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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 41
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 41

by Mark Frauenfelder
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
116 pages
5h 53m
English
Make: Community
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“La Princesse”

Written by James Burke

HOW CAN I LOVE SOMETHING WITH EIGHT EYES AND A BLOODLESS HEART? I just don’t think there’s a newspaper large enough to smash this beast. Not that I would, but spiders never made me feel very comfortable. They haunt every crack and corner in your house and live with some salesman’s promise to “rid your home of all other bugs” in exchange for the occasional fear of accidentally climbing into your slumbering bedtime mouth. That’s not entirely factual, and neither is the fear factor from a 50-foot arachnid that is always within your field of view whenever it chooses to terrorize a city.

200,000 attendees (or victims?) of La Princesse witnessed five days of nigh-Lovecraftian horror back in 2008 during Liverpool’s ...

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