8. November 2008 by admin.

Figuring that there are still people who have lots of money and who have lots of money to spend on things they don’t absolutely need, Aston-Martin will unveil its new One-77 (the Aston Martin One,with only 77 units built) which will retail for about $1.7M USD–yes, $1,700,000.  For that money, you get a V-12 with 700HP, and a claimed top speed of at least 200MPH.  I don’t know what gas mileage is, but probably in the 7-10 MPG range. 

Sometimes you see cars that look cool:

The car above is the Galpin Auto Sports’ Scythe, which has a 5.0 liter 1000 HP (yes, as in 1K) V8 engine with twin superchargers. It started life as a Ford Mustang.

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8. November 2008 by admin.

Statistics like this blow me away. 

From HP’S Vice President, Retail Publishing, Rohit de Souza:

‘People are creating and consuming content like never before–from blogs to social networks, photos, videos, and other MP3 files.  In 2007 alone, the volume of content created was equivalent to about three million times the information in all books ever written.’

And here’s the other one that’s interesting:

‘The current total number of unique images stored is more than 180 billion, and this number is projected to approach 347 billion by 2012′ –Infotrends

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