Beavers to mothership: “Beam us up!”

Beaver dam visible from space:

Bazantar.

Mark Deutsch puts about 30 sympathetic strings on a 5-string upright bass and calls it a Bazantar.

Direct yt link

Higher quality video at Vimeo

Obafka

Obafka

Originally uploaded by stevelewalready

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka

Everything I needed to know about 9/11 I learned from Star Trek.

Riker: “9/11 was an inside job.”

See also (not as funny, kinda long, but y’know)

Glenn Gould on animals and why they’re better than people.

It’s a YouTube vid for which embedding is disabled, so click here.

“Parting The Veil of Faery”, The Neville Colmore Fatagravures

It involves  a Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore, who claimed to have constructed a device capable of “…parting the veil of Faery…”. The device, which he called the “Spectobarathrum”, produced beautiful photo graphic plates he called “fatagravures”, through a now lost process.

…or just go straight to the Flickr set.

More links to related stuff on the MeFi post.

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Originally uploaded by unfrostedpoptart

Julia Child makes primordial soup.

Encounter in the Canyon

Encounter in the Canyon

Originally uploaded by zymoglyph

From the Zymoglyphic Museum‘s awesome Flickr stream. Their text accompaniing the set:
“Collages made for the second edition of the museum guide to show what the Zymoglyphic region might look like through the eyes of 19th century explorers. Based primarily on the works of Gustave Dore, Ernst Haeckel, Pieter Breugel the elder, and Hieronymous Bosch.”

It’s a really really really nice fossil…

…but it’s still just a fossil.  I’m referring to Ida, the fossil of what will soon be named Darwinius masillae, which is almost certainly not our direct ancestor.  I don’t have time to go into detail*, here’s someone else’s blog post with tons of links.

*(but I will quip that chains have links, trees don’t)