I created the Unofficial WP Car Talk Staff widget (and associated WordPress plugin) to show off some of the 500+ names collected in the Car Talk‚Ñ¢ staff listing. You can easily browse through the listing at CarTalk.com but this plugin allows you to have one or more randomly selected names placed on your sidebar or inserted into a post. A pointless but fun addition to any web site.

I’ve had several requests for copies of the “Car Talk” clinic dataset I use in some of my demonstrations and in-class examples so I’ve decided to make it available for download.
If you’re familiar with NPR’s program Car Talk you know that Tom and Ray close each week’s episode by reading from a list of funny, phony Car Talk staff names. This has always been one of my favorite parts of the show so, when I found a complete listing on their website, I decided to put the 500+ names and …