Morning Linakge (Sept 10)

Transportation

Honda has devel­oped a “dual clutch” auto-transmission for bikes.
There’s a dia­gram at the bot­tom of the post that I’m still puzzling
out.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/09/dual-clutch-honda/

It nev­er real­ly works but the gull wing sports car refus­es to die.
This one is sex­i­er than most.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/mercedes-benz-2010-sls-amg

A com­bi­na­tion of watch porn and auto­mo­tive his­to­ry. This stop watch is going to look so sweet on the dash of the scoot­er. (not)
http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/09/heuer-dash-mounted-stopwatch-at-auction.html

Video, clas­si­cal music. BMW at the Nürburgring with Wagner (apolo­gies to JC)
http://vimeo.com/5002127

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Science

A col­lec­tion of images from the repaired Hubble tele­scope. The lead pic is a stunner.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/hubble_gallery/

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Tech

Ars Technica puts up the pay wall, becomes irrel­e­vant faster than last weeks celeb tid-bits. Big mis­take boys.
http://arstechnica.com/staff/palatine/2009/09/introducing-ars-premier-20.ars

For the fan­bois, excru­ci­at­ing minute by minute cov­er­age of yes­ter­day’s Apple love-fest.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/09/live-from-apples-rock-and-roll-event/

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Culture

The only  impor­tant news from yes­ter­day’s Apple blitz. Norah Jones cut her hair. And she still rocks wicked cool shoes.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/09/09/norah-jones.html

Nerf is a huge part of my fam­i­ly’s Christmas tra­di­tion. Happy 40th to the (foam) weapons maker.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/09/happy-40th-birthday-nerf/

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Art and Images

Gabriel Dishaw is a found object sculp­tor. Here is the left of this Junk Dunk pair of com­put­er trash kicks. (SFW) Click through to his site for more (some NSFW)
http://www.rxfresh.com/rxfresh/2009/9/9/gabriel-dishaw-junk-dunk-art.html

Designlenta is a Russian site that is bring­ing mag­i­cal art to my door by the buck­et load. Today we have: Stuart Crossett whose pho­tos for adver­tis­ing are won­der­ful­ly mixed up.
http://designlenta.com/2009/09/09/kreativnye-fotografii-stuart-crossett/

Also via Designlenta I dis­cov­ered the blog of  Sam Nielson who works for Disney and draws mon­sters that I would glad­ly host in my nightmares.
http://artsammich.blogspot.com/

Another illus­tra­tor blog that I’ll be fol­low­ing belongs to Nate Simpson who used to be a con­cept artist for the gam­ing indus­try and is now teach­ing him­self the art of draw­ing a com­ic by… draw­ing one.
http://projectwaldo.blogspot.com/

Another illus­tra­tor cross­ing over into a medi­um oth­er than his usu­al is Anders Nyberg. He’s been in the work­shop this sum­mer build­ing wood­en toys.
http://andersnybergillustrator.blogspot.com/2009/07/wooden-art.html

Colour Lovers brings us a col­lec­tion of vin­tage Japanese post­cards. Restful palettes abound. I’ve book­marked this one for inspi­ra­tion in rebuild­ing a blog to host the full (with pic­tures) ver­sion of morn­ing linkage.
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/09/09/vintage-color-design-japanese-postcards/

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Video

You already got a good video this morn­ing so here’s some bad ones. The Wall-O-Fluff — enough cute ani­mal videos to start an entire cube farm full of sugar-shock.
http://reponere.com/walloffluff.php

Until tomor­row my freaky darlings,

-lara-

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Bonus Science Section

My late father was a par­ti­cle physi­cist. Much of his ear­ly career was spent work­ing on the char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the Higgs-Bosun par­ti­cle. The search for proof of the exis­tence of the Higgs-Bosun con­tin­ues in accel­er­a­tors and col­lid­ers around the world.Paul Halpern has just had his book “Collider” pub­lished. Wired sci­ence has pro­vid­ed two excerpts from the book and two arti­cles on American colliders.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/halpern-qa/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/collider_excerpt/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/tevatron/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/super-collider-gallery/