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Here’s a contest that sounds pretty cool. The X Prize Foundation is offering up a multi-million dollar prize amount to the company/group that can create a car that gets over 100 miles per gallon. I’m not sure how they are going to determine who gets the prize if more than one car hits that mark, as it already looks like quite a few have hit or exceeded that number, but it should be interesting to see what comes out of the contest.

Of course, the next contest will be the marketing contest, which offers a multi-million dollar prize to the company that can make people believe that they won’t be ridiculed for driving one of these cars. Technically I think that this second contest will be the tougher to complete. Read about the whole 100 mpg Car Contest here.

I’m not really sure what just happened.

I opened up my email this morning to find an email saying that I had a comment that I needed to moderate for this site, specifically for the Beaver post. I read through the email, and I wasn’t real sure what was going on, but I blamed the email interface for the miscommunication (you know, because computers don’t know how to type…).

Of course, when I logged in to my wordpress management system, I found the same thing. Basically, I think that I need to let y’all decide for me: was I spammed?

Here is what I got:

TRANSLATION FROM FRANCE

YOUR ARE CUTTIND BRANCHES WHERE YOU ARE SITTING

YOU ARE BUILDING NO HUMAN TOWERS WHICH ARE ATTRACTING AIRCRAFTS

So, what’s the story? Has anyone else gotten anything like this from their blogs? Is this the next Nigerian “help me help you” type of letter? Or do I actually have a reader in France who is trying to tell me some message that could save the American way of life, if only it was translated better?

76% scored higher (more nerdy), and
24% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

Where are My Nuts?

Make sure that you turn on your sound (unless you are at work), and enjoy the variety of things that the squirrel says. Then make your own, and send a link back to your message.