Budget cut’s here, benefit’s cut’s there; it’s nice to see that GM’s CEO is willing to take a cut in salary for the good of the company (lol). According to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Rick Wagoner will be taking a wopping 25% pay cut annually down to $1.65 million. Give me a break Rick, if you want to show you’re really concerned show us you can live on a modest $150,000 a year and I’ll be a little more impressed. If you really want to man up, try living off the average us annual salary of around $35,000; I’m sure you won’t be kicked out of your country club, but then again you’d be a member of the thousandaire’s club at that point. It’s reported that the salary cut is part of his effort to help in GM’s turnaround, yet during 2006 he took home just short of 7 million. For those of you so upset that Toyota surpassed GM last month, maybe your friends who lost their jobs should be more disturbed by that sobering fact than who makes the better vehicle.

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According to a recent study released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the Chevrolet Blazer has the highest fatality rate of any current vehicle on the road. The 4 year study concluded that for every million Chevy Blazer’s registered, there were 232 deaths.

Not far behind the Chevy Blazer were the Acura RSX and Nissan 350Z; all 3 automakers quickly indicated that several outside factors not indicated in the study could have been contributing factors to their higher mortality rates.

The institute found that the average death rate for all vehicles has declined from 110 from 1990 to 1994 to the current rate of 79 for the 2002-2005 period.

I can’t wait; I got to check out the NASCAR races last weekend here in Fort Worth and today I’m heading down to Houston for the Grand Prix.  I’ve added a video from last years race, enjoy!

Tooling around today and came across this CGI movie and thought it was really cool; have a look.

This weekend my wife and I attended the NASCAR Samsung 500 with some family and friends; I wanted to catch the cars coming around on their first full speed lap, but what I got was the first wreck of the day - have a look.

Cal Evans put together a great WordPress plugin Notable that allows you to easily add your blogs to numerous social bookmarking sites; however, it did not have a StumbleUpon icon so I added the changes and you can download my version.

Notable WordPress Plugin

All instructions for the plugin are included in the download.