Morning Linkage (Sept 18)

Transport

OCC goes green(again) This time with Schnieder Electric. There was a
video in the post but it’s been removed. Because, of course, OCC isn’t
in the bike build­ing busi­ness they’re in the real­i­ty TV business.
(Yes, I have an opinion.)
http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-news/orange-county-choppers-goes-greenhybrid-motorcycle-is-on-the-way-ar79269.html

So you’ll have to set­tle for this pho­to of the Siemans/OCC bike. Its
sil­ver and kind of cool.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/09/occ-goes-green-with-a-hybrid-chopper/

Meanwhile — here’s the first of two eye can­dy treats for today. This
Ducati is for sale. Really. The bonus won’t stretch that far. I’m
think­ing the look might do for the the Tiny Toy rebuild though.
http://www.bikeexif.com/thunderduc‑2–0

More real rac­ers. The Colorado Grand is a vin­tage car ral­ly that means
it when they say ral­ly. The sound track must be awesome.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/09/vintage-rally/

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Science and Technology

How to make all that under cov­er park­ing work for you. Solar pan­els on
top of car ports. Nice look, expen­sive, avail­able in Japan only for
now.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/16/japanese-company-sells-carports-with-solar-panel-roofs/

Also from Japan — touch­able holo­grams. There’s a video demonstration
of “rain” falling on a hand.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/17/touchable-holography.html

If that T Rex I told you about a cou­ple of days ago won’t fit in your
foy­er, you might want to wait until a skele­ton for this much smaller
Raptoex krieg­stei­ni comes up for auc­tion. Seems that T had a much
small­er ancestor.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/tinytrex/

I’ve been known to say that the next great war (as opposed to this
great police action) will fought over water. This mental_floss story
gives you an idea of what hap­pens when a big­ger nation/state/city
takes the water away from a small­er one.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/34713

Google Voice could­n’t find a home on the iPhone and exact­ly who made
the deci­sion and who accept­ed it are still being dis­cov­ered. A final
answer isn’t like­ly but two let­ters to the FCC (one each from Google
and Apple) make it clear that this deci­sion was not made by the lowly
folks who review and approve the fart apps.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/fcc-releases-confidential-details-of-google-voice-app-rejection.ars

No mat­ter what you think of Google’s book dig­i­tiz­ing project… The
Espresso Book Machine is what dig­i­tiz­ing pub­lic domain books is all
about. Lisa Gold pulls togeth­er the cov­er­age of the Google’s Print on
Demand machine. There’s one com­ing to Third Place Books in November.
http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/an-atm-for-books-google-partners-with-the-espresso-book-machine-to-print-public-domain-books-on-demand/

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Art, Illustration, and Photographs.

A trip to Japan. Juliana Wang’s con­certi­na book of ink draw­ings takes
you along. (The whole draw­ing is the fourth image in the set.)
http://julianawang.com/work/its-a-funny-place-japan/

A recipe as a car­toon. How to make Chai Tea. Smiling sauce pans are a bonus.
http://lucylou.livejournal.com/575537.html

Fiction and maps. Fiction as maps. Maps as fic­tion. Shane Watt draws
fic­tion­al maps. Or is it that he draws maps of fic­tion. Cue the
LitCrit crowd. Or read the inter­view and look at the pictures.
http://www.diskursdisko.de/2009/09/interview-shane-watt/

Charlie Roberts’ paint­ings of the chaos of artists’ stu­dios are
fright­en­ing­ly accu­rate — right down to the chee­rios box in the
windowsill.
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/09/16/charlie-roberts-artist-painter/

I’m leav­ing the flash based cat­a­log site of jew­el­er Jennifer Gehbauer
run­ning on the oth­er machine as inspi­ra­tion. Design You Trust has a
review and some images here.
http://designyoutrust.com/2009/09/18/2s-design/

No, that is not an illus­tra­tion of a car­toon dog float­ing on a calm
sea beneath a paper moon. It’s a photograph.
http://www.mccartyphotoworks.com/epostcard/epostcard_73.html

Here are 10 images from the Nostalgia series by South African Stefan
van Deventer. Evocative black and white.
http://definitivetouch.com/news/stefan-van-deventers-nostalgia/

Last Word

TGIF — now hop in your dog­mo­biles and speed out­ta here.
http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/adria/adria-fruitos-new-prints-at-inprint/