Well another Gumball 3000 is now upon us. What they are trying to accomplish this year is quite amazing. I’ve collected some information and links for this years’ rally. Enjoy.

2006 Starting Grid

Gumball 2006 Route:

The Event follows a 3 stage, 3000 mile driving route that incorporates Europe, Asia and the United States.

Stage 1 Europe: London (Start) - Salzberg - Budapest - Belgrade (Serbia)

The cars and participants will then be flown to Phuket (Thailand).

Stage 2 Asia: Phuket - Bangkok (Thailand)

The cars are then flown again across the pacific to the USA.

Stage 3 United States: Salt Lake City - Las Vegas - Los Angeles (Finish)

This is directly off the Gumball 3000 website. Enjoy. (Sunday 30th April - Sunday 7th May)

Starting in London and finishing 8 days later in Los Angeles…this one is just NUTS, 120 amazing cars driving 3000 miles across 3 Continents in just 8 days! Last year the crowds on route were HUGE, and this year we want even more of you to cheer us on. We’ve got more supercars, superstars and rock n’ roll parties than you can imagine! Look out for ‘Bam Margera’ (MTV’s Viva La Bam) and Ryan Dunn (Jackass) in Bam’s purple Lamborghini that Billy Idol ‘chain-sawed’ a sun-roof into, along with skateboard legend Tony Hawk and action sports stars Mike Vallely and ‘Rooftop’ Escamilla in their Jeep, alongside MTV UK’s Jackass styled “Dirty Sanchez” in their ‘drift racing’ Nissan, next to Love Actually film star Martine McCutcheon in her pimped up Range Rover, next to ‘Goldie Lookin Chain’ in their A-Team van, next to supermodel Jodie Kidd in her supercar, next to Fast & Furious’ star Matt Schulze in his RUF Porsche, beside Freestyle MX legend Carey Hart and his pop star wife ‘Pink’ in their Bentley, alongside MX superstar Travis Pastrana in his WRX Sti Subaru; then catch a glimpse of hip hop legend Snoop Dogg doing an exclusive Gumball performance at our party in Las Vegas, and look out for ‘rock god’ Lenny Kravitz as he puts pedal to the metal, next to Blink 182’s Travis Barker as they all race to cross the Rodeo Drive finish line! Hugh Hefner and his ‘Playmates’ will then be preparing champagne for all at the Playboy Mansion, where Travis Barker, along with a celebrity DJ and DJ Ron ‘porn star’ Jeremy will spin the tunes as the Gumballers party the night away. Put all this together and you’ve got one hell of a crazy Gumball!

I’ve done some checking and collected a few links that might help some people looking to track this years Gumball. They have an very cool tracking system that allows you to track each car live here.

Official Gumball 3000 Website. Live Updates.

Gumball Related Sites (Includes Pictures/Videos):

Gumballers.net

M5 Board Gumball 3000 Forum

Gumball 3000 Blog

Gumball-3000.com

Gumball 3000 Teams:

Alex Roy - Team Polizei Gumball 144 - Due to fuel pump problems in the M5 they are driving a Bentley Continental GT

Ant and Pete - BMW d3 Power - Their Gumball 2006 Page. And the SMS Blog

Randomness Picture Sites:

Flickr Gumball Pictures

http://viliondzas.fotopic.net/c941764.html

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Well it’s been a while sense I’ve posted updates on the Silvia so here is what’s been going on. The whole car is together. I got the seats a few weeks back, and last week the Greddy E-Manage finally showed up. This week we are wiring everything, and putting the roll-cage in. I should have pictures of what it all looks like later part of this week, or early next week.

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Well I’ve updated the Firefox Guide once again. Check it out for some great new extensions!

In other news, I am working on an iPod guide that should be out within the next week or two. Alone with a total revamp of the Firefox Power Users Guide.

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Many startup companies fail. Ever wondered why? Read this. There are a few links inside that article are must reads.

And another awesome read.

If the sky is falling, you need to understand What To Do When You’re Screwed.

