Morning Linkage (Aug 26)

Trans­porta­tion

Kinda unfin­ished look­ing. The Mer­lin starts with an old flat head and adds a cou­ple of moped parts, some stuff from the back room at the push-bike shop down the street, and bits dented sheet metal from who knows where. Appeal­ing in its rawness.

What to do with the inevitable rust­ing away of cer­tain bits of that cheap scooter you bought. Bob­ber Pass­port. Check out the engraved veloc­ity stack. Woo.

If I had a bike this pretty I’d let it eat in the kitchen too. Moto Guzzi Airone 250.

Data Geek­ing

First up — all the Dr Who espisodes and their (approx) place in the time line of the uni­verse. As you’d expect the com­ments are FULL of ran­corous dis­agree­ment and the pick­ing of the tini­est nits. None the less, a prodi­gious feat of data scraping.

Two sets of graph­ics from Phillip Howard at Michi­gan State. The illu­sion of diver­sity in food. Soda pop and organ­ics are big busi­ness and the con­sol­i­da­tion of the lit­tle brands under the umbrella of the giants con­tin­ues. Soda pop and other bottled/canned drinks. Who owns the organic labels. Buy­ing up the independents.

Art, Images, and Design

Alice Fea­gan — com­mer­cial illus­tra­tion in cut paper, this one for the cover of a weekly food guide … and a pri­vate piece cel­e­brat­ing sum­mer at the lake.

Three new pieces from Alberto Cer­riteno. That sweet tooth doesn’t look so sweet.

Excerpts from Sir William Hamilton’s Campi Phel­graei describ­ing his obser­va­tions of the vol­canic activ­ity of Mt. Vesu­vius in the 1760’s and 1770’s. Engrav­ings by Pietro Fabris.

Ani­ma­tion can show us the world from a dif­fer­ent height. Lucille finds her­self over­whelmed by her visit to the gui­tar shop.

thurs­day, chicken for lunch?

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