Thursday, October 08, 2026
Wednesday, October 07, 2026
Prime Video, is making Jeremy Grows a Car: A Clarkson’s Farm Special.
“Alongside his very own Diddly leather interior and wool carpets, Jeremy will attempt to grow a crop of flax fibre and turn it into a revolutionary flax-composite – a sustainable alternative to carbon fibre
He has enlisted the legendary car designer Ian Callum CBE, founder of design and engineering firm CALLUM, the man who penned the original F-Type and the Aston Martin Vanquish
The new, one-off show will air in 2027 with Prime Video also confirming yesterday that series six of Clarkson’s Farm will also be released next year.
A dog was stolen from a trucker's can while she was in the station paying for the fuel
Arlene put the picture from that camera on a truckers' page that night. Then she parked and waited.
Two days later a driver named Hollis spotted a heeler tied to a fence at a rest area outside Oklahoma City, 260 miles east. He was headed the wrong way. So he handed Dutch up to a driver going west, and that driver handed the dog to another one in Elk City.
The third truck pulled into the Amarillo truck stop a little after midnight.
Dutch came down the steps of a stranger's cab, crossed the lot and went straight up into Arlene's.
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Monday, October 05, 2026
Fritz Schiedel was a bit obsessed with making this Porsche 550A as light as possible for racing ( bought directly from Porsche competition director at Sebring in '58, never raced, a backup car for the new RSK) Thank you John!
I'm surprised he didn't swiss cheese the dash, but I get a kick out of the lack of decorative trim around the instruments, and the holes in the key? Awesome
An 18-year-old from was arrested after police said he stole a Star Brass steam whistle before it was stolen from the 1921 Cooke steam locomotive at Central Park in Sutherlin, Oregon. (thank you George! )
185 speed cameras are going live in Los Angeles
Over a single week in September, Malibu's handful of speed cameras clocked about 100,000 speed violations
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a warrantless search of a vehicle’s monthlong location history through automated license-plate reader databases violated the Fourth Amendment, that Flock cameras pose an unconstitutional surveillance risk,
A Tulsa County deputy’s search of her license plate through Flock and VehicleManager systems amounted to an unconstitutional search.
A deputy had access to about 30 days of vehicle-location information across several states and found more than 50 sightings tied to a rental vehicle, according to the ruling. The deputy initially searched the California plate after seeing it on an Oklahoma highway, before he had identified a traffic violation or other basis to suspect criminal activity.
The court found that police cannot use a vast network of cameras to indiscriminately collect vehicle data, then retrieve a detailed history of a person’s movements on demand without probable cause and a warrant. U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill said the technology can reveal sensitive information, including visits to medical providers, lawyers, fertility clinics, casinos or liquor stores.
The decision drew on Supreme Court privacy rulings involving cellphone location data, including *Carpenter v. United States* and this year’s *Chatrie v. United States*. The judge wrote that while motorists are visible on public roads, people can still have a reasonable expectation of privacy in “the whole of their physical movements” when law enforcement compiles and searches weeks of location records.
"Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society, and it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts," wrote Hill.
In Fort Pierce, former Officer Josepher Crutchfield was arrested on four felony counts related to unauthorized computer access after police accused him of searching his ex-girlfriend’s license plate 382 times through the Flock database between October 2025 and July 2026, largely while off duty and without a legitimate law-enforcement purpose. He has not been convicted.
two 11-year-olds, founders of TJ & JT Mowing Service, completed a 50 Yard Challenge in Alabama, to mow 50 yards for the elderly, veterans, and people unable to care for their lawns for free.
He gave both teens a mower, a blower, and a trimmer for their hard work, hoping they would use their new equipment to expand their business. “Giving these boys lawn equipment is teaching them discipline,” Smith said. “If they tell someone they are going to mow a lawn, they need to mow the lawn.” he added. “This could be the beginning of a successful lawn service.”
Smith’s commitment to caring for people’s lawns began in 2015, and the following year he went viral for helping a 93-year-old woman who could no longer mow her lawn. Smith had set a bold goal of mowing lawns for free in all 50 states. His goal was to promote his initiative that “provides free lawn care to our elders, those who are disabled, single mothers, and our veterans, who do not have the time, resources, and/or money to manicure their yards.”
As part of this goal, he created the 50 Yard Challenge, which has been a smashing success.
As of mid-2026, more than 6,000 pre-teens and teens have signed up for the challenge across the United States, up from 4,588 in May 2023. If everyone completes it, the total number of lawns mowed for free by Smith’s Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service will reach well over 300,000.
Kids and teens can take part in the challenge by sending them a photo holding up a sign that says, “I accept the 50 Yard Challenge,”
After completing the challenge, the child or teen will receive a mower, a blower, and a trimmer
https://www.upworthy.com/50-lawnmower-man-challenge-ex1/
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that aimed to boost oversight of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority.
Newsom’s veto comes two weeks after the investigative office released a scathing report in which its auditors found that the high-speed rail authority approved nearly $600,000 in unallowable travel expenses for its consultants. It found they flew first class, took luxury rides and visited a nightclub on taxpayer dollars.
The auditing agency was created in 2022 to conduct independent reviews and investigations of the long-delayed bullet train project. But it has never been fully staffed because it doesn’t have the authority to hire the expert staff necessary for audits, said Inspector General Ben Belnap in recent public hearings.
govt is always looking to make people use mass transit... and Vancouver had a proposal by TransLink to charge all vehicles in Metro Vancouver a yearly fee between $100 to $200 a year, on top of their insurance costs to help fund the region's transit system.
For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline and an extra $100 million a year in top-up funding expires in 2028.
Interesting that they only way they can fund something car owners won't use, and don't want, is to make them pay for it.
More interesting, is that if mass transit is needed, utilized, and worth keeping, that IT DOESN"T PAY FOR IT"S OWN NEEDS
The 55th annual National Stearman Fly-In, a six day event, brought 91 Stearman owners and pilots, together with enthusiasts at Galesburg Regional Airport in Illinois from Sept 7-12, 2026
the six-day gathering featured fly-outs, a Poker Run, landing and aerobatic competitions, formation flying, restoration awards, and the longstanding traditions that make the event a family reunion for the Stearman community.
a canoe with an odometer! When mapmaking in the everglades in 1897, Ed Brewer wanted to know exactly how many miles had been traveled
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10168508082232782&set=pcb.10168508083127782 via the Antique Overland facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1740495786660758/
Sunday, October 04, 2026
I can't understand a word, but, there is a race, between 6 fantastical vehicles, driven by a variety of people, robots, and anamorphic creatures, including kitten girls in a vehicle that transforms into a jaguar robot - across 5 environments (skip the first 4 minutes)
for some stupid reason, they overlooked that kitten girls would not have both human and cat ears
I was not kidding that every scene starts with ankles
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