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My six year old son is very scared from the movie all the neighborhood kids watched tonight. He’s lying in bed with the covers over his head, and I’ve been lying on the floor next to his bed for forty-five minutes.
Bored out of my mind, I decided to blog! I think that I’ve discovered the sluggishly-beating heart of the user-generated content phenomenon.
What’s the old saying? Art is what happens when you’re waiting to do something else?
Something like that.

You know when you have something you don’t use very often, but you feel better knowing that it’s there, and miss it when it’s gone?

I’ve been looking for a replacement for the tragically missing Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society blog ever since I discovered it was missing.  PAKS used to post pictures of weird Victoriana - collections of bones, weird medical instruments, things like that.  I mentioned it to Mary Robinette Kowal at Readercon, but discovered on returning to it that it was gone, deleted, kaput.  So today I discovered oobject.com, which is, in its own words, “kind of like a Billboard for gadgets.” 

Here’s a list of “DIY Frankenstein lab items.”

Vintage fans.

Beautiful airports.

Extraordinary armor.  Not to be missed.