Morning Linkage (Jul 20)

Auto-topia reports: BMW to pro­duce an elec­tric scooter?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/bmw-scooter/
There’s a pic­ture and a google trans­la­tion here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.soloscooter.com%2Fnoticia.asp%3Fref%3D22286&sl=es&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF‑8

Moto uni­corn chas­er for the men­tion of the C‑1:
http://www.bikeexif.com/ducati-bobber

Pop-tarts may be the break­fast pas­try of choice on your house but
these look way better:
http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2008/08/how-to-make-you.html

Today’s pho­to galleries:

Woodstock: (some NSFW)
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/currentexhibition.html

Ozark’s Music Festival — almost as old as Woodstock: (some NSFW)
http://www.mannmadephotos.com/ozarkmusicfestival
(Black ground info and more links.)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/20/ozark-music-festival.html

Dear Friends at the International Center for Photography. American
Portraits of Men Together 1840–1918
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/dear_friends/intro1.html

Awesome use of ship­ping con­tain­ers to cre­ate a liv­ing space on a West
Texas ranch.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/15/dining/20090716-rogerblack-slideshow_index.html

Not quite so awe­some but still awe­some. Mosaic table of the Simpsons.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/simpsons_mosaic_table.html

More awe­some — this time a paint­ing by Julius Grimm of the sur­face of
the moon based on his pho­tographs tak­en in the 1870s and 1880s.
http://butdoesitfloat.com/20623

A mock-up of an Iraqi vil­lage on a stu­dio back lot in San Diego.
Eerie, creepy, and a lit­tle ludicrous.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/29237

And that big blob that was eat­ing shore birds in Alaska? Algae. (Is it
just me or is there a law that says that any news report of an unusual
nat­ur­al phe­nom­e­na must now include glob­al warm­ing as one of the
pos­si­ble explanations?)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090718/us_time/08599191151700

more tomor­row,