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July 13, 2006
"Stranger things have happened!" "Only two spring to mind, Lister: the spontaneous combustion of the Mayor of Warsaw in 1546 and that incident in 12th century Burgundy when it rained herring."
There's some nice video footage of Final Fantasy III for the DS on YouTube. I cannot wait for this game. via
Robert Anton Wilson has been deathly ill of late. =( via
Researchers have discovered how spiders fly by threading the winds.
By casting a thread of silk into the breeze spiders are able to ride wind currents away from danger or to parachute into new areas. Often they travel a few metres but some spiders have been discovered hundreds of miles out to sea.
The new Rothamsted mathematical model allows for elasticity and flexibility of a ballooning spider's dragline – and when a dragline is caught in turbulent air the model shows how it can become highly contorted, preventing the spider from controlling the distance it travels and propelling it over potentially epic distances.
Posted by Jon Rubin at July 13, 2006 10:44 PM
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