Mike Mulligan's Lego steam shovel

Mike Mulligan's steam shovel and Katy the snowplow - - both by Mike, and based on books I've read many, many times to my boys. (Mike Mulligan has the charming message that technological improvement is bad.) See also: Lego Mach 5. Via.

*Previously: Pikachu the snow plow.

*Buy Speed Racer toys at eBay.

Excavator painted like a giraffe (link roundup)

Decorated excavator spotted in Nik Daum's latest photo gallery from Shanghai.

And a few more links:

1. Interesting experiments conducted to test the difference between lucky and unlucky people. (If I had a choice of super powers, I would choose luck.)

2. Via Paul Pope, "PK Dick said a short story is about a murder, a novel is about the murderer."

3. Papercraft Temple of the Lava Skull.

*Previously: Temple of Boom.

*Buy books about construction vehicles at Amazon.