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Morning Linkage (Jun 9)

Transportation

It’s all about the life style right? Tri­umph for your body. The Spring 2010 col­lec­tion. Video. (NSFWunder­wear)

A motor­car­ri­er is one of those three wheeled things with a car­go bed held up over two wheels in the front and a sin­gle dri­ven wheel behind the ‘rid­er’ in the back. Very agri­cul­tur­al, and of course it can be raced. Hel­mets do not appear to be required.

There are sev­er­al day’s worth of motor­car­ri­er rac­ing videos on YouTube is you need more bad ideas. The Dutch are bored, real­ly bored.

Lover­ly Ariel with enclosed side­car. (Thanks EdW.)

Tech and Gadgets

Very good news for the Pacif­ic North­west weath­er geeks. We’re get­ting our radar a year early!!

Toys that teach lan­guage are a favorite gift from the aun­tie. These kan­ji char­ac­ters trans­form into the ani­mal named. Maybe the next sproglet needs to learn Japanese.

Art, Images, and Design

I work stand­ing up so I would­n’t have the prob­lem of sand inter­fer­ing with the cast­ers on my chair. Eter­nal beach.

I don’t think I can rec­om­mend this website/blog as a great exam­ple of infor­ma­tion trans­fer but I love the way it looks. The RSS feed makes it pos­si­ble to actu­al­ly read what the own­er actu­al­ly has to say.(Matt Mul­len­weg is one of the mavens of WordPress.)

Styl­ized por­traits of the roy­als and their retain­ers from the Mughal empire. How can such visu­al­ly busy pic­tures be so serene?

keep it going…

Morning Linkage (Mar 4)

Transportation

Pur­ple Hel­mets, the Isle of Man TT half-time stunt team. Very British
— in a Ben­ny Hill, wellies and slick­ers, kin­da way. (Sound)

Wrench Mon­kees begin build­ing a bit­sa. Where did that pur­ple frame
come from? Updates as they happen.

Desmo dou­ble front-wheel trike. Very bizarre and head­line writ­ers take
note, no way in hell is this an ATV. More pics.

I love the tail treat­ment on this Tri­umph Thun­der­bird. Such a sweet, round butt.

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Society

This is one of the most con­sis­tent­ly beau­ti­ful blogs that I know of.
There’s noth­ing more spe­cial about this post than any of the others,
but take a cou­ple of min­utes to enjoy the rest­ful images and ideas .
La Tar­tine Gourmande.

Graph­ic nov­els and comics are, for me, the one com­pelling application
for the iPad. Here’s an exam­ple of why.

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Images

Bryce Wymer is the Art Direc­to­ry for Dig­i­tal Kitchen. They did a nice
ani­mat­ed mur­al for the 2010 Census.
You can watch them put the com­mer­cial togeth­er in this video.
He puts also puts huge chunks of his sketch books on his blog.

I want to be the red haired girl in Lynne Nay­lor’s hap­py wilder­ness pic­tures.

Visu­al, typo­graph­ic pun, with a nod to Marley.

That’s all for today my friend­ly pump­kin wonders

Morning Linkage (Feb 24)

Transportation

Yes­ter­day it was bum­ble­bee fairy tales. This morn­ing it’s a bum­ble­bee hacked hack. Ural. Cit­roen engine. Really.

April­i­a’s print ads have a dis­tinct fla­vor about them, no mat­ter which part of the line up they are show­ing you. (NSFW butt cheeks)
Enclosed motor­cy­cle park­ing con­tain­er. Would you pay to be able to lock up your bike like this? The only down side I can see is that the 3 vehi­cles in one park­ing space advan­tage of rid­ing is elim­i­nat­ed by the bulk of the con­tain­er. Also avail­able for pri­vate pur­chase for your garage­less house.

Girl shaped moto gear is avail­able. Sort of. Most­ly it’s guy gear recut and not designed from the ground up. Except maybe this grrl shaped chest pro­tec­tor. Tac­ti­cal corsets indeed. (NSFW — black plas­tic girl shaped stuff)

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Science

3 videos of neu­rons at work. Awe­some to think that all this stuff is going on inside my head. Keep the mutant com­ments to yourselves.

Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion  2009 Inter­na­tion­al Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Visu­al­iza­tion Chal­lenge. A video in which some of the win­ners talk about their sci­ence and the illus­tra­tion there of. Also links to big­ger ver­sion of all the winners.

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Art, Images, and Design

Fritz Hoff­man’s pho­tographs con­trast­ing the new and the old in Shang­hai. For Nat’l Geo­graph­ic. Fla­vor­less mod­ernism does not age well, Shang­hai will come to regret it’s push to elim­i­nate the old every­day parts of it’s city

Jason Hol­ley’s paint­ings have appeared on the cov­ers of many well know mag­a­zines includ­ing, New Repub­lic and Rolling Stone. He also writes well about each paint­ing and it’s role in cre­at­ing the theme of the issue. His anti-ode to Okra for the Texas Month­ly echos my own hatred of that veg. Far left, fourth row.

Very, very obscene, slight­ly dis­turb­ing, lyri­cal­ly grace­ful, and a sly poke at the PC-filled world of BDSM. Bound a type face for spe­cial projects. By Gatis Cir­ulis. Don’t miss the sketch book pages at the bot­tom of the post. (NSWF)

that’s enough slack­ing for one day.