Tech and Design These solar panels make alien flower art at night. Austin, what you been drinkin’? http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sunflower_leeds_14354.asp Seattle has a couple of abandoned big box stores. Other parts of the country have more. Many of them have clear or translucent roofs. Here’s a proposal to reuse those spaces for food production. Instead of buying consumer goods made …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Morning Linkage (Aug 19)
Time limited edition. Covered is a blog that showcases re-imaging of old comic book covers. Most often pointless but I still read ti for gems like this Millie the Lovable Monster redo. http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/alessa-kreger-covers-millie-lovable.html No link to the source but these Japanese crayons look like they should be made of taffy not wax. http://designyoutrust.com/2009/08/18/%E2%80%9Crichcolorcrayon%E2%80%9D/ Mikela Prevost has …
Morning Linkage (Aug 18)
Transportation Auto-topia provides tons of links to coverage of Monterrey. And this sweet picture of a BMW Isetta 300. A few other notables in the slide show as well. The description of the 523 Jag C‑Type as buxom is dead on. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/heaven-on-wheels-in-monterey/ Sweet 1916(?) Michelin poster. The comments are worth a read as well. At least until they reach the …
Morning Linkage (Aug 17)
Transportation News — a little moto Boeing has a new best selling plane. The Scan Eagle UAV. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/boeing-uav/ The 3‑point seat belt is 50 years old. Invented by Volvo and now universally installed. The top photo in the article is too retro cute for words. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/strapping-success-the-3-point-seatbelt-turns-50/ Telsa goes drag racing at Pacific Raceways. I find drags without thunderous engine noise, or …
Morning Linkage (Aug 12)
Transportation Some people are lamenting the loss of possible future classic cars to the cash for clunkers program. The NYT Week in Review ponders the question and comes up with 4 possible classics currently eligible for crushing. The 88 Jag maybe. The other three, I rather have a Pacer. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/weekinreview/09mayersohn.html?_r=2&hp OTOH so many of us have fond memories of …