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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Bandcamp adds support for physical goods.
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WordPress.com now supports geotagging. Every blog and every post can have their own real world location.
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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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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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Mike Arrington is on a tear with some great posts exposing the dark underbelly of advertising on social networks.
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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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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)
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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!