while i’m waiting out an inauspicious aspect of my stars to wilfully circumvent a corporate firewall, i’ll clean out my delicious for you lovely people.

here’s a fab modernmechanix retrospective: the AUTO-SCOOTER!

it’s made from jets, but … yeah, no.

okay, okay, here is a self-propelled unicycle-thing powered by an electric motor, stabilized by an internal-self-balancing gyroscope system!

do i sound excited? i *am* excited. and i don’t know why. i suppose you, dear reader, think that this is irredeemably stupid and hopelessly silly and you would never be caught dead on it. but you should remember that i ride a scooter, and therefore public opinion is really quite low on my list of priorities. i would totally go about on the bouncy power-stilt things if i had some. what i care about is whether it’s fun: you can’t tell me that doesn’t look like fun.

more in video: 60’s vespa commercial.

crap quality but cute as far as woman-as-luggage goes.

okay, and in the pure-and-simple-speed department:

lammy sets new landspeed record

and in D’Awwwwwww,

it speaks for itself, dunnit?

via offbeat bride.

hmmm. here’s one for just me:

i’ll just leave you with that.