Morning Linkage (Aug 30)

Trans­porta­tion

The weekend’s over, but there’s a new week­end just around the cor­ner. Some of you are gonna need this. Hayes M1030 — bitchin’ off road machine. Multi-fuel, 2-foot ford­ing depth, optional IR dri­ving light! woohoo!

And one of these. Bufalino. Piag­gio APE goes camper. Yup­pers, I’ll take one.

Snicker. That’s some bal­last you got there. Fright­en­ingly close to home for some of us hack own­ers. And more Stan Mott car and bike art. Bonus pho­tos at 2/3rds. Go Carts!

Sci­ence

Astronomer Seth Shostak pro­poses that we could increase our chances of find­ing intel­li­gent life in the stars by expand­ing the type of intel­li­gence we are look­ing for. Where should we look if we want to find alien arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence?

Slightly more earth bound news. Migra­tion is a com­plex social func­tion; not just a mat­ter of every­one in the flock gets an urge for bright sunny beaches come October.

Art, Images, and Design

Tum­blinger­strasse? Tag Tag? Super Paper? Still doesn’t mean any­thing to you? How about Hot Wheels stop-motion ani­ma­tion and graffiti?

These do not look like tat­toos. But they are… I’m unde­cided about them but I value the reminder that ink on skin doesn’t have to con­form to a look. More of Amanda Wachob’s work (click on abstract)

Utterly point­less ani­mated gif. But there’s a monkey…

Ani­ma­tion

Sad news from Japan, Satochi Kon has passed away.

He gave us many films but none so won­der­ful as Tokyo God­fa­thers. A look at three mis­fits who find a bun­dle on Christ­mas Eve. T.G. long ago replaced It’s a Won­der­ful Life as our Christ­mas movie of choice. Earthy, humor­ous, and real­is­ti­cally hope­ful. (Avail­able on disc from net­flix.)
Amer­i­can ver­sion of the Tokyo God­fa­thers trailer. Lame trailer, good movie.

oh so Mon­day around here, I hope your locale is a lit­tle less inundated.

Tagged as: aliens, Amanda Wachob, campers, forensics, hacks, Hayes, Hot Wheels, M1030, migration, multi-fuel, paiggio, Stan Mott, tattoos, Tiny Inventions