The skinny:
By now, the vast majority of you are aware that you can watch TV and movies on the internet for free, but doing it legally is a different story. Hulu.com is an effort by the big media boys to compete with the pirates and after a week of operation (they were in closed beta before last wednesday) it's looking really promising.

The good:
The list of provided content from Universal and Fox is amazing. There full episodes and clips of a ton of shows as well as a bunch of complete movies. The episodes are extremely fresh, often getting the newest stuff soon after it airs. Load times were fast over the T1 here at the office as well as over the WiFi at my house. Even the public WiFi served up Married With Children episodes with relative ease. The commercials are surprisingly unintrusive, running infrequently and only for 30 seconds when they do show up. You can scroll around the video and find specific parts without having to rewatch the ads, too.

The bad:
The option to download it, even with the unskppable ads, to a portable player would be huge.  The selection isn't up to par with the illegal sites, but if it grows, it certainly could be.

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The Chicago Auto Show is in full swing at the moment, and one of the big trends seems to be taking Ford's gigantic F-650 truck and turning it into something you would expect to see Shaq showing off on <em>MTV Cribs</em>. Alton's $200,000 <em>Cloverfield</em> monster of a vehicle has a 7.2-liter Caterpillar engine, a 42-inch plasma and a sound system with 42 speakers. I would still prefer one of those sweet old '70s vans with a wizard painted on the side with a couch that smells like piss crammed in the back, but I guess this thing is pretty cool, too. I do have to give them credit for beefing up the normal car horn to a friggin' train horn. I would blow that sucker right before I ran right over Mother Nature's stupid face. FOLLOW THE LINK FOR A HANDY COMPARISON CHART OF THE CANYONERO AND THE ALTON F-650.

Source: Autoblog

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