August 30 Links

• Photos of our Takara TOMY train set: TKIC #1, TKIC #2, AKIC #1, and AKIC #2
• Wuxi Expat can't decide which format of Dune to marry.
• Iggy Pop was an intellectual?  Who da thunk it? I called him Iggy Poop.  And I am not talking about the punk rocker Iggy Pop.  I am talking about Michael Ignatieff, the Harvard Professor who became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.  The guy seemed like a total putz.  And yet the article I link to bemoans the fact that this "intellectual, would-be philosopher king" wasn't elected prime minister by Canadians.
• What is it about Humphrey Bogart's face? And the faces of many other movie stars from Bogart's time? They look like adults.  And why is it that most of the stars these days don't?