Morning Linkage (Aug 28)

Posted bylara

Transportation

Boeing’s Scan Eagle UAV gets put to civil­ian use dur­ing the Alaska
wild fire sea­son. Video of the launch and recov­ery with infra-red fire
spot­ting footage. Verra cool.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/firefighting-uav/

This is the most unfor­tu­nate col­or scheme for a bike I have ever seen.
Even John Deere gets the accent col­or for a green vehi­cle righter than
this. There’s a link for the real™ paint scheme in the blurb if you
need an eye cleanser.
http://www.bikeexif.com/bimota-borsalino

Aaron Hughes designed a sta­tion wag­on for Ford dur­ing a college
intern­ship. It looks sus­pi­cious­ly Volvo like. I like seeing
spec­u­la­tive vehi­cle design that is plau­si­ble. His oth­er sets are good
too.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=72279&set_id=195409

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Design

The pint glass is an endan­gered species. The plas­tic replace­ment is
dread­ed and loathed. Vert Design, work­ing for Fosters, has made a
fair­ly suc­cess­ful ver­sion. Here’s a descrip­tion of the glass and the
think­ing that went into it’s design.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_tales_designing_a_successful_plastic_pint_glass_14428.asp

Transistor radios were the iPods of the day and exhib­it­ed the same
for­ward look­ing design.  This flickr stream has 100s of pho­tos of
tran­sis­tor radios. Awesome.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/transistor_radios/

The Museum of Broken Relationships is a Croatian project documenting
bro­ken rela­tion­ships through arti­facts. It’s weird and not terribly
com­pelling (to me.) But this user inter­face for brows­ing the online
col­lec­tion has me fascinated.
http://www.brokenships.com/user.php?id=367

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Bacon

A Top 10 list of pigs. Contains my two favorites.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32909

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Images and Illustration

Theodoru has new pic­tures on the front page. Flash makes it impossible
to link to my fav. 7th from the top. This is what cre­ation really
looked like. I’m smiling.
http://theodoru.com/

Ramadan has begun and The Big Picture brings us pho­tographs. Check #33
for a breath­tak­ing shot of the moon. And all the desserts you can
dream of.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/ramadan_2009.html

The waifish fash­ion mod­el is one of our soci­ety’s sick­ness­es. Crystal
Renn was one and now she’s not. She talks about get­ting back to being
her­self in this arti­cle. (Yes, I agree with you all that a size 12 is
not a “plus” size for some­one that tall.)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmWn-7qRbH26aAmvjlHs_W04ddrwD9ABCDTO0

Just to prove that Crystal Renn is gor­geous here are two pho­to sets. NSWF.

Matt Jones. I’m hav­ing trou­ble find­ing the orig­i­nals of these. NSFW — nudes
http://kier-cs.blogspot.com/2009/03/crystal-renn-by-matt-jones.html

From a Polish? site. The guy/gal has great taste in both women and
pho­tographs. NSFW — nudes.
http://bbw.blox.pl/2009/04/Crystal-Renn.html

I’m out­ta here til Monday. Have a great weekend.