"What Everybody Knows"

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows."

William James

'We Are Actually All Martians'

"The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock."

Prof Benner, The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology

SOURCE: Sky News

Terrafugia TF-X Flying Car: No Runway

The Terrafugia TF-X™ will carry four people in car-like comfort, and . .

• have a non-stop flight range of at least 500 miles
• fit into a standard construction single car garage
• takeoff vertically from a level clearing of at least 100ft in diameter
• drive on roads and highways – providing true door-to-door convenience and an automotive level of weather insensitivity.

It will also take 8-10 years to develop (but you can put your money up now).

Ideas

All design-based:

1. online design model for choosing energy efficiency options (to buy)
2. online design model for selecting Christmas decorations (indoors and out)
3. online design model for customizing cars

All work with handheld, and sell related products.

HereLive.com:

1. work with existing software
2. do a "mash-up"
3. free
4. public contributes--photos, messages, video
5. calendar of all live events running continously (geo'd and time/dated)

Wrong Turn

Socrates

Robert Graves, author of The Greek Myths--the book that single-handedly raised Greek mythology out of kiddiedom and restored it to its rightful place as the granddaddy of it all--believes there was a point when it all went wrong. That point, he says, was Socrates.

Socrates had a way of trivializing the myths on his way to introducing us to rationalism. He was the beginning of Western civilization, the progenitor of Western thought as we know it.

So Mr. Graves, in seeking to right the wrong Socrates did, is also telling us that when we made the right turn into Western thought, we made a very wrong turn indeed.

SEE: In Search of Genius by William Fifield for more on this.