Transportation
I believe that this is a 1960’s Velorex 350. You can get the confusing translated from the Hungarian original here.
Very nice CB360T build out. Link to the build blog included.
Not the Citroen Picasso (a boring commuter car) but UK custom-car builder Andy Sander’s Picasso Citroen.
Ideas
This may make your brain warp but it’s a look at the state of the thinking today. Attempting to combine quantum physics and neuroscience in the quest to settle the argument between determinism and free will.
Or if that isn’t your endless debate of choice, how about who was right about the nature of our future dystopia? Huxely or Orwell? Recombinant Records provides the key talking points.
Public transportation commuters, bedtime readers, and gym-rats alike should know about longform.org. An archive of the best essay length material published in the past decade. There are several ways to access and read the material. I use Instapaper on my iPreciouses.
Art, Images, and Design
Some really lovely posters from the Empire Marketing Board (1936–1933) and a pondering of the troubling images in these efforts to market the products of the British empire to the subjects of the British empire. The complete collection is available at Manchester Galleries.
Crow on a wall in Spain. I love the blurry feather work.
Animation
Good illustrator, good animation Shaun Tan’s illustrated novellas have made me smile. Now his The Lost Thing is being animated. If you have some patience left over from your week you’ll enjoy the trailer more if you get it from the official Lost Thing but it’s a flash site and takes approx 15 seconds to load.
Okay, we made it to Friday. Now to make it through the day,