September 28, 2007
There's a couple of good things about this contest, and one negative. The negative is that it only runs through this coming Sunday, September 30th. There's a lot of good news, however.
First, they're giving away five trips, so you're chances of snagging one of them are a lot better than normal. Second, is that you'll get to take three of your friends. Last, but not least, the trip is for 5 days, and 4 nights.
Just to recap, if you're one of the five Grand Prize winners, you and three friends will get round trip tickets to Las Vegas, round trip transportation to and from the airport and hotel, and two hotel rooms for 5 days, 4 nights. You can book the trip anytime between the win, and Sept. 30th 2008.
You can head over to the Malibu Rum site HERE to enter.
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September 28, 2007
I've really been enjoying the cigar reviews by Cigar Jack. Here are a few from the last week so:
Pinetop Perkins Torpedo by Avalon Cigar – Sounds middle of the road.
EO 601 Blue Label Maduro – Cigar Jack says that this is pretty strong one, so I might have to track one of these down.
El Primer Mundo Criollo Maduro – One of Cigar Jack's top ten. Might be the next one I get.
MAXX by Alec Bradley – Mentions it's similar in flavor to the CAO Brazilia, but stronger.
As always, if you're a cigar lover, it's well worth hitting his site and reading through the reviews.
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September 28, 2007
Forbes just published it's list annual list of the top 400 richest people in the U.S.. As the rich just keep getting richer, $1 billion is now not enough to even make the list. The price of admission to the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400 is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year's list. The total net worth of the nation’s wealthiest rose $290 billion to top out at $1.54 trillion dollars. As it has been for a number of years now, Bill Gates tops the list. Over all there are four new people in the top 10, and 45 new names to the top 400. The youngest member of the Forbes 400 list is 33-year-old John Arnold at $1.5 billion, who is a former Enron trader who now runs hedge fund Centaurus Energy. Here's the top 10:
1. Bill Gates, $59 billion
2. Warren Buffett, $52 billion
3. Sheldon Adelson, $28 billion
4. Larry Ellison, $26 billion
5 and 6. Google’s co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, $18.5 billion each
7. Kirk Kerkorian, $18.0 billion
8. Michael Dell, $17.2 billion
9 and 10. Charles Koch and David Koch, $17.0 billion
(via BornRich)
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September 27, 2007
The MF5 was presented recently at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The car has a compacted BMW made 5.0 V10 that pumps out 507hp and will take you from 0-62mph in 3.9 seconds, with a top speed of 193 mph. The lower and wider MF 5 is able to hang on at those outrageous speeds, using its aero modifications to generate downforce and aid high-speed stability.
The cost will be somewhere around $250,000, depending on exchange rates, and the car should be available sometime in the summer of 2008. Wiesmann will also create custom fit seats and interior, or throw in a selection of super-lightweight carbon bits, for a little bit more.
You can see a few more pictures, read the press release and see the cars raw specs over at the Winding Road site HERE.
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September 27, 2007
Blender.com is giving is currently having a contest where the Frand Prize Winner will receive a $20,000 voucher to an entertainment ticket agency. The voucher only covers the cost of the tickets, but with that much cash it should take you a while to work through it, and let you see just about anything you want. The actual agency you'll use isn't named yet, but more than likely they want to make sure that the agency will be in the winner's area.
The contest runs through November 21st, 2007 and the drawing is around November 26th, 2007. You can head on over to the Blender site HERE to enter.
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September 27, 2007
The world's first Shelby-sanctioned third-party installer will soon open at Tasca Ford's Cranston, Rhode Island facility. The authorized modification shop will offer Shelby handling, engine, chassis, and body upgrades for V6 and V8 Ford Mustangs and Shelbys, as well as "Super Snake" packages for the 2007 and 2008 Ford Shelby GT500, the Shelby CS6, CS8, and Shelby GT500 40th anniversary packages. The shop will also feature clothing, accessories and other Shelby-branded goods.
The new east coast shop will be more convenient for a lot of customers, as they now won't have to make the trek to the Shelby headquarters in Las Vegas. Also, if you take your Mustang to Tasca for your Shelby fix, it'll come away with a badge that denotes the work was done by Tasca, so everyone will know it's an official Shelby.
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September 26, 2007
Blaupunkt USA's GM Lutz Marschall said "For more and more people, compact discs have become obsolete." For that reason, they've created the Melbourne SD27. The new car stereo gets rid of the CD player, replacing it with an SD card slot and a number of options for hooking up other digital musical players.
The SD27 comes with an AM/FM tuner with 25 presets, a 3.5-mm AUX input and hooks up to optional USB, Bluetooth, and iPod adapters. The display can handle 127 music directories and displays 30 characters of an ID3 tag. If that wasn't enough, it also comes with a TEL/NAVI input for cell phone and navigation systems. The current price for the system is $160.
(via AutoBlog)
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September 26, 2007
Mike Cassell, from the Philadelphia Boxing Report, sat down with 44 year old Evander Holyfield. The talk centered around his career, and his upcoming fight against Sultan Ibragimov, where Evander has the chance to claim a 5th world heavyweight title. East Side Boxing has a transcript of the talk up on their site, and you can read it HERE.
The fight is scheduled for October 13, 2007, and will be in Moscow, Russia, where Evander will challenge WBO world heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov in a 12 round bout that will be broadcast in the U.S., and shown on PPV beginning at 1 p.m. ET, and currently priced at $34.95.
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September 26, 2007
The Ferretti 630 looks like your standard $3.2 million dollar yacht, but it has something special up it's sleeve. The 630 come with an Anti Rolling Gyro that stops the boat from rocking from side to side, which is the primary cause of sea sickness.
Created by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Anti Rolling Gyro system was created for use in satellites to prevent them flying off course in the event of an impact. The system uses a 154lb steel and aluminium gyroscope located in the bottom of the hull, which is powered by an electric motor. When the boat starts to tilt, the spinning gyroscope compensates for the angle to keep the boat upright, even in choppy seas. The system can be used anytime from when the boat is at anchored to when it's at optimum speed.
You're not just paying for a steady ship, however. The Ferretti isn't short on luxury, though it is on the smaller side holding only 18 people total. You can check out pictures of the interior, get all the tech specs and so on at the Ferretti site HERE.
(via Luxury Launches)
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September 25, 2007
Good for you might be a little bit of a stretch when you're talking about drinking, but if anything is, it's TY KU, a new sake-based liqueur from Asia. A World Champion Master Mixologist combined more than 20 ingredients from four continents, such as ginseng, pomegranate, Asian pear, oolong and green tea, yuzu, honeydew, plum, dragon's eye and damiana. It's other claim is that it's supposed to be hangover free. That alone is worth testing in my book.
The drink isn't supposed to be too sweet, as with a lot of liqueur, and mix well with a number of other things. In fact, if you're looking for drinks, the TY KU site has several to choose from. Though I'm not sure if that "hangover free" title is still valid if you're mixing it with whiskey. Again, testing needs to be done.
You can head on over to the TY KU site HERE, to learn more about the drink.
(via JustLuxe)
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