Cartype has a pictorial of some awesome car gauge clusters. Some of them look like they\’d be distracting though, and the concept car ones are just hard to read.

George Carlin died yesterday at age 71. He was my favorite comedian and he\’ll be missed. I love his routine about familiar expressions:

\”\’The greatest thing since sliced bread.\’ So this is it, huh folks? Couple of hundred thousand years. The fuckin\’ pyramids for christ\’s sake…What\’s so great about sliced bread? You got a knife, you got a loaf of bread. Slice the fuckin\’ thing!\”

So you\’ve installed those Bocci power outlets in your minimalist house and now you need some lighting that\’s equally minimalist. The Torn Lighting is a perfect match. These things hide LED lights behind them, and it looks like they\’re also meant to be drywalled over.

This is pretty cool. This guy read all the Sherlock Holmes stories and drew a floorplan of 221b Baker Street. Heh heh, Holmes has a cocaine bottle on the mantlepiece. The 1800s were such a different time.

Woman Wakes Up After Family Says Goodbye, Tubes Pulled

They said Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had no brain waves for more than 17 hours. At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, her heart stopped and she had no pulse. A respiratory machine kept her breathing and rigor mortis had set in, doctors said.

Looks like Val Thomas is Patient Zero of the forthcoming zombie outbreak.
[ From Boing Boing ]

The Bocci power outlets are so cool looking. The coverplate is flush with the wall and meant to be drywalled over, so all you see is two circular outlets. Very minimalist. They also have phone and ethernet jacks and light dimmers.