Mostly Harmless

Kelly freakin’ rocks, that’s all there is to it.

From: Yahoo

Singer Kelly Clarkson celebrates her awards for Best Female and Best Pop video for ‘Since U Been Gone’ at the 2005 MTV Video Music awards in Miami August 28, 2005. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Might see a nice sales bump next week for the album, which is actually still in the Billboard Top 10 after almost 9 months on the chart — already triple platinum with no slowdown in sight.

MTV coverage:

The night’s other big story belonged to Kelly Clarkson, who continued her evolution from “American Idol”/”From Justin to Kelly” star to respected rocker (see “When Did Kelly Clarkson Become So Hip?“) by winning Best Female Video and Best Pop Video with “Since U Been Gone.”

Clarkson, whose cute acceptance speeches exemplified her innocent charm (she brought her best friend up “because she doesn’t have a posse”), also closed the show with her infectious breakthrough single, dousing herself with “rain” in a perfect ending to a water-themed production

I finally found a purpose for the mostly-useless center sun shade in my WRX. It makes a perfect mount for my new Lev-O-Gage Sr. inclinometer, erm, I mean, G-Whiz.

The shade still flips up and clears the mirror even though it doesn’t look like it in the pic. It would also appear that my parking spot is not quite level.

The (extra) markup on the Lev-O-Gage is not as bad as I suspected… only 100-300%. Those fancy infomercials ain’t free, ya know.

I bought it on a whim. Leave me alone.

Turns out (pun?) that my “moderate-speed” cornering is about 1/2 a G. It will be interesting to see what my high-speed freeway entrance and exit ramp forces are — I think I can get solidly into the orange zone (.57 to .84 Gs).

The original markings on the inclinometer are from 0 to 50 degrees, the markings on the “G meter” correspond to the tangent of those — which is good because that’s correct. It’s like Trigonometry or something.

Apparently the place to find these inclinometers is RV and boat stores, and, ya know, The Interweb. So if you’re too cheap to support clever marketing and high-quality G-Force calibrated sticker placement you can “build” your own for $10-$20.