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...while it's a good idea to get away from Amariyah as fast as possible, I am acutely conscious that I'm not wearing my seat belt. Iraqis never wear one, and for me to buckle up would be like sticking a FOREIGNER ON BOARD sign on the windshield, a bad idea in a city where kidnapping gangs are known to cruise for lucrative targets. As an Indian, I can often pass for a local if I keep my mouth shut--my Arabic is rudimentary--but in public places I have to be careful to avoid other obvious signs...
...c550 is a major improvement over Garmin's first warm-and-fuzzy navigator, the c330. Last year, I said that while I enjoyed the c330's extremely friendly interface, its screen was too hard to see in sunlight. Other c330 flaws included a windshield suction cup that just didn't suck enough, and a GPS chip that would lose reception when driving on an underpass. In the c550, all three of those mistakes have been rectified - the anti-glare screen is much easier to see under the hot summer sun, the suction mount holds fast to the windshield...
Lasseter is an old hand at humanizing machines. Cars does it in large part with the detailing of "facial" features. Most car 'toons anthropomorphize their characters by having the headlights serve as the eyes. Lasseter, following a charming Disney short, the 1952 Susie, the Little Blue Coupe, made the windshield the eyes. Cars also has fun turning hood ornaments into mustaches, grilles into mouths. More important, it evokes shifts of mood by the subtle shift of body weight, the low growl of an engine...
...pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager shops are everywhere. All the roads are being widened, their shoulders littered with pieces of blown-out tires. Locals say you are not really a borderlander until your windshield has been broken at least once, by one of the rocks flying out from under the big rigs...
...snazzy product that resembles the Magellan RoadMate series, the Blackbird also suctions to your windshield and powers itself from your 12V lighter jack. That's the only plugging you have to do in order to play - its internal GPS receiver quickly picks up your location, even if your view of the sky is partially obstructed. It contains the latest version of Navteq's map database, the same database used by Mapquest and Google...