Month: February 2008

[A 23-foot stretch ferrari](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cars/first-gullwing-stretch-limo-ferrari-299096.php). A stupendously ugly vehicle – I’m not a big Ferrari fan, but this is some kind of sacrilege. There’s also no way that can still do 0-60 in 6 seconds…

[How to earn 1000 XBox gamerpoints in 60 seconds](http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/18/new-avatar-game-awards-1-000-gamerpoints-in-two-minutes/). *Avatar*, soon to be the most rented game of 2008. This is very stupid stuff, but I have to admit to being tempted – 1000 points so easily…

[Some suggestions on how to improve the voting system](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/09/17/voting-for-the-voting-system/). Some really nice ideas here. But it’s hard to imagine any of them ever being implemented – even preferential (or ‘instant runoff’) voting is hard enough to explain to punters. Personally I think concerns about strategic voting are overplayed when you’re looking at most electorates in…

[Wikileaks compares two versions of the Gauntanamo Bay operating manual](http://wikileaks.org/leak/gitmo-sop-2003-2004.html). All kinds of ways to learn things from apparently simple sources of information.

[A history of image manipulation from 1860 to today](http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/). I never knew that famous image of Lincoln was a fake, Pictures (and film) are so dangerous because they’re so very easy to trust, but so very easy to manipulate.

[What if the original plans for going to space had been followed?](http://manconquersspace.com/MCSPg3.html). Seems to draw heavily on the major points of the genre for its look, should be fantastic.

[Calculate the possible outcomes for the Democratic presidential nomination at Slate](http://www.slate.com/id/2185278/?from=rss). Short version – Hillary’s doomed.