Ever have the problem of catching a ride with someone whose car doesn’t have much of a back seat? At times like these, it is important to know the rules of calling shotgun. Never again will you let someone take advantage of you because you don’t know the rules.

Our names are Scotty and Fiddy and we’re hitchhiking to all 50 state capitals in 50 consecutive days or less. If you want to offer a ride, give us a shout ~.

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C+- (pronounced ‘C More or Less‘) is a subject-orientated language. This is not subject as in “subject-verb”, but as in “a government and its subjects”. Each C+- class instance, known as a subject, holds hidden members, agendas or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages, as well as public members, known as boasts or claims.
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C+- supports information hiding and, among friend classes only, rumour sharing. It implements information hiding so successfully that data may never be found again.

After Harley J. Earl (HJE) introduced a more innovative way to build cars in the late 1920s, Henry Ford’s old fashioned utilitarian methods became obsolete. The tradition of pre-styling the auto body ahead-of-time using two dimensional forms and full-size clay models ~ became a cornerstone in creating Detroit’s dependency on design.
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Mention the word “art” to a roomful of people and most of them will think of a great painting. Some will think of sculpture or architecture – a few, of music or literature.

But hardly anyone will think of industry.

It’s important to note, or set up ahead of time, that many of Harley Earl’s detractors tried to dethrone the sheer magnitude and success of his innovative tail fin design that swept through an entire nation of car buyers during the 1950s.

Harley Earl is the father of the Corvette. The Corvette was his idea pure and simple.
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GM’s success with Earl’s cars had less to do with design, however, than style. The difference is important. Harley Earl was not interested in function; he was interested in meaning.

The product has been conceived for an art project in Ypenburg (a newly build neighbourhood in the Netherlands). Eight products will be placed in front of eight houses. The goal of the project is to stimulate an interaction between neighbours, while pumping up the tyres of their bicycles.

United Parcel Service (UPS)
Boeing 767-34AF/ER
Des Moines – International (DSM / KDSM)

Cleared for takeoff with a southbound turnout. Runway number and piano keys visible!

You might hear an advertisement that says, “This computer has a 32-bit Pentium processor with 64 megabytes of RAM and 2.1 gigabytes of hard disk space.” ~ In this article, we will discuss bits and bytes so that you have a complete understanding.

With the Assist Sketch Understanding System in operation, you can draw a simple mechanical device and have the computer understand what it is that you have drawn.

A focused study of twenty-five tall buildings.

The three-year investigation by Oregon-based CNW Marketing Research measures the environmental impact of cars from the time they’re built until the moment they’re scrapped. The results have revealed the dilemma faced by buyers looking for cars that are kinder to the environment, with supposedly ‘green’ cars finishing well down its final league table.

The new analysis extends from the car’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions to the energy used in its design and production, both in car assembly plants and by suppliers of parts and sub-assemblies. Researchers also looked at the energy consumed in transporting the cars to dealers, as well as in maintaining, servicing and scrapping them.

The total amount is called the car’s ‘dust to dust’ energy use.
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According to CNW’s table of 96 cars sold in the UK, the Honda Civic Hybrid finished 73rd and the Toyota Prius 74th, even though they have some of the lowest CO2 emissions of any car and are usually regarded as the most environmentally friendly. Top of the table was the Jeep Wrangler, closely followed by the Toyota Echo – the American version of the Yaris.

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