“a smiling infant’s breath,—/The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs,—/A woodland rivulet—”

Imagine Maria Rainer dancing through singing “These are a few of my favorite things” ...

The Space Opera Cover Maker and the Pulp Magazine Cover Maker. (via, which has other toys too)

Speech bubbles a la comics have been found in the art of a Roman tomb. (via)

Nicely satisfying videos of animated mechanisms.

You'll have to find your own whiskers on kittens though.

---L.

Subject quote from After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains, John Keats.