Tranquil + kill.

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Jose Gonzalez (famous for the original Sony Bravia commercial song “Heartbeats”) has recorded a version of Massive Attacks “Teardrop“:

[Via Desaparezca]

OMG it’s Street Fighter 4 and it looks like it deserves its name!

[Thanks Ray]

It doesn’t get much more cosmopolitan than an Asturian girl originally from Argentina, who sings “Tonadas” (the traditional songs from Asturias, northern Spain) along country, jazz, blues or even tango tunes.

These videos I found in Youtube aren’t the best examples of the mixture, so go to her website Anabelsantiago.com and get the songs in the download section.

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A skeptical Chris Harris from Autocar Magazine comes to certain conclusions after testing and going flat out in a Bugatti Veyron. Unbelievable speedometer live action included.

I have been looking for a video or article that gets the essential point about the Veyron across shortly and effectively. The fact that, for several reasons, it is the most remarkable engineering achievement in the auto industry. In the literal sense of the superlative. What’s most incredible is how all the test drivers are left with a feeling of dissapointment by realizing that they are never going to feel anything like it again. As Jeremy Clarkson put it last year “it’s not only the best automobile ever built in history, it is also the best car we will ever see in our lifetimes”.

A blue Wacom Bamboo

THIS IS AN ACTUAL CRAIGSLIST POST

What am I doing wrong? Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York. I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at
least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all.

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