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http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/F
ullTests/articleId=126103
For a few seconds, you give in to the
spectacle of driving a 2009 Nissan GT-R. This
car attracts its own entourage and then takes
you along for the ride. It's not just the
Skyline mystique, either. It's the fact that
even in production sheet metal, the R35 GT-R
looks like a one-off concept stolen from a
Southern California design studio. It has as
many hard contours as a Porsche 911 has soft
curves. You have the key fob, and still you
ogle it.
Soon, though, you point the GT-R down an
on-ramp and plant the throttle. The
effortless brutality with which the 2009
Nissan GT-R gathers speed is what you'll
describe to your friends — once everyone's
tired of talking about the styling, that is.
What you won't tell them is that you suspect
your supercar might be a sociopath. It
doesn't flow around corners like your E46 BMW
M3 did, nor does it transmit feedback through
the steering wheel for the sheer pleasure of
it.
Instead, the 2009 Nissan GT-R bends asphalt
to its will. When it talks to you about tire
grip, you get the feeling it's only bothering
because you're part of its great plan to
break free of the Earth's orbit. Should it
ever achieve this, you imagine that its
conversation will cease and it will simply
expel you into the airless void. Until then,
though, you have the conn.
Tags : 2009 Nissan GT-R gtr U.S.-Spec Full Test Edmunds Edmunds' Inside Line auto car motor Japanese Porsche 911 skyline |
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| Information R/evolution |
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This video explores the changes in the way we
find, store, create, critique, and share
information. This video was created as a
conversation starter, and works especially
well when brainstorming with people about the
near future and the skills needed in order to
harness, evaluate, and create information
effectively.
High Quality WMV download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?atyamxuyn2p
Quicktime:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6hqygitsy0v
If you are interested in this topic, check
out Clay Shirky's work, especially:
http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overr
ated.html
Also check out David Weinberger's Everything
is Miscellaneous:
http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/
This video is licensed under a Creative
Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
License. So you are welcome to download it,
share it, even change it, just as long as you
give me some credit and you don't sell it or
use it to sell anything.
Tags : information revolution evolution web2.0 ksudigg ksu digital ethnography |
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