Transportation
Don’t let the URL fool you. It’s a groovy Norton. For real? Dear lord, that’s way too much flower for me.
Have $10K lying around? You might want to head over to the Duc dealer and get one of these, and a mocha. 2011 Duc Monster 796. Yum.
Honda goes two-wheel electric. Japan only model the EV-neo. Available for lease at the end of the year. A new business model for the problem of rapidly developing electric vehicle tech making this year’s model obsolete before you’ve finished making the payments.
Science
The role of Asia’s sometimes massive spring dust storms in the weather of the Pacific Northwest.
Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher taught at Stanford University at the turn of the last century. Her work included in depth studies of women’s sexual attitudes in the late 19th century. Work that remained buried in the Stanford archives until 1973.
Art, Images, and Design
21 condom ads you won’t see here in the United States of Puritan. Some of these are damned funny. (Love the water bottles — subtle and would fit right into a Seattle magazine, what with our dedication to the sporting life.)
Dumfries Scotland. A landscape whose plants are irrelevant. Stone and metal objects that visualize the basic tenets of math and physics. Utterly nerd cool.
Strong lines and vibrant colors makes Julie Oakley one of my favorite urban sketchers.
and that’s that…
see you next week.
