Renault in a living room

Source.

007 Skyfall theme song by Adele

Van accident video from Taiwan

Skip to 4:50 and keep an eye on the little van in the fast lane.

The good news is that no one was seriously injured.

H/t to my mom!

Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2 with BMW M88 engine

This is the same engine that was in the M1 and the original M5.

Via Motoring Con Brio.

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Chinese built hospital in Afghanistan unsafe

Saving energy, in real time

Our local utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, just started a 500-household pilot program to install these devices.  We were chosen and this is our little real-time meter.  I am pretty good about saving energy.  This entire summer, I turned on the air conditioning only once.

The tech who installed this told me that my 0.3 kW baseline usage is the lowest he has seen.  When I turn on the TV and DVD player, it goes up to 0.6 kW.  Baseline + microwave oven = 2.0 kW.  Can you guess what I'll be doing for the rest of the evening?

Algorithms programmed into the device can guess which appliances are using how much energy.  A lady who watched 10 hours of TV everyday learned that she was spending $40 a month just from leaving the TV on.

Airborne Bentley

Via Bolly Blog.

Mystery car

Any guesses?

Wonderful travel series on Chinese food

This is a real gem.  Two Chinese chefs raised in the West visit various regions in China and try (and cook) the local cuisine.  It's simply amazing.  And you get a glimpse of the people and how they are affected by the country's phenomenal development.

Part 1, Beijing:

October is looking pretty busy, so I'm not going to be posting much.  As such, I'll be posting more episodes of this series as tasty filler.

Model bloat: VW GTI

Apologies if I've posted this before.

Via Flavio Gomes.