Tag: awesome

The .Gif Friday Post No. 709 – Into the Drink, Inside the Wave & Down to the Bottom

[Found here,  here and here. h/t Rightymouse for the surfer & the tramp to pool.]

Elephantasm

[Medieval zoological artistry culled from video found here, and Mme. Jujujive beat me to it.]

Dorkworm of the Deep

Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope. Nicholas Gayet 2015

Photograph by Nicolas Gayet of the Paulo Bonifacio lab was a 2015 FEI contest winner.

Polychaetes worms are fascinating. One species are called “Zombie Worms” and includes the Osedax mucofloris, discovered in 2005. Its name translates to “bone-eating snot flower.”

[Image found here.]

P. K. Kunze’s Contribution To The World – A Vise With Oscillatable Cheeks

According to the U.S. Patent, the machine was described as a Device For Obtaining Intimate Contact With Engaging, Or Clamping Bodies Of Any Shape, or DFOICWEOCBOAS for easy. It contained 30 nested rotating jaws.

Application filed March 21, 1912.
Serial No. 685,288.
The invention purposes to effect by means of rotatable and oscillatable cheeks, an intimate contact, engagement with or clamping of bodies of any shape, the contact being effected at as many points as possible, Whereby owing to the reactions or the automatic adjustment to the position of equilibrium of all the cheeks, if the latter are symmetrically arranged, the pressure is uniformly distributed over all points of contact, while if the arrangement is unsymmetrical there is a greater pressure to one side.

The Mantle Vise, Mantle & Co. New York, NY, ca.1922.

Inventor Paulin Karl Kunze was a “subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna.”

The term fractal was coined by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1973 and is defined as “never-ending pattern.” Jump to 34:00 for a silly but cool demonstration of the completed restoration.

[Found at BustedNuckles & the U.S. Patent Office. Images of Mantle & Co. vise found here and here.]

The Modern Nancy

Olivia Jaimes‘ update was a few years back (2019) but it was an was an interesting take on Ernie Bushmiller’s classic strip. More about her revamp here.

Yeah, we have a Nancy Archive, too, because Bushmiller was awesome.

Camouflage Tip

Do this.

Don’t do this.

[Images found here and here.]

21 Retroweeners

[All images found around in here. Click for larger.]

The Flash Basbo Atomic Camper

 

It’s got everything you need for camping at Area 51, including a ray gun. Seriously, a ray gun.

The Atomic Camper is solar-powered and includes a full bathroom, kitchen and shower. Click for larger images.

[Found here. Other images and story here, here and elsewhere. Kinda sorta related post here.]

Whale

“This whale had breached a couple of times before this and many times they’ll just keep doing it. I went below deck to shoot from a porthole close to the water line. That’s what gives this amazing perspective of looking up at the whale. Since the boat is closer, it should look bigger, but the whale is huge! If I’d been the fisherman, I’d probably need some new underwear.”

[Images and story found here.]

Coffee

PPG Tower, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
[Top image found here; bottom here.]

Update: Here’s my brew for comparative purposes only.