Morning Linkage (Aug 25)

Transportation The scram­bler is a great idea for a week­end toy. Here Touratech cre­ates a mod­ern take on the theme using a BMW F800. http://www.bikeexif.com/bmw-f800scrambler Texting and dri­ving is a bad idea. How can any­one think that build­ing traf­fic mashups while on the go is a good idea. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/two-new-iphone-apps-go-beyond-navigation/ ——————— Science Sunspots and solar mag­net­ic changes fascinate … 

Morning Linkage (Aug 24)

Technology Just in case there’s any­one who has­n’t seen this infor­ma­tion on extend­ing the win7 tri­al peri­od. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/how-to-use-windows-7-for-free-for-120-days-legally.ars There’s a new lap­top in my future. I just wish it could be this one. A built in graph­ic tablet would mean one less piece of hard­ware to try to find a space for when I’m on the road. http://www.whitezine.com/en/design/laptop-concept-for-designers-and-illustrators.html ———————– …

Morning Linkage (Aug 20)

Tech and Design These solar pan­els make alien flower art at night. Austin, what you been drinkin’? http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sunflower_leeds_14354.asp Seattle has a cou­ple of aban­doned big box stores. Other parts of the coun­try have more. Many of them have clear or translu­cent roofs. Here’s a pro­pos­al to reuse those spaces for food pro­duc­tion. Instead of buy­ing con­sumer goods made … 

Morning Linkage (Aug 19)

Time lim­it­ed edi­tion. Covered is a blog that show­cas­es re-imaging of old com­ic book cov­ers. Most often point­less but I still read ti for gems like this Millie the Lovable Monster redo. http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/alessa-kreger-covers-millie-lovable.html No link to the source but these Japanese crayons look like they should be made of taffy not wax. http://designyoutrust.com/2009/08/18/%E2%80%9Crichcolorcrayon%E2%80%9D/ Mikela Prevost has … 

Morning Linkage (Aug 18)

Transportation Auto-topia pro­vides tons of links to cov­er­age of Monterrey. And this sweet pic­ture of a BMW Isetta 300. A few oth­er nota­bles in the slide show as well. The descrip­tion of the 523 Jag C‑Type as bux­om is dead on. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/heaven-on-wheels-in-monterey/ Sweet 1916(?) Michelin poster. The com­ments are worth a read as well. At least until they reach the …