Morning Linkage (Jul 14)

Charming lit­tle toy that does that glass­es clean­ing thing your
grand­fa­ther did when he was­n’t sure how to answer “Why is Uncle
Tommy’s head like that?”
http://vimeo.com/5567700

The lap­top is becom­ing the form fac­tor of choice for WTF mod-ers.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/a_commodore_64_laptopwhat_the_benheck_is_going_on_here_14033.asp

A cou­ple of retro tech links:

Grid Beam looks like a very grown up ver­sion of the Mecco or Erector Set.
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003822.php

Sony’s first “home” video recorder. Lipstick cams were not even a dream then.
http://www.sonyinsider.com/2009/07/13/1960s-black-and-white-video-the-sony-cv-series-videocorder/

Toy I want to give my nephew — My sis­ter would hate me. (Caution turn
the audio down before you click play on the video.)
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/14/very-cool-rc-toy-mission-carrier-swat-truck-with-helicopter-video/

Shaking a full scale build­ing is the extreme way to test earthquake
proof­ing. The third test in the series was done’ this morn­ing. We’ve
missed the live web­cast but you can see ear­li­er tests and it’s likely
that a link to the video of today’s tests will be post­ed ASAP.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/quakesim/

I don’t real­ly care about elec­tric cars. But the lead pho­to in this
sto­ry on the pos­si­ble Mercedes gull-wing elec­tric is one of my all
time favorite cars in a fab­u­lous loca­tion. Yum.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/electric-gullwing/

Paper mod­els with a sense of humor. I’m buy­ing this. Right now. I love
Matt’s stuff. (Sorry there’s no URL with­out the pay­pal link)
http://www.mattshlian.com/purchase/purchase-%20papercuts%20w%20paypal.htmll

A very sweet fab­ric swatch. Butterflies with lorgnettes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90255045@N00/3717115538/in/pool-trueup

Bonus lol-cat: You kids, get off my lawn indeed.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/07/13/funny-pictures-hoomanz/

See you all Thursday,