Category Archives: Morning Linkage

Portfolio of Kyle Houchens. Take time to page through the illos. The diecast car designs are lover­ly. http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=845&set_id=55 St John was a whack job. Today’s religious/Lego moment. http://www.thebricktestament.com/revelation/god_tortures_kills_billions/rv06_01.html Break it. Illustrate it. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/anatomical-drawing‑o.html My dad (the physi­cist) had one of these when they were first avail­able. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/13/hp-35-scientific-cal.html I had nev­er con­sid­ered the down­side of automotive … 

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Slow news morn­ing. Kathy G has the best round up of links for the Amazon Rankings hula­baloo. http://wiredpen.com/2009/04/12/amazonfail/ Links to some of the blog posts from authors delist­ed can be found in Lisa Gold’s Sunday post. http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/amazon-sets-the-blogosphere-on-fire/ I was won­der­ing when some­one would make the joke. http://apelad.blogspot.com/2009/04/laugh-out-loud-cats-1110.html Now: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/04/13/funny-pictures-ur-lettin-teh-monday-in/

Bonus Easter Sunday Edition For no par­tic­u­lar rea­son in no par­tic­u­lar order: Extreme cute­ness. Little lost robot. Reported: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/11/adorable-robots-get-where-theyre-going-with-human-help/ Creator’s site: http://www.tweenbots.com/ Micheal Velliquette — cut paper art. Shiny. http://www.velliquette.com/Site/SlideShow_assets/SlideShow.html?lang=en For the 7 year old in all of us. Do want. http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/decor/2008/11/london_greenhouse?slide=2#showSlide Why I could­n’t go to the gym on Wednesday. They took my lit­tle iPod shuf­fle. http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/95168434/buzzp-via-cache-gawker-com more tomorrow,

Yet anoth­er stu­pid car design that posits groovy graph­ics as the solu­tion to — well I don’t know exact­ly what. Usually these things are pitched at girls/women. Cars as acces­so­ry. (The pug thing is just cute.) http://www.core77.com/blog/competition/this_just_inbox_moy_concept_car_by_elvis_tomljenovic_pugzee_by_dave_cortes_13151.asp Hugh McLeod has anoth­er print com­ing out. Don’t like his style enough to fork out for one but his irony … 

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Good Morning All, Design inno­va­tion meets skin art. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/stunning_tattoo_gun_13135.asp Big pic­ture stuns again with pho­tos of the L’Aquila earth­quake. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/the_laquila_earthquake.html Best case mod I’ve seen in a while. The con­struc­tion qual­i­ty is insane­ly great. (The orig­i­nal Russian site is down.) http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/08/the-ultimate-wall-e-case-mod/ For those of you fol­low­ing the Kindle text-to-speech issue, there is cov­er­age of yes­ter­day’s protests of the Authors’ … 

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