This car is so pretty (and rare) that a $1 million price tag seems almost kind of reasonable – in a ‘if I was a billionaire’ kind of way 
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Toni
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Toni
Bandcamp adds support for physical goods.
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Toni
WordPress.com now supports geotagging. Every blog and every post can have their own real world location.
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Toni
I’m intrigued by Local Motors, a new car company that crowd sources the design of their cars and plans to build them at local micro-factories. This is the first car they’ll build:
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Mike Lewis
Me too! I’d love to have one of these. Cars are getting more and more similar. As a kid, i used to be able to identify the make of a car by their headlights in the dark. Now i can’t even identify them in the daylight. I love the thought of crowdsourcing and micro-producing for cars. We’re already doing with t-shirts (threadless), shoes (nikeID), and airplanes (Epic planes)
My post: http://loo.me/2009/11/local-motors/
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Toni
I wonder why Diane sent me this post? For the record: I have never worn white sports socks with leather shoes.
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Toni
Mike Arrington is on a tear with some great posts exposing the dark underbelly of advertising on social networks.
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Matt
I think phone companies should take some responsibility for the mobile scams. I consider myself a savvy tech user and I noticed one of the 10/mo charges on my cell phone bill a few months ago, who knows how long it was on there. My Mom has one too we’re removing. I think there’s a similar “ecosystem hell” with mobile providers who take a huge chunk of those charges and the scammy companies underneath.
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Rod Edwards
OfferPal’s refutation includes such dissembling gems as:
“Why one tech blogger feels this problem is unique to the virtual goods industry or somehow a reflection on the payment providers who power it is entirely unclear.” (http://myofferpal.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/virtual-goods-summit-09-what-an-ending/)
Unique or not, vectors like Facebook combine scale with a uniquely vulnerable demographic. Clearly there’s a point in the value chain at which oversight needs to be applied. Matt, I question whether that’s the role of cell providers any more than it would be bank’s role to police the use of cash dispensed from one of their ATM’s.
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Yuval Levy
Thanks for the excellent link. Mike’s analysis is spot on. The video posted on his blog should be a warning to investors and consumers alike to stay away from that sCamEO. I’m with Mike. Oversight and responsibility need to be applied over the whole food chain. Phone companies could be part of the solution and enable charge backs like credit cards already do. If an offer is unclear the consumer should have a right to withdraw and have all of their money refunded. That’s probably in the realm of the FCC? in the meantime it’s caveat emptor.
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Matt
That’s a pretty good point, an equivalent of a chargeback could help the ecosystem a lot.
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Toni
Birthday wishlist of an 11 year old: Min…
Birthday wishlist of an 11 year old:
Mini computer
Gravity defying boots
16 GB SD card
Songs for mp3 player
Really really really comfy pillow
More songs for mp3 player
New socks that fit (not pink like mom gets)
More songs for mp3 player
Lots of wii games (good games)
Dirt bike (big engine)-
Noel Jackson
I love it! I think I was asking for a floppy disks for my digital camera at that age
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Rajesh Kanuri
cool man.. I think i m asking for a computer and a bicycle for me at that age..
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Toni
The office of the San Francisco mayor has switched to WordPress.
Alex M. (Viper007Bond) 7:56 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
As gorgeous as that car is, I’d honestly not buy it even if I could afford it. It comes down to one thing: technology. This car is coming up on being 50 years old and it will show on the track.
What would be really great is taking a beater shell and sticking some modern suspension on it. The British TV show Top Gear took a beautifully restored fast Aston like this and raced it around their track. It was one of the slowest cars on their time board, slower than little econo-cars you can buy today, entirely because of it’s suspension (body roll, etc.).
Andy 8:53 am on November 21, 2009 Permalink |
But you can’t argue with the bug deflector.
Toni 9:04 am on November 21, 2009 Permalink |
That’s what that is!