Live Car Hire - get the best price on local car rental

Need to rent a car and don't want to overpay? LiveCarHire searches 500+ car rental companies at 30,000 locations in 174 countries to give you the largest selection of competitive car rental rates from the top car rental companies worldwide. 

In addition to the standard worldwide Airport Search, the visitor can imap display cities, train stations, ports, areas or street address for the nearest available car hire deals. Pretty cool.

Here is an example of the search map display, comparing all available car hire/rentals, with each search having the imap zoom facility to widen or narrow the search area:

USA - Los Angeles Downtown

There is also a free iphone app that provides exactly the same Live Car Hire service on ipad, iphone and ipod. 

Barcode Yourself

OK, this is one of the more bizarre sites I've featured on Cool Site of the Day. On barcode art you can create a barcode of...yourself.

Please see it and rate it here on 11/30. After 11/30, find it in the Cool Site of the Day archive.

Free The Children - A Must Watch

Learned about Free The Children and the organization's We Day from 60 Minutes Sunday night. Share this one far and wide...and far and wider again. SO inspiring and so GOOD.

 

VERY Cool Wind Map

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powers my Hobie Cat and energy that powered the first explorations of the world. This map shows you the delicate, real-time tracery of wind flowing over the US.

See it and rate it here. After 11/28, find it in our archive

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100 Must See Interviews With the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs

I love stuff like this. You can learn so much from those who accomplish so much at breakneck speed. Sure, it will take a lot of time to view all these interviews but if you just chisel away 10 minutes a day it will be worth your time.

See this list on 11/27 and rate it here (after 11/27 visit the Cool Site of the Day archive).

 

Monitter - a cool Twitter tracking tool

Monitter is an easy-to-use, free tool that helps you track mentions, hashtags and trends on Twitter. Just type in whatever you're ‘monitter’ing and track the data. 

Find relevant followers in your niche, hone in on conversations about your brand, and discover potential customers.

See it and rate it here.

Mike

The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns

Another gem from documentary film maker, Ken Burns.

THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, whereby the wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930 created misery throughout the country. Interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and rarely seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and  incredible human perseverance.

 

Watch Episode 1: The Great Plow-Up on PBS. See more from The Dust Bowl.