The Rhythm: The news you didn't know you wanted to know that answers questions you probably never had.
261 MPG
That quite possibly could be somewhere in the range of 6 to 10 times your current fuel efficiency. 6 to 10. It's about 220 miles from Boston to New York City. With Volkswagen's new futuristic diesel-electric hybrid, you could cover that in less than a gallon of gas. That's pretty huge. The XL-1 is one of the coolest looking, environment friendly vehicles I've seen in awhile. According to VW, the emissions are around 24 grams of CO2 per kilometer. That's almost a fourth of the emissions of the Toyota Prius. If you're a green person out there and your mouth hasn't dropped at least a bit, then good job, you're preventing more CO2 from building up, but seriously, this sounds awesome. For you physicists out there the drag coefficient is 0.186. I know. Of course, the top speed is only 100 mph (88 is good enough for me) and the real kicker is this probably won't be going into production any time soon. Bummer I know, but the technology exists, its more about how expensive the materials are and production costs at the moment. VW will most likely be incorporating the types of fuel efficiency efforts in the XL-1 in future models, and by future I mean sooner rather than later. Since I'm not a huge car buff, I've done my best to spare most of the details, but click through to Wired to see more details.
[Wired]
To accept or reject, that is the question
You know when you get those Facebook friend requests from people you are related to or sort of know or just met at a bar? There's usually some hesitation before deciding to accept or reject. Maybe a few minutes, or maybe a few days. Either way, the person on the other end pretty much knows what's going on, but they'll know even better if you reject them. That's where you want to be careful because then things like what happened to Giselle Penagos can happen to you. Penagos was mowed down by her cousin, Melanie Spanopoulos, after a guy accepted Penagos's request but not her cousin's. Yes, you read that right, she ran her over because she wasn't accepted and her cousin was. Penagos lost feeling in her legs and required emergency surgery on Monday after being run over twice, the old drive over and reverse for a double tap deal. Thankfully a decent human being came up and brought Penagos to her dad's. Now, if all that isn't bad enough, after being charged with assault and released on $10,000 bond, Spanopoulos said "This sucks" and smiled. Creepy. The moral of this story is clearly don't be too picky with what requests you accept because you could end up starting a feud that ends up with someone in the hospital, and you don't want to be responsible for that. Or just increase your privacy settings, if that's at all possible anymore.
Also, you probably shouldn't put in your profile that your activities involve "getting drunk". Just some advice.
[New York Post]
Shot through the heart
"Slayer" is usually the first thing you hear in any Halo multiplayer deathmatch, either that or the annoying rants from other players yelling perverse or racist things or telling their mom it's not bed time yet because they just started a game. A lot of things can go through your head at this moment, but what exactly is going through your heart (besides blood)? Reddit user gortag set out to track his heartbeat while playing Halo: Reach. From the data he collected you can see how using armor lock and dying calms him down, compared to close quarters combat. Now, I personally hate armor lock, maybe its because I always seem to run into matches where the entire other team is using armor lock and there's pretty much nothing I can do but wait to kill one of these guys, but oh wait, his teammate is waiting around the corner to shatter that dream, and my helmet. I'll admit, there is always something calming about dying and those 10 seconds waiting around to respawn. At least in slayer that's calming, in objective games it's annoying because you just want to get back out there to get the flag or get to hill or complete some other objective. Still, what gortag has mapped is pretty interesting stuff, check out the image below to see his heart go through the paces.
I also appreciate that gortag is apparently working towards his PhD (like me) and this is a side project for him. I can relate.
[Reddit]
The Fantastic Four blow out
In case you're not an avid Marvel reader, don't worry I'm not, then you probably don't know about the big news in the M-verse this week, even though this news is big enough to make national headlines. The latest issue of The Fantastic Four involves the death of one of their own, the Human Torch. That's right, Johnny Storm dies. Of course, this is a comic book, and it is scifi, and the saying goes "no one is ever really dead in scifi". So very true. As comic fans look at this as devastating (or lame), Jonathan Hickman, one of the writers, has even admitted to waiting for the return of the Torch. I like the way they've spun that, it's as if the creators aren't really the creators at all, but merely the ones who are retelling this awesome tale that only they have had access to and they share it with us in comics. Almost like pure inspiration is something external, and they just happen to see it and we don't. Anyway, I don't mean to bore you with my thoughts about comic book writers, or writers in general, but the point is The Fantastic Three just doesn't have the same ring to it.
[Hero Complex]
The rumors of Neo's resurrection have been greatly exaggerated
That pretty much sums it up. On Monday there were reports that Keanu Reeves had given a speech at a school in London, stating that he had met with the Wachowskis and that they were in the process of working on two more Matrix stories, involving the return of Neo. Not only that, but that the Wachowskis had also spoken with James Cameron about the wonders of 3D. Interesting right? This was picked up all over the web, only to be debunked by multiple sources stating that this was all just a hoax within hours, yes hours, of the story being released. Why would someone do that? I mean, if you're going to create a hoax about new movies in production, at least make it about worth while movies, not something that we all might roll our eyes at given the last two installments to the franchise. I had $50 riding on The Matrix Resurrection and The Matrix Revelations as the two titles, well now that money is gone forever.
[io9]
Dream on.
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