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Being An Engineer At Honda Must Be Nice [Novelties]

Speaking as someone who has done it, being an engineer for any of the not-so-Big Three is something of a soul-crushing endeavor. Deadlines are always too aggressive, budgets are always too small, management never grasps the true complexities of a system, and you inevitably have to deal with totally incompetent suppliers who over promise and under perform. It's a delightful job. That kind of experience makes the open letter from a Honda employee that arrived at the offices of BoingBoing seem like working there is some kind of magical fantasy-land of happy rainbows and pony rides.

Be sure to head over and give it a read, but the email describes a place where the sun rises and sets on curiosity and innovation, where you're more or less free to do as you want and where everyone is treated with respect even in the face of conflict. Sounds like a total fallacy to us. Maybe even Honda propaganda. Take the opening paragraph for instance:

Honda is a freak, by American and even Japanese standards. There is an absolutely astounding amount of room here for anyone to work once they get in. The view is Global and the focus is Local. No one has ever told me what to do. One Rule - Dream. We find our way on an individual level, as reason, interest and inclination dictate, and this is an ultimate form of unequaled personal power to affect the future. In Honda, our own best interests are at the forefront of every day life at work and home. In engineering, there are no lines of demarcation segregating futurists from the present applications of science. There is nothing so esoteric that doesn't deserve a close inspection, and there is a common belief here in doing things the Hard Way. Even so, the core philosophy of the company could best be described as the pursuit of Joys.

It's practically impossible to believe such a place actually exists. If it did you'd have the happiest, most productive, best engineers in the world turning out superior products and doing it while leading the way in innovation. Oh, wait a minute. [BoingBoing]



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Twenty-Nine Automotive Fails [Novelties]

Hey Diggers! Welcome to Jalopnik, the blog with a silly name obsessed with the cult of cars. We've got more fun stuff here other than this here bunch of FAIL-shots. Check it out if you've got a moment. Here's a good place to start.

This internet thing can be a damn silly place sometimes. A Hawaiian blogger adds the words "I can haz cheezburger" to a picture of a crazy looking cat and the place filled up with poor grammar cat images faster than a Fiero gets dressed in Lamborghini bodywork these days. The latest massive internet meme is even more simple. Take a funny picture of unfortunate happenstance, add the word "Fail" and bask in the schadenfreude. More so than any other site, Failblog.org has become the purveyor of all things fail and that extends deeply into the automotive world. No surprise really, we've all seen the way people drive on a daily basis. So now, let us present to you this, the 29 fails of an automotive nature. Hit the jump.


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How To Rebuild The Republican Party: Truck Nutz For All! [Novelties]

With the RNC licking its wounds and contemplating strategies that will help them win back lost political ground, it only makes sense that they'd turn to this here newfangled internet thingy to try to get some ideas. The folks at Rebuild The Party decided to seek reader input to finish the statement "The next RNC Chairman should…" and (as of the time of this writing) the answer "Give all Red Blooded Americans a pair of Truck Nutz for their F150s!" is leading by a landslide, crushing a bunch of confusing eggheaded ideas about the Bill Of Rights and fiscal policy. Oh, sure, some might call it Truck Nutz Socialism, but drastic measures are needed!


[Rebuild The Party, via Wonkette; go here if page disappears]



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