At least, that’s what I will assume, until someone else tells me differently.
The 2008 Power Tool Drag Races has just been held in San Francisco. It’s happened before at the Maker Faire, but it returned with vengeance and boy oh boy am I sorry I live all this way away in the UK. It would have made a perfect day out… 
Anywho, Laughing Squid (AKA Scott Beale) managed to snap some fantastic photographs of the event. I totally recommend going there to have a look.
We should have a Power Tool Race in the Uk. Anyone interested? 
Scott also drew my attention to the Extinction time line, from Future Files, a book by Richard Watson. In it he examines possible time lines of the future and includes the death of the Petrol Car and Google. Unsurprisingly he predicts quite a long life for Google, dying out somewhere in the late 2040s. He does however, predict that the petrol engine will go first, sometime in the next twenty-five years or so. Obviously good news there, provided we have some decent electrics to take its place.
The rather stunning and shocking thing though is the death of Dialup ISPs, in a scant five years or so. Come on John, get Broadband already!
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1 John Honniball // May 19, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Count me in for the Power Tool Drag Races, especially if the starter/referee is a scantly-clad young woman with big boots, as in the originals.
As for broadband, just as soon as I’ve fixed the PC and done everything else. Current estimate: 2038, just after the time_t’s wrap around.
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