Smaller, Thinner, Faster, Cheaper.

Palm Centro™ smartphone
$99 with 2 year agreement at Sprint, but I'm sure it will hit all the biggies after a bit.

Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes

Last night Bright Eyes came to Chico. I saw them, you didn't.

Getchur Game on in foreign lands...for FREE

Mango Beta Launched!
I will be trying this and comparing it another language program I can not speak of here.

Webapp Mango offers 11 free foreign language courses in Spanish, Russian, Greek, German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian and Polish. Simply sign up with your email address and you're ready to go.

Unfortunately for some out there I hear that game recognizes game. So your SOL no matter what.
Via Lifehacker

RIP Colin McRae

The Times on Colin McRae
I didn't get to see him race much, but I do know he brought a lot to to rally racing and will be missed.

Colin McRae's tragic death last week has robbed motorsport of one of it's most charismatic and daring competitors...he will always be remembered for his titanic struggle with Spanish driver Carlos Sainz to become the first Briton to win the World Rally Championship in 1995 with an epic victory in the final round at the RAC Rally of Great Britain.

Ok, this might get me back

STi
I'm hearing 320hp and 320ft-lbs of torque.

Holy F

Salt Water = Fuel?

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

Big oil may soon have to kiss my salty rusted tailpipe.

Jam in your Pocket

Jam Sessions
Now all of you who don't have the DS will be a little sadder. Jam Sessions is guitar for the DS that you play on the touch pad.

You change chords with the D-pad. The stylus can be strummed soft or hard, fast or slow. And the responsiveness was impressive, especially considering you're playing a pocket-sized system.

Via KK Cool Tools

Go Southwest

The Accuser: Southwest Airlines
The Victim Kyla Ebbert... You be the Judge
Southwest Airline tells woman her outfit won't fly
Southwest again distinguishes itself from other airline by not letting attractive people fly the unfriendly skies. Ground breaking business plans: first cattle call , now high school dress code enforcers. I've seen flight attendants with uniforms that were way to tight and no one told them to stop rubbing there fat asses on every innocent aisle seat customer or go home and change. Nice job Southwest, you get the LT questionable business practice of the week. Here are the links to Jet Blue and Virgin America for the smarter consumers.
Via Nice Sheezy

HappyVappy

Working Hard: Testing the HappyVappy Vaporizer - Gizmodo
For your vaporizables.
LT does not endorse the use of tobacco products.

Touch it

iPod Touch gets official
Finally, all the iPhone goodness without the pesky phone. The mini OSX, Same dimensions except thinner (no phone innards), multitouch, WiFi (interweb), and 8GB and 16GB flash memory($299, $399). Sweet!
For those of you that still want the phone they dropped the 4GB and now only have the 8GB for $399 ($200 price drop!).
Via Engadget

The Yougoogley of Pea Mouth Chub

RIP Pea Mouth Chub
The Chub (pictured in red) has left the building due to outsiders revealing his "secret shady life". He enjoyed 42 inch 1080p LCD flat panels TVs, video games involving vehicle theft, and doing blow off of hookers butts. He will be remembered for not really contributing to society and not caring that much about animal spaying and neutering.
His last last words were, "yeah... I don't know.... I like my drinks cheap and my women Furries"

Toasty

Quiznos Sponge Monkey Commercial

Still Want It.

2007 Ariel Atom - First Drive - Motor Trend Video
And by want, I mean Need.

Notetaking Ninja

Livescribe
This almost makes me want to go back to school next year. hahahahah But its still pretty cool. Pen + Computer = Livescribe
Via Cnet

T-shirt Who-Er

Shown: Exploded Boombox
Oddica
More awesome brand-less shirts. This time from Oddica. The prices are a few more bills than Ten Bills and a bit more jokeless than Threadless has been as of late.
1 for $20, 2 for $32, 3 $15 ea.
Update: Some of them are just as cheese ball as Threadless.

Nike + Stuff

Nike Amp - Josh Spear
Here's a kinda cool addition to the Nike+ line. I don't really wear watches and I use an iMojo wristband, but those weren't the case I would probably get this.

At its most basic, the Amp is just a watch; link it to a Nike equipped iPod Nano, and it becomes a full-on control station for your wrist. Integrated into the Amp are all the normal iPod controls that you’d find on your Nano. Press a button, and information scrolls visually across a series of otherwise hidden LED’s embedded just beneath the surface plastic above the controls.

Via Josh Spear

10 points for the subey

2008 Forester Sports 2.5 XT
Motortrend did one of their Demon Tweaks on a 2006 Forrester with good results. Most, if not all, of these upgrades should be applicable. The Sports XT Forrester, off the lot, is about $28,800 after the addition of a short throw shifter, boost gauge, and a few other small additions.

Our debut guinea pig is a 2006 Subaru Forester 2.5XT Limited, a vehicle we’ve admired for its roomy interior and punchy, 224-hp turbocharged engine. Although that engine is the same one found in the barn-burning WRX, the Forester XT has a suspension that’s too soft for our tastes. The mission, therefore, was to sharpen the handling with different tires and a retuning of the suspension. More power is never a bad thing, so we also cranked up the engine by increasing the turbo boost via a reprogrammed engine computer.

Our three-stage sharpening of the Forester cost us $1745...

Power (SAE net):224 bhp @ 5600 rpm
Modified 250 bhp @5600 rpm

Torque (SAE net):226 lb-ft @ 3600 rpm
Modified 238 lb-ft @ 3400 rpm

Great

Virgin America
Now I just have to move near SFO.

The Fat Fight

National Obesity Chart
The bible belt loosens up a notch.
Via engadget

There are no words...

Initial D Arcade Booth-Tofu Car
... that describe how much I want this. This is obviously the video game for Initial D. You are able to "drive" the actual '86, WRX, and RX-7's featured in the anime.
Via Gizmodo