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The Morning News has a great Q&A about the Prius:

Q: Can you describe the quality of the Prius’s silence when you pull up to a stoplight and the gas engine shuts off entirely?

A: It is the deepest, bone-settled stillness of a kind only experienced by the greatest Zen masters after many decades of study, punctuated by the hammering riffs of System of a Down because the Prius now comes with a six-speaker surround-sound package from JBL, baby!

• Time To Change My Car's BT Pairing Code: This would be very disconcerting, but perhaps amusing in hindsight if it was done to me. Definitely time to change that pairing code. (0)

• Email Signatures That Show You Need More Work To Do: A while ago at work we received an email from someone outside the company that had the most pimped out email signature EVAR. I was so dumbfounded/impressed that someone actually built this horrible contraption out of marquee tags, I saved it, and modified it to protect the guilty. Submitted for your viewing pleasure:
  
  

  Title:	Signature
  Description:	Email Signature THAT SHOULD NOT BE

  It's a little b0rked in Firefox, as it keeps on scrolling, FOREVER, but I feel that just adds to it's charm. (0)

• Not My Life, But It Could Be: Want to know what it's like to do 2nd level support at a help desk? Read The Chronicles of George.
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