If we're ever going to fly back to the future, it needs more Rocketeer. Lots more.

...the other driver, though somewhat menacing with the henchman, is nerd-cool to the same degree as McQueen is hipster(?) cool.

That would be the late, great Bill Hickman, who buckled up before things really started moving. He also drove in The French Connection and The Seven Ups.

Radio Shack's $24.99 Tie-Clip Omnidirectional Electret Microphone #33-3013 works very well with the Olympus WS-110. I use this small, lightweight combo to capture a better audio track (post-edited with GoldWave) while shooting on-the-cheap training presentations with a digital video camera.

In H. Chandler Elliot's classic 1954 story, Inanimate Objection, it's always been Stuff vs. Us.

Ask yourself this simple question: who lasts longer?

Much may be accomplished by doing nothing -- Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons.

(BTW, Hersh's Samson Option is readily available via ABE.)