One Lap of the Web: Ditching Miss Belvedere

-- In the Netherlands, the street lights are expensive to run. Who knew? Hence, a much more striking vision of the future: a luminescent paint applied to the roads so its markings glow at night -- for as long as eight hours. "Like driving through a fairytale," said one Dutch reporter. Soon they'll speak of the land where the roads glow in the night, where the speculoos flows like water, or at least a thick molasses…

-- Automotive carnage is the lubricant that keeps the wheels of the car blogs cranking. As such, we'd be remiss not to include this BMW M3-themed example, which shows a young man in his newly acquired German super sedan attempting to drift. The car is quick; the man is filled with hubris. Alas, he misjudges his so-called "drift angle." The relentless wheel of fate chugs ever so onward, slowly but surely.

-- In 2007, the city of Tulsa, Okla., pulled a time capsule out from the ground where it had been buried for the past 50 years. Expecting a fully preserved, numbers-matching, showroom-fresh 1957 Belvedere, they instead found…a horror of oxidation. The concrete casing could withstand a nuclear attack, given the paranoia of the time, but its strength was sadly defeated by an invasion of water. Now partially cleansed of rust, it sits -- as Hemmings puts it -- in limbo, in the possession of an overexuberant restorer $20,000 in the hole with nowhere to unload it. The Smithsonian is not "America's garage," and in a terrible irony not even Tulsa wants it back.

-- Today's Terrific Tumblr: El Caminos and A-Frames. The unholy union of the vehicular hermaphrodite and the iconic outdoors cabin. On behalf of The Dude, we can abide by that.

Image via Flickr.

By Blake Z. Rong