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Amazon is wholesale ditching a bunch of Rockford Fosgate MP3 juke boxes.

I’ve never used one but it seems like a good bet for $100.

This post is the 200th on Carhacks. With it comes a few new developments. We upgraded to MT 3.2 today which allows for better anti-spam. Unfortunately it also means a few hurdles to jump through on commenting. I want to encourage people to comment but the spam-bots have been hitting us hard on trackbacks and comments, so only registered users can comment. It’s pretty simple to do so please don’t let a little work scare you off.

I had to put together a keyword filter for comments and trackbacks and it looks like a list of words that the FCC uses to determine if you’re worthy of a nasty fine (for those on TV or Radio. I’d publish it but its a little too blue even for this very liberal rag. I’m somewhat impressed at how many nasty terms I could come up with.

I’d like to encourage more of you to contribute links to articles / products or even your comments. Feel free to email them to me - lionel @ carhacks.org, in the comments or in the message boards.

I’m also looking for someone who knows Movable Type pretty well to help spruce up the place a little bit. I’ll offer up some ad space and some fig newtons.

Stanford wins the prize for a driver-less car that crosses all sorts of crazy obstacles in the desert (old golfers, coyote & roadrunner) and walks away with $2M. Now, if I learned anything from Real Genius, the PhD in charge of the project is a puppet for the DOD and you’re really building some sort of death ray. Oh, and you get no money. I suspect that since these kids are already going to a posh school like Stanford, $2M is a mere pittance and their Bentleys are already filled up with Benjamins.

Now that DARPA has their unmanned death mobile I’m dying to know what the next “get the public to fund our research” game will be. I hope it’s something cool like a death ray. What’s a death mobile without a death ray?