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26 September 2009

spiders are supercool If you milk a million wild female golden orb spiders, you can make this golden textile.
WANT.
posted by gomichild 26 September | 03:09
this is the kind of post that makes me WISH TO GOD AND ALL THAT'S HOLY that I could be living in NYC.

Please, NY Mechazens, send me pretty personal photos from your town!

*whinge*
posted by Lipstick Thespian 26 September | 07:10
NYTimes has some more photos of the fabric.
posted by DarkForest 26 September | 08:41
Holy crap that is so cool. The NYT photo where the threads are all coming together is mind-blowing.
posted by rmless2 26 September | 11:07
whoa. futurama comes to life!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys
posted by pinky.p 26 September | 11:39
WANT TO TOUCH
posted by Specklet 26 September | 12:51
Oh man, that is both equally beautiful and terrifying because those spiders are so big... and they bite!
posted by moonshine 26 September | 13:10
Gorgeous but spiders yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhh
posted by casarkos 26 September | 14:33
Geez, what a waste of time. It totally clashes with my skin tone!

SO BEAUTIFUL!
posted by deborah 26 September | 17:12
"Several groups have tried inserting spider genes into bacteria (or even cows and goats)" Great. So I can look forward to a future where I get caught in a cow web.
posted by arse_hat 26 September | 22:48
get caught in a cow web

that's the best 3 a.m. laugh I've had in a long time...
posted by DarkForest 27 September | 01:51
WANT TO WEAR! What? I look good in gold.
posted by dabitch 27 September | 09:25
train above traffic || What was your AHA moment?

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