Morning Linakge (Jan 29)

Trans­porta­tion

A plane mys­tery solved. This (fly­ing?) derelict in Hanoi was iden­ti­fied by the fine folks at Tel­star logis­tics. And we get a nice overview of the Antonov AN-2. It’s wicked on skis.

Sweet, orange, retro, but brand new. French GIMA 125. Do Want.

The news that makes my day! SLS pro­duc­tion has started. Last post until the first ones hit the US mar­ket. Promise (fingers-crossed behind my back.)

The new Icon Vari­ant hel­met. The demo’d graph­ics are pretty damned teenage macho but I’m dying for the extra wide eye port and sweat wick­ing interior.

Free wall­pa­per of the vapor cone cre­ated at the moment of sonic boom envelop­ing and airplane.

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Soci­ety

Never miss­ing a chance to be kawaii, these lunch box meals (ben­tos) fea­ture Wall-E, Mario, and the Linux pen­guin. Some times the for­eign­ness of Japan makes my mind spin.

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Sci­ence

Doing sci­ence is never as easy as the tidy pub­lished reports with their pretty graphs and charts make it look. These entries in the Round Robin (Cor­nell Ornithol­ogy) show just how arbi­trary the real world can be when you go look­ing for some­thing. The God­wits that Cor­nell Ph.D. stu­dent Nathan Sen­ner went look­ing for on Chiloé Island, Chile failed to get his save-the-date notice and where off at some other party when he arrived.

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Art, Images, Design

The first of the children’s books by Jim Flora, the king of bebop illus­tra­tion, to be reprinted in decades. I can’t wait to get my own copy of The Day the Cow Sneezed.

New prim­i­tive in style, slyly mod­ern in out­look, a Kama Sutra by Barcelona born Adria Fruitos. Absolutely, utterly, glo­ri­ously NSFW.
If you need some­thing SFW. Go to Adria’s web­site and click on most any­thing else.

Sim­pli­cis­simus was a Ger­man satir­i­cal weekly that pub­lished from 1886 through 1944. It has been dig­i­tally archived by the Her­zo­gin Anna Amalia Bil­bio­thek.  Cheeky, sophis­ti­cated graph­ics fill each issue.For exam­ple this first issue of 1904. Or you can have any other year you’d like by perus­ing the sec­ond link.

Sweet mis­cel­lany of win­ter bird images and illus­tra­tions. You’re bound to find some­thing you like. Maybe a change of desk­top wall­pa­per is in order?

It’s Fri­day. We need girls on bikes. (all SFW)

that’s it sin­ners just one more day and then you can go back to being saints.