Special Saturday Edition
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Transportation
Can’t get enough of the big Duc’s identity crisis? Now it wants to be
a GS and go out to play in the dirt on Saturday.
Topspeed has un-watermarked copies of the pix in resolutions suitable
for your winter desktop wallpaper.
Ducati North Beach had a take your picture with the Ducati umbrella
girls event a couple of weeks ago. There’s a couple of odd four wheel
vehicles in the stream as well.
How not to treat your scooter.
What to do with a well worn vespa. This is the second seriously
rockin’ rocking horse I’ve shown you all. Maybe I need to do a theme post?
The Honda Ruckus, ideal platform for personal expression.
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Society
Lisa Gold once again provides a round up of the latest on the Google
Books settlement. It’s looking more and more like an up-settlement.
Includes a link to the Slate article “Sergy Brin Blows Smoke Up Your Ass.”
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Technology
Esquire Magazine a look at the Creech Air Force Base home of the remote
flyers of the 42nd Attack Squadron. The men and women who remotely
pilot the Reaper and Predator UAVs. The slide into war by joystick
frightens me.
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Images
Totally cute hoodie idea. Mouthman hoodies that change when you cross your arms.
Contes absurdes, absurd stories. Illustrated in ink and watercolor by
Lou Beauchesne.
Annie Lebowitz is a talented portraitist. These advertising images for
Disney from 2007–2008 are uncharacteristically flat except for the sly irony with
which she casts the celebrities as Disney characters.
Sinister. Unsettling.
Lovely packaging featuring mega-fauna of coffee growing regions. (Yes,
I saw the surfer. I’ll stick to my characterization.)
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Math Video
No groaning. A clever animated explanation of some of the calculations
involving pi.