Art La Flamme

Some great videos, here.

MotoringFile is a great Mini related site. All kinds of good information there, including all the latest news on Minis and future Minis (Opa, it’s where I am tracking what’s going on with the plans for a 4WD Mini), plus a great section on do it yourself stuff. They also have a comprehensive buyer’s guide for Minis, broken down by not just by model but also by year (which is a fantastic idea).

The Mini Challenge (translated) is a Formula 1 style series of races for some seriously hopped up Minis. Think stock car racing, if the factory was in the business of making race cars. Hopefully, you’ll notice that these Minis look, well, different. And they are a wee bit fast.

I tried to make it to Hockenheim last year, to see one of the races (here), and had my plans fall apart at the last minute. The boys went, and we joined them for a BBQ afterwards.

Hopped up Minis racing on two of the most famous tracks in the world, one with which is a stone’s throw from where I live and the other is one that I’ve driven. How cool is that.

I haven’t coughed up a summary of cool things from around the web for some time. I suppose it’s because I’m all about the RSS feed concept, and the fact that I have a couple of them.

There’s this one, just for the stuff that I post to this site.

There’s this one, which is all of the stuff that I bookmark and share and annotate as I read 100+ RSS feeds in Google Reader. Pretty much, I have stopped surfing the web, and instead I use Google Reader and these RSS feeds to bring the web to me. As I find cool things, I mark them, and they show up in this RSS feed. Want to see what I think is noteworthy, on a daily basis? Yeah, get this RSS feed.

And then there’s my Friendfeed. It picks up a few other odds and ends, like the Twitter stuff I am playing with, the rare comment I make on YouTube, etc.

So, really, if you’re hip and cool and use either of the latter two, you’re aleady seeing the cool things that I’m stumbling across around the web (granted, I’m no Andy Baio, but still.)

But, that being said, here’s some of the good stuff. Read carefully — you might even get your own shout-out!

Here’s a video worth your time. Poor, poor Mini.

If I end up with a new Mac, it’s going to get X-Box Media Center loaded on it. No if, ands, or buts. Oh, and I can run it from a thumb drive? Even better — cookies and porn, my favorite!

Paul, Poppa Bear, Scott, etc: Can we mount these to the tow hook on the front of the Mini? Someone buy one, figure it out, and send me the solution.

Orwell, Jay, Doug — the almost-geo capabilities of the iPhone amaze me, and should impress you, too. It’s one of the reasons I’m looking at getting an Eye-Fi Explore (that, and so I can upload easily to Panoramio — it’s too much of a pain in the ass right now to manually geo-code crap). Oh, and speaking of iPhones — you did read this one, right?

I love this piece on terrorism and photography. It’s a sound argument. Kind of mocks TSA and DHS a bit, don’t ya think. It struck a chord with me, having just finished Little Brother.

Bets, there’s a new version of the video camera out. Don’t worry — while it’s smaller, the early reviews all seem to indicate that is fares worse in worse light conditions, if that makes any sense.

So, follow a feed, and keep up with what’s hip and happening in my little world. While on the road, I’ll probably blog less, but I doubt my RSS reading will suffer much.