25 hour day

more on electirc cars:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car
• Who Killed the Electric Car?
  

Highlights from an essay by Scott Berkun, Creative thinking hacks:

…an idea is a combination of other ideas. Say it five times out loud. Say it to your cat. Yell it out you car window at strangers waiting for the bus. Every amazing creative thing you’ve ever seen, or idea you’ve ever heard can be broken down into smaller ideas that existed before. An automobile? An engine + wheels. A telephone? Electricity and sound. Reese’s peanut butter cups? Peanut butter and chocolate. All great creative ideas, inventions, and theories are comprised of other ideas. Why should you care? Here’s why: if you want to be a creator instead of a mere consumer you must see ideas currently in the world as fuel for your mind. You must stop seeing them as objects or functional things: they are combinations of ingredients waiting for reuse.

Increasing creativeness at any time doesn’t require anything more than an increase in your observations: become more open to the possible combinations of things than you currently are.

Over time, creative masters learn reusable combinations, or patterns, that can be used again and again to develop new ideas or modify old ones.

We shut down the pursuit of many combinations because of predictions we make about what the result will be like. Remember this: we suck at prediction.

One way to think of creative people is that they’re the ones who have more control over their fears, or simply have less fear of embarrassment. Being creative has more to do with being fearless than intelligent, brilliant or any other adjective superficially associated with creativity. This explains why many people feel more creative when drinking, on other drugs, or late at night: these are all moments when our inhibitions are lower, or at least altered, and we allow ourselves to see more combinations of things than we do at other times.

Justin.tv is the website of Justin Kan, a 23-year-old guy who is “lifecasting” himself on the web.

If this concept sounds familiar, thats because its very close to the plot of the movie “Edtv“.

You can check out his archive for more exiting content at his blog

I’m not sure what the long term goal of this site, but I think they fulfilled their short term goal of getting a lot of exposure.

I don’t watch TV that much and when I do I gravitate to Discovery, History or TLC channel.
Recently I discovered current_ network, (channel 101 on my Time Warner cable box).
The concept: viewers send in their videos and Current_ runs them.
I like that concept. It works.
You get interesting stories and footage that you wouldn’t get anywhere

” Vimeo is different from other video sharing sites because its not about uploading TV shows. Its about people sharing clips that they make themselves.”

Hmm…so what is stopping me from uploading my video clips to google video or youtube?

I’m not sure if Vimeo’s business model will work, however, Vimeo creators sure do post some entertaining content.

Here they are at a meeting busting on their superiors:

Vimeo meetings on Vimeo

Here is a tour of their office. Looks like a cool place to work at:

CV Office Tour on Vimeo

P.S.
Their embed code includes links to Vimeo meetings and Vimeo. Instead of putting links on their screen like YouTube or IFilm, they put them separately, so you can see more of your video. Nice touch.

From Topless-Sandals.com: Flipflops that have no straps and physically stick to your feet. I got to get me some of these!

Here is a demonstration vid:

Car that blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Porsche Carrera GT in drag races.

The best part is….this sucka is ELECTRIC! It runs on a battery!

Energy consumption 200 WHr/mile in urban use, equivalent to 170 mpg

read the interview with its inventor Ian Wright.

official web site of X1

See this car (the X1) in action, as it beats both Ferrari and a Porsche!