Monday LinkCrave: 08.18.2008

Here’s some happenings around the web from GearCrave’s friends. Did we miss something? Let us know!

• Looking to save a little dough on the road?  Here are 16 tips to increase your MPG. [thebachelorguy]
• We love abandoned buildings and “urban spelunking”.  Here are 15 of the best. [weburbanist]
• There’s energy in them highways.  Can energy be created from asphalt heat? [inhabitat]
• If you don’t mind looking like a toolbox, this is actually a sweet bike car. [coolest-gadgets]
• This chair with a suspended string seat and back doesn’t look comfortable… but cool. [freshome]
• The wood LED clock keeps it simple– just the time, shown red on clean wood. [unplggd]
• Another clock– the matrix cube alarm clock has individual blocks for hours, minutes, seconds. [plunderguide]
• And for a bit of humor, here’s the worst obituary we ever read.  [afrojacks]