The Home Crowd

Spotted at Jalopnik,

How sweet is this?  A stock car, go-kart race track right in your front yard!

Looks like they live out in the middle of nowhere, which is exactly the location of “making your own fun”

But…why?

• When pouring the driveway, purchased far too much concrete..
• Knew your riding mower was fast, but without lap times, who’d believe ya?
• Proving ground that your guests actually are too intoxicated to drive after late night parties.

Or, perhaps, just a big fan of racing.  Just goes to show that if you have a big enough property, and the determination, you too can have your own race track.  However, if you plan on racing heavy machinery, you may want to bank the corners somewhat, or suffer the consequences.

More pics at Jalopnik – Link

Credit Crisis, Housing Bubble (and bust), Economic downturn, potential “mild” depression.  All terms floated around during this very certain recession.  Unfortunately, it’s harder to understand the financial storm that brought us here, than the “ideas” spouting from the talking heads of how the economy will dig itself out of this hole.

Graphic Artist Jonathan Jarvis has created this animation explaining the run up to our current disaster, and it’s definitely worth a few minutes of viewing as the turn-by-turn animation is somehow easier to grasp than plain diagrams (shown previously here) or article snippets from the news outlets.

(Not pictured: animation of how we get out of this mess)

also, see more about this project here at it’s website, Crisisofcredit.com