Dude built a landspeeder
Mehrzeller Caravan Concept
Waffle Bike
“Waffle Bike is a fully weaponized waffle making device complete with call to prayer public address system.”
More dancing with vehicles
Speaking of outrageous,
Putting music on a bike? That’s outrageous.
(Yes, yes, I know it was already on BoingBoing. But, duuuude.)
Lotus developed ice-vehicle for Arctic expedition
Circles and Squares
“On February 25 2004, a new square wheel bike was unveiled at Macalester. Designed by Wayne Roberts, it has many improvements over the old one. The ride on the catenary roads is now much, much, much smoother. It is always in place on the lower level of the [Macalester College] science center for anyone who wishes to take a ride.”
This works because it’s an inversion. The circle of the wheel is now the bend in the road.
The Dogsled
coins for truck
Keeping the Ohio theme going, a seventy year old man who doesn’t trust paper money and was run over by his old truck paid for half his new truck with coins.
Jones’ son says his dad has always preferred to pay with coins. Dennis Jones says he’s most amazed that his penny-pinching father decided to replace his 1981 pickup, which struck his father when its parking brake failed last year, putting him in a hospital.
Roger Goldammer: World Champion of Custom Bike Building
Uncle Rico’s Van, for sale on eBay
Y’all! My Borrowed Cruiser
The bike our friend Janie lent me. (The one I thought, at first, too girly to ride, but I’ve started riding it. I’ve decided it’s Gay not girly.) ‘Course now we’ve pimped it out with saddle bags, so I can carry some groceries, and a lock, we’ll make an offer to Janie. (But now, I find myself wanting hand-tooled cuyo (sp?) leather saddle bags (wonder if I can get them from Harley-Davidson?) with fringe. Maybe leather streamers from the ends of the handle-bars?)
1,900 year-old chariot
I want it.
Bryn Owen’s customized Vespa 100 Special 100cc scooter. (via)
Pentagon Ends Tactical Fighter Leasing Program
Ordnance leasing became popular during the military boom years of the Eighties and early Nineties, thanks to turmoil in war-torn regions like Lebanon, Serbia, and Detroit. This strife created an unrealistic demand for capable weapons of mass destruction — a demand that has ultimately led to today’s unsustainably poor depreciation and low used-warhead resale values.
Goat Sidecar
via kottke’s post on Model T hacks.
More of clusterflock on goats.
Robert Novak Drives to Top of McCain VP List
Mr. Novak was cited for failing to yield, a charge he angrily dismissed.
“I don’t yield and I never back down,” the syndicated political columnist and cockfighting hobbyist told the reflection in his shaving mirror Thursday. “Unless, of course, I change my mind or come up with a better story. That sort of thing.”
rebuilt boat to the afterlife
600 fragments of a boat meant to ferry a pharaoh to the afterlife will be excavated from a pit in Egypt and reconstructed.
“In Egypt, almost everything real had its counterpart meaning or significance in the spiritual world. But there’s a lot of debate as to whether these vessels ever were used or not,” Darnell said.
Those who argue the vessels may have touched water point to rope marks on the wood that could have been caused by the rope becoming wet and then shrinking as it dried.
But Hawass believes these were symbolic vessels, not funerary boats used to bring the pharaoh Khufu’s embalmed remains up the Nile from the ancient capital of Memphis for burial in the Great Pyramid, the oldest and largest of Giza’s pyramids.
The opposite of building a ship in a bottle.
City folk come in droves (to be where the action is)
“City folk come in droves to once-isolated White Rock Lake [in Dallas, Texas]. Some come to picnic, sail or fish, some just to be where the action is.” (April 1972)
Item from [NARA] Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2000.
Bamboo bicycle from Calfee Design
the most ridiculous commute
A Swedish dude who drove 650 feet to work each morning and then a few hundred feet more to lunch has won a bicycle as prize for a “most ridiculous commute” contest his girlfriend signed him up for.
Big enough for you?
This is How We Roll in India
(via Coudal)
The Boys and the Subway
Just go now:
