> A fruit salad tree…bears up to six different fruits of the same family on the one plant. All fruits retain their own individuality, with staggered ripening times. – [The Fruit Salad Tree Company](http://www.fruitsaladtrees.com/)
– [Floating bikes](http://www.faithistorment.com/2012/05/floating-photos-by-zhao-huasen.html)
A fun tool takes Google Streetviews and [morphs them into planet-like objects](http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/#o=.097,0,-.006,.995&z=1.938&mz=16&p=37.42718,-122.16710):
I love that [chocolate milk is now positioned as a sports drink](http://gotchocolatemilk.com/science#overview-1). I’ve [long been a fan](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobman/7337699168/in/photostream/), actually…
[Jonathan Keats continues to blow my mind](http://bigthink.com/ideas/41923?page=2):
> “Until today science has been completely dominated by one species,” says Keats, an experimental philosopher and former director of the Local Air & Space Administration…”People may not be biologically equipped to understand the universe at a fundamental level, he contends. “Other species might be better adapted to the task.”
> Keats believes that the most promising candidates are bacteria…”But they need facilities,” says Keats. While their minuscule size lets them experience quantum phenomena on a first-hand basis, they have no natural way of exploring the galaxies….
> “Rows of petri dishes filled with brackish water – teeming with cyanobacteria – will be set up atop a flat screen monitor laid flat on its back. The monitor will glow with images of the cosmos provided by the Hubble Telescope.”
Today I learned: Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize-winning modernist playwright, Waiting for Godot), [used to drive Andre the Giant to school](http://historicalmeetups.com/post/1524567373/samuel-beckett-playwright-novelist-and-nobel), because the future wrestler was already too big to fit on the school bus.
John Kilduff ([previously mentioned](http://www.ryskamp.org/brain/?p=234)) just keeps pushing the human race forward; this time [blending margaritas and painting at the same time…while cycling through a park](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0onvRmD34c)). And crashing sometimes.
> “We ran out of ice, we ran out of everything…but we didn’t run out of passion!”
> “Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.” – [Mulla Nasrudin](http://virtualbumperstickers.blogspot.com/2007/06/good-judgment-comes-from-experience.html), via [Jared Spool](http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2012/01/03/how-important-is-natural-talent-to-becoming-a-great-designer/)
I think we can learn a lot from [this short documentary on brainstorming](http://news.yahoo.com/decade-difference-concert/video/inside-the-clinton-foundation-celebrity-division-26965922.html):
– The difficulty of brainstorming over VC and phone
– The need to provide reliable lunch opportunities
– The danger of “celebrity” participants
– How thinking visually makes your ideas stick
– The perils of bringing in previous ideas
– That sometimes *not* deferring judgement is best…
Awesome: there’s [an](http://www.bobshop.de/index.php?lang=1&tpl=&_artperpage=96&lang=1&force_sid=0f47494cf0edd19f624db4ebdc508894&cl=alist&searchparam=&cnid=2175fba2e3894b416b3fe8d0be2fef6a) [entire](http://www.bobshop.de/index.php?lang=1&tpl=&_artperpage=96&lang=1&force_sid=0f47494cf0edd19f624db4ebdc508894&cl=alist&searchparam=&cnid=29b6c91e5f4dbf217bd1f7be40d4d6e6) [range](http://www.bobshop.de/index.php?lang=1&tpl=&_artperpage=96&lang=1&force_sid=0f47494cf0edd19f624db4ebdc508894&cl=alist&searchparam=&cnid=32deb969b8c87820adfd86d740bcd76e) of cycling clothing with my name all over it.
Christmas is coming, folks…