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Morning Linkage (Dec 14)

December 14, 2010 /

Transportation

We’ve had some bad weath­er around here late­ly. Too much rain leads to sat­u­rat­ed ground which leads to mud and rock slides. Here’s one of the fab pics from the WA-DOT of some of the clear­ing activ­i­ty. This one is on Chuck­anut Dri­ve a bit north of here.

Some­thing spe­cial for afi­ciona­dos of the small­er makes. A visu­al his­to­ry of KTM. Sad­ly with­out iden­ti­fy­ing infor­ma­tion for the bikes. Still fun.

Science

Per­haps all those flood myths in the mid­dle east have a basis in a pre­vi­ous round of glob­al warm­ing? Are the remains of a once thriv­ing civ­i­liza­tion damply wait­ing for us beneath the Per­sian Gulf.

Art, Design, and Images

A lit­tle over the top for most office recep­tion areas but if you have the need… TF2 sen­try gun. (WETA, of course)

Thomas Perkins draws trip­tych comics. Every day. On his three kids’ lunch bags. And he posts them for the rest of us to enjoy.

Animation

Is it even pos­si­ble that I did not post this the first time I saw it? BLU makes ani­ma­tion on build­ings. Real­ly. The evo­lu­tion of life on earth.

There you go my dears, see you tomorrow.

Morning Linkage (May 4)

May 4, 2010 /

Transportation

Tru­ly bizarre build from a CBR1000F. Top notch fab­ri­ca­tion qual­i­ty, stun­ning­ly ugly design, and it’s orange.

Every kids dream — work­ing on the rail­way. Chil­dren’s rail­ways in east­ern Europe.  Fol­low the links for more “I can’t believe I’m too old” envy.

Pret­ty bike — ele­gant, under­stat­ed, and vague­ly sin­is­ter. CB550.

Science and Tech

Well, sci­ence fic­tion actu­al­ly. The most awe­some inven­tion yet. WETA legs — A pair of leg exten­sions that allows the wear­er to have “demon” legs. Kim Gra­hams invent­ed these in Seat­tle and is now work­ing on pro­duc­tion mod­els for WETA (the film com­pa­ny) in New Zealand. Tons of video and an exten­sive inter­view. Do Want. but so does every­one else.

Art, Images, and Design

A hand­ful of bird pho­tos — the Win­ners of the WeLoveBirds.org pho­to con­test. The pair of Great Blue Herons will knock your socks off.

I’m not sure why you’d want a sin­gle flower appear­ing to grow out of your din­ing room table. But if you did this is a quick inge­nious way to have one.

Ali­son Wright has been pho­tograph­ing Tibet since 1988. The NYT Lens blog brings us 19 of her pic­tures of the nomads. Tra­di­tion­al horse­men are rapid­ly tak­ing to the motor­cy­cle as a means of transportation.

Animation

I know you’ll remem­ber the work of Al Jarnow. You may not know his name but if you grew up on Pub­lic tele­vi­sion in the gold­en age you’ve seen his work. Look at this trail­er for the DVD com­pi­la­tion Celes­tial Nav­i­ga­tions.

anoth­er day, anoth­er cup of coffee

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