If you read my other rainy day missive (9 August 2003) about all the light-emitting devices in my home, you'll have to do a context switch when you read about The Brights, who have nothing to do with light.
The Brights also have nothing to do with synthetic motor oil. The most frequently mentioned (on the local car club alias) are Amsoil™ and Red Line™, who do not like each other at all. The "hot oil" a few months ago was Royal Purple™, although they're no longer mentioned (hmm).
The most-marketed Mobil-1™ is not the most-recommended synthetic oil by this car club (this is based on the results of an Oil Analysis Kit [OAK]). Who sells OAKs? Amsoil; Blackstone Laboratories; ExxGard (from Exxon Mobil-1); Filtroil™; MotorCheck™; Oil Analyzers; others. If you have your oil analyzed, you'll want to know about TAN and TBN (to bore your friends to tears)!
BTW, word is that 7500 miles is about right for a synthetic oil+filter change (the Corporate Average Fuel Economy [CAFE] standards are mostly useless). I didn't find a lot about CAFE and oil changes on the web, but I did find mentions of the Sequence VI and Sequence VI-B tests.
I did a (semi-routine) traceroute today and was curious to see a strange name prominently positioned between my ISP and the rest of the Internet. So, I went to their website and was amused to see that AboveNet™ is a renamed Metromedia Fiber Network (aka MFN, fresh out of Chapter 11). There's an AboveNet Press Release explaining it all.
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