Author Archives: lara

Everyone is enti­tled to an opin­ion: Gorgeous pic­ture of a crap bike. http://www.bikeexif.com/confederate-p120-fighter Crap pic­ture of a gor­geous bike. http://www.bikeexif.com/krugger-overmile ————– On August 26th the Mini Cooper will be 50 years old. Forbes put up a nice lit­tle slide show. http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/29/bmw-mini-cooper-lifestyle-vehicles-mini-car-50_slide_2.html ———– Repurposed fur­ni­ture (com­po­nents). Does some­one have a bet­ter word than repur­posed? It’s so made up. Cold frames from the As-Is … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 31)”

Two from Scheier on the recent­ly dis­cussed top­ic of cloud com­put­ing and stor­age. I find the com­ments on his blog to be of high­er qual­i­ty than most. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/risks_of_cloud.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/cloud_computing.html Summary of Kaminsky’s talk on the SSL cert spoof­ing. Clearer than most. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/ As if you could­n’t tell it’s DefCon time. I’ve been fas­ci­nat­ed by the hack­able badges of … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 30)”

Starting with some archi­tec­ture. 10 class­rooms designed specif­i­cal­ly to meet the chal­lenges of 10 sites and com­mu­ni­ties. The promise of loca­tion appro­pri­ate archi­tec­ture ful­filled. (Mostly — no one’s per­fect) http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/updates/2009–07–22-finalists-announced-for-the-open-architecture-challenge A mate­ri­als data­base site that is wicked fun to explore. You’ll want to start projects just to use some of this stuff. http://transmaterial.net/ Some paint­ings that I … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 29)”

If you don’t go any fur­ther this morn­ing, go here. Not only is this exhib­it on the top­ic of gov­ern­ment pro­pa­gan­da time­less but the pro­duc­tion val­ues for the web­site encour­age exact­ly the kind of explo­ration the top­ic deserves. http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/ On with the show. What to do with a sane but ugly vehi­cle. Smart TwoTipping. Because there aren’t enough cows … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 28)”

Starting Monday out with beer: A list of 10 very old com­pa­nies. 3 of them are brew­eries, found­ed in 1040, 1074, and the new com­er in 1328. There’s also a hotel/restaurant that’s been serv­ing beer for more than 1000 years. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/29340 On to motor­cy­cles. I like the lived in look of this Wrenchmonkee’s Moto Guzzi. http://wrenchmonkees.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_942.html We need to … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 27)”