"Don't be creative" SPOTM Thread

[Dan Brown]

Find a quiet place. Sit and brainstorm for a few minutes and try to come up with an idea for Dan 3.0 that only you would think of. Share it here, bounce ideas off of each other and start building the coalitions needed to get your ideas to the top of the decision engine.

Newsweek article: www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

[bombmaniac]

i think we should Find a quiet place. Sit and brainstorm for a few minutes and try to come up with an idea for Dan 3.0 that only we would think of. Share it here, bounce ideas off of each other and start building the coalitions needed to get our ideas to the top of the decision engine.

owait...that wasnt original...

[Joey]

Jul 20, 2010 15:57:54 GMT -5 bombmaniac said:

i think we should Find a quiet place. Sit and brainstorm for a few minutes and try to come up with an idea for Dan 3.0 that only we would think of. Share it here, bounce ideas off of each other and start building the coalitions needed to get our ideas to the top of the decision engine.

owait...that wasnt original...

Maybe we should stop listening to asher! YAY!

Okay really Im gonna go do that now and ill edit this when I come back with my idea.

[bombmaniac]

Maybe we should stop listening to asher! YAY!

like THATS an original idea...who ever listens to me?

[ILOVEPONIES]

create discussions around the selected ideas

[qizix]

I would have Dan follow Orthodox Jewish dietary laws for a month.

He would only be able to eat foods marked kosher by appropriate organizations.
No pork, bacon, shells, clams, etc.
No eating milk for three hours after eating meat.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
www.jewishcooking.org/kosher-symbols.html

I was also thinking of having him observe the Sabbath strictly, but he would be forbidden from making videos if he did, so...

[iroyal]

Help someone foster an interest you don't share. Help other people build their communites instead of just your/our own.

DO: Help a cyclist find people to cycle with. Find a club or coach for a chess player. Help someone start their garden. Etc.

DO NOT: Teach someone how to pogo. Help someone start video blogging.

[videogamebrvs1]

Practice and instrument for thirty minutes every day. I've learned that after a month, if you really spend all your attention on that one thing for thirty minutes, that quality time adds up and you have a new skill. Dan, I'm sure you learned this to be true with your pogo stick experience. I vote you choose another skill to learn. And maybe another

[awsomeman111]

I think that Dan should do a tour across North America and go and visit every capital in every State/Province so that way we could come together as a community IRL(in real life) so thats just an idea I had inspired by a Skype call me and Dan shared

[newschooled]

Build a functioning Apply iCar out of Bacon, and then throw it at a penguin.

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[itsmarkable]

hey world and hopefully Dan !

I would like to see if Dan could eat only McDonald food for a month! maybe to see the reactions from him, and i know that guy already did it, BUT wouldnt you like to see what Dan's reactions would be?

[taylorb07]

Hey World! I think Dan should try to have his own Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor.

[mØnti]

If it would be possible for you I'd like you to read "Iphigenie in Tauris" by Goethe and tell me what you have learned about life afterwards. That'd be totally awesome

[prettypenguin]

He should learn how to sew.



Plushies...




A cthulhu plushie...

[garrisonjensen]

I think Dan should open a donation site; one where we could choose what he does with the money.

We should be able to see how much money we have collected, and discuss and vote what he should do with it.

[catherine]

Hi! My idea would be to, collectively, find the best video subject (and plan it all) so it gets LOTS of views and then, we would give the money that the video would generate to a charity (that'd be chosen by democracy, again).

[bombmaniac]

Jul 20, 2010 16:41:07 GMT -5 qizix said:

I would have Dan follow Orthodox Jewish dietary laws for a month.

He would only be able to eat foods marked kosher by appropriate organizations.
No pork, bacon, shells, clams, etc.
No eating milk for three hours after eating meat.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
www.jewishcooking.org/kosher-symbols.html

I was also thinking of having him observe the Sabbath strictly, but he would be forbidden from making videos if he did, so...

6 hours actually, unless youre german, dutch, or according to some others 5 hours and a minute...plus a multitude of other minor dietary laws...wikipedia is not the bes source for jewish law...i'm better ive been studying it for longer than wikipedia has existed

[tommadness3994]

Short-term daily goal: Dan goes to a fancy restaurant with his laptop, Danielle goes to a fancy restaurant with her laptop, and an intimate dinner is shared between the two via Skype. Dan can Paypal the cost of the bill to Danielle following dinner.

[almostlaurel]

I think Dan should write and record an EP and release it on iTunes for one of his monthly goals

[downbytheharbour]

As my username says, I love all things mac and Apple; as do so many other people. I also love the planet.

Combine the two?! I don't know how this would happen so I need some help here guys. I thought we could help Dan out by writing an email to apple, or various emails asking them to do give back to the Earth. After all if this world wasn't so wonderful we wouldn't have Apple!

I don't mean to say we just email them and be done with it, but we actually help on what ever it is we do. It could be as simple as planted LOADS of trees in different countries.

Apple would be able to fund it and we would carry it out, although they would get the great publicity.

I only posted this because I haven't heard of Apple doing anything for the Earth.

I don't know how many people post things on here but guys, PLEASE read this and tell me what you think. I also know this is a thing for Dan to do, but I don't know why we can't help.