Required to be kept in fridge temperature, this hydrogen powered racecar is under an exhibit called Your Mobile Expectations.

 

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The final product after the jump…

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10th March 2009

Patrick Brown is Gifted!

Every now and then you stumble upon someone who just wow’s you.  That is how I felt this morning when I saw a gallery of Patrick Brown’s artwork on Kontraband.  Patrick Brown is a 23 year old graphic artist from Australia who draws really awesome representations of popular characters in TV movie and video games.  He looks like a really avid fan of Grand Theft Auto as shown in his work. 

I think his work is worth checking out. I like how his drawings have some sort of identity in them.  I wish I can make my sketches as good as his.

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4th March 2009

100 Years of Motoring: Car History, Monopoly Style

I just came across this awesome graphic from GoodMagazine which puts all the highlights of Motoring in the country for the past year in a Monopoly like diagram.  Not only does this representation look good, but it also makes something interesting on what could have been a really boring subject.

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A few of the details worth noting and mentioning from the diagram are the following:

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23rd January 2009

Not Again! Spillover Makes Obama a Miserable Failure at Yahoo!

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I can still remember, how not more than three years ago, an attack to the former president, George Bush was done on the internet.  This made his biographical page on the Whitehouse.gov site appear as the number 1 result for a search for the word “miserable failure”.  This was quickly resolved by Google and was identified as something called a googlebomb.   Though an obvious pun, this was not something of a laughing matter, especially since it is an attack to the person of the former president and his seat.

Now, with President Barack Obama having just assumed office, it looks like the former president gave him far more than economic problems and the troubles of war from his term.

Less than three days since the new president took over, search engines are now showing Barack Obama at the top results for “miserable failure” on Yahoo and for “failure” on Google.  This was explained by internet marketer Danny Sullivan on his blog as a result of “redirects” that were used to correct the problem before.  He actually gave a call to action for the former president’s IT team to clean up that problem before the change in administration (and website) happens.  It looks like that warning was not heeded.

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16th January 2009

Busby SEO Test: Bad Cred for SEO

A few weeks ago, I got word from a friend about what they call an SEO World Cup, hosted by a company called Busby Web Solutions.  This is not the first time that I have come across this contest and with a little background on internet marketing I decided to check out how this thing goes. 

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14th January 2009

A New Look for the Honda City

After an unofficial fourth generation release in the global market, the Honda City has still not gained the consumer’s love, even after the fact that it is a pioneer in bringing to us revolutionary technologies like i-DSI and CVT automatic transmission. Hailed by many as delivering “just enough” in terms of power, these innovations have not been enough to make car lovers world wide ignore the lack of power, so-so audio systems and the overall unattractiveness possessed by Honda’s rep to the subcompact category. This year Honda is determined to help endear us back to the City with a design and an engine that tells they have been listening to us all those years.

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Is it really Bigger?

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26th November 2008

A First Look at Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie

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This week we just had the newest trailer from Warner Brothers on the latest Harry Potter Movie.  We at Auto Parts for Brains are just big fans of the books and are excited to see how the best chapter of the series (with the Goblet of Fire), look like in the big screen.  This chapter in the seven books is really very interesting to see because it is in this chapter that we learn more of Severus Snape (he is the Half-Blood Prince), we see Dumbledore die and of course that we see the most controversial betrayal in Harry Potter-dom.  This book introduces a lot of facts that serve as the foundation of the last installment of the series.  In this book we get to see Voldemort rise to power with his cohorts, an we get to know what horcruxes are.  Most importantly for us, this book make the revelation in the final book about Snape, more meaningful- that he loved Harry’s mom so much that he betrayed Voldemort and swore to protect Harry Potter at all cost.  That fact in the last book really was a big “I have to stop reading to take this in” moment.  Imagine Snape, protecting Harry in all those year in Hogwarts.

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