I have hitherto refrained from posting these amiornot sites, because they’ve become kind of boring in my opinion. However the AmiaLookalike.com site seems to be a little more fun (in a sad-ish sort of way).

I’m almost certain that this must be a spoof. I mean look at it. The Aerocar 2000, a hybrid car-plane based around a Lotus Elise. Shaped like a brick but twice as fast. [via madville]

So this guy had $30,000 to spend, and decided to buy a scrap Jaguar car and convert it into a fish tank. No really. Honestly, I simply could not make this stuff up. [via Madville] Aaargh, now it seems that someone has done the same thing to a Honda HR-V. Crazy!

I stumbled across this little gizmo on a Japanese web site recently and it intrigued me. The blurb for the picture says – ‘Presenting the all new Sciborg 825, two way automotive security and control system. Details coming soon.’ Hmm, interesting.

The Aspire AD-8000 DVD/DVR is billed as the world’s first DVD player and CD-RW in one unit. This is designed to let you ‘easily record non-copyrighted DVDs and material from VHS players, digital video cameras.. blah’. Priced at $599.99. On a related topic, check out the YesVideo camcorder/VHS video to DVD transfer and copy service. Fascinating stuff!

I thought that these companies died out along with the film Vanishing Point, but it seems not. The Auto Driveaway company site lets you view listings of cars which people want transported across the US. The idea is that you book, drive and deliver someone else’s vehicle, pay for gas and your own accommodation and save on car rental bills in the process. And hopefully you don’t wreck their prize Cherokee Jeep in the process.

Phew! You know that things are changing when you find Wal*Mart selling 800MHz PCs with 128 MB RAM, 10 GB hard drives and an Ethernet port for – gasp – $199.86. Note the .86 cents! I suppose at these prices every penny helps the margin. The trick apparently is to offer it without a monitor and with Lindows (the Linux o/s) rather than Microsoft’s Windows XP. But whatever, man that’s CHEAP! [thanks Bob] Update: And just received this spam mail…

Apparently the word tip – as in giving a tip to a waitress – was originally an acronym for ‘To Insure Promptness’? I’m not sure if that’s true, but the Tipping site offers this fact and many more on the subject for our edification. So whether you are paranoid about the etiquette of tipping or just an interested observer, this is the site for you, complete with a downloadable Excel tipping spreadsheet.

The Moods music scoring system breaks with convention by digitizing scores into software, after which the parts are displayed for hte musicians on LCD screens during a performance. No more shuffling of paper during the page turns.

The Hidden Features site provides a list of DVD movie titles which contain hidden features that you can access via secret codes. These Easter Eggs as they’re known, range from special credit segments to extra video scenes.

The new Windows XP Service Pack 1 upgrade will be released to the public on September 9th. The update features bug fixes, patches and security updates.