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In honor of Transportation Week, here are some activities you may want to do to either learn more about transportation in general, or to use alternative forms for a change of scenery (or even a lifestyle).

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"Oh please, don't put that red bow on me. Don't I look jolly enough?"

Some people just LOVE to decorate. There are plenty of people out there who fill their yards up year-round with wall-to-wall garden gnomes, pink flamingos, little boys bending over and revealing their underwear, and plenty of other tacky crap. (Not that I’m dissing all of this, really; I have a couple of gnomes—though painted to look more like characters from King Arthur—myself; I’m dissing the ginormous junk pile of it all accumulating in one tiny half-acre lot.)

My husband and I like to call these yards “yard parks,” though I suppose the proper term would be “kitsch vomit.”

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The hum of a light saber may have you thinking of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, but I doubt it conjures images of an idling car.

A team of scientists from the UK have announced that they’ve developed a car ignition system that uses laser beams. In the current spark plug system, the spark plugs are located at the top or bottom of a cylinder, which causes them to fail if the car’s gas isn’t in position upon starting. The lasers are supposed to remedy this by using optical fibers to send power to the car’s battery, which is said to be a straight, surer path to ignite the vehicle through heat.

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My friend has a Jaguar. While he was trying to remove the top of the engine, he broke the head of one of the studs. He told me that there is a tool to fix it, but it has a patent on it and he can't find who has it.

Do you know of anyone who has this tool.