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Most unusual I had was in Macon, central France - Roquefort and cream, with a single black olive in the middle. One of the saltiest things I've ever tasted (the pizza as a whole, not the olive).

I think part of it's down to timing - how soon is too soon to say your school is going to close after a natural disaster that claimed lives. I'm sure if the rebuilding of homes and neighbourhoods...

There you go, the announcement that 4 Chch schools are to close. Is it to hide the fact that the EQC is bust or is there something worse going on?

Surely a setup with a stuntman. Otherwise he'd have voluntarily chucked the scooter down the hole after the 3rd or 4th crash.

Not news, no.

Just a little fun, and perhaps mild surprise that someone like 'Crusher' Collins is familiar with Bladerunner.

My theory is that Hekia Parata has only kept her job, and indeed has only stumbled into so many gaffs that she's had to backtrack from, as as deliberate diversion policy by Johnkey and his advisors. ...

Because refining crude oil into petrol or diesel uses no electricity whatsoever, does it?

That's the problem, deep inside the document it says that FSC certified hardwoods are available, but the FSC logo is emblazoned large on the cover. I think it's used more as a marketing ploy, the...

In Europe the Cougar had a rerun in the late 90s.

There was a small, sporty looking coupe which was probably based on the Fiesta called a Puma at that time also, and it looks like they've adopted...

Is the Starion story really true? I actually spat my tea out when I heard that one for the first time.

Then there's the Toyota MR2 and why it didn't do so well in France...

I'm trying to justify a Bongo Wagon, but I probably only need a Spacio.

I thought about a Carina E Exciting Version, but I'm not sure I'd be able to contain myself.

And as for Ford, I thought...

According to the Dragon Ply brochure... (my emphasis). I would very much doubt that the FSC certificate applies to the meranti face veneers, only the poplar cores.

I was looking into local suppliers to see where my next batch of boat building ply would come from - I wasn't overly taken with the meranti I had.

Rather than take the FSC certification as a...

Looking very good so far Steve.

I'll keep an eye out for your photos of the skin going on. My partner is keener on a SUP than a kayak so if she like the look of your creation then Mr. Gentry may...

Top Gear visits the Bertone museum.

I know the Miura, Countach and Stratos are the obvious choices, but my favourite is the Alfa Romeo Montreal (picture 8 in the gallery).

The concept in photo...

It used to be that the big peaks all required permits and only a limited number of expeditions were granted permission to be on the mountains in any given season. The lesser peaks that didn't...

On this bit I agree. My first bike, a 1988 Yamaha RD350 F2, became my only transport in when the clutch on my Mk1 Polo gave out in the middle of winter and I had no funds to fix it. I'd dropped the...

Point of objection sir.

It's a technicality but there is a significant difference between free climbing and climbing unroped. Free climbing refers to using only holds on the roc for hands and...

Yes indeed I do. Jon Lord was, without doubt, the most Rock 'n' Roll keyboard player ever, although I prefer some of his later work...


http://youtu.be/CL_LGC4m75A

I saw the Perfect Strangers...

Shared by a friend on Facebook. a couple of Roy Chadwick's finest, 111ft wingspan each:

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/943431_648470571846428_2027826756_n.jpg

I agree with Mike,...

A rubbish copy of the video, but this is a band I went to see at least a dozen times. After one show I was talking to the singer and he invited by and my sidekick Dave to go down to London and be...

And another from that era Therapy? - Screamager


http://youtu.be/oDVsIvvFtcs

There can be no single answer to this question. In the interests of adding a few belters that I think deserved to reach a wider audience, here's one that I've loved since I first saw the band as a...

I'm reading a book on Barnes Wallis's work at the moment, though it's not easy going.

He wrote a 'note' (90 odd pages) to the powers that be that earthquake bombs on large targets (mines, dams,...

I killed some time last night looking for low fly past videos.

There's one from Argentina that is super scary low, as in people have to dive on the ground. If you look at the edit version with...

I went out with a girl from Barton-in-the-Beans for about a year. Further up the A447 (although technically Barton is off to the side) is Griffydam, not so much a funny name as misplaced. I always...

So the message I got after scanning as many of Limbaugh's rabid environmental ravings as I could stomach, was that it didn't matter what man does in terms of resource use or pollution because the...

Of course, if you search on the paraphrasing of a quote then you're not going to get back to the original source, but it doesn't take too much effort to figure it out if you want to.
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And a through-lounge and dining room is for varnishing spars.

They played an extensive clip of that video on our evening news. It's a brilliant version of a great song, and a video that money couldn't buy. Excellent stuff.

I hope Chris and the rest of the...

After a couple of weeks of torrential rain, we've enjoyed some beautiful clear skies the last 3 days. This was the view from the front door at about 6PM yesterday, looking west in the direction of...

Video from Chris Akrigg with some crazy bike skills.


http://vimeo.com/65855392

Andy.

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It was supposed to be a witty comment on your rejection of progress and technology made while utilising a similar level of technology, nothing more, no mean spirited intentions.

I was just trying...

Did you see the bees in the honeycomb guitars and the city sky line in the stars and stripes guitar? Same deal, nigh on impossible to do by hand.

Different, yes. Better, that's rather subjective. Nice objects but personally I'd appreciate them more as purely ornamental objects if they were hand-crafted.

Andy.

There's not much craft in most of the electric guitars and basses today; they're mass produced in factories like most things.

And sadly fully machine created music is also being created already,...

I think George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker would dispute that the first electric was either wooden or a Les Paul.

http://static.stuff.co.nz/1337028213/262/6922262.jpg

Making Music With 3D Future - ODD Guitars

http://www.3ders.org/images/americana-guitar-3d-printed-5.jpg
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3 disks in 3 separate laptops? Were they purchased at the same time?

Back before Compaq and HP merged I bought 5 desktop Compaq's and 4 of them had HD failures within the year. It was a bad...

If I might be so bold...

How about posing the same question to yourself, i.e "If people wonder in the USA why many people in other societies look askance at them?"

I would suggest that it's the...

Looks like a rather enthusiastic attack on the mountain at Cadwell Park.

You can have mine, they're bloody 'orrible.

There's something not quite clicking in your OP image Paul, I think it's the profile of the tank. Shouldn't a flat track style Harley have a teardrop tank?
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A Virago of some description, perhaps an original 750? The engine looks to be about an 80 degree V, and the head angle looks very cruiserish, not at all cafe racer.

^ Did you look at the Skylon project?

Which is only 5.3 Gs, somehow I thought it would be higher than that.

What kind of VW off roader? I marshalled at the Woodhill 100 in 2008 and was rather taken by the buggies. The basic VW powered Challenger class looked huge fun for not too much outlay. I just...

Hmm,

Have you seen the SABRE rocket/jet engine being developed for the Skylon project? I can't get my head around the numbers for the heat exchanger, or where they dump all that energy...

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Supposedly inspired by the hand-crafted bodies of 1950s-60s Ferrari Barchettas. I know in the late 40s a Barchetta looked like this:

http://www.finecars.cc/typo3temp/GB/98c9c39a8f.jpg

..but I...