Director of BMW design Adrian van Hooydonk, I love you already. I know that we won’t see a car with this sort of shape for a while, but I can now starting dreaming of driving a sporty EV or hybrid in the future that doesn’t look like a Prius.

I offered to send my extra copy of Jonathan Coulton’s “Best. Concert. Ever.” CD and DVD to the person who could record the worst JoCo cover in 30-seconds. Here are the entrants and the winner. Gird your ears’ loins.

Dan Beeston had already recorded his attempt to play “Skullcrusher Mountain” and sing at the same time. [...]

From my review of the Canon HF20 and WP-V1 underwater camcorder set on Gizmodo:
But once I got underwater and watched many of the divers struggling with their rigs, catching protuberances on errant kelp fronds, I felt a little better about wielding this simple Canon setup. As a point-and-shoot (and shoot and shoot) piece of equipment, [...]

Enjoy at full 1080p resolution…if you dare.

I called District 9 a movie “made by gamers and for gamers,” a statement made with the knowledge that director Neill Blomkamp had been tapped previously to make the movie version of Halo. Still, when N’Gai said he “didn’t see it,” it stuck in my craw. To me, District 9 shows how heavily games and [...]

Road & Track dedicated nearly its whole September issue to Porsche past and present. John Lamm’s look back at two of the German automaker’s most technologically advanced models, the 959 and the Carrera GT, was especially illustrative of how far advanced some of Porsche’s thinking has been; the 959 in particular was a supercar decades [...]

I reviewed the H2O Audio iDive 300 Deep Dive Waterproof Case for Gizmodo:
I affected an air of what I hoped would be perceived the other divers as seasoning before I jumped in with the iDive 300.
“Seems like a pain in the ass to me,” I groused. “Just one more thing to break.” The other divers [...]

Jefferson Robbins has produced an excellent short video showing the parallels between Mad Men’s retro visual styles and some of its great influences—specifically A. Hitchcock. Viva la dolly! [via Jason Kottke]

Uncorrected, fresh from the Canon HF20 oven. There will be lots of pretty stuff to come post-edit, but I wanted to get this shot up as soon as I could. It was a lucky bit of peripheral vision that found this octopus out in the open.

The lesson from this video is that in our modern inter-age a man dressed a teen anime girl while playing the bass no longer gives one pause—it’s the chugging of five glasses of milk that disturbs.