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The TRUTH About The Virgina Earthquake
The Washington Post reports that the Washington Monument suffered damage during Tuesday's 5.8 earthquake in Virginia: The National Park Service says the Washington Monument may have suffered cracks...
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King Kong vs. The Tree Octopus Menace
There seems to be a recurring theme in Japan of primates driving would-be tree-octopuses back into the sea. I've already covered tree-dwelling hominoids called Kijimunaa that guard the mangroves of...
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Beating Sprayed-Vesicant-Protection-Bags Into Rain-Covers
Back in 2005 I posted this image from a WWII pin-up calendar/poster: Miss November, 1944 Perhaps you wondered, "What did the Army do with all those Japanese-microplane-spray-attack-protection covers...
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Octopus Wristlet Fad Of 1915
I've mentioned the use of taxidermied tree octopuses as hat decorations and octopus-inspired hair-styles, now here's another example of octopuses as objects of fashion. From the April 23, 1915 edition...
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The Mammoth Eye Of Mars
Everyone has heard of Percival Lowell's theories of Martian canals, but have you heard the theory of Mars' vast thinking vegetable and its mammoth eye? The above is an artist's rendition of the eye of...
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The Giant Mechanical Mosquitoes Of Dr. Gustav Luchy
In 1912, Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition in an ill-fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. After reaching the Pole and learning they were beaten by...
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Will The Spider Inherit Our Earth?
Yet more Sunday fun from Salt Lake Tribune. The March 30, 1913 issue brings us a horrible vision of our future: "Will life in the dim future be like this? Giant spiders ruling the world, and the...
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Seattle's World Fair: Ground Zero For "Belgian Waffles"
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Century 21 Exposition, or the Seattle's World Fair, held from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The Exposition put Cascadia in the world spotlight and brought...
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Our Radium-Raised Giant Frog Dinners
"Professor Dawson Turner's discovery makes it a possibility of the future that the housewife will be able to buy exquisite, succulent giant frog's legs at ten cents a pound instead of coarse,...
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Future Humanity: Plant-Like Monsters?
Some European scientists have recently made the startling assertion that our stock of oxygen has been materially lessened within the last fifty years. Stripping of forests from thousands of square...
View ArticleMetric Time and Muffins
For members of the YouTube generation whose considered response to my article on Metric Time is "tl;dr lol", YouTube prodigy Thetechguy2000 has done a video advocating the extremely simple system: His...
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Life in the Southern Isles
Life in the Southern Isles; or, Scenes and Incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea (1876) by Rev. William Wyatt Gill, published by the Religious Tract Society of London. Since this is one of the...
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Burrowing Mammoths of Siberia
Happy New Year! Here's a frozen mammoth stuck in a hillside that's been misidentified as a giant, burrowing rat: This is from Strange Company: Wonder-Wings, Mullingongs, Colossi, etc. (1888) by...
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The Wonderful Electric Elephant vs. Giant Octopus
Happy New Year again! Here's a giant octopus trying to crush an electric elephant: The elephant in the grasp of an octopus. It's from The Wonderful Electric Elephant (1903) by Frances T. Montgomery, a...
View ArticleLeaping Tree Octopuses!
The mysterious cephalopodologist behind the SaveTheTreeOctopus YouTube channel has come through again with more video footage of the endangered tree octopus, this time exhibiting never-before-seen...
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Black Hornet Nano
As I have outlined here before, the NWO's goal of inculcating in the public an acceptance of persistent, open monitoring (and eventually, punitive behavioral training) by swarms of...
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Paradigm Shift Clock Mk. II and Black Helicopter Hood Mural
Bob Blick, creator of the Pocket Paradigm-Shift Awareness Clock, has upgraded the tech with revised firmware and an additional button: The front panel button switches the display to show paradigm...
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Tree Octopus Pathtag
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Pathtag, sent to me by Shop99er and TTUMS. What's a Pathtag? you ask... Pathtags are personal trading items. Used most often in Geocaching, they are also very handy for...
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Monarchs Come Home
Here's a poster I designed last year for the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Monarchs Come Home exhibition. Every autumn monarch butterflies from Cascadia return to Pacific Grove, CA to...
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After The Commonplace Comes Jumbo
Jumbo (1861 - 1885) was a world-famous, beloved elephant. All jumbo things are named in his honor. P. T. Barnum brought him to America. He died in a train accident in Ontario a few years later. This...
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