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.

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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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

Support this ex-Marine's walk across the globe

Need inspiration? Read and watch. For U.S. Marine Sgt. Winston Fiore, it was a news article about the International Children’s Surgical Foundation (ICSF) and Dr. Geoff Williams, who provides free facial-reconstructive surgeries for children with cleft lips/palates in developing countries.

Teach Kids to Help Others

childrendonate2.org is a wonderful site that guides kids to do good things.

Best Toys of 2012

via toptoysblog.com

Had to feature this unbiased review of the top toys of 2012 because it was sent to me by a Cool Site of the Day regular....K Paul!!!

Got kids?

Richard Wiseman's Quirky Mind Stuff

via richardwiseman.wordpress.com

Take the Trash-Free Challenge

via oceanconservancy.org

Short of the Week

I just watched the short film on John Baldessari on this cool site. Fun.

Like they say: "The Greatest Stories Being Told"

Mike

Reading program keeping kids reading all summer long

In Summer 2011, students around the world logged 64,213,141 reading minutes. Can you help set a new world record for summer reading? The 20 schools with the most minutes will be featured in the 2013 Scholastic Book of World Records. LOVE this!!

via scholastic.com

Sustainable Urban Farming

via vifarms.com

Today's Cool Site of the Day is Vertically Integrated Farms. I actually ordered a few tilapia fish from them to grow at home.

Mike