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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.