Received a great gift for Christmas; a die cast VW Camper memory stick from SpinningHat.com. From their web site:
Trade in your boring old memory stick for a superior model!
These officially licensed dinky die cast cars cleverly conceal an impressive 256MB of flash drive memory. Each car also comes with a USB extender cable, so that your classic car can remain on your desk whilst still plugged in to your computer, for all to see.
As soon as you start transferring data the tiny headlights on the front of the unit will flash indicating activity. Solve your data transportation needs in style and be the envy of the office!
Pity it doesn’t come in anything higher than 256MB, but it’s a pretty cool novelty item nonetheless….
Thought it might be an idea to post links to the currently available VolksWorld Digital Download Back Issues. Each issue is currently selling for $4.98 (cheaper if you’re a Barnes & Noble member).
VolksWorld is the leading VW magazine from the United Kingdom. It covers the latest hot news, and shows off the very best feature cars around from the stock and modified classic air-cooled Volkswagen market VolksWorld highlights the very best VW Bugs, Buses, Karmann Ghias and all other air-cooled variants. Our world-wide coverage features the very best technical material, event coverage and product tests.
VolksWorld is a great magazine from the UK, but sometimes it’s difficult to track down a copy in the USA where I now live.
Usually I can pick up a copy in my local Barnes & Noble bookstore, but (a) they don’t always have them in stock and (b) it’s kind of expensive at $8.95 an issue.
Cover price - $64.74
Online price - $23.27 ($20.94 if you’re a Barnes & Noble member)
I signed up last week and immediately received the January 2009 edition in my inbox (pdf format of course). Admittedly it’s nice to own the physical copy of the magazine, but this way I’m guaranteed to receive VolksWorld (actually the subscription is for 13 issues) and I don’t have to take a trip to Barnes & Noble several times each month. The $$$ saving is pretty nice too of course…..
About the magazine:
VolksWorld is the leading VW magazine from the United Kingdom. It covers the latest hot news, and shows off the very best feature cars around from the stock and modified classic air-cooled Volkswagen market VolksWorld highlights the very best VW Bugs, Buses, Karmann Ghias and all other air-cooled variants. Our world-wide coverage features the very best technical material, event coverage and product tests.
VolksWorld has just launched a mini web site for their sister magazine VW Camper & Bus. From their site you’ll be able to find out what’s in the next issue, when it’s due out, watch videos, looks at photos and catch up with their day to day routines on their blog. Definitely worth checking out and I’m sure I’ll be a frequent visitor in the coming months!
Adobe Photoshop CS4 features a cool new feature called “Content-aware Scaling” which senses dead areas in photos before resizing the image to avoid stretching every object.
Click here to watch a movie detailing the new feature.
We want to paint it and drive it across the country in October doing stencil/art events, rallies, etc. We will also be doing a documentary to go along with the project.
If you’re wondering what the original Obama Mobile looks like, check out the video on the following page:
How about this for a bizarre VW Bus (okay, it’s not strictly a Bus, but you know what I mean) The world’s lowest VW Vanagon was recently created at the hugely popular Bug Jam festival at the UK’s Santa Pod Raceway when Volkswagen parts specialist Just Kampers teamed up with talented artist Andy Saunders.
The “Vancake” stands just three feet off the ground but is fully road legal and was created by Saunders and his team in just three days! Apart from lowering the roof the team also applied a custom paint job and an electric sunroof.
At the other end of the scale, how about this for a compact VW Bus? Surely it’s one of the shortest in the world?
Received a very cool pottery money box today as a birthday gift from my mum; she always manages to find the perfect present and this one is no exception!
The hand painted Cymru Camper is about 9″ long, 4.5″ wide and 5″ tall and comes complete with a sweet red and green surfboard on the roof which just happens to be where the slot is located to pop in all the coins for my Bus Fund!
I think the Bus originated from the excellent “Shop In The Clouds” web site which sells all kinds of cool clothing, gifts and jewellery; all with a Welsh theme of course!
Received a great gift for Christmas; a die cast VW Camper memory stick from SpinningHat.com. From their web site:
