Morning Linkage (Mar 23)

Trans­porta­tion

Re the TTXGP shift to trust/co-op struc­ture for the sanc­tion­ing body.
Giv­ing the teams own­er­ship of the series. Bril­liant or bound to fail?

HD to return to pri­vate own­er­ship with the help of pri­vate equity firm
KKR? More than a week later HOG stock prices are still enjoy­ing the
rumor based bounce.

Mean­while, in Italy Ducati and Piag­gio are rumored to be think­ing about
join­ing forces.

Doing up an old bike, Montessa Scor­pion. Late 60s.

The newest Ford Police Inter­cep­tor comes at you in 2011/2012. Nice illo of
the front light pat­tern. Com­mit this to mem­ory. There will be a quiz.

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Sci­ence and Tech

New color coded image shows where all the space dust lives. The
resem­blance to cir­rus clouds is amaz­ing.  Pure space pr0n.

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Tools and Gadgets

Most of the metal I work with is non-ferrous. But if you spend a lot
of time fish­ing for small bits and parts while wrench­ing, you might
want one of  these handy mag­netic wrist bands.

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Art, Images, and Design

Seri­ously, which movie/TV ver­sions of comic book char­ac­ters have had
the best inter­pre­ta­tions of the heroes cos­tumes? Do *not* skip the
comments.

A nice bio/obit of the illus­tra­tor Robert McCall whose images of space
and the future you’ve all seen. He cre­ated posters for 2001: A Space
Odyssey.

Yuko Shimizu drew a cover for the ‘Now Hear This’ free­bie CD each month
for The Word mag­a­zine. the assign­ment recently ended and she’s posted
a good hand­ful of her favorites. Girls with musi­cal imple­ments. I love
the play lists.

Thanks for wait­ing so patiently for Morn­ing Link­age to resume.

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