Morning Linkage (Mar 11)

Trans­porta­tion

You’ve seen the pic­tures of the hacked together ones but here’s the real deal. Motor­cy­cle side-car based cam­era mount. The fab­ri­ca­tion qual­ity blows me away. Based on a 6 cylin­der 1500cc what? Seats 4.

Sexy enough to make me con­sider a elec­tric car. Almost. Or I could buy one and put a real engine in it. Porsche 918 Spy­der.

A lyric piece of descrip­tion. The destruc­tion of a median strip is care­fully watched from it’s seem­ingly innocu­ous begin­nings with a few dusty foot prints to it’s take over a a cross­ing point for auto-rickshaws. (New Delhi, but it would be under the Viaduct here in Seattle.)

A few pages from the cat­a­log of the 1930 Earl’s Court Bicy­cle and Motor­cy­cle Show. Love Smith’s gauges.

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Tech­nol­ogy

In Afghanistan there are peo­ple work­ing hard with lit­tle more than trash to bring some con­nec­tion to the mod­ern world. Wi-fi points and repeaters made from stuff scrounged out of the garbage — lit­er­ally. Great inge­nu­ity and drive. And so much of the same-same has­sles, petty pol­i­tics, and inter­per­sonal fail­ures of rela­tion­ships that affect any tech project. As Amy says, it’s funny but it’s not.

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Lit­er­a­ture

Good Night Moon has dri­ven par­ents bonkers since 1947. Now there’s a Star Wars based update called Good Night For­est Moon. Bet­ter yet it’s a down­load and bind your­self project with excel­lent instruc­tions. Craft time to bed time.

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Art, Images, and Design

Best iPhone stand ever. What is this gad­get holder doing in Art, Image and Design? — It’s great found object sculp­ture. Fork over.

Also an iPhone/iPod acces­sory. The ammo box speaker set, per­fect dis­guise. Do Want.

More cross-over stuff. Why won’t the world stay nicely sorted in to my cat­e­gories? The title of this recently released book says it all — Go Faster: The Graphic Design of Rac­ing Cars

A lit­tle cool for my day today. Here’s Ms. Loren from the Impos­si­ble Cool.

onward and upward, or at least out the door.

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