“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.

Sux2B an ant, example # 827.

Direct YouTube link.

Dinosaurs in the Civil War

photo by Robert Kimberly

Dinosaur Kingdom
It’s 1863 and Union soldiers have discovered a hidden valley filled with dinosaurs. Now the Yankees plan to use the dinos as weapons of mass destruction against the South.

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Rideable Jules Verne-inspired robots.

Les Machines de l’ile: Official site (in French), Wikipedia,  two Flickr sets 1, 2.

My runaway favorite is the crab larva.

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Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods

A 1910 book about funny critters that may or may not have vexed lumberjacks of yesteryear, now abailable as an online hypertext edition.

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Codex Seraphinianus as a cbz.

Alot of the traffic that I get here is from folks googling the Codex Seraphinianus, about which I posted a little more than a year ago.  The post was to a flickr set that has since gone dark.  However, you can download the codex as a cbz via torrent here.  You’ll need ComicBookLover or Comical or some goddamn thing to read it.

Notes on writing weird fiction by H.P. Lovecraft

Over here.

Space plants, in Scientific American.

Link to article.  Link to slideshow.

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This just in- dragonflies eat midgets!

Image links to screen capture on Flickr

According to this Wikipedia article, at around 5 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2008:

“Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, little peoples, and other small insects…”

“Little peoples” linking here.

War of the Worlds webcomic.

Over here. via