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Well today was a car hunting expedition with my father. He currently has a 2004 Volvo XC-90 SUV and is looking to get something else. We started off the day at the BMW dealer. What assholes. They didn’t even come outside. When they let us take the X5 on a test drive they wouldn’t let us take it on a couple roads we know to see how it compares to the Volvo. I was not impressed. Next we turned to the Mercedes dealer right next door. Talk about a class act. They impressed the hell out of me, but so did the Mercedes McLaren SLR they had in the show room, nothing like looking at about a $450,000 car. Mercedes has a brand new SUV that they are coming out with, the GL-450, that car impressed the shit out of me. It takes a lot to impress me with a car but this one sure did it. The salesman took us on some awesome roads to test drive the car. Up and down the freeway and was extremely helpful. Just go to the site to read up on it, in fact it’s so new they didn’t even have information on the car they just had one car there as a demo. I don’t even want to go into how great it was because I can’t think of a way to describe it right now. Just go read up on it and it will impress you. Another thing that impressed me at the Mercedes dealership was how friendly and helpful they were. BMW can shove it. Well once we got the stuff for my dad taken car of, we needed to go look at a Porsche 911 for me. Well not really but I have always loved Porsche’s so I had to go look at one. So we decided to test drive a soft top and then a hard top 911. Now that was fun. They got right up to 100 and back in no time. It was great fun. We found a nice “S” curve that we played in for a bet then decided we should go somewhere else before the cops show up. After driving the 911 now I really want to get my car done so I can go play. Even though the 911 has 325hp, it was damn near as fun as the Ford Mustang Cobra I rode in Friday night that has 450whp. Nothing really compares to burning through 3 gears, rolling burn offs at 70+ mph, taking it up to 130 to pass some cars. I guess I get involved in a lot of stupid shit on the weekends, but that’s life, life goes on. Well that’s the weekend, so far.

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Can someone invent this so I never have to sleep? Then I could get caught up without totally biffing my sleeping pattern?

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Well the mighty Firefox Guide has been updated.

Here is a list of the changes for today (April 19th):
Added: Tab Mix Plus ResizeSearchBox, SearchPluginHacks, LinkChecker, and FoxyTunes.
Removed: Tabbrowser Preferences , and Duplicate Tab. Added Search Engines Category.
Updated: Keyboard Shortcuts.

Go check it out!!

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I just want to thank everyone up at Digital.Forest for all the help today. I changed the clock battery on the server, fixed some DNS issues, and finally did some MySQL work. Hopefully everything will run smooth for another 380+ days of uptime. Thanks again!

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I just have to say whoever thought of the idea that Jack in the Box would stay open all night, I thank you!

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I am going to start of by saying I am horrible and linux/unix. I know enough to get me in trouble and that’s about it. I found this awesome guide, it’s worth checking out, and it has already helped me out. Enjoy.

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If you remember back to the Office/Cube Pranks post there was the living keyboard. Here is the tutorial on how to create this work of art.

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The Gigapxl Project has done many amazing things. I will not begin to start them here, that is what their website is for. Capturing some amazing pictures in the highest digital resolution on earth is breathtaking, but I realized another awesome use for these pictures. With a few minutes in Photoshop you can crop these pictures down and create some awesome dual monitor wallpapers. I haven’t found any really good sites for dual monitor wallpapers, and the pictures on Gigapxl are amazing. Also I must ask where are the Chicago skyline, and New York skyline pictures on that site…hmm.

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Well I’ve been home from Chicago sense last Wednesday. I have to say I do miss that town. People in Chicago were so friendly, it was quite nice. The Museaum of Science and Industry I thought was good, but in all honestly I was disappointed in some areas. As a kid I did model trains, and I have always loved everything about trains. When I saw they had a train exhibit I was all pumped, The Great Train Story, it was not what I was hoping for. It was a huge model train layout showing trains going for Chicago to Seattle. That was cool, but I was hoping for more. The Coal Mine was also very disappointing. Maybe I just have high standards or my childhood was more hands on than many kids. Now the Toy Maker 3000, that impressed me. It might be the fact that machines have always amazed me, and that my father had a machine shop when I was little, and my brother is going to school to become a mechanical engineer. Basically the core of the exhibit is an assembly line that makes toy tops. For five dollars you can have a top custom made for you in front of you very eyes, I got one for my brother because he enjoys cool things like that. It was very cool watching the machines make all the small motions very accurately and quickly, and an exhibit that I could watch for hours.

I never did get a chance to go up to the observatory on the Hancock Tower or the Sears Tower. Hopefully in October if I do go downtown I will be able to do that. But I did get a few pictures of the town off the might camera phone.

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I’m home from Chicago. Long day, very tired. Going to sleep. Lots of updates and info this week, so stay tuned.

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