MetaFilter posts tagged with drive

Chopsticks are Critical To The Process of Making USB Drives

boo_radley — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:04:29 -0800

Bunnie Huang tours a USB Drive manufacturer.

Woman Motorists? Ain't that the Berries!

Miko — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:14:41 -0800

In 1929, three young women (Edith, Dorothy, and Evelyn), ages 23 and 25, went on a three-month-long, 12,353-mile road trip. Learn more about their experience, and follow an effort to recreate the journey, at Three Months by Car. Facebook, Twitter.

And Pranks For All The Fish!

spiderskull — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:07:52 -0800

Drive-thru invisible driver prank

This bird's a bit buggy

rebent — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:28:23 -0800

What do you get a parrot that has everything except a little car to drive around? You get it... a little car to drive around.

Do you like hurting people?

codacorolla — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:50:34 -0800

"Level 4 is not the hardest level of ... Hotline Miami. Oh, not by a long shot. It’s just the one that, once I finally beat it, made me feel like a god. I had a plan. I made that plan work. Every single action I took, every single movement I made, was with surgical precision. A dozen men died, and their little dog too. I never knew their names. I never cared to know their names. I didn’t even know why they had to die. I just knew they had to die ..." Hotline Miami is the newest game from Swedish developer Dennaton (previously). It is fast paced, brutally difficult, dizzyingly violent, and (above all) very fun. All links probably NSFW due to extreme pixelated violence. Hotline is garnering critical acclaim in reviews for both its thumb cramping gameplay, and its subtle (but effective) storyline: IGN, Penny Arcade, Kill Screen, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and Gamespot (video). Hotline is winner of the 2012 Rezzed Game of the Show award. The soundtrack, a glossy haze of dance music and synthesizers, is also drawing lots of praise. The look and feel of the game is being compared to an interactive version of 2011's hit Drive, especially evident in this trailer. This is a more gameplay oriented trailer. High level gameplay video (although I reccomend plaything through without spoilers).

GDrive is dead! Long live Google Drive!

gilrain — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:48:06 -0800

Today, Google launched Google Drive, their long-awaited cloud storage solution. Although it's seen by many as a direct answer to Dropbox, iCloud, and Skydrive, it also offers a few novel features of its own: integration with most Google web services, like Gmail, Docs, and Picasa. And perhaps most notably in the long run, it launched with an API encouraging third-party integration. 18 apps in the Chrome Web Store already implement Drive.

The price of parking

latkes — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:24:57 -0800

“I truly believe that when men and women think about parking, their mental capacity reverts to the reptilian cortex of the brain,”

Google's Self-Driving Car, a Presentation

odinsdream — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:48:22 -0800

Here's a really cool presentation on how Google's self-driving car works: Part 1, History. Part 2, Implementation. Part 3, Use Case Some highlights from Part 2:

I thought we were going to see Drive Angry. In 3D.

bpm140 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:20:08 -0800

A Detroit woman has filed suit against the makers of the Drive, because the movie's trailer led her to believe the film was a Fast and Furious-style action romp and not a Cannes-award-winning art-house meditation on violence. Hollywood has a history of releasing trailers that aren't in sync with the film, often when a marketing department tries to force a movie into a more marketable category, like sci-fi thriller, monster horror, Narnia-style kids' adventure, slapstick comedy, teen comedy, romantic comedy, light-hearted drama, and not a musical. I'm just glad she didn't see this trailer for The Shining.

That story is true I'm here to say, 'cause I was driving that Model A

fixedgear — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:00:47 -0800

I’m Jonathan Klinger and I’m spending one full year driving a 1930 Model A everywhere I go. (Starting October 13, 2010) Why? Because not everything a person owns should contain a computer. 365 days of A

Warp Speed

analogtom — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:23:50 -0800

Data, take us out of orbit, warp factor one...engage.

Burn Rubber, Baby, Burn Rubber

bwg — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:30:51 -0800

Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France "Shot just south of Paris, France in Linas at l'Autodrome de Linas --Montlhéry, this 1.58 mile oval track, built in 1924, features banks as steep as 51 degrees, which is more than double the standard incline of most NASCAR ovals. Chosen by Ken for this specific reason, the ramp-like banking proved to be a unique and exciting challenge. The driving physics for the stunts performed were totally unknown until Ken attempted the maneuvers during filming." Previously on MeFi

Inside a bloody cultural tradition.

kanuck — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:49:49 -0800

TV star. Amusement park attraction. Mine sweeper. Stew meat. Funded by SGI & Netscape founder James Clark, award-winning documentary The Cove goes undercover for an inside look at the brutal slaughter of dolphins in the Japanese town of Taiji. Previously.

Fuelly tracks your gas mileage.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:26:58 -0800

Fuelly tracks your gas mileage over time, helping you save fuel and expenses as you drive.

Screw it!

phrontist — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:00:15 -0800

In soviet russia... screw drives you! (via)

Google Drive

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:56 -0800

GoogleDrive. Drive a little car around Google Maps. Potentially useless. Enjoy.

Time in Transit - Commuting

Miko — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:45:13 -0800

There and Back Again: The Soul of the Commuter How long is your commute? Is it worth the personal and social cost? Nick Paumgarten in this week's New Yorker on the bargains Americans strike between their work lives and home lives.

S4 from NY to Seattle

hama7 — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:18:47 -0800

S4 from NY to Seattle.

Happy Birthday, hard drive!

mojohand — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:20:26 -0800

The hard drive celebrates its 50th birthday Timothy Prickett Morgan reviews the history of the hard drive, introduced to the world in September, 1956 as the IBM 305 RAMAC . Imagine life without the hard drive, without the ability to store and quickly access ~~bootlegged MP3 and video files and pr0n~~ large data collections. (To anticipate, yes, Mr. Morgan may know the history of technology, but firearm nomenclature, perhaps not so much.) Also Tom's Hardware Guide interviews Seagate's Senior Field Applications Engineer, Henrique Atzkern, on the hard drive's future.

... and so everyday at dawn the Twin Pushers return to their ancestral island

mwhybark — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:38:36 -0800

Twin Pushers and Other Free Flight Oddities. "For years, twin pushers were the dominant form of competition model. The format was discovered well before the first world war and remained common until the mid thirties." Dannysoar excavates a lost model airplane format, and goes on to look at Mystery Biplanes, The Airplanes of Things to Come, Miss Auto Gyro Across the Channel Day, and other winging things, in great and pleasingly eccentric abundance. Klick the Klicker!

Lost on "Mulholland Drive."

adrober — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:02:59 -0800

Lost on "Mulholland Drive." At a film festival in Boulder, Roger Ebert dissects David Lynch's masterpiece frame-by-frame and comes to the conclusion that, well, he doesn't really come to a conclusion. Or does he? Meanwhile, the DVD was released last week and instead of a commentary track or funny bloopers, it came with a simple insert that provided "David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller." For the sake of space, I'll post them in the comments section and let's see if anyone out there can (or wants to) answer them.