I had a very brief drive in this car yesterday.

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On the recommendation of Julian ‘Rabbit’ Murdoch from the Gamers with Jobs podcast, I bought the Space Miner game for my iPhone.

I played it for a couple of minutes during my lunch break and was really disappointed because it was just Asteroids.

I tried it again a day or two later and realised… it’s Asteroids with a tech tree. And therefore it is awesome.

Oh, and it’s kinda amusing too. Worth the $2.50.

Yesterday I was driving home from work and listening to a podcast on my iPod, which is connected via a digital interface into my car stereo.

The host of the podcast mentioned a song that I wanted to own, so as I stopped at the lights I took my phone out. I bought the song online, downloaded it to my phone and was listening to it via the stereo (thanks to the witchcraft of Bluetooth audio streaming) before the lights had turned green.

We are living in the future, people.

Will this be the first year that we watch more Blu-rays than DVDs? I don’t know, but it’ll be close.

Hooniverse asks, ‘What’s Your Eleanor?‘

And my answer is:

The Ferrari Testarossa.

Ever since I was a boy and my brother and I argued about which Italian supercar company produced the best cartoon car (Lamborghini was his pick), I’ve yearned for this thing. Yes, I know that it likely handles like rubbish, is too big to fit my garage, gets horrible mileage and is slower than a modern hot hatch… but WOULD YOU JUST LOOK AT IT?

God, if a million dollars dropped into my lap I’d still be tempted.

Oh, and Andrew? The Countach is still rubbish!

I spent far too short an amount of time today in the Porsche Panamera 4S.

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We’ve been in the new house for a month now, so it’s time to stop faffing about, time to start blogging about what I’ve been up to.

I’ll start by discussing the car I borrowed to do the actual moving with: the 2010 Subaru Outback diesel.

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Do you read Marco?

If you’re a leftist geek, you probably should.

Just a really quick note here:

The anti-dazzle mirror in Tipsi is magic! I assumed that it contained a little motor to rotate the mirror when it detected a light shining on it, but it’s trickier than that. There’s actually some kind of liquid inside it that gets electrically charged, reducing the amount of light reflected into your eyes. Clever stuff, and as a side bonus it tints light green. Looks very funky to see green-tinted headlights behind you.

It’s the future!

More crazy things that my new car does later.

Watch this.

I am entirely serious when I say that this review had more work put into it than The Phantom Menace.