MetaFilter posts tagged with lotus

Faceless People

Hollow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:03:26 -0800

Mysterious faceless people have been attending prominent London events. Everyone seems to agree that this must be some viral marketing scheme, the most likely culprit being Group Lotus cars who have the facelesspeople.com url. The 'Faceless Ones' were also on Doctor Who forty years ago.

A Good Story About Programming

grumblebee — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:00:35 -0800

"This is the story of when I re-wrote the Lotus Notes Formula Engine.... So here was I was, offered this position that I clearly wasn't qualified for. I had no experience with language runtimes or compilers, I knew very little about C and didn't know anything about C++, I had never dealt with platform byte ordering and packing and all the other issues associated with writing something for eight different operating systems, I had never even used proper version control. But none of that mattered to me. It seemed to me like an amazing opportunity and I would be doing exactly the kind of stuff I enjoy most..."

It's kind of like peering into your Granny's old kitchen cabinets.

hindmost — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:17:19 -0800

The best helicopter gunship in the world, flown by the best pilots in the world, the British Army (sic), against the best handling car in the world, driven by an idiot. Who wants to be an idiot for Christmas?

Reborn Russian car.

mrkredo — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:53:13 -0800

Video from the Lotus team. People from Lotus car design team have found a bloke who owns 6 years old Russian “Lada” and decided to give it a complete makeover.

Exotic Spotter

MLIS — Sun, 29 May 2005 19:24:12 -0800

Exotic Spotter "The beauty of an exotic is felt most when they are spotted on the streets, side-by-side with regular cars. . .Unfortunately, spotting an exotic is a rare occurrence. That's why this site brings together hundreds of exotic sightings from all over the world." [via mediareport posting on metachat]