NASCAR, the producer of flashy, fast-moving auto races, has teamed up Norwalk-based marketing services firm Webloyalty with to add speed and style to the Official NASCAR Members Club Web site, www.onmc.com.

A deal with Hewlett-Packard will place Yahoo search and other services on H.P. personal computers sold in the U.S. and Europe.

Computers have become so effective at making time disappear that they threaten to make traditional models of wasting hours (i.e., television) disappear, too.