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Posts Tagged ‘Spiders’
Halloween Horrors: Creepy Spider Light
Sunday, October 29th, 2023Library Additions: Four Horror Volumes
Friday, January 6th, 2023More purchases from Half Price Books and Recycled Books, one of which was actually a mistake.
Halloween Horrors: Spiderpuppy!
Sunday, October 10th, 2021Just a short, amusing Halloween dog video:
Halloween Horrors: Tarantula Stampede
Saturday, October 12th, 2019Have a fear of spiders? Maybe you don’t want to hear that it’s tarantula mating season, with thousands of the eight legged creatures on the move in search of a mate:
But don’t worry, this amorous arachnid stampede is only happening in the far-flung locale of [checks notes] the San Francisco Bay area…
(Hat tip: Derek Johnson)
Halloween Horrors: Underwater Tarantulas
Sunday, October 28th, 2018From Australia: The Continent That Wants To Kill You, comes toxic underwater tarantulas.
They don’t live in the ocean, they live in a floodplain where they somehow cover their bodies in air bubbles to breath while underwater.
“Siemens has an army of spider robots”
Thursday, June 9th, 2016Well, isn’t this a lovely, cheerful thing to contemplate?
It’s expensive to build an automated factory, and even more pricey to repurpose one. German manufacturing giant Siemens wants that to change, and they’ve developed an army of robot spiders to make it happen.
Utilizing what Siemens calls “mobile manufacturing” researchers in Princeton, New Jersey have build prototype spider-bots that work together to 3D print structures and parts in real time. Known as SiSpis, or Siemens Spiders, these robots work together to accomplish tasks, and can be reprogramed to learn new jobs.
The ability to be reprogramed gives the bots an advantage over traditional manufacturing robots. Opening an industrial manufacturing factory currently means installing expensive robots that can only do one or two tasks well. In theory, the SiSpis’ programing can be altered to address new tasks, allowing for greater flexibility for manufactures.
As a devotee of spider-menace movies, I think I know exactly how this will turn out. Why, the SyFy Channel movie practically writes itself. (As does the inevitable sequel, Spiderbots vs. Lavalanchula…)
Halloween: Giant Flying Spider
Thursday, October 29th, 2015Not particularly convincing up close, but it doesn’t have to be…
Library Additions: Signed Neil Gaiman Tasmanian Cave Spider Book
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015So a while back I got word of Neil Gaiman being involved in a benefit for a project involving (I kid you not) Tasmanian cave spider sex. He’s evidently quite the Tasmaniophile, having spent his honeymoon with Amanda Palmer in Hobart. It sounded like an odd, interesting project, and the sort of thing to drive Gaiman completists crazy if they didn’t presupport, so I went ahead and ponied up for the deluxe package, which was, IIRC, a bit over $100 for both books.
Now, finally both books from the Sixteen Legs project have come in:
Your Creepy Halloween Spider Post
Thursday, October 30th, 2014I’m running out of Halloween season, so it’s time for a post on that perennial source of creepiness: Spiders.
There are few things that triggers our primal fear reflex more than spiders, so here’s a Whitman’s Spider Sampler of Creepiness.
I’ve tried to avoid the common gifs everyone’s already seen, but I am intrigued by this completely unconvincing, yet oddly unnerving film snippet, and I’d like to know what (presumably silent) film it’s from:
Here’s the exceptionally creepy spider attack from The Mist:
And here’s Cyriak’s deeply disturbing “Cobwebs”:
Let’s end on a lighter note. There’s a Simon’s Cat with a spider:
And this:
I Would Totally Buy This Halloween Prop…
Thursday, October 31st, 2013…if it weren’t $5,100.
Also, this is nicely creepy: