Well, it looks like the scene won’t be releasing a rip of this week’s Fifth Gear. No clue why, but oh well. No rip from Vuk either as I told him to take some time off since scene rips were the same quality and allow us to release much, much sooner. Guess that was a mistake, but nothing we can do now.

Anyway, the point is that the only rip out there seems to be a 250MB one by some unknown ripper. So, I’ve gone ahead and torrented it up. It’s pretty good quality and worth the watch.

You can now buy official “I Am The Stig” T-shirts! More details at TopGear.com.

The scene just hasn’t released a rip of it yet, that’s all. We’ll put up a torrent when they do though.

Jay Leno has an article in the Times Online about Richard Hammond and Top Gear. Great read.

As with many people passionate about cars, I got thinking after Richard Hammond’s accident — on a number of levels. I hear there is talk about Top Gear getting toned down. That would be a shame.

Top Gear is the best motoring programme in the world. It’s classic British spirit with a healthy dose of civil disobedience, and that makes for a healthy atmosphere.

Emergency Outage Notification:

ESTIMATED START TIME: 11/03/2006 21:00 PST
ESTIMATED END TIME: 11/04/2006 01:00:00 PST
SERVICES AFFECTED: All
PURPOSE OF WORK: Emergency power repair.
IMPACT OF WORK: All network services will be unavailable during the repair work.

Our colo provider, 365 Main, alerted us yesterday that they need to perform emergency work on their power system tonight. All of our equipment is on redundant power feeds to two separate Power Distribution Units, but unfortunately 365 will be bringing down both PDUs that we are connected to. We are taking measures to minimize the effect of this outage.

We just learned of this, so don’t be worried during those 2 4 hours or so of downtime. PST is GMT-8 if you didn’t know, so that makes the downtime start in about 7 hours from the time of this post.

–UPDATE–

Site/Forums are back up. Enjoy.

There’s an interesting article with the black Stig aka Perry McCarthy over at Auto Trader UK. You might want to check it out.