Morning Linkage (Feb 1)

Trans­porta­tion

Tamyia cat­a­logs of the 80’s and 90’s and 00’s. For the model builders out there.

A hand­ful of the first “offi­cial” pic­tures of the Vyrus. Click for embiggen.

Another Tri­umph, this time a Rocket III built over by SE Ser­vice.
Click through for video with nar­ra­tion in Ger­man and not quite enough
actual bike footage to make it the fea­tured link.

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His­tory

7 min­utes of video shot on San Fransisco’s Mar­ket Street in 1905. The
view toward the Ferry Build­ing as it appeared before the great
earth­quake. (Sound — but nice music)

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Sci­ence

National Geo­graphic has pub­lished an elec­tronic ver­sion of the
com­plete National Geo­graphic. In addi­tion the editor’s have cho­sen 50
of their favorite cov­ers to fea­ture on the website.

Every­body loves robots. How about a smart phone con­trol­lable,
skate­board­ing, danc­ing, shuf­fling robot?

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Art Image and Design

Do you know about the Flickr Com­mons? A place for the GLAM crowd
(gal­leries, libraries, archives, and muse­ums) to put images for the
use and reuse of the public.

Hairy Green Eye­ball brings you William Steig. The quin­tes­sen­tial New
Yorker cartoonist.

These hand blown glass robots are way too friendly look­ing to be
threat­en­ing. They have some really cool snail friends lit­tle fur­ther
down the page.

Late last year I pointed to some stills from this witty, mean­der­ing,
ani­mated look at some accounts of life on other plan­ets. Mars and
beyond — Dis­ney 1957. (sound, quick time — worth it)

Take your Mon­day a few min­utes at a time my dears,