From Nanobama.com
Each face is made with 150 million carbon nanotubes! Each one of these faces is about the size of a pinprick!
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From the Atlantic.com: Electro-Shock Therapy
A fascinating look into the technological hurdles facing the development of GM’s electrical vehicle, the Volt.
Then, in late 2005, Lutz got wind that a Silicon Valley start-up, Tesla Motors, was moving toward production of a high-performance electric roadster. (It’s available this year, if you have $100,000.) At that point, Lutz “just lost it,” as he puts it. He refused to accept that a small start-up company could build and sell an electric car but mighty GM couldn’t. In early 2006, he summoned Jon Lauckner and told him to dream up an electric concept car for the 2007 Detroit auto show, a year away. The car had to be more than just interesting, he said. It had to be remarkable: a game-changer.
Reading this just kind of pisses me off about large companies. Large companies like GM should have been pushing technology forward. It’s not until GM sees a start-up working on an electric car that GM starts their own.
From DeviantArt.com
I ordered the Shepard Fairey Obama “Vote” poster on the Artists for Obama section of the BarackObama.com website as soon as I saw it. It’s a numbered print from a 5000 print run that sold out the same day. I received mine today and it is absolutely stunning to see in person and really quite large.
Shepard Fairey is the artist who created the iconic and ubiquituous Obama Hope poster.
Shepard Fairey’s site Obey Giant
Shepard Fairey talks about his art and Obama from Current.
There’s a glitch in the iPhone camera where every once in a while it’ll create a strange, sometimes interesting little mosaic when taking a picture.
It turns out that there’s a Flickr group- iPhone Cubism devoted to iPhone created mosaic art.
From NYTimes.com: Obama Asks Bush to Provide Help for Automakers
Mr. Bush indicated at the meeting that he might support some aid and a broader economic stimulus package if Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats dropped their opposition to a free-trade agreement with Colombia, a measure for which Mr. Bush has long fought, people familiar with the discussion said.
This is one thing that I hate about politics. If you feel like aiding the automakers is the right thing, then do it. If you don’t, then don’t do it. A decision like this deserves to be decided on its own merit, not as part of deal for something else.
I am torn about the idea of aiding automakers. I understand that jobs are at stake, but the automakers are primarily at fault for their own problems. When has GM produced a car that you would actually want to drive? They have a fundamental problem that lending 25 billion dollars won’t solve. People don’t want to drive the cars they sell.
If you lend them the money, will this buy them the time to be able to fix the company and produce fuel-efficient and technologically innovative cars? The irony of this is that GM has spent years lobbying the government against increased fuel efficiency standards. If they had just gone along with this and improved their efficiency, their problems wouldn’t be as dire as they are now.
From Boston.com: Scenes from Antarctica
32 Amazing photos of Antarctica. Thanks to Doug for sending me the link.
Upload your picture and become a James Bond villain!
“Warning could create PINOT ENVY!”
Oh, the indignity.
From Mediaweek.com: CNN.com Cashes In on Obama T-Shirts
The election of Barack Obama has sent Americans scrambling for keepsakes of the historic moment, creating lines outside printing plants for yesterday’s newspaper editions. It has also led to a small flurry of a new kind of keepsake: CNN has registered thousands of orders for T-shirts carrying the headline from the site reporting Obama’s election victory.
In the 24 hours since CNN.com published its story calling the election for Obama, the site sold nearly 5,000 T-shirts emblazoned with “Obama inspires historic victory.” Under the headline is “I just saw it on CNN.com” and the time and date 11:04 p.m., 11-4-08.
CNN in April rolled out the application, built by The Barbarian Group, to offer readers the chance to buy T-shirts carrying the site’s headlines. The promotion is meant to build awareness of the CNN.com brand and traffic to the site. The T-shirts cost $15.
The customized T-shirts are a new digital twist on the marking of historic occasions. Newspapers have seen huge spikes in demand for copies of the paper declaring Obama’s victory. CNN sites enjoyed a big influx of traffic on Election Day, drawing 12.8 million visitors on Tuesday, compared with 8.4 million the same day last week.
The interest translated into nearly $75,000 in T-shirt sales. The 5,000 T-shirts sold doubled the total purchased during the first five months of the promotion.
Of all the keepsakes available for Barack Obama’s historic victory, this has to be one of the lamest. What are you going to do with a shirt like this? It isn’t worth anything as a keepsake, and if you wear it in public you look like a total dork. A headline form CNN? Woooooo. A newspaper or an actual Obama campaign shirt will be a nicer piece of memorabilia.
Or even the Obama commemorative plate. Well, I take it back on the plate, that’s pretty cheesy too. Who actually buys these?
I’m not sure selling 5000 T-shirts is exactly cashing in for CNN. Selling 5000 shirts to a total of 12.8 million visitors represents less than .04% of visitors actually buying a shirt.