Morning Linkage (Jan 26)

Trans­porta­tion

6 used Unicat’s. Because own­ing an RV doesn’t have to mean stick­ing to the inter­states. I’ll take what’s behind door num­ber 3.

http://www.unicatamericas.com/secondhand.html

Lat­est from Wrench­mon­kees. A Kawi rat bike. My kind of awesome.

I’m get­ting tired of eThis and eThat, so eGrand­Prix is unlikely to make my hit parade. On the other hand rac­ing in the streets of Paris on tri­cy­cles would be enough to attract my atten­tion. TTXGP presents elec­tric cars in the City of Lights. Okay, I’ll set the TIVO.

Buell is dead, long live Buell.  The 1125R is on the pace to become a cult tuner plat­form of choice. Mag­pul is build­ing one they’ve named the Ronin. Worth following.

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Sci­ence

The write up is a bit sloppy but the infor­ma­tion is of very direct and per­sonal inter­est for many of us. Have the sci­en­tists been seri­ously under­es­ti­mat­ing the max­i­mum size of storm waves on the Pacific North­west Coast?

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(Old) Tech­nol­ogy

I’ve never seen this photo of an IBM 350 Disk Stor­age Unit being loaded into an plane, with a fork lift. I appre­ci­ate the fine folks at Tel­star Logis­tics using up Google-fu to ver­ify the claim.

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Art, Images, and Design

A while ago I read the story that Goni Montes made  this cat illus­tra­tion was made for “The Cat Who Walked a Thou­sand Miles.” I’m happy to see more work by the same artist. (one or two, mildly NSFW)

The orig­i­nal story “The Cat Who Walked a Thou­sand Miles.” A story about hav­ing a story to tell. Well worth the half hour to read.

An Urban Sketch­ers two­some this morning.

From Korea, a nice sheet of botan­i­cals and an accom­pa­ny­ing story about din­ing out on live octopus.

From Paris — lovely pen­cil and water­color por­traits of folks catch­ing a lit­tle rest break.

Cer­tain pic­tures cap­ture the entirety of a per­son­al­ity. James Dean by Denis Stock. (page down)

Rock your Tues­day m’dears.