Traveler | 5. April 2012
Dr. Jim Marshall, OBE, The Lord of Loud, founder of Marshall Amplification, has passed on. Wherever he will spent his afterlife, I am sure they will turn it to eleven there, now. Right now. Rock on, Dr. Marshall. You are in our hearts, minds and on our stages forever. People who looked at this [...]
Traveler | 4. April 2012
Looking at this picture, the nerd in me is doing an extensive happy dance. Can you imagine any other resident of the Oval Office being this epic? Actually, I can. My heavily biased list includes both Roosevelts, Eisenhower and Kennedy. People who looked at this item also looked at… Nazi Ponies from the Dark Side [...]
Traveler | 2. April 2012
1968 is mostly remembered in the popular conscience for the hippies. But as it usually is, more happened than what is commonly remembered. One of the great movies of 1968 and a milestone of cinema in general was Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001, which premiered April 2nd, 1968. To commemorate this, here is the perhaps most [...]
Traveler | 29. März 2012
Reminiscent of comic book industrialists, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went on an expedition to locate the lost F-1 engines of the Apollo 11 mission. They had rested on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean since July 20, 1969 but now, Bezos is now planning to raise them. More about this endeavour can be found on [...]
Traveler | 28. März 2012
An upcoming documentary with a very powerful message: People who looked at this item also looked at… Upcoming Steampunk Documentary A Shop in the Æther Announcing: The Official Dieselpunk Holiday Let us prevent a War nobody wants – Iranians, We Love You! A Brief Introduction to Steampunk Related items The LHC just blew up the [...]
Traveler | 27. März 2012
The rhetoric between Israel and Iran has once again reached a fever-pitch and it is not looking good right now. However, an Israeli graphics designer has used the internet to spread a powerful message: This is so beautiful, and it shows one thing: The people are tired of block-headed politicians risking everybody’s life but their [...]
Traveler | 20. März 2012
Well, well, what can I say. This truely is a triumph for science and technology. Space science has helped archeology spot new potential sites of ancient habitation. More details in this article by the BBC. And it is not only about science: Every dig is also an adventure, every new discovery is an adventure. The [...]
Traveler | 20. März 2012
Quick follow-up on my review of the latest The Men That Will Not be Blamed For Nothing album, the video for the song BRUNEL: And here are some quick facts about the titular character (from the article in the Wikipedia) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English civil [...]
Traveler | 17. März 2012
This has been on Youtube for how long? Why did I not find it earlier? People who looked at this item also looked at… Zeppelin Artwork Happy Birthday, Mr. Tesla And then my mind was blown out The Skeptic Steampunk A Zeppelin made of Words Related items Time Travel and Ancient Egypt The Cryptozoology Perspective [...]
Traveler | 4. März 2012
Many will know James Stewart as one of the best Hollywood actors of the 1930-1970′s. What fewer people will know is his service with the US Air Force. He did not only star in movies about the US Airforce such as Strategic Air Command: He actually was a very active combat pilot in the Second [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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