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I was checking out Zoopy the other night and came across these legendary adverts from the mid 80’s. Love the 80’s. Those prices are a laugh too.

Check out more (yes the original Timotei ad) here…

Having never been to one of these before, I was fairly excited to see what it had to offer. The talks seemed to be interesting and so did the food. Ben, our PHP developer, joined me for the evening. The turnout was very good, I didn’t do a headcount but it looked like more than the 27 dinner. A quick visual scan confirmed this was indeed a geek dinner.

I am always skeptical of stats, especially on the web but these ones are quite interesting when it comes to screen resolution. Most agencies I know still design for 800×600. Seems those days are over (according to these stats):

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-05-20

Fighter pilots have some fun…

• You with me Steve?
• Extremely low level flying in fighter jets (Mirage F1, Jaguars)
• Insane High Speed Low Passes in Jets (F14, F18)
• Extreme Low Altitude flight (Mirage F1)
• F18 vs F16 Manuevers (simulated dogfight)
• Military Footy - fighter jets low flying (Mirage F1’s)
• Wild Fly - Dassault Mirage F1 in Chad
• F-16’s low level (end part is wild)
• The F-15 Eagle
• 2x F-16’s vs 2x F-14’s simulated dogfight
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets disciplined by an F-18 (note how easily the pilot is talking at 7.5g)

The conversion went a bit pear shaped and ended up in me changing hosting companies.

“The second in the new series of original GeekDinners will be held at The Wild Fig on Monday, the 28th of May, at 18:30 for 19:00.”

More details can be found here:
http://wiki.geekdinner.org.za/wiki/Cape_Town_May_2007

I have never been to one of these but it looks a lot more geek than the 27 dinner, well at least there are more speakers and ALL topics are on programming. Ben and (possibly) Mike are also coming along.

A fuel efficient, environmentally friendly sports car?

The Toyota FT-HS hybrid sports concept will make its debut at the 2007 North American International Auto Show.

Pairing a potent hybrid powertrain with essential sports car fundamentals, the FT-HS concept was a joint undertaking of Calty, Toyota’s North American-based, research and design center located in Newport Beach, Calif., and Toyota’s California-based Advanced Product Strategy Group. The design team was assigned the task of creating a mid-priced sports car that integrates ecology and emotion in a concept that addresses the question “What is a suitable sports car for the 21st Century?”

Full story and more photos here…

Source: RS Sportscars

Volkswagen personnel and bemused passers-by, the Touareg V10 TDI completed seven complete runs on the auxiliary runway at Dunsfold Aerodrome, 40 miles south west of London.

The vehicle was a standard production Touareg fitted with a special towing adaptor to connect it with the aircraft towing link and loaded with 4.3 tonnes of metal ballast to bring its total weight to just over seven tonnes (7,030 kg) including the driver, an engineer from the technical department at the company’s headquarters in Germany.

Enter Phase 3. Up to now, the Seed Article Module has been faithfully powering my blog. I’ve decided it’s time to move to Wordpress. Mainly because this module wasn’t built for blogging and time is a valuable commodity in my life at the moment.

You can now learn all you need to know about our mayor and DA leader Helen Zille on Zoopy.com