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cc licensed flickr photo shared by gamp Taking a page from Google, there is new announcement from the automobile industry: BillyBob and Melba Bootwaddle, the original creators of the reverse flow corn cob floating ball carburetor, will take the stage to unveil their latest project, Ford Wave. As BillyBob describes it, “Knowing what we do about automobiles, we set out to answer the question: What would cars look like if we set out to invent them today?” That is exactly the right question, and one that every US car maker should be asking him or herself. The world of cars has changed, profoundly, yet so many of our cars bear the burden of decades of old thinking. We need to challenge our assumptions and re-imagine the vehicles we take for granted. It’s perhaps no accident that this project, carried out secretly at Ford’s Locus Bayou office over the past two [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Slightlynorth My not so accurate radar is being tickled by some recent emerging technologies that some Big Shot may place as the next incremental digit following “Web”. Submitted for your approval, Mr Serling: A lot of talk of “real time search” The whole crazy growth of Twitter, Facebook, etc — built on answering the deep philosophical question– what are you doing NOW? Waiting for the Google Wave to land on shore — more promise of the web being not a pile of linked documents but a networked of linked flowing communications. One more today- I caught Joss Winn’s tweet about WordPress.com’s new experiment in Real Time Blogs: At im.wordpress.com we have been experimenting with instant delivery of blog posts and comments. Now you can subscribe to WordPress.com blogs in your Jabber IM client and receive posts and comments the instant they are published. It [...]

It can be pretty: cc licensed flickr photo shared by prgibbs Our flags do it in the breeze cc licensed flickr photo shared by ladybugbkt It can be exciting! cc licensed flickr photo shared by (nz)dave It is a sign of old fashioned social networking cc licensed flickr photo shared by striatic It defines how information moves through media cc licensed flickr photo shared by mdezemery That’s all I know right now, or at least all that is not speculation.