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...been bubbling under: in role-playing games and anime, video games like Myst and Thief and comic books like Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Look at the dirigibles and clockwork mechanisms in Philip Pullman's alt-Victorian The Golden Compass. Recall the steam-driven, Kenneth Branagh--piloted arachnid colossus in Will Smith's Wild Wild West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steampunk: Reclaiming Tech for the Masses | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...entomophagists have yet to win many converts, they've definitely earned the curiosity of the crowd, which huddles beneath a tent to watch Gordon and Gracer in a bug cook-off. Gordon serves his crickets orzo with tarantula tempura, which he makes by frying a fist-size arachnid. (I skip the spider. I like my job, but not that much.) It's Gracer who takes first prize, however, with a series of dishes, including a tasty salad with Queen Atta ants, stinkbugs and, best of all, waxworms, whose popcorn-size larvae are meaty and flavorful. But I don't look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Bugs | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...smiling Martinez, who was wearing a dark suit and metallic tie during his interview with The Crimson. A dating reality show could pick up on the potential for dramatic sexual tension that “Chasing Nature” only alludes to in extended shots of real-life arachnid mating.AIN’T NO NERDAt Harvard, Martinez wears many hats—a Quincy House residential tutor, a mathematics instructor at the extension school, a DJ at local clubs, and a student pursuing his own research on complex topics in mathematical physics. Martinez has discovered an infinite class...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Animal Planet | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

Miss Spider, in case you're unfamiliar with her charms, is a strictly flower-eating arachnid. When we first met her in 1994, in Miss Spider's Tea Party, she was having trouble making friends with other bugs because they feared being consumed. But her kindness--and vegetarianism--won the day, and in subsequent books she has married, bought a new car and gone to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy Boy | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...ARACHNID CRICKETPRO 700 ELECTRONIC DARTBOARD, $240 Ever wish you could play bar games right in your own basement? Recrooms Direct www.recrooms.com sells all manner of electronic dart boards, Foosball, air-hockey tables and other frothy diversions--as well as bar stools and jukeboxes. You'll never have to go to the pub again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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