I won’t try to recap the story. You’ll have to travel to Jalopnik to view it, in its entirety, for yourself. It is the tale of Bill Caswell and how he took a $500 beater he picked up off of Craiglist to Mexico. It is a tale of how a little ingenuity, hard work, determination and balls of steel lead him and his $500 beater to place third in class – and a hypothetical 23rd overall – against $400k+ vehicles with full crews. It is a tale so full of win that the it makes me wish I had done more to acquire that Celica GT4 oh so many years ago.
I have been collecting media for a number of years, some of it dating back to 1996 or earlier. Keeping track of all of this media, while always a headache, was easier in the past due to my primary machine being a self-built windows/linux running behemoth. I still have a behemoth of a machine, but [...]
University of Minnesota scientist have confirmed the ultrahigh magnetic moment of iron-nitride material first suggested in 1972.1 The material, Fe16N2, is comprised of a single nitrogen surrounded by 6 iron atoms with two more between each cluster. The material was found to be 18% higher than the predicted limit thought to only be achievable [...]
