Transportation
That gasp you just heard, that was my sweet baboo when he saw this fine Norton in BRG.
Oshkosh Trucks, makers of severe duty firetrucks. 0–50 in 35 seconds? That’s slooooow. But it has roof mounted water cannons.
H2 resto. If you know what this is you’re gonna be really happy. If you don’t, well then ask…
Science and Cooking
If you have any young boys in the room you might want to send them out to play. At least until you figure out a gentle way to explain this to them. The heart breaking news from dino land is that there might not actually be a triceratops. Uh huh. The three horned savage might actually be the juvenile form of the bigger but somewhat dull torosaurus.
O’Reilly is often the publisher of first resort for geekiness. Now they are stretching the boundary of what’s geeky. With recipes. A tech-ish review of Jeff Potter’s “Cooking for Geeks” by James Kalbach.
Art, Images, and Design
Linked to by several friends on Facebook. Early color photographs, many reproduced from slides. Very effective depictions of a time in American history that most of us have only seen in black and white.
Looking at ourselves. The idea of doing a couple of 50’s “looking toward the future” style ads for Facebook et al sounds like a lot of fun. Add in a little Russian perspective and you get some of the best sounding parodies ever.
This past weekend was a good weekend; camping, cooking, meteor watching, etc. Lawrence Cox has captured the sense of adventurous freedom brilliantly in his illustration of a run-away dog.
so off you go into your week,