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Paying Attention: Keyless entry for automobiles is not only supposed to be more convenient and safe (you just walk up, the car unlocks, you get in, push the start button, rev up, and drive off) but more security (the codes from the electronic keys are scrambled constantly and there is nothing to duplicate, as with …
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Press Clippings: This film is part of the annual Sebring Film Festival and details the winning drive of Juan Manual Fangio and Sterling Moss in 1957. The video is from the King Ross archives and does an excellent job of showing Sebring in is early form as a military air base. An excellent look back …
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Paying Attention: The bet here is this: you’ve never heard of Jean-Marc Bosman. Embed from Getty Images Why should you? He was a not-big-time soccer player for a not-big-time Belgium soccer club. But he revolutionized the sport. It cost him his career, but he changed the economics of European Soccer by winning the right to …
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Paying Attention: The richest female athlete in the world, Maria Sharapova, admitted this week that she had taken a “banned substance” –meldonium–and was more than likely going to receive a suspension from professional tennis. Sharapova is an Olympic medalist and one of the few players to have won all four of the grand slam events in tennis: …
The Hunt For New Music. Once in a while, you find a great source of new music. Maybe it’s something that’s been around for a while and you were late to the discovery party. Maybe it’s an entirely new band or sound that came to you in an entirely new way. One of the very …
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The Hunt For New Music: It’s a winter weekend. Maybe you’re stuck inside because a blizzard is raging outside. Maybe you don’t want to watch the NFL playoffs. Maybe what you want to watch is a little blues, a lot of Eric Clapton, a bunch of good music played by very accomplished musicians—each of them …
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“When I awoke, she was gone, this bird had flown, So I lit a fire, isn’t it good, Norwegian Wood..” –“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) “, Lennon-McCartney (from the Rubber Soul album) Paying Attention: Amazing what you can find out when you read a label. Caught without firewood last week on a brisk …
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Paying Attention: Bud Grant showed up for the coin-toss of today’s NFL playoff game (-6 degrees at kickoff) in short sleeves. He was always the perfect coach for the Vikings.
Paying Attention: The Brand Train continued it’s very long run at the top of the social “got to have it list” in 2015. But as anyone who’s ever been on top can tell you, uneasy is the head that wears the crown. So the only correct thing to do is to double down and press …