Month: December 2007

December 2, 2007 5

Bubblegum pop princesses Aly and AJ Michalka make their video game debut on one of what appears to be hundreds...

TrafficOne Mobile: Give yourself something nice this year

Holly Jobbagy

Science and Technology Website profiles

December 2, 2007 20

It’s 5:17 p.m. and the owner of the silver Audi behind you is honking his horn, along with the 13...

Dirty Jobs complete season 1 now avalable

John M. Guilfoil

Entertainment Television

December 1, 2007 42

The only thing better than Dirty Jobs is eight hours and 20 minutes of Dirty Jobs on five DVD’s. Discovery...

Photos: His and hers couture

John M. Guilfoil

Features Photo Stories

December 1, 2007 6

Rare Vintage and Arnold Brant cued us in on some of their upcoming designs, and they range from chic to...

Retro: Rock Slide game

The Review Center

Computer Games Retro Reviews Science and Technology

December 1, 2007 56

This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com and Sharewarejunkies.com in 1998 during the Golden Age of independent shareware computer games. Rock...

A Gallery of Paintings by Clark Hulings

John M. Guilfoil

Features

December 1, 2007 126

The 20th anniversary edition of Clark Huling’s “A Gallery of Paintings” reminds us why we still owe our attention to...

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Blast Magazine was launched in 2007 with a simple thought — do journalism for the video game generation. We’ve really seen a lot since the 1980s. Nintendo Mega Man games, dial-up Internet, Dos, and the Palm Pilot were all in their infancy as we grew up. We shared files on 1.44MB (that’s MEGABYTE) floppy discs, and they were more than sufficient. As we grew up, the Internet blew up. Today you can stream a movie live in HD. Not only did HD not exist when we were growing up, but downloading a single, low-quality MP3 of our favorite song could take over an hour!

Technology developed quickly as we came of age, and we can claim to have mastered everything from iPads to Netflixes. But there is one thing that our generation did not have to grow up with — car maintenance.

A lot of us are interested in cars and trucks and motorcycles — this site wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t. But how many Gen-Y’ers have ever had to change their oil? Change the brakes? Fix a cracked serpentine belt? Fixing cars was always something optional for us. We had to want to jack up a car and change a tire.

So now that we’re adults and we’re starting to recover from the crushing debt of our student loans, (We’re very bitter about this) we are finding our interests diversifying. If we were into cars already, we are getting more into cars. If we could never afford it, we are slowly raising our expectations. Say what you will, we are a curious generation.

Blast Cars is not exactly a beginners’ guide to the galaxy, but we’re not going to assume you know everything. We’re learning with you, and the experts we’ll bring into the process will walk both of us through everything we ever wanted to know about everything automotive.

In addition to restoring our Shop Truck, we are following some other Gen-Y restoration projects, including a racing bike. We’ll also bring you some relevant news, reviews, and rumors. We’ll even take a look at some of the most famous cars in movies, music, TV, true crime, and other popular culture. Let us know what you want to see!

